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| Cypriot police say Russian spying suspect vanished |
| 2010-06-30 |
| Cypriot police began looking for an alleged Russian spy wanted in the United States who vanished Wednesday after being released on bail a day earlier in the Mediterranean island nation, a police spokesman said. Jeeze, at least try to pretend you are not on the other side. Spokesman Michalis Katsounotos says Christopher Robert Metsos, 54, who says he is Canadian, failed to report to police. "Mikhail, you clumsy oaf! You nearly blew the entire operation!" "But Ivan, I escaped!" "You don't get credit for that, Mikhail, you escaped from the West!" |
| Posted by:ed |
| #4 Question: if he was a Russian spy, what odds his Canadian passport was either a forgery or acquired under a false identity? And really, how difficult would it be for a real Russian spy to be given a new false passport by whatever the current incarnation of the KGB is called? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-06-30 23:26 |
| #3 The WSJ added this: Cypriot authorities had released Mr. Metsos despite U.S. concerns that he might flee. Cypriot police officials said Mr. Metsos had surrendered his Canadian passport and posted bail of €20,000 and 9,000 Canadian dollars ($32,900 total). Hearings were set to begin July 29 on a U.S. request to have him extradited on charges of conspiracy to conduct espionage and of money laundering. "Our investigation suggests he may still be in Cyprus because the only way he could leave is with a fake passport," one official said. Fake passports? PIFFLE! |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-06-30 19:43 |
| #2 Canadian huh, with a fake passport? Mossad? Did he travel to Dubai to assassinate that Hamas Mook? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-06-30 18:40 |
| #1 That was the plan. Why else was he granted bail? |
| Posted by: Iblis 2010-06-30 18:29 |