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Russia Captures US Embassy Worker In Act Of CIA Recruitment; CIA's "Dropbox" Gmail Address Revealed
Following the just concluded recent visit by John Kerry to Russia, one may have been left with the impression that the tensions of the Cold War are dead and buried. Just the opposite it appears. In what may be a well-timed and orchestrated announcement, moments ago Russia announced that it had caught an American, Ryan Fogle, a third-secretary at the US Embassy in Moscow, "red-handed" as he tried to recruit a Russian intelligence officer to work for the CIA. There goes any leverage the US may have had in attempting to persuade Russia to relent on the joint-Western push to "liberate" Syria. Just as Russia, run by a former KGB spy, had intended all along, and just another slap in the face of the US department of state, which lately can't seem to find its way out of a scandal-ridden (and redacted) paper bag to save its life. But perhaps most amusing is that in the attached letter given to the recruitment prospect, the CIA give out the email address to be used to indicate interest in working for Langley as follows: unbacggdA@gmail.com. How the times have changed.
Finally we wonder just how the CIA will recruit when the ECB finally bans €500 bills, allegedly used to facilitate "money laundering." Apparently spy recruitment is one of the bullish cases for the reddish banknote.
From Reuters:
The announcement came at an awkward time, just days after a visit by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry during which Washington and Moscow agreed to try to bring the warring sides in Syria together for an international peace conference.
The Federal Security Service said Ryan Fogle, a third secretary at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, had been detained overnight carrying "special technical equipment", a disguise, a large sum of money and instructions for recruiting his target.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said it had summoned U.S. Ambassador Michael McFaul over the case and a Russian television station published photographs which it said showed Fogle being detained, apparently wearing a blond wig.
A successor of the Soviet-era KGB, the FSB said Fogle worked for the Central Intelligence Agency and that he had been handed over to embassy officials at some point after his detention.
Diplomats accused of espionage are usually expelled or withdrawn.
"On the night of May 13-14, a staff employee of the CIA, Ryan Christopher Fogle ... was detained by counter-espionage organs of the Russian FSB while attempting to recruit an employee of one of the Russian special services," the FSB said.
"Recently American intelligence has made multiple attempts to recruit employees of Russian law enforcement organs and special agencies, which have been detected and monitored by Russian FSB counterintelligence," it said in a statement.
Pictures of the agent's capture via RT:
CIA agent trying to recruit Russian intelligence officer detained in Moscow (FSB)
Ryan C Fogle, 3d secretary of US embassy, was detained in Moscow by the Russian counterintelligence agency (FSB)
Disguise allegedly used by Ryan Fogle (FSB)
Ryan Fogle inside FSB office (FSB)
Ryan Fogle’s pass to the US embassy (FSB)
Ryan Fogle’s diplomatic pass (FSB)
The handy European bills (each amounting to just under $700) used for recruitment.
And below is the letter that contained the printed instructions for the Russian citizen being recruited.
Expect a prompt retaliation by the US, which now has to expose yet another cell of Russian spies operating in the US just to save face.
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From 1963:
"[t]he CIA's growth was likened to a malignancy" which this "very high official was not even sure the White House could control ... any longer. If the United States ever experiences [an attempt at a coup to overthrow the government] it will come from the CIA and not the Pentagon." The "agency represents a tremendous power and total unaccountability to anyone."
Kennedy promised to splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the wind. Instead his brains were shattered into a thousand pieces.
The power of the CIA has grown and is unchallenged now. The CIA runs this country.
I heard some talk, that someone named "Bush" may have been the shooter; he later became the director of the CIA.
Call it a Rite of Passage to Manhood. :-)
People think 'royalty' only exists over in Europe, and yet, America has been ruled by the Bush/Clinton gang for atleast 30-35 years now.
Bush was Director of the CIA, so you have to assume that was when his power peaked (or plateau'd) and VP after that, for 8 years, and we all know Reagan was like an early protoype of Obama, just good at delivering his lines.
GHW Bush groomed Bill Clinton for the White House, they were in touch/hanging out daily the year(s) before his election.
Also see CIA Operation Mockingbord aka TV and Hollywood. F Tv and F Hollywood. I don't watch their shit but they have endless CIA and FBI films and TV shows. Endless propaganda glorying the police state and operatives.
This stupid F in Moscow looks like he was on an episode of Jackass or was it a movie. A gay surfer wannbe with a bad wig. Evil f***ing retards.
Well, so far Freddie, you've exposed yourself watching HW movies & told us that you're gay.
You protest too much.
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So was he.
This has been known for 30 years. It is so tired and stupid.
At least Obama is creating well paying jobs in Moscow. Forward.
For that kind of coin I'll be a Russian spy...of course I would have to do it from Illinois, but that would make me even harder to detect.
That depends... Do you own a pressure cooker? :)
Incompetence pouring in through the giant hole in the side of the USS America. So...starting a domestic war with DHS arming, IRS targeting, White House spying...not enough.
Let's also get troops on the ground in Syria, while prodding the sleeping Russian bear...oh...and about Iran.
Good grief...the masters of the universe at work.
They're WAY overplaying their 'mighty hand' here which is a pair of 2's at best.
The USSA has become a pathetic joke. Just like Detroit. I would say it has be n*grofied but Tylers might ban me.
you watch too much TV Freddie
I'm stealing your first sentence. Great line.
"Hey dude, wanna be a CIA spy? Great! Just like my CIA Facebook page or follow me on Twitter at Fogle@CIA #Super Secret Spy Recruitment."
So who has the balls to send an email to the address in the letter at the bottom & see if they reply? LOL.
Shuffle the letters and register new email address to receive email with mistyped addresses.
Post on Twitter.
Sent from my gmail account with all my info. WTF do I even care anymore?
***
Subject: To whom it may concern...
Hi,
I'm interested in getting captured and embarrassing my country on the international stage and making its primary intelligence outfit look like a troupe of circus clowns. I will accept this mission for the low low price of 1 gajillion dollars or euros. In addition, teleworking out of the US will make me virtually impossible to detect.
Please provide the money in plain gold coins. You have my address and all my other info so you know, just like hand it over.
Thanks,
XXXXX
***
+200 you owe me a keyboard
That was hillarious!
Keep us posted
Nothing so far. But I think I'll have to wait a week for a reply.
Bravo tars!
if they accept to pay you in the shiny, don't forget to also ask for a leaky boat.
heard there was one sitting on a government lot in Boston full of bullet holes.
where did he get his degree in spying, a cracker jack box?
CIA=Yale, Princeton and Brown
Dept State = Harvard, Georgetown
TSA=Pervs Community College and U of Phoenix
Man that sucks for him. Being outed and then withdrawn. Imagine having to come back to the states to find a job in the Obama economy.
Oh man that IS fucking terrifying!
What the fuck are you talking about dog, he will become a bundler for Hillary, just ask Joh Corzine about such things.
i would have cracked open the cyinide tooth instead of trying to find a job back home.
Now they make it in China. They ran out of cyanide from gold mining and used powdered pig from rivers.
As a result of lax FDA enforcement of cyanide levels in our processed food, all Americans probably have some immunity built up to cyanide as a result of repeated low level exposures. So, we've got that going for us.
If people only knew how completely we're being poisoned it would... doesn't matter now, trying to explain to a drugged up person they're drugged up, has no effect. ONLY a shot of adrenaline will wake them up!
His pension is vested at $758,853.00 pr. yr. US didn't you read that part..
Plus he gets to keep the double agent money, from the Russian smugglers.
And that's tax free.
Peace .......... probably not in my life time
Richard B Quote [NLP]
Humans on earth... Lets see lets build Nuclear bombs to bombs our-own Planet.... real smart
Have a look at Vietnam of the millions killed only 8% were the enemy..
If your a government employee let me help you with the math that means someone killed 92% innocents
And we don't know why we lost.. and we give the guys who where in charge medals and name ships for some of them.
Would love to be a fly on the wall listening to a US general explaining body count... trying to get past Saint Peter
Lucky for us there wasn't a internet.
Or we would be gambling in Vietnamese casinos LOL
My three year old likes to draws and uses computer printer paper.. make a mess in his crib and room.
So I was thinking war on paper.. can we attack the trees so we can get it at the source.
Question
They'll just declare him an illegal then he's set for life. Free health care, in state tuition, drivers license, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.
The CIA explicitly prefers to commit crimes using GMail, from the CIA's very own Google Inc., as shown in the CIA letter above
'Ex-Agent: CIA Seed Money Helped Launch Google', retired intelligence agent Robert David Steele interviewed by Paul Joseph Watson, and speaking of the CIA's Dr Rick Steinheiser and his connections with Google:
http://www.infowars.com/articles/bb/google_cia_seed_money_launched_googl...
Live Photo: Google Inc. Caught Censoring EU Search Results on US corruption (for USA - CIA)
Google Internet Censorship - Censure d'Internet par Google - Internet censuur door Google
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22325431@N05/6100668211/in/photostream
GMAIL = Government MAIL. Why is GMAIL free?
Free email, free phones, free health care.
Why is there no free beer???
None of those searches ('America's Corrupt Legal System - Danger to Travellers and Visitors', 'Foreign Companies Face US Court Corruption: Doing Business in the Big Bribery Nation', 'Americans Murdering Their Judges', 'The CIA and Wikipedia' ) came censored to me - and only the first had one US cease and desist and one Japanese defamation complaint, but all searches were found.
The collapse of empires is never pretty folks...
Two words, "plausible deniability" - nobody knows who this guys really is.
Four additional words: "Baffle 'em with bullshit!"
Still no pressure cooker ! His Saudi contact must have been delayed !
They are in Detroit: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-13/arabian-man-arrested-detroit-ai...
Are we witnessing the prelude to the third world war?
Are we there yet?
no, it is rather business as usual
he should have worn the "I LOVE PUTIN" t-shirt he would have pulled it off.
Headline: Dog Bites Man
I've read borscht is on the "10 most healthy foods" list. There;s a silver lining for everything.
It looks like shit is just falling apart everywhere and yet the market continues to rally as the U.S whistles past the grave yard.
You are getting over-excited. When did a minor event of this nature ever affect a stock market? Why should it?
I don't expect one minor event to affect the stock market, but I do expect the combined effects of the collapse of an empire to.
I'm not sure the USA ever did have an empire. I know you think you did, but it never looked much like an empire to me. Having said that, there is as much dislike (and in some quarters hatred) of the USA as there would have been if you HAD built an empire, so I suppose it's a case of losing all round; no empire in the first place and all the opprobium anyway. And I still don't see why the algos would react to this sort of news item.
900 military bases in 130 nations sounds like an empire to me. again I will state that I don't expect the algos to react to news like this. I expect the collapse of an empire to be reflected in the markets.
You always thought that military bases make an empire. They don't. They are just a way of wasting trillions of dollars and huge amounts of oil. As you may have noticed, nobody takes much notice of the USA unless you actually attack them, and then you usually lose. Even the post-WWII military "victories" look an awful lot like defeats to me. If events unfold so that you decide that your "empire" has been "lost" we shall see whether stock markets react specifcally to that event. My guess is that they will not. Incidentally, I grew up in East Anglia and it was really quite remarkable how small the effect was when the US bases closed. Looking back, people hardly noticed, even when a big base like Bentwaters shut down.
It's not just the bases that make Empire, though they sure as hell add to the argument. The key to empire is rule by currency. What the Federal Reserve has done, and will always do, is export inflation by leveraging the exorbitant privelage of the petrodollar reserve currency. This is force of will on a global scale and is heart(less) and soul(less) of Empire.
I think you are describing Triffin's dilemma, which I believe is a curse, and is certainly not evidence that you possess an empire.
Well, it kind of looks like more evidence for Empire has been produced in this thread, than against. Try harder to disprove it.
In this thread 2 pieces of evidence have been advanced in support of the claim that the USA has an empire: overseas military bases, and the US dollar. I have explained why both these pieces of evidence are insufficient to support the claim that you have an empire. Why do I need to do more? And anyway, I don't really care that much. On one point we do seem to agree: even if you did have an empire you are in the process of losing it.
Man, are you oblivious.
That money that you thought was wasted... That shit was hoovered up by the Bechtels and Halliburtons and Blackwaters of the world. No accident, son.
And when those bombs explode, you think that money is wasted too? Not if you are a major shareholder of Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman...
Maybe, but those are corporations with shareholders, not a nation state. I do not think that enriching the shareholders of private corporations counts as building an empire. From the point of view of the average citizen of the USA the money has been wasted.
*Sigh* Are you Going Crazy or something?
It is the sum of all points made, being made and that will be made that make the argument. However, I throw in the towel. This is NOT empire. It is totally sustainable. There is no global force of will through a military industrial complex. Nope. You're right. ;)
This thread reminds us that a good many Americans DO think they possess (or used to possess) an empire, and of course when one meets Americans it is frequently the case that one finds that they think they are in charge of things around the world. The truth is that the USA has never really controlled an empire - you have never imposed your laws outside your borders, or taxed the citizens of other countries, or required citizens of subjugated countries to serve in your military, or imposed your legal system elsewhere, or done any of the other things that are characteristic of an imperial power. It's really quite laughable to see how the Americans think they have an empire when all they have is a big military force which they cannot afford and which is resorting to the the tactics of a coward (assassinations by drones), a currency which brings as many problems as benefits, and a movie/TV industry which shows the rest of the world just how shallow, materialistic, and obese the typical American is nowadays. Perhaps one day the USA will accept that it has no empire and shake off its delusions of grandeur. It may then become a more congenial neighbour.
Expect a prompt retaliation by the US, which now has to expose yet another cell of Russian spies operating in the US just to save face.
So now we have an option to out Obama. Hell he just threw the CIA under the bus now they can throw him under the bus. "Highest echelon soviet spy ever caught in the USA." The true manchurian candidate spy story.
You appear to be blissfully unaware that Obomba is 3rd generation CIA.
That may be so.
But once he's no longer useful to the Agency, out he goes.
Watch how fast the impeachment snowball gets rolling now.
Especially since spying on the press. They dont like that and will retaliate for sure.
BFD. We caught a bunch of their spies a few years ago, including a redheaded superhottie bedding every politician she could.
Russians: super-hottie
CIA: Mr Bean.
I think we now the score by now...
Bad tradecraft. The letter reads like Nigerian bank spam. And I note that the cash being paid is 500 euro notes, not $100 bills.
'The letter reads like Nigerian bank spam'
That's exactly what I thought. In fact it was so bad that I smell a rat.
BTW we now know whay they want to ban 500 Euro notes, it's not because of money launderers and drug runners, it's to foil the dastardly CIA.
Are you he: http://londonbanker.blogspot.co.uk/ ?
Thought it interesting that the letter was in english, when in the homeland, everything has to be printed in 2 languages.
The letter being held is in Russian. The accompanying english appears to be a translation. If it's an accurate translation, it is so hideously formulaic and amatuerish, it's a wonder that the "contact" didn't die laughing reading. And I though MI6 was bad....
Mr. Bean has better tradecraft.
Meh, best operators are private contractors anyway.
I thought these guys a little pill in their mouth that they were supposed to bite down on if they were captured. Do you mean to tell me that what I see in the movies isn't real?
Maybe dying for this king and this country is not worth it anymore.
It never was.
Doc you have to feel terrible for this guy. He just got burned. Now he has to look forward to this.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xr2ryb_burn-notice-official-trailer_shortfilms
That movie is about as cheesy as a CIA agent bribing people to apply on-line through a gmail account.
It's a TV show...a pretty entertaining one, but I can't help but think that actor Jeffrey Donovan would have been 100 times more effective just for having played a spy on TV for a while. I'll be interested to see what the Russians do to this tool who thought fieldwork was a game...or a TV show.
Does this letter mean I can send an email to unbacggdA@gmail.com and get $1 million per year? It's even better than food stamps!
Send your smart phone receipt for reimbursement.
wait, that looks nothing like James Bond or Jason Bourne type stuff...they guy has a cheap wig, a map, a penlight, and a cheap pocket knife. Apparently hollywood has it all wrong in those spy movies. Boy scouts have better kits than that garbage.
That boy scout compass is actually a neutron bomb!
Looks like we need to hit the RESET button again ... once they stop making john kerry wait in the lobby ... next to the restrooms.
I would say how funny - but actually it's not. It is however pathetically sad for anyone over about 30 to reflect on just how fucking far this country has fallen in almost every aspect.
...we may be a smidge past our zenith.
Maybe he can write a book and go on tour with Valeri Plame. I wonder if he will get a glamour piece in Time magazine.
Sort of looks like the poser kid in FL that was a PA, then a cop. Wonder if they turned him loose on the Russians?
he's not going on any book tours west of the Urals anytime soon.
How many of you just sent an email about the creepy guy you see in his 40's who wears bright red lipstick on national holidays and carries a pressure cooker around the neighborhood to that gmail address, just now? C'mon, fess up.
Bring in the clowns? They're already here in the form of the State Dept and CIA.
How embarrassing that we even spy on Russia anymore. They're more interested in stealing from each other than anything else. This'll probably give those Cold Warhawks and people who get a hard-on for the History Channel something to chide a person they didn't vote for nor ever would.
Spies get caught. It's what happens. The question as a spy that you have to ask yourself is when you are caught, "would your country's political
Hack sitting atop the shit heap rather that you had just been killed?"
It's been a great week for the Shit Puppet.
This joker should have been hung for espionage....when did these jokers start getting out of breaking the law so quickly? Tax protesting is looking a lot more justifiable after this.
He is probably from an Ivy League college where he jumped through all the right hoops and was a good ass licker and **** sucker.
LOL! Dude looks like he was in Harvard's hasty pudding gay glee club. I am sure he voted for O. Putin makes Obama look even more pathetic than he already is. CIA is a joke. The USSA is so corrupt. It looks more and more like the old USSR before it imploded.
Unfortunately, I think we are just at the beginning of our own Soviet era.
I agree. You will see it first in the elderly being totally destroyed by the powers that be and the money becoming worthless. When the muslim was installed in the white hut - I knew we were headed towards the final gasps like the old USSR. We may have some extra time with so fracking and shale energy but it may only slow the demise.
".. do not use any device with personal info on it, buy a new device with cash" wonder why that would be necessary? Is Google scanning your HDD or installing rootkits as a part of the registration process?
Not specifically, but it's always a good practice to have a system with NOTHING (not even a link) personal, so if it is compromized in any way your personality remains safe.
Anonymous 101
Re-ing to myself:
Shouldn't be posting with this username and with this machine in that regard.
Live CD
Tor
kill Starbucks go to a true open coffee shop then post.
Starbucks
Google
FaceBook
And more are about them.
not your protection
I find it all so convenient that Russian media was on hand to capture the live video as the "CIA Agent" was arrested :P
Definitely emailing these pricks with a blueprint of a dildo (aka new North Korean midget submarine) and asking for a couple of million deliverable to an Amazon locker. Maybe we should all try it.
This is the funniest story of the year. Keep em coming Putin, and anyone else with Langley goons hopping about their country in drag.
Vladimir Putin tells a spy joke
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbinNj5cZSg
ZH how about activating Cyrillic script for comments in the interest of detente?
del
Looking bad for the Demoncrats lately:
Benghazi-gate
IRS-gate
AP-gate
and now: CIA-gate
LOL! Dude cannot even afford an iPhone 5.
i am sure the CIA has budget issues, too. the drone program itself is a measure to cut military expenditure.
This "spy" strike anyone else as a punk bitch faggot ?
Economic Shitman!
In all the CIA type movies I watched, they have Zippos. How come this guy has a Bic lighther ? Right there it proves he is not CIA.
$1 million in eastern Europe is good money. Not sure if it was worth it tho. However I have a few questions to the CIA ( I assume they read and monitor here to )
A: Why only 1 million?
B: Why didn't you guys explained to this helpless boy to use secure connections, VPN tunneling etc when sending messages?
C: Why didn't the CIA advise to use life CD's preferably Backtrack 5X?
D: Why not setup an encyrpted email for interaction?
Couldn't be THAT hard :-)
I'm confused. "The Smartest Woman in the World" presented the Russians with a "reset button" that made things all better. Are we now to believe that her brilliant ploy was ineffective? Putin's playing chess while our "leaders" play bingo. Unbelievable...
Isn't this a classic "fake" trying to persuade the others into believing that they are much more "average" than they in reality are.
The Americans is a good TV show on Russian Spies in the US
Quick, expel those Russian agents on the show The Amerikans!
www.ciasmoststupidspies.com
I sent the CIA a message offering my "spook" services for $10 g's a month.
All I will need to do is report what I read on ZH. :)
I'd like to cock punch that effin' spook and all his bosses to the top for the blowback they've caused to USA.
This sequestration stuff is really taking its toll. They didn't have enough money get him the standard spy kit, which should have included a fake beard.
Really, that was the CIA spy kit. I could recreate that kit at Ace hardware. This Mickey Mouse operation is supposed to keep us safe?
Amerika - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yydlX7c8HbY
Expose some Russian spies in 3...2...1...
That's the way it worked in the cold war. Each side always had a list of the other side's spys it kept an eye on. Unusual thing here is arresting someone with diplomatic immunity and publishing embarassing pictures. Putin just flicked a booger on Obama's tie over Syria.
Just re-read it and realized he was turned over to embassy officials, so the diplomatic immunity isn't violated. But still it is unusual to publish pictures like this.
They were probing chinks in Putin's security detail
If this is what US INTELLIGENCE looks like, I wouldn't be too confident in their COUNTER-intelligence.
I really sent them a message oferring my services at only $5 K to start. Seeing we are in a recession, some of those .gov agencies will have to learn to economize. Did you notice how much they are paying for zilch info?
I offered to sell them my personal information, emails, phone logs, and search history, but they said they already had it.
Responded. We'll see if I get anything in a week.
Presumably the CIA sends its best and brightest to work Russia.
Bullish for tablet sales.
Looks like we've been relegated to the B-team. Ryan "Sigma Chi" Fogle doesn't seem like the badass spies we see in movies. .
Our Sigma Chi frat was known as "Sigma High." This must be one them.
The keystone cops are at it again
CIA are crossdressers?
Channeling Cliff Clavin " well the CIA goes back 100's of years, it means Crossdressing International Agent"
Hey, sometimes you gotta take one for the team.
This "spy" kit looks to me like something my older brother would have ordered on a cereal boxtop in the 1950s, except the fake nose is missing.
Of course they don't show the REAL spy stuff:
http://www.entertainmentearth.com/images/AUTOIMAGES/EP4701lg.jpg
Don't let the pathetic be the enemy of the great
Amateur hour.
Definition: Amateur=government employee.
and we loved them because we didn't expect to much.
But After the war on everything they are not so cute anymore.
With their serial criminal behavior.
I wonder how many more years we can even post?
this guy looks to me like a perfect embodiment and product of American educational establishment: professional test taker. i am sure if you look at his test scores/results he probably appears in top quartile or even decile. yet, doing well anything, to say the least of espianage, requires different kind of IQ- the real kind. just saying....
lol
Is it too late to sign up?
seems the 3rd secretary did not follow the Moscow Rules
China runs ads on the TV for CIA agents for crissakes whats the big deal.
I am so happy. Peter Sellers, as Inspector Clouseau, lives!
How can the letter be true? What, every prospective 'spy' is expected to eat the letter after reading it to get rid of the evidence? These letters would be surfecing everywhere - even ebay.