{"id":32342,"date":"2012-10-11T08:00:25","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T12:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32342"},"modified":"2012-10-11T08:00:25","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T12:00:25","slug":"spy-ring-busted-in-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32342","title":{"rendered":"Spy ring busted in Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Houston Chronicle <\/a>reports that the FBI has busted at least 11 people, former Slavs living in the US, in a plan to ship microtechnology to Russia;<\/p>\n

In testimony Wednesday, FBI agent Crosby Houpt said that ARC disguised itself as a traffic-light manufacturer, then lied about what the microelectronics were to be used for in order to avoid drawing any suspicion from suppliers.<\/p>\n

The equipment would be shipped from Houston through an airport in New York and then ultimately on to Russia.<\/p>\n

“ARC would receive shopping lists from Russian entities, and they would go about acquiring the parts on the shopping lists,” Houpt testified.<\/p>\n

He also said Fishenko and other company managers took steps to try and hide what was going on from some of their employees, especially any word that parts would be sent to the military.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In our continued focus on Russia’s inability to conform to living in a civilized world, a passenger plane from Moscow to Damascus<\/a> was forced to land by Turkish jets in Ankara because of suspicious cargo aboard;<\/p>\n

Some of the cargo was seized in Turkey before the passenger jet was allowed to continue its trip. No details were given of what was taken off the plane. ?<\/p>\n

“We had no cargo on that airplane. We always deliver our weapons in full compliance with international norms,” said Vyacheslav Davidenko, spokesman for Russia’s monopoly arms exporter Rosoboronexport.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A Russian-operated ship carrying ammunition was stopped and searched in Cyprus in January. The ship reached Syria with the cargo days after promising the destination would not be Syria but Turkey. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I guess it’s tough to break your bad habits after decades of depending on an unstable world. Remember that this whole jihadist bullshit was originally funded by the KGB in the 70s & 80s – that’s kinda why they all carry the Kalashnikov rifles. <\/p>\n

But, yeah, we need to point our missile shield at the Russians and let them know that’s what we’re doing instead of making up bullshit about pointing it at Iran. We wouldn’t have to worry about Iran’s nukes if they weren’t getting aid from the Russians, anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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