INTL Report: Russian spies get Kremlin's highest honors

[Spirit Of Truth]

While everyone is busy griping about the cloudy skies (economy, politics, etc.), they are wholly unaware that what appears in the skies signifies an oncoming Cat 5 hurricane.



Report: Russian spies get Kremlin's highest honors

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/18/AR2010101801902.html

The Associated Press
Monday, October 18, 2010; 9:40 AM

MOSCOW -- Russia's Interfax news agency is reporting that President Dmitry Medvedev has bestowed the country's highest state honors on the sleeper agents deported from the United States.

The report says the awards were made in a Kremlin ceremony on Monday, less than four months after the biggest spy swap between the U.S. and Russia since the Cold War. The report cites Medvedev's spokeswoman, Natalya Timakova.

In June, 10 Russian agents who infiltrated suburban America were deported in exchange for four people convicted in Russia of spying for the West.

The spies received a hero's welcome in Russia, with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin leading them in a patriotic singalong in July.

 

[ivantherussian03]

Awards for failure....yeah that sounds about right.


I think I will K19 again and remind myself how scary the evil Russian Empire is.

What a joke.

 

[TheSearcher]

Awards for failure....yeah that sounds about right.

Unless they already acheived their mission objectives...

 

[Spirit Of Truth]

Unless they already acheived their mission objectives...

Aldrich Ames, the notorious turncoat, was "'in the most sensitive element' of the Department of Operations because it was responsible for Soviet counterintelligence activities. Ames had access to all CIA plans and operations against the KGB and the GRU, Soviet military intelligence." (Wiki)

When the FBI stumbled upon the cell of moles recently sent back to Moscow (instead of prosecuted and further examined), have no doubt the Kremlin was aware of it. Consequently, the cell was converted to a disinformation source by making it a laughably impotent group that matched Western perceptions of the ineptitude of Russian intelligence. This would have been the objective of the cell. In fact, it might have been selected long ago for this purpose and thus U.S. intelligence discovering the cell was by design.

The bottom line is that "Western intelligence" is an oxymoron and the truth is that Russian intelligence outsmarted the West long, long ago. The consequence of this truth will only be recognized when people hear air-raid sirens and see bright flashes.

 

[TheSearcher]

Aldrich Ames, the notorious turncoat, was "'in the most sensitive element' of the Department of Operations because it was responsible for Soviet counterintelligence activities. Ames had access to all CIA plans and operations against the KGB and the GRU, Soviet military intelligence." (Wiki)

When the FBI stumbled upon the cell of moles recently sent back to Moscow (instead of prosecuted and further examined), have no doubt the Kremlin was aware of it. Consequently, the cell was converted to a disinformation source by making it a laughably impotent group that matched Western perceptions of the ineptitude of Russian intelligence. This would have been the objective of the cell. In fact, it might have been selected long ago for this purpose and thus U.S. intelligence discovering the cell was by design.

The bottom line is that "Western intelligence" is an oxymoron and the truth is that Russian intelligence outsmarted the West long, long ago. The consequence of this truth will only be recognized when people hear air-raid sirens and see bright flashes.

Yep, except hearing air-raid sirens may be VERY uncommon since we started dropping our civil defense programs in the late 1980's, and killing them in the 1990's.

I'll likely hear them, working next to JSC, and living in area surrounded by petrochemical plants... Most won't.

The bright flashes will so PRETTY, tho!