Posted on 06/29/2010 7:05:04 PM PDT by opentalk
Oleg Gordievsky, one of the Cold War's most famous defectors, says Russia may have as many as 50 deep-cover couples spying inside the United States.
Gordievsky, a former deputy head of the KGB in London who defected in 1985, said Russian President Dmitry Medvedev would know the number of illegal operatives in each target country.
The 71-year-old ex-double agent said that, based on his experience in Russian intelligence, he estimates that Moscow likely has 40 to 50 couples operating under cover in the US.
"For the KGB, there's usually 40 to 50 couples, all illegal," said Gordievsky, who defected to Britain after supplying information during the Cold War to the U.K.'s MI6 overseas spy agency.
Gordievsky said he spent nine years working in the KGB directorate in charge of illegal spy teams. "The president will know the number, and in each country how many - but not their names," Gordievsky said.
The FBI announced Monday the arrests of 10 alleged deep cover Russian agents after tracking the suspects for years. They are accused of attempting to infiltrate US policymaking circles while posing as ordinary citizens.
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I bet Obama is sweating bullets . . .
He’ll probably use that as a defense.
Yah from the reports today of the techniques they're using for meetings and cash transfers, their mission might be to steal the source code for Windows 3.1.
Yes. The Russians have infested us with spies.
Yes. The Russians have infested us with spies.
Yes. The Russians have infested us with spies.
I’ve hoped that Telefon could be remade, but with better screenplay and direction. It had an annoying, 1970s look, and the cinematography was awful, like they were using cheap film stock.
Along with Bronson and Remick, they had Donald Pleasence and Patrick Magee, both of whom could milk a close up for all that it was worth, but got no close ups. The CIA scenes were throw aways.
They also could have pumped up the tension, kind of the flip side of Clint Eastwood’s Firefox, which was made just five years later, yet was very intense and paranoid. This would have been interesting to American audiences: Soviet spies coming to the US and being scared and tense, afraid of their shadows.
Telefon needed an almost Kubrick approach to direction, and the Russians could have been so dangerous that even real Russian audiences would like it.
No reason for the drug induced hypnosis agents to be automatons, either. They could be Jason Bourne quality killers when carrying out their mission, even if they were old hippies in real life. Russian baby boomer ninjas.
867-5309?
867-5309? Miles to go before you sleep, Jenny.
I’m sure each one of the ten of thousands of mail order russian brides here in the USA are spying on us....
It’s Putin’s version of an economic stimulus. Our version is the census!
Ya don’t say...? I’d say if it’s that few i’d be SHOCKED personally...
In twenty years we will have the Venona Files II which will reveal Russia's attempt to infiltrate the WH and U.S. Congress with capitalists.
There is one in the White House!
My response as well: only 50? They must be getting short on bucks!
That was an intense movie. And Bronson, Lee Remick and Donald Pleasence all gave stunning performances.
I'm kind of fond of that '70s look. "Three Days of the Condor" is like that as well.
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