Have you ever met a Russian Spy
Have you ever met a Russian spy?
Yeah I know. That's the dumbest question of the day. No. I don't necessarily mean has a spy approached you. Have you ever come in contact with a person that you thought was somewhat odd and unsettling a d wondered if....
Yeah I know. That's the dumbest question of the day. No. I don't necessarily mean has a spy approached you. Have you ever come in contact with a person that you thought was somewhat odd and unsettling a d wondered if....
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Well I never actually met them in person, but I have conversed with Barz, serf and GreatGuns, does that count[;)] 0 -
Red Sparrow? 0 -
used to watch Boris and Natasha and Rocky the flying squirrel 0 -
I met Karla. 
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Around 1981 I met Ron Pelton, who worked as a "tech" for NSA. He had a low grade job (I think he was a GS-5), but he had access to a lot of classified material. He was having financial trouble; I met him while he was working a side job installing water injectors on cars to enable them to get better mileage.
His other side job was selling classified material to the Russians. The biggest secret he sold was our operation involving a tap on a Soviet underwater communications cable on the floor of the Sea of Okhotsk; we had to send a diver down to change tapes every few weeks. Ron was the only Russian spy convicted without any evidence; he memorized everything, & spent hours telling his handlers what he knew. When confronted by investigators, he confessed.
He was convicted of espionage in 1986, & was released in 2015. Talking to him, you would never suspect his true past. I guess that he is working somewhere as a clerk in a convenience store, but we may never know.
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bazzard should have been shot...shows how weak our govt has become since he crapped on it and us....bet he will get social security or welfare moey now...disgusting 0 -
quote:Have you ever met a Russian Spy
Really don't know - do they wear name tags ?0 -
I became good friends with Lev Lokshin, who formerly worked for the Military Institute in Moscow. Very nice guy. He would have relatives send him cameras from Russia and I would buy them from him and resell them at camera shows back when I still had the camera business.
One time he sold me a genuine Russian spy camera, among several very rare (in the US) cameras. This thing had a lens that looked like a button, and would go in the buttonhole of an overcoat. Then a cable release would go down the sleeve and be triggered by flexing your wrist.
He gave me an Army belt and buckle that would be worn on top of the overcoat. He also gave me a stopwatch that the North Koreans had given his dad in appreciation for the training he gave them on Russian artillery during the Korea War. It has engraving on the back of the case, but I haven't been able to get it translated.
He wouldn't tell me what his job was in the Army, but I doubt if he was a spy.0 -
Once I was in a pub in the UK outside the airbase I was stationed at. Guy bought me a beer and asked me if I would buy him a squadron baseball hat that we were authorized to wear....being a kid of eighteen I took the security briefings seriously ...I was sure he was trying to co op me[:)]
Guys use to hang out outside the fence with binoculars and write down tail numbers of the fighters as they took off and landed. I saw the same thing at Aviano, Italy, and Bitburg, Germany.0 -
quote:Originally posted by ltcdoty
Once I was in a pub in the UK outside the airbase I was stationed at. Guy bought me a beer and asked me if I would buy him a squadron baseball hat that we were authorized to wear....being a kid of eighteen I took the security briefings seriously ...I was sure he was trying to co op me[:)]
Guys use to hang out outside the fence with binoculars and write down tail numbers of the fighters as they took off and landed. I saw the same thing at Aviano, Italy, and Bitburg, Germany.
Stationed at one of this Country's most State of the Art, Doomsday Bunkers/COG for apprx. 4 1/2 years. We were constantly warned about being approached in the local bars. If it seemed too good to be true, it probably was.0 -
I was an escort for a Russian SALT team here to verify certain parts of our ICBM programs. Each and every one of them was assumed to be an intelligence agent.
Favorite anecdote: We took them to a supermarket. They refused to believe that there was that much food readily available to everybody, and told us to our faces the store had to be a setup. Because they knew capitalism was a lie. So we jumped into a car and started driving, offering to stop at any kind of store, anywhere, at their choice. After three, they simply sat stony faced and glum. I think they got a little different "intelligence" than they wanted.0 -
I have actually met one; if you count an officer for Soviet Army Intelligence, which is commonly called the GRU. An interesting man with a lot of stories about Afghanistan and Chechnya. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by Rocky Raab
I was an escort for a Russian SALT team here to verify certain parts of our ICBM programs. Each and every one of them was assumed to be an intelligence agent.
Favorite anecdote: We took them to a supermarket. They refused to believe that there was that much food readily available to everybody, and told us to our faces the store had to be a setup. Because they knew capitalism was a lie. So we jumped into a car and started driving, offering to stop at any kind of store, anywhere, at their choice. After three, they simply sat stony faced and glum. I think they got a little different "intelligence" than they wanted.
good you showed them
ignorance is bliss I reckon
wonder what we are ignorant of as well0 -
I had a neighbor who had was an intelligence officer in the Air Force . Lots of interesting conversations with him . The fun part of as the things he would not tell me ! From what he left out he served in some interesting duty spots over the years 0 -
No and never wanted to meet a Russian spy. However this one would be an exception, like to pat her down to see if she's carry'n. 0 -
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We did some aircraft and vehicle take down demonstrations for a bunch of visiting ?Rooshians? out at Martin State Airport once upon a time. This was adjacent to the MDANG A-10 base. Any chance they could have been interested in something over there? Nah. (I assure you, none of them looked like the one in Droptop?s post above!) 0 -
I have often teased my Russian wife about the fact she is some kind of spy but not a Russian spy. As I tell her "You can't be Russian! You can't stand cold weather and you can't hold your vodka!!"
I'm not joking! Last week we came out of Home Depot, The temp was 47 degrees and she was running to the car bitching about how cold it was!! We wont even discuss the photo I have of her coiled around the toilet bowl after two shots of vodka!![:D][}:)][:D]0 -
quote:Originally posted by droptop
No and never wanted to meet a Russian spy. However this one would be an exception, like to pat her down to see if she's carry'n.
That's known as a "swallow" in spy tradecraft.
When in mixed company, the swallow was said to mean a little bird
that comes to your window to look for tid-bits, [spying]
When among just the guys, swallow meant something else.
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