https://freerepublic.com/tag/nosenko/ en-us Sun, 16 Aug 2026 11:42:44 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4391989/posts Every August, the anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Georgia is accompanied by familiar reflections about missed warning signs, intelligence failures, and a supposedly unexpected turning point in European security. The language has become so standardized that it obscures a far more uncomfortable reality. Georgia did not reveal a new Russia. It exposed a Russia that had been behaving consistently for nearly two decades while much of the West continued searching for evidence that Moscow had fundamentally changed after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Describing the failure to recognize this trajectory as a collection of mistakes understates what actually occurred.... Robert Lansing Institute https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4391989/posts#comment Sun, 16 Aug 2026 11:42:44 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1838179/posts <p>I just got off the phone with a legendary spy. Well, let me amend that: a legendary counterspy. Legendary at least to those who have followed the twists and turns of one of the great unresolved spy mysteries of the past century, one of the secret pivots in the clandestine history of the Cold War: the Nosenko affair.</p> The New York Observer https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1838179/posts#comment Wed, 23 May 2007 02:52:51 GMT