Badges - Re: U.S.-Russia spy swap goes off without a hitch
- From: "CD Rowsell" <cd2u@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 07:38:24 -0700
What else did you expect of this administration? This kind of thing is about
ALL they are good at.
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Since the 1970's at least, possibly longer!
Dan E. Hubbell
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Subject: Badges - U.S.-Russia spy swap goes off without a hitch
How long has this been going on?
U.S.-Russia spy swap goes off without a hitch
Whirlwind exchange of prisoners takes place in Vienna
VIENNA - It took less than month for the
largest U.S.-Russian spy swap since the Cold War
to unfold from an idea secretly hatched in the
Oval Office to reality on a remote stretch of Vienna airport tarmac.
The whirlwind exchange took place Friday in a
choreographed script of spy novel intrigue. Two
planes, one from New York, the other from Moscow,
arrived within minutes of each other and parked
nose-to-tail. Their passengers - 10 Russian
sleeper agents arrested in the U.S. and four
prisoners accused by Russia of spying for the
West - were ferried to each other, and the planes
departed again just as quickly.
The whole thing, a soundless drama seen only at a
distance through camera lenses, took less than an
hour and a half - displaying the efficiency of
this extraordinary new chapter in U.S.-Russian relations.
The 10 Russian agents who had blended into U.S.
communities, including Anna Chapman, the woman
who had caught Americans' fancy with her Facebook
photos, soon landed in Moscow. And four other
Russians accused of spying for the West headed
the other way, two of them arriving at Dulles
International Airport outside Washington at the end of the capital's
workday.
Their chartered aircraft, a maroon-and-white
Boeing 767-200, had stopped briefly at a southern
England air base, where a U.S. official said two
of the four were dropped off before the plane continued across the Atlantic.
The swap idea was Washington's, first raised with
President Barack Obama nearly a month ago when
the FBI and Justice Department officials who had
been watching the 10 Russian agents hiding in
suburban America for over a decade informed the
president it was time to start planning their
arrests, according to two White House officials,
who spoke on condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the White
House.
What was known as "the illegals program" had been
first brought to the White House's attention
months before, in February, triggering weeks of
meetings about how and when to proceed, the
officials said. It became clear in early June
that at least two of the Russians were making
plans to leave the U.S., meaning the whole
operation now had to be rolled up more quickly than originally thought.
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38162139/ns/us_news-security/
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