Wednesday, March 30, 2011

"You vare personally responsible for your spy equipments...

...lose zem, and ve dock your pay!" 
You’ve gotta hand it to Russian intelligence, they’ve got chutzpah. First they planted a network of sleeper agents in the United States. Now, two of the busted and deported spies are demanding that the feds fork over their impounded spy gear...

...two former members of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service  (SVR) who hid in the U.S. for years, have hired lawyers to demand the FBI give them their stuff back. Vladimir and Lidia Guryev (a.k.a. Richard and Cynthia Murphy) are asking the Justice Department to return their cars, money, video cameras, computers, digital photos and unnamed “other equipment.” They’d also like the data on their digital gear back, too or, failing that, copies of it. Their tech gear and files have no “material value,” the request claims; it’s just “dear to the Guryevs.”(more)