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Welcome to Dead Drop. In this week's dossier:

1. Russia's secret unit for assassinations and sabotage finally unmasked — after one of its operatives used Google Translate to arrange a murder and was arrested in Colombia;

2. A former Google engineer becomes the first person convicted in the US on AI-related economic espionage charges, after stealing thousands of pages of proprietary AI technology for China; and

3. A FOIA lawsuit extracts internal emails revealing how America's top intelligence office quietly wiped hundreds of its own public records from the internet.