Anne Applebaum
If you missed it - start your new year with this excellent Wall Street Journal description of the Russian sleeper agents unmasked last year https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/sleeper-agents-putin-global-hunt-a7978f84?st=BBMjiw&reflink=share_mobilewebshare
Jan 2 at 1:52amWeb
Show threadFallsMom 🌻Jan 2

@anneapplebaum

Really interesting.

I've watched The Americans more than once, read a lot of John LeCarre, those help me believe & understand reporting like this.

Show threadBryan WilliamsJan 2
@anneapplebaum Wowser! When one thinks of the lives and resources expended over years to support this insanity...
Show threadMichael Katzmann🐈Jan 2
@anneapplebaum amazing ... still using the dead baby's birth certificate to get a passport. After 'The Day of the Jackal' in 1970 highlighted this trick, one would think the loophole would have been closed.
Show threadMY ACCT HAS MOVED TO {below}Jan 2
@anneapplebaum https://archive.is/V95dY bypasses paywall
Show threadWilfried KlaebeJan 2
@anneapplebaum That URL gets me a line telling me to enable JS and disable any ad blocker. https://archive.ph/20241226231804/https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/sleeper-agents-putin-global-hunt-a7978f84 works without that.
Show threadTim ZeeJan 2

@anneapplebaum
The text without a Murdoch paywall, at MSN. 🙂
Makes me wonder if Melania is in deep cover for Putin.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-global-hunt-for-putin-s-sleeper-agents/ar-AA1wfXKW

#russia #SleeperAgents #RussianSpies #Espionage #VladimirPutin #ДобейПутина #ПутинЧекист #СоюзПостсоветскихКлептократическихВатников

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