Monday, June 28, 2010
Ten Russians Arrested in the U.S. as Spies; Relayed Reports on Gold Market
Eight individuals were arrested Sunday for allegedly carrying out long-term, "deep-cover" assignments in the United States on behalf of the Russia, the Justice Department announced today. Two additional defendants were also arrested Sunday for allegedly participating in the same Russian intelligence program within the United States.
Some of the Russians adopted Irish names in their spy work, including using the names Murphy and Foley.
Information they were seeking was pretty broad based but it included reports about gold. Moscow relayed back to the spies that the gold reports were "very valuable" and reported that it was passed on to Russia's finance minister.
Also, according to the complaint, one spy, "Cynthia Murphy," was developing a relationship with a prominent New York financier. The financier is apparently a big political money raiser and has a close friend in the Cabinet.
The most interesting question is, of course, what kind of information could the spies have turned over about gold that Moscow deemed as "very valuable"? And let the guessing game begin as to who the "prominent New York financier" is.
It should also be noted that this decade long investigation was publicly revealed just days after Obama and Russian President Medvedev shared hamburgers together.
Obama sure knows how to stick a guy in the eye, doesn't he?
Click Below to see the two complaints. The second complaint is the juicy one.
http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2010/06/ten-russians-arrested-in-us-as-spies.html
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