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White House Envisioned Spy Case Swap Even Before Arrests
ny times ^ | 7/10/10 | reported by Peter Baker, Charlie Savage and Benjamin Weiser and written by Mr. Baker.

Posted on 07/10/2010 11:01:59 PM PDT by Nachum

WASHINGTON — On a Friday afternoon in mid-June, President Obama sat down with advisers in the Oval Office and learned that the F.B.I. planned to round up the largest ring of Russian sleeper agents since the cold war. After discussion about what the agents had done, the conversation turned to the fallout: what to do after the arrests?

In that moment was born a back-to-the-future plan that would play out four weeks later, a prisoner exchange with surreal and even cinematic overtones as Russian and American airplanes met on a sunny tarmac in the heart of Europe on Friday to trade agents and spies much as had been done during a more hostile era.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: envisioned; house; spy; white

1 posted on 07/10/2010 11:02:04 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

Could it be Obama destroyed a major counter intelligence resource?


2 posted on 07/10/2010 11:17:55 PM PDT by dila813
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To: Nachum

this administration has no appetite to prosecute anyone but CIA officials who may have been too mean when interrogating terrorist murderers, oil companies, and states that have the audacity to try to protect their citizens.

terrorists and russian spies get a pass.


3 posted on 07/11/2010 12:06:06 AM PDT by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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To: Nachum

One of the first things anyone with more than 2 working brain cells thinks of regarding spies is to swap them...


4 posted on 07/11/2010 1:29:36 AM PDT by ltc8k6
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To: Nachum

"The spies will be in two weeks.
Be a good plant. Send the spies back to home immediately.
Any interrogation will lead back to the DNC,
to the hundreds of spies recruited ... and us."

5 posted on 07/11/2010 2:37:53 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Article IV - Section 4 - The United States shall protect each of them against Invasion)
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To: Nachum

Away from too many prying eyes of reporters and away from the White House recording devices, the maoist and the KBG agent too off for hell-burgers to make their plans......


6 posted on 07/11/2010 3:12:32 AM PDT by Carley (For those who fought for it, freedom has a flavor the protected will never know.)
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To: dila813

“Could it be Obama destroyed a major counter intelligence resource?”

If one of the commies was stood up in front of a Watergate judge who threatened them with 50 years in the can, she would have squealed on the Kenyan.

Can’t have that...


7 posted on 07/11/2010 6:49:13 AM PDT by y6162
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To: y6162

What I meant was, if the CIA knew they were spies, we could have been feeding them misinformation for the last 10 years.


8 posted on 07/11/2010 9:49:17 AM PDT by dila813
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