"the couple was included in a spy swap with the Soviet Union"
Umm, the SOVIET UNION has been GONE for about 20 YEARS!!!
So the Boston Globe is LIVING in the PAST and DOESN'T EVEN KNOW what YEAR it is, huh?
Also see: Slow Saturday Special: Stupid Spy Stories
So HOW MANY ACTS does this FARCE have?
"Cambridge man’s trip plans spurred US to arrest spies" by Pete Yost, Associated Press | July 13, 2010
WASHINGTON — The FBI arrested 10 Russian secret agents on June 27 after learning weeks before that one of them, Donald Heathfield of Cambridge, would soon be traveling abroad with a college-age son and might not return, a US law enforcement official said yesterday.
Keep reading to see why.
Heathfield’s planned departure was in the official’s words the big catalyst in deciding to take down a spy network that had been under surveillance by the FBI for more than a decade.
Of course, now he is gone anyway.
Heathfield, whose real name is Andrey Bezrukov, had traveled outside the United States last spring without any move by the FBI to arrest him.
Like I have been saying, folks, a TOTALLY STAGED and SCRIPTED PRODUCTION passed off as news.
And it gets EVEN BETTER!!
The official said the difference between the earlier trip and the one which would have started late last month — on what turned out to be the day of the arrests — was that the FBI had reason to believe Heathfield might not be coming back.
BULLS***!!
The official spoke about the matter on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized by the government to discuss it.
GOVERNMENT BULLS***!!
Two White House officials said Friday it became clear in early June that at least two of the Russians were making plans to leave the country. The officials did not identify the two, but the law enforcement official said one of them was Heathfield. According to one of the two criminal complaints in the case, another of the Russian agents, Anna Chapman, was planning to leave in mid-July for Moscow.
Preparations took time, once the decision was made to dismantle the Russian network....
PFFFT!
Adding to the sense of urgency surrounding the arrests was Chapman’s behavior on June 26. She became suspicious when meeting with the undercover FBI agent who posed as a Russian consulate employee.
Oh, NO!
They are FRAMING RUSSIAN SPIES they way they frame Muslim patsies!!!!
The undercover agent asked Chapman to deliver a phony passport to another deep cover Russian agent, but Chapman did not do that.
The court documents show that after meeting the undercover agent, Chapman bought a one-time-use cellphone under an assumed name.
Then she MUST be a TERRORIST!
Then, authorities say, Chapman made a “flurry of calls’’ to Russia.
That's the hot one that did the photo spread, right?
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Of course, EVERYBODY SAW IT COMING, right?
"Khrushchev kin who taught Russian spy in N.Y. had doubts" by Associated Press | July 14, 2010
WASHINGTON — During his decadelong effort to burrow into US society, secret Russian agent Richard Murphy raised the suspicions of at least one acquaintance in America — the great-granddaughter of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.
Takes one to know one, right?
Nina L. Khrushcheva, who teaches media and culture at The New School in New York City, said yesterday that she couldn’t quite figure out the part-time graduate student with the heavy Russian accent who called himself Murphy and claimed to be a Philadelphia native.
I wouldn't have noticed that all these years.
“I was always puzzled by the inconsistency between a completely American name and a completely Russian behavior,’’ Khrushcheva said in a telephone interview.
Readers, this gets MORE and MORE RIDICULOUS each day!!
“I never bothered to ask him, though, because I was afraid to become privy to some random Russian drama,’’ she said.
That's what this is, all right.
I wonder if the government and MSM scriptwriters will win an Oscar.
When is the movie, anyway?
Khrushcheva said she was Murphy’s faculty adviser at The New School for three years starting in 2002.
FBI officials said the arrests of Murphy and nine others came after officials learned that another agent, Donald Heathfield of Cambridge, Mass., would soon be traveling abroad with a college-age son.
Murphy, whose real name was Vladimir Guryev, “had a thick Russian accent and an incredibly unhappy Russian personality,’’ Khrushcheva said. “I knew he wasn’t American. I knew it was very odd.’’
He STOOD OUT like a SORE THUMB and NO ONE EVER NOTICED?
But she said she wasn’t certain until she checked the records Monday that showed her former advisee, now 43, was the same Richard Murphy of Montclair, N.J., who was deported Friday in a Cold War-style spy swap in Vienna.
Went to college a little late, didn't he?
And I know it brings back fond memories, Globe; however, do you think you could come into THIS CENTURY for a change?
"IDs, gadgets among items from spy home; FBI had a live video feed of the Cambridge townhouse" by Shelley Murphy, Globe Staff | July 15, 2010
FBI searches of the Cambridge home and a safe deposit box belonging to a couple of Russian spies turned up some interesting tools of the trade: a Dr. Pepper can with a fake lid, a Coke can with a fake bottom, currency from Europe and Asia, and various identification cards....
This is just SILLY, readers!!
Many of the items seized from the townhouse the couple shared with their two sons, ages 16 and 20, included electronics, computer equipment, and other gadgetry. A
You know, STUFF ANY FAMILY would have in their home!
The raids also netted numerous unidentified pills and capsules in a variety of colors.
Drug-addicted spies?
“The pills and vitamins indicate to me that they were well integrated into the Cambridge social scene,’’ said Boston attorney Robert Sheketoff, who represented Tracey Lee Ann Foley, before the couple was included in a spy swap with the Soviet Union. He added that the unidentified pills were probably vitamins and antioxidants.
Spy swap with WHO, Globe?
Spies right under the noses of the do-gooder lefties of Massachusetts, huh?
As for the soda cans with the fake components, Boston attorney Peter B. Krupp, who represented Donald Howard Heathfield, said, “It sounds like they are tools from Spying 101, not particularly sophisticated stuff.’’
No, not at all.
In fact, it is enough to MAKE ONE LAUGH with INCREDULITY!!
An FBI affidavit filed in support of one of the searches also revealed that FBI agents saw a bottle “that appeared to contain invisible ink,’’ in 2006 when they conducted a secret search of another apartment on Trowbridge Street that the couple lived in before buying the townhouse on the same street last month.
Yeah, the Globe uses a lot of that.
We call it censorship here!
After the couple purchased the townhouse for $790,000, the FBI placed a “pole camera’’ across the street, according to the affidavit. It provided the FBI with a live video feed of activity outside the house 24 hours a day, while agents also bugged the couple’s telephone, the affidavit said....
Your tax dollars at work.
As part of a plea agreement, the couple must forfeit the townhouse, their US bank accounts, and other assets to the government.
You wanted them to feel at home, didn't you?
However, in court last week, the government promised to return the contents of the home and other items that were seized and are not part of the forfeiture order.
“We do expect to get them back in relatively short order,’’ Krupp said.
He also said he received an e-mail from Bezrukov since he returned to Russia and “it sounds like he is doing fine.’’
Oh, that's good.
I was really worried and on the edge of my seat over it, Globe.
