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Russian assassin 'sent to kill double agent who betrayed Anna Chapman'
Guardian ^ | 11/11/10 | Tom Parfitt

Posted on 11/11/2010 10:53:52 AM PST by LibWhacker

Kremlin reportedly dispatches contract killer to US to pursue 'traitor' colonel, claims reputable Moscow newspaper

A contract killer has been dispatched to assassinate the Russian double agent who betrayed Anna Chapman and nine other spies in the United States this spring, according to reports in Moscow.

"We know who he is and where he is," a high-ranking Kremlin source told the reputable Kommersant newspaper.

"You can have no doubt – a Mercader has already been sent after him."

Ramón Mercader was the KGB-hired Spanish communist who was sent to kill Leon Trotsky with an icepick in Mexico in 1940.

(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: agent; annachapman; assassin; chapman; coldwar2; mercader; russian
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To: agere_contra
claims reputable Moscow newspaper Stopped reading right there. I kinda stopped also at that point!
21 posted on 11/11/2010 4:50:19 PM PST by ColdOne
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla

I wholeheartedly agree. Might be fun to pretend to dangle him, to see where the hit man ends up going, and thus find and plug (literally) any leaks in our own intel community.


22 posted on 11/11/2010 8:18:00 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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