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Those Russian spies…
According to the New York Times: “Ten people have been arrested for allegedly serving as secret agents of the Russian government with the goal of penetrating U.S. government policymaking circles.
The Justice Department announced the arrests Monday.
According to court papers in the case, the U.S. government intercepted a message from Russian intelligence headquarters in Moscow to two of the defendants. The message states that their main mission is ”to search and develop ties in policymaking circles in US” and send intelligence reports.”
If there was one good thing about the Cold War it was this: it inspired some fabulous espionage novels. The decline of the Soviet Union also signaled the demise of a certain type of spy novel. Will this new wave of alleged Russian spies inspire a new wave of great espionage fiction? It’s possible.
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By Nick
June 30, 2010 10:12 AM | Link to this
I was actually just reading a few old spy novels from the late 70s/ early 80’s, and it seems so strange compared with reading Higgins. (Drakov Memoranda, Jon Winters) The whole tech differences are just so different. Perhaps we will have more period spy novels or just different settings. More spys in the desert, perhaps.
By Max
June 28, 2010 8:04 PM | Link to this
I rather like the notion the Russians are trying to penetrate our ‘policy making circles.’ When they succeed, I hope they tell America what they found since no firm ‘policy’ seems to exist in the American government today…..
By Insider
June 28, 2010 7:17 PM | Link to this
“The Russians are Coming! The Russians are Coming!” It is like they say: “Fools ‘rush in’ where angels fear to tread” (Was that Alexander Pope or Elvis?)
By Max
June 28, 2010 6:52 PM | Link to this
Well, Vick, as long as the ‘new wave’ doesn’t have Russian spies who play baseball….lol…No, wait, maybe that is a good subplot; an undermining of America’s past time…lol