Yuri Drozdov: The man who turned Soviet spies into Americans

BBC ^ | 06/23/2017 | Kevin Ponniah

[vetvetdoug]

Edward Lee Howard, the CIA agent that defected to Russia, and died mysteriously with a broken neck in 2002 went to my high school in Burkburnett, Texas. He was the only spy from the US to defect to Russia. Its not healthy for a spy to defect to Russia.

[vooch]

LOL

fake news

[riverdawg]

I was referring to the Anna Chapman, et al. case:

https://web.archive.org/web/20100702034104/https://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j_Fmz__pKb-YmXtA5fSYdbz6ptRAD9GKG7LG1

Not fake news. Nine were eventually expelled as part of a spy swap.

[vooch]

LOL

these were alleged industrial spies and they were rounded up because our guys needed to get sprung. Fake News

[riverdawg]

Nothing fake about it. These were Russian nationals who were engaged in espionage for their country of origin. Chapman was a legal British resident and wanted to return there, but the UK government denied her entry.

[vooch]

dawg,

let’s not play ping pong on this one. I know this one rather well

[riverdawg]

If you think you know so much, then tell us what you know that we don’t.