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Texas scientist John Spor rescued from Ukraine
CBS DFW ^ | 22-JUN-2022 | ANNIE GIMBEL

Posted on 06/23/2022 1:28:59 PM PDT by SpeedyInTexas

A nuclear scientist from Texas, who's credited with designing sensitive technology found in dozens of laser-guided weapons systems used by the U.S. military, was rescued from war-torn Ukraine.

Members of the non-profit rescue organization, Project DYNAMO extracted John Spor from Russian-occupied territory deep in the country.

Spor, was living in Mariupol, Ukraine, when the city was attacked and occupied by invading Russian forces in February. Following the siege and unrelenting brutal artillery and missile attacks, he fled his home and went into hiding.

Chechen-Russian forces ransacked his home and hunted Spor for months, according to a spokesman for the organization.

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To: SpeedyInTexas

This guy has CIA spook written all over him.


41 posted on 06/23/2022 3:21:09 PM PDT by Flick Lives
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To: Flick Lives

Not necessarily a spook, but easily a much used tool in their bag of tricks.
(compulsion unknown.)


42 posted on 06/23/2022 3:44:34 PM PDT by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see. #MAGAA)
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To: FarCenter
Project DYNAMO is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization headquartered in Tampa, Florida and was established by several U.S. servicemembers during the U.S. pullout from Afghanistan in 2021.

An NGO that goes where our government cannot without engaging in acts of war. How convenient.

43 posted on 06/23/2022 3:57:31 PM PDT by frithguild (The warmth and goodness of Gaia is a nuclear reactor in the Earth's core that burns Thorium)
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To: 1Old Pro

Stinks to high heaven. As if he didn’t get fair warning and probably a first class ticket in his name.


44 posted on 06/23/2022 4:23:48 PM PDT by bgill (Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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To: mac_truck

The nuclear codes weren’t technically connected to the nuclear weapons - they didn’t “unlock” anything. They were just an authenticator sent to the officers in charge of the control station. Only the US implemented a remote-unlock system for some weapons, toward the end of the Cold War.

“Technical expertise” needed would have been minimal. All of these weapons could have been dismantled and the nuclear material (plutonium) removed at the very least. That is the main requirement for building a simple nuke. And there probably were Ukrainians who could have maintained much of the weapons materiel left in Ukraine at the time.


45 posted on 06/23/2022 4:24:43 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: Alter Kaker

I can guess. A lot of work in high energy physics (nuclear scientist, see) has to do with lasers, for their direct effects or sensors/instrumentation. One has to illuminate material being bombarded in a cyclotron of similar device with lasers, and design receivers for the bounced light, and etc. Lasers are very useful things.

Advanced laser guidance systems, or simpler stuff like laser rangefinders, need things like receivers for ‘bounced’ laser beams too. I see a pretty direct connection.

Ukraine produces, or produced, until the disruptions of this war, several weapons systems with laser guidance. They were probably working on others. One of them for instance is the well-known Stugna antitank system.


46 posted on 06/23/2022 4:36:39 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Odd...


47 posted on 06/23/2022 4:49:07 PM PDT by rrrod (6)
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To: buwaya
All of these weapons could have been dismantled and the nuclear material (plutonium) removed at the very least.

Of course they could...which is precisely why the Russians never let Ukraine have control of them. At the time corrupt Ukraine officials were selling every piece of Soviet military hardware that wasn't nailed down to the highest bidder.

Even after the nukes were transferred out of Ukraine their President whined to the Russians about not 'getting paid' compensation for the warheads.

Ukraine has always been a cesspool of corruption run by worst sort of criminals.

48 posted on 06/23/2022 5:27:39 PM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera )
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To: SpeedyInTexas

His presence in Ukraine may offer a clue as to why Putin wanted to rid himself of such threats.


49 posted on 06/23/2022 6:02:09 PM PDT by Chauncey Gardiner
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To: SpeedyInTexas

They don’t have to worry about me, I’m still in Ohio, that is unless Putin attacks the communist stronghold of Dayton!


50 posted on 06/23/2022 9:53:23 PM PDT by Herakles (Diversity is applied Marxism )
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