Today the New York Times announced a multi-count indictment against a deep-cover Russian Intelligence Sleeper Network. And the best news, two of the operatives - cover names Richard and Cynthia Murphy - were until recently Hoboken residents. Alas, they moved to Montclair a few years back.
This washes away a lot of the stain inflicted on the town's reputation by a string of bumbling corrupt officials and moronic cops who can't keep their pants on and weapons under control in a Hooters bar. This is big time - high tech intercepts, flash drops, dead drops, operational funds in 100K installments, SigInt and HumInt FBI counter intelligence surveillance, Moscow Center-trained pros targeting State Department policy making and recruiting a far flung network of agents of influence! Way, way more impressive then that idiot Peter Cammarano who scurries of to Malibu Dinner for $25K in bribes, speak clearly into a CI's mic and all but handcuffs himself. That is all behind us now - "Cammarano" who, do you put that on salad?
We can hold our head high now, fellow Hobokenites! We are in the big leagues now!
- Eugenious
Here is an excerpt from the NY Times story:
Once planted in their host country, the agents’ entire lives – “education, bank accounts, car, house, etc.,” the complaint quoted on Moscow message as saying -- would be secretly financed by the Russian government in order to fulfill their mission, which was to search and develop ties in policymaking circles in the United States and send intelligence reports back.
As the years went by, that arrangement sometimes led to friction, the complaint said, citing an acrimonious exchange of encrypted messages between a pair of alleged agents living under the names Richard and Cynthia Murphy. The couple, who have allegedly operated in the United States since the mid-1990s, decided in 2008 to move from an apartment in Hoboken to a house in Montclair, N.J. – leading to an argument over whether they or the S.V.R. would own it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/29/world/europe/29spy.html?hp
My comment: As Emeril Lagasse would say, now that's kicking' it up a notch! ◦
