Breaking up Russian spy rings is all part of a hard day’s work. I especially like the Husband-Wife spy-teams. They’re the most interesting.
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
Russian spy rings. How shocking! Of course there could not possibly be any United States spy rings in Russia or anywhere else. That would be so un-American!
Luckily, they don’t exist until the Russians round them up.
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The Bushies missed the Cold war. It seems they were not alone. They have their Russian counterparts. How comforting to have a convenient villain, a bogeyman that can be used to justify all sorts of high-handed behavior.
Yeah, but didn’t they get the memo that it isn’t the Russians anymore? In fact, aren’t the Russians, like, almost allies now? Don’t they know that the Bogus Bogey Man du jour is the Ayrabs and the Islamics? And when it comes to the Bogus Threat To World Peace and Security du jour they are WAY behind! It not only isn’t Russia, it isn’t even Eye-rack anymore, now it is Eye-ran. Now, if they had found an Eye-raynian spy ring, THAT would be interesting.
I am so old I vaguely recall something grainy and black and white called “I Lived Two Lives,” starring Joseph Cotten, about a deep-cover Russian spy trained to “pass for” American. This fragment of memory is so obscure — and possibly mangled — Google can’t confirm it and I can’t remember if it was a movie or a TV series. It was part of the 1950’s cold war paranoia that someone you know could be a spy…
In today’s world, deep-cover operatives living in Arlington seems sorta stupid. Couldn’t you learn more intimate details about think-tank policy makers on their Facebook pages?
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1777 Letter Finds Home At New Spy Museum
In February 1777 Gen. George Washington gave a New York man the go-ahead to establish a spy network
in the region and promised him $50 a month “for your care and trouble in this business.”
Did you perhaps mean Joseph Cotten in the 1949 movie “The Third Man?”
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."Definitely NOT “The Third Man.” I’m pretty sure it was a TV series… maybe it didn’t star Joseph Cotten, just someone similar to him. The only Google reference that came close was a reference in some Biblical scholar’s essay… I mean, we are talking about a byte of pop culture from over 50 years ago! Apparently, the internet has not consumed ALL data…
TV show from the mid-50s, I Led Three Lives, starring Richard Carlson, based on real-life spy adventures of Boston ad man who infiltrated US Commie Party for feds. Scripts approved by FBI/J. Edgar. Supposedly a favorite teevee show of the young Lee Oswald.
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Book review NY Times or the film Red Menace?
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."Jeebus, the Russians are behind the times. There’s no need to setup a spy ring to do crap like this anymore. Just setup a few multi-national corporations based out of Russia and make sure they have enough money to pay for lobbyists. Within a few years you’ll have a direct line into the policy making circles. And depending on how much money you’re willing to pump into the system and what types of corporations you use, within a decade you’ll have the keys to influence US policy on everything from domestic farm subsidies to foreign aid packages.
Its really shocking to hear about these spy rings.We might even not knowing how many are still active and doing their jobs
I thought there was a TV show called “I Led Three Lives”. You know, spy, counter spy, counter counter spy. Something like that.
Actually Breach is a really good movie. Chris Cooper is fantastic and rest of the cast is excellent.
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