Real-life Espionage Incidents Discussion

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(20-11-2010 07:59 PM)tom quinn Wrote:  regarding the russian sleeper business, normally moscow is quite adapt at the spy game. ("it appears the russians have had their own version of sugar horse only bigger and better" harry peace) so for them to get it so wrong surprises me, it would appear that there is another angle to the story we have not considered. especially if you consider how much info was released to the media.
wouldnt surprise me if they were an operation that was ment to fail for some reason, i mean if it was as was claimed to influence policy of government and companies then the russians allready have the power to do that through other means.

An interesting follow-up to the "Russian sleeper" story. It appears, according to the Washington Post, that this op was shipped to US authorities by a high-ranking Russian spy who has disappeared from Russia and is believed to be living in hiding somewhere in the West.