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    Reporting From Moscow: Is That A Russian Ghost In My Machine?

    On assignment in Russia last week, NPR's Mary Louise Kelly wondered if she was being watched. As she was typing, her cursor moved on its own. And why was she referred to a man in a blacked-out Volga?
    by Mary Louise Kelly Jun 20, 2017 2 minutes
    When reporting from Moscow, NPR's Mary Louise Kelly takes a clean phone and a clean laptop, both wiped to factory settings. One evening while she was typing, the cursor began to jump around on its own.

    There was a moment last week in Moscow when I had occasion to wonder if I was being surveilled.

    "They'll be tracking you from the moment you land," my CIA sources back in Washington had warned, as I prepared for a reporting trip to Russia. "For God's sake, don't log onto your regular email accounts from there."

    I've reported from Russia

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