Badges - Re: U.S.-Russia spy swap goes off without a hitch
- From: CarlGlas@xxxxxxxxxxx
- To: badges@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 14:26:51 -0500
We haven't had a good presidential administration since FDR.
At 07:38 AM 7/10/2010 -0700, you wrote:
>What else did you expect of this administration? This kind of thing is about
>ALL they are good at.
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>From: badges-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:badges-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
>Behalf Of Dan E Hubbell
>Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2010 3:55 AM
>To: badges@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Badges - U.S.-Russia spy swap goes off without a hitch
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>Since the 1970's at least, possibly longer!
>
>Dan E. Hubbell
>101st Airborne Division (Airmobile)
>Sgt., RVN, 69-70
>sogteama1@xxxxxxx
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: <CarlGlas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <badges@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 6:44 PM
>Subject: Badges - U.S.-Russia spy swap goes off without a hitch
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>How long has this been going on?
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>U.S.-Russia spy swap goes off without a hitch
>Whirlwind exchange of prisoners takes place in Vienna
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> 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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38162139/ns/us_news-security/
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>The Badges Law Enforcement Discussion Group - Est. 1997
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