06-30-2010, 11:54 PM
(06-30-2010, 05:50 PM)kandrathe Wrote: As quoted from the decrypted message in the complaint filed in court, "You were sent to USA for long-term service trip. Your education, bank accounts, car, house etc. - all these serve one goal: fulfill your main mission, i.e. to search and develop ties in policymaking circles in US and send intels [intelligence reports] to C[enter]."
Yeah, that's still pretty generic to me. I mean I can see that as an Office Depot business card template for a spy. Or the intro of a cover letter to apply for a international spy position. (Not international super-spy just yet, though Anna Chapman does have major potentials in the looks department. So sue me, I'm a red blooded male.)
Not saying I'm convinced 100% that these folks are not spies or they are. Just sayin that the facts so far from what I've seen, are pretty thin. Again that's probably because it's all still under investigation.
I mean maybe it's just me, but I can also easily imagine this scenario.
I'm a spy, my boss just told me I'm considered for a mission. This mission entails me getting out of post Soviet Russia and into the US, for some vague and generic goal that is hard to quantify, and they're going to foot the bill for me to blend in as an American.
That includes bank accounts, cars, education, petty cash for arranging cake filled office birthday parties those capitalist pigs love to throw. Oh and it's possibly a long term trip. Hmmm...Yes Kommissar! I'm your spy, Hamburger Baseball, Capitalist Mickey Mouse Manifest Destiny!
If it is proven that these folks are spies, I gotta say. The Evil Empire schemes used to be more...edgy and sexy and worthy of Bond Villainy. This one seems to be more in the vein of Dr. Strangelove absurd funny.