Time to Raise That Iron Curtain Again!

U.S. Charges 11 in Russian Spy Case

Published June 29, 2010
The Wall Street Journal

Federal prosecutors alleged 11 people were spies living secret lives in American communities, from Seattle to Washington D.C., sent years ago to infiltrate U.S. society and glean its secrets.

In an extensive and bizarre affidavit whose details echoed Cold War spy thrillers, the Federal Bureau of Investigation claimed the alleged spies were sent here by the Russian overseas intelligence service known as the SVR — the successor to the Soviet KGB — as early as the mid-1990s, and were provided with training in language as well as the use of codes and ciphers.

Their mission, according to the FBI, was contained in an encrypted 2009 message from Russian handlers in Moscow to one of the defendants that read in part: "You were sent to USA for long-term service trip. Your education, bank accounts, car, house etc. — all these serve as one goal: fulfill your main mission, i.e. to search and develop ties in policy-making circles in U.S. and send Intels [intelligence reports] to" Moscow.

Cyprus Police Arrest Suspect in Alleged Russian Spy Ring

One of the 10 alleged Russian spies already arrested by the FBI had a fake British passport to help her to travel to and from Russia, it was alleged Tuesday.

A woman calling herself Tracey Lee Ann Foley and posing as a naturalized U.S. citizen traveled to Moscow on the passport forged for her by Russian intelligence services, it was claimed.

The woman was instructed in a coded internet message to pick up the passport in Vienna, sign it and “train yourself to be able to reproduce your signature when necessary."

The message from her handlers at the SVR, the Russian spy agency which succeeded the Soviet KGB, ends: “In the passport you’ll get a memo with recommendations. Pls, destroy the memo after reading. Be well.”

Gentle readers, mark my words: In the coming weeks, Rahm Emmanuel will pump the MSM "Blame Bush" machine to its maximum over this!

Of course, was it any wonder why George W. Bush was so eager to place missle defense systems in Poland and the Czech Republic?? The again, President Apologia has been more-than-eager to embrace those lying Cossacks Putin and Medvedev AND eliminate Bush's defense plans for Eastern Europe.

Make's you wonder if we have a 12th mole in our midst: