Rocking the Relationship

AP PHOTO / RTR RUSSIAN CHANNEL

SOLID EVIDENCE? Electronic equipment concealed in a rock claimed to have been used by British embassy staff to receive information from Russian agents

Monday, Jan 23, 2006
Last night, RTR, Russia's official state TV station identified four members of the British Embassy staff whom it — and the secret police, the FSB — claimed are spying inside Russia.

Watching the FSB secret footage of the alleged spies was as thrilling as a new James Bond saga movie. The British spying equipment was allegedly concealed in a simple Russian stone and used for two way communications with still unidentified Russian traitors. And the Brit diplomat, pretending to be relieving himself in a Russian public park as an excuse to pick...

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