Dangers in meeting a spy exposed (again?)
The vulnerability to traditional methods (investigation and surveillance) appear to be present in this case. This vulnerability might explain the FSB's delight in exposing a UK spy network / method when an electronic dead letter box was found; IIRC disguised as a rock containing a recording device and you broadcast over a very short distance the text. This appeared on news websites in January 2006 and this is the BBC's report: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4638136.stm
davidbfpo
I noticed that the FSB ....
did not reveal its sources and methods, at least in the BBC article, used to detect the "rock radio".
Since the transmission signals may have been very short range (don't know that, but that is an inference), signal intercepts may not have been the key. If the FSB surveils adversary diplomats as well as the KGB did, investigation and surveillence may, indeed, have been the key - too many UK diplos hanging around a location punching their hand-helds.
In any event, the 2006 incident seems closer to what m.c is looking for - simply updated in technology.
Allegedly this is how it worked....
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Were it only so easy ....
Truly, this was a tragedy ...
which had to affect adversely many innocent people. Probably something I shouldn't have joked about.
Best as always
Mike
PS: I won't spend much time sreaching for the video. I think I'll stick with the old Meg Ryan romances, which always turn out well. :eek:
Simm has been interviewed for a book
Spotted in a the journal INS a review of Edward Lucas's book, Deception: The Untold Story of East-West Espionage Today, published 2013, that the book's capstone was:
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remarkable interviews with the imprisoned Simm
Edward Lucas is an Economist writer, based in London, with a stint in Moscow. The interviews are an 'exclusive' from a comment by a reviewer on:https://www.amazon.com/Deception-Unt...spionage+Today
Or UK:https://www.amazon.co.uk/Deception-U...spionage+Today
INS in full is Intelligence and National Security which is published six times a year, with a global group of academic and other contributors. The review is behind a paywall.