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oldschoolfool on 04 July 2010
im_sneaky said:

These spies probably learned nothing. It seems they were more like ordinary people sent to the U.S. to live normal lives and perhaps extol the virtues of the Russian Federation once in a while. They weren't doing any James Bond, Mission Impossible stuff...

Although Russia should not have had them here legally, the truth it that had they been there legally with their goal clearly stated, they would not have been given a chance.

On the other hand, frankly, I doubt we are being told the whole truth, so everything I said and anyone else said coud be meaningless.


Are you a spy? Your name is im_sneaky. lol



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HappySqurriel on 04 July 2010

If you can believe former cold-war spies, the vast majority of espionage is nothing like what you see in movies; and is mostly about gathering information that is (mostly) not secret, and building relationships that could be useful to manipulate the country from the outside. While the internet makes a lot of the work they used to do unnecessary, I imagine that the social networking aspect of spying is still needed to be able to do anything effective.

Personally, I'd be interested to see what modern espionage is all about; and I wonder if these people were trying to influence the same academics, union leaders and radicals the KGB was manipulating throughout the cold war. I suspect not because I doubt Russia would be interested in converting the US to communism ...



hunter_alien on 04 July 2010
O-D-C said:

In Soviet Russia thread posts you!


Thats it, Il never enter in a thread like this... I nearly peed myself again, just by comming in, for the second time this week on VGC

 

OT: as far as I heard every single country has spies... hell even we do, but I doubt that they could cross our own borders



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mai on 09 July 2010
mai said:

Do people really believe those are spies? Either our foreign intelligence service is getting lazy, or this's massive provocation from one of the sides =)

LOL, it seems I got it now. The whole case was framed-up just to exchange so called "Russian spies" on four actual spies, or defectors to be precise, who supposed to be political prisoners as it's been declared previously. But finally it looks like US finally admitted that Sutyagin and co are, in fact, spies. Why the hell they do want to exchange them for ten convicted spies if not? =)