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Spies Like...Us?

An alleged Russian spy, arrested last week by the FBI, attended the CFO Rising Conference in March, where he networked aggressively and focused on sessions about risk management.

July 7, 2010

Among the 346 people who attended the CFO Rising Conference in Orlando in March this year was a prodigious networker named Donald Howard Heathfield, a man the FBI now says was a Russian spy operating under a false identity. Read more...

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