about 3 days ago - No comments
Caught On Tape: Stealing America’s Secrets — CBS News Rare Video Obtained by “60 Minutes” Shows Pentagon Employee Selling Secrets to Chinese Spy (CBS) This story was originally published on Feb. 28, 2010. It was updated on Aug. 29, 2010. The recently revealed Russian spy ring sounded like something out of a Cold War thriller. [...]
about 2 weeks ago - No comments
“The Grapes of Wrath” it’s not, but here, for your reading pleasure, are the “draft proposed amendments to the City Charter corresponding to the resolutions adopted by the Charter Revision Commission at its open meeting on August 11.” The section about term limits is right up front, and the three big questions there, as summarized [...]
about 1 month ago - 4 comments
Putin Sings With Deported Agents — Wall Street Journal MOSCOW—Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said he sang patriotic Soviet songs with the 10 undercover agents who were deported from the U.S. in a recent spy swap, and he declared that their capture by the Federal Bureau of Investigation was “the result of treason.” In Russia’s [...]
about 1 month ago - 3 comments
Putin Sings With Deported Agents — Wall Street Journal MOSCOW—Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said he sang patriotic Soviet songs with the 10 undercover agents who were deported from the U.S. in a recent spy swap, and he declared that their capture by the Federal Bureau of Investigation was “the result of treason.” In Russia’s [...]
about 1 month ago - 2 comments
It’s hardly ever been a rock-solid relationship but has had its moments. So what does one do when deceit is discovered but no one wants a divorce? When Russia was caught engaging in the second oldest profession in the United States the two partners decided that the overall relationship was too important to disintegrate over such an [...]
about 1 month ago - 5 comments
NEW YORK — Their cover blown, 10 Russian spies have given up their lives in the U.S. and headed home, but in at least one case their children probably won’t follow. A lawyer for Vicky Pelaez said Thursday that the teenage son she had with fellow Russian agent Mikhail Vasenkov during the decades they spent [...]
about 1 month ago - 3 comments
WASHINGTON — U.S. and Russian officials met secretively on two continents Wednesday in a likely prelude to one of the largest swaps of accused spies in decades, a Cold War remix showing the high-stakes race for covert intelligence between East and West endures in the new century. Five suspects charged with spying in the U.S. [...]
about 1 month ago - 3 comments
As we count off the days that the BP oil spill has sullied the gulf (77, thank you, Deadline Live), the first tar balls appeared on a Texas beach. Tar balls landed on Crystal Beach (you remember Crystal Beach from that other disaster, Hurricane Ike) and Galveston’s East Beach. Officials were unsure whether the tar [...]
about 2 months ago - 2 comments
While plenty of people who knew those involved in the alleged Russian spy ring operating in the U.S. claimed to be shocked by the arrests, when it comes to the bombshell of the bunch, Anna Chapman, one person says he wasn’t surprised at all: her ex-husband. In a tell-all interview with the Daily Telegraph, Alex [...]
about 2 months ago - 6 comments
(AP) NEW YORK – One of the suspects in an alleged spy ring has confessed to federal agents that he worked for Russia’s intelligence service, federal prosecutors said Thursday. The revelation came on a day when lawyers for several defendants had been poised to argue in court that their clients, accused of going undercover in [...]
Image: An official who spoke on the condition of anonymity said Michael D. Furlong directed a defense contractor to gather information about the region that could be shared with military units. Photo from Marine Times
about 5 months ago
I think it could be worth something. I met Mr Armstrong once. He was a member of the board of a defense technology company I worked for so he came with the other board members to tour our plant. I got to shake his hand. He is getting on in years.
about 4 months ago
watch the veggie tales version….