Too much American History there. Marine Barracks at Eighth and I, The Smithsonian the Various Natural History and Science wings of Museums, The Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson and Marine Corps Memorials, and of course, the Honest men and women who live there.
Believe it or not, they do out number the Corrupt Government Officials.
Physical attacks are not necessary. Just revealing the sheer total of dirt the Russian intelligence services have on the In Crowd should guarantee most of them an extended stay in SuperMax.
It’s time to scrap “gentlemens’ agreements” on that sort of thing.
I was about to say pretty much the same thing. I was gonna suggest Putin has files on a good number of very bad actors (not all of them from Hollyweird) and the USA could use a good old-fashioned round up.
We already had one when the USSR imploded in 1991. Look up “Mitrokhin archive”.
As Tom Clancy said, when the (first) Cold War ended, we learned that the Russians had won the “spy war” hands down.
The thing is, it wasn’t the vaunted and feared KGB that was the most successful in infiltrating Western intelligence agencies. It was GRU, Russian military intelligence. KGB was too busy indulging in the sort of “foreign adventures” we associate with the CIA over here- with similarly unexpected results. (Another term for same is “backfired badly”.)
One of my college profs (ex-Agency) admitted to me in 1993 that among the successful GRU infiltrators at Langley were three he knew personally, one of whom he reported to. And no, neither he nor anybody else had any idea. They were just that good at what they were doing.
The moral is that the best “spy” is one nobody has any idea is a spy.
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Too much American History there. Marine Barracks at Eighth and I, The Smithsonian the Various Natural History and Science wings of Museums, The Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson and Marine Corps Memorials, and of course, the Honest men and women who live there.
Believe it or not, they do out number the Corrupt Government Officials.
Get tried by a DC Jury, then come back and tell us that again.
Thank you, James G.
Physical attacks are not necessary. Just revealing the sheer total of dirt the Russian intelligence services have on the In Crowd should guarantee most of them an extended stay in SuperMax.
It’s time to scrap “gentlemens’ agreements” on that sort of thing.
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eon
I was about to say pretty much the same thing. I was gonna suggest Putin has files on a good number of very bad actors (not all of them from Hollyweird) and the USA could use a good old-fashioned round up.
That would give a whole new meaning to the phrase “Red Scare” now wouldn’t it?
We already had one when the USSR imploded in 1991. Look up “Mitrokhin archive”.
As Tom Clancy said, when the (first) Cold War ended, we learned that the Russians had won the “spy war” hands down.
The thing is, it wasn’t the vaunted and feared KGB that was the most successful in infiltrating Western intelligence agencies. It was GRU, Russian military intelligence. KGB was too busy indulging in the sort of “foreign adventures” we associate with the CIA over here- with similarly unexpected results. (Another term for same is “backfired badly”.)
One of my college profs (ex-Agency) admitted to me in 1993 that among the successful GRU infiltrators at Langley were three he knew personally, one of whom he reported to. And no, neither he nor anybody else had any idea. They were just that good at what they were doing.
The moral is that the best “spy” is one nobody has any idea is a spy.
James Bond does not qualify.
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eon