Patterico's Pontifications

6/30/2010

Russian Spy Tales

Filed under: International — DRJ @ 3:59 am

[Guest post by DRJ]

Spy Tale #1 — Real sex, real kids, but not all were married.

Spy Tale #2 — Some were better at complaining than spying.

Spy Tale #3 — One made an interesting connection with an Obama Cabinet official.

Don’t you think Anna Chapman (photo at the links) could be a Bond girl?

– DRJ

26 Comments

  1. Anna Chapman = Honeypot.

    Comment by NavyspyII (df615d) — 6/30/2010 @ 5:22 am

  2. I would not want to be a US businessman (or tourist, or student) in Russia right now. They will certainly arrest a few, so they have something to trade to get their people back.

    Comment by Charles Collins (498b1b) — 6/30/2010 @ 6:13 am

  3. What I find hilarious is the comment by neighbors/associates of the russian spies in cambridge, ma…..”they didn’t see anything different about them”. I’m still, sadly, laughing my head off about that comment.
    Cambridge inhabitants seeing nothing different about people dedicated to the demise of the USA….what a hoot!

    Comment by J (2946f2) — 6/30/2010 @ 6:17 am

  4. these spies not same league
    Boris B. and Natasha
    they knew how kill moose

    Comment by ColonelHaiku (9cf017) — 6/30/2010 @ 6:52 am

  5. chapman close set eyes
    judge Napolitano brow
    no pussy galore

    Comment by ColonelHaiku (9cf017) — 6/30/2010 @ 7:17 am

  6. Yup–just like every other Cambridge elitists–blended right in. They would have blended in as well on the hills just below Grizzly Peak Road in Berkeley or over in Marin County.

    Comment by Mike Myers (3c9845) — 6/30/2010 @ 7:18 am

  7. A federal complaint suggested the Murphys may never have been married at all – their entire lives, including their daughters, a ruse to cover up their real mission.

    Children just a ruse? I see some serious therapy in their future.

    Comment by Dana (1e5ad4) — 6/30/2010 @ 7:39 am

  8. Chapman looks bertter as a redhead. Just sayin’.

    Comment by Tully (4dce1a) — 6/30/2010 @ 8:58 am

  9. Okay, Anna Chapman is an attractive lady.

    Comment by JD (959071) — 6/30/2010 @ 9:05 am

  10. I would tell her everything I know….
    about JD!

    Comment by AD - RtR/OS! (209868) — 6/30/2010 @ 9:36 am

  11. According to other outlets, the unnamed Obama official is Hillary Clinton.

    Comment by East Coast Chris (ded5f2) — 6/30/2010 @ 9:44 am

  12. AD – Expect a knock at your door, soon.

    Comment by JD (959071) — 6/30/2010 @ 9:46 am

  13. UPDATE:

    The 11th suspect, Christopher Metsos, in an alleged Russian spy ring straight out of the Cold War has been busted in Cyprus.

    Comment by IgotBupkis, President, United Anarchist Society (79d71d) — 6/30/2010 @ 10:11 am

  14. Comment by JD — 6/30/2010 @ 9:46 am

    “Knocks” are usually good, it is the “crash” of the battering ram that causes brief moments of madness, and the intervention of the HRT.

    Comment by AD - RtR/OS! (209868) — 6/30/2010 @ 10:12 am

  15. Since these folks both illegal aliens and spies against America, will the liberals grant them amnesty and citizenship, or amnesty, citizenship…and a cash bonus?

    Comment by Dave Surls (593f85) — 6/30/2010 @ 10:57 am

  16. “Since these folks both…”

    I meant “ARE both”.

    Preview would be my friend, if only I’d let it.

    Comment by Dave Surls (593f85) — 6/30/2010 @ 10:59 am

  17. The supposed Russian SVR official, Metsos, made bail, then flew the coop out of Cyprus

    Comment by ian cormac (89ef3c) — 6/30/2010 @ 11:59 am

  18. To catch him I suppose we’ll have to sub-contract his arrest and extradition to the Mossad.

    Comment by AD - RtR/OS! (209868) — 6/30/2010 @ 12:05 pm

  19. You mean a Latina journalist, a college prof, and a Dem fundraiser were all communists? Shocka!

    BTW I wonder if they had accents. No article says so.

    Comment by Patricia (160852) — 6/30/2010 @ 7:15 pm

  20. Yes, there was one group that a few neighbors commented that they thought it strange that they had “Eastern European” accents though they claimed a Mid-West heritage.

    Comment by AD - RtR/OS! (209868) — 6/30/2010 @ 7:52 pm

  21. The supposed Russian SVR official, Metsos, made bail, then flew the coop out of Cyprus

    Comment by ian cormac — 6/30/2010 @ 11:59 am

    The Greek was the only smart one of the bunch? ;)

    Comment by nk (db4a41) — 6/30/2010 @ 7:57 pm

  22. Patricia,

    I heard on the news that the blonde gal had an accent and upon being questioned by her neighbors where she was from, she claimed Belgium. They bought it. Maybe they had never watched a Bond flick.

    Comment by Dana (1e5ad4) — 6/30/2010 @ 8:40 pm

  23. The details are fascinating to me. CNS reports that some adopted Canadian identities, including one who took the identity of a Canadian infant named Donald Heathfield who died of crib death in 1963. Guess what Donald was interested in:

    U.S. prosecutors have charged Donald Heathfield and 10 other suspects with following orders by Russian intelligence to become “Americanized” enough to infiltrate “policymaking circles” and feed information back to Moscow.

    Donald Heathfield worked for a management consulting firm and lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts – home to Harvard and MIT. Prosecutors said in 2004 Heathfield met with an employee of the U.S. government to discuss nuclear weapons research.

    Comment by DRJ (d43dcd) — 6/30/2010 @ 8:46 pm

  24. She’s kind of like the other russian gal in the “Goldeneye” film, no not Famke Jansen’s character

    Comment by ian cormac (89ef3c) — 6/30/2010 @ 8:47 pm

  25. All in all, though, you’ve got to love capitalism when its all said and done.

    Comment by Ag80 (363d6e) — 6/30/2010 @ 8:54 pm

  26. Americans are too trusting.

    I feel sorry for the kids. Who knows, maybe they’re not really theirs either!

    Comment by Patricia (160852) — 6/30/2010 @ 9:41 pm

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