The detectives of Vladimir Putin used Cristiano Ronaldo YouTube video to send the coded message back to Moscow.
The incredible revelation came to light when a regular doubles were imprisoned regularly after being found guilty of spying for Russia in Germany.
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For its neighbors in the city of Marburg, Andreas and Hedarun Anschalag appeared as a common married couple for their neighbors, one hour north of Frankfurt in West Germany.
He had Austrian passports, which turned out to be fake, and claimed to be a citizen of the neighboring nation with the South American dynasty.
Andreas worked as a car engineer, while Hedrun took care of the house and his daughter, who had no idea of his parents’ true identity.
Except for a long phone call in the garden during winter, a German journalist Mika Best said: “There was nothing that separates him from any other family in the city.”
But for 23 years, they were paid £ 80,000 per year to spy in the west by Russia – began in 1989 before coming down the Berlin wall.
Sri and Mrs. Anschalag – whose real names are unknown – passed thousands of secrets from the Soviet Union and Russia, including the European Union, NATO and the United Nations.
They were aided by a mole in the Dutch Foreign Ministry, who sent monthly documents to be collected from the so -called dead letter boxes, while the USB was left in Baroz to bring them to the Stick.
The couple used radio and satellites to communicate with Moscow’s foreign intelligence service, SVR.
But the rise of the Internet gave ‘pits’ and ‘Tina’ a new way to messages their spime in broad digital daylight.
Anschlags created a YouTube profile under the user name @Aplenkuh1 – which translates as “Alpine Cow 1” – in early 2011, Kremlin soon opened an account for herself after @crsitanofootballer.
According to Gordon Korera, former BBC security correspondent, in his book Russians, the comment section of the video of the video of the then-Bastavasty Madrid hero Ronaldo was an chosen platform for communication.
Corera writes: “YouTube platform created another novel method of communication.
“The couple and SVR built accounts for a few months in early 2011, with the video commented, mainly about footballer Cristiano Ronaldo.
“He wrote,” This is a very good video and the song is also very good. “
“The answer was called Carsitanofootballer by SVR account, saying,” He runs and plays like a devil. “
“This, German investigators believe, was a means of communicating in a simple vision between all the noise on the world’s largest video platform.
“The comments included a sequence of punctuation that could be converted into numbers, which would then be sent back to the pre-east message.
“This was the next step in the famous number stations, public radio broadcasting and illegal code, which has been used by Russians as well as other countries for decades and can still be heard.”
Anschlags were tracked by special intelligence forces and in October 2011 a dramatic raid on his German house.
It is understood that Heidron in his study was receiving an encrypted message through an transmitter when the authorities carried out the storm, causing him to fall from his chair in shock and pulled the connection cable out.
The couple was sentenced in July 2013-Andrias sentenced to six and a half years in jail, Hedrun sentenced to five and a half years in jail-while the Dutch minister officer got 12 years.
However, by the end of 2015, both detectives were freed from prison and Russia was deported.
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