F-Pir

Nowadays, intelligence and counterintelligence are the best PR agencies in the world. In the gloomy times of the Cold War, what did the failed Soviet spy awaited? In the best case, the position of teacher at the Red Banner Institute and long years of oblivion. Rarely, someone Lubyanka raised on the shield in the declining of years and made a public hero of the invisible front. It was worse with the Americans: Gary Powers , the pilot of the famous U-2, upon returning from the Soviet prison, was forced to have a long time from accusations of desertion and the disclosure of military secrets.

Is it now! Former spies instantly become wedding generals who are not ashamed to invite to a corporate party, make a political or business career. The audience, as a row, loves spy bikes. Such a product is not laid down. This is not a remedy for washing shells.

What is the most interesting in spy stories? Not a subject of espionage, but an entourage. Well, what's the difference, what secrets did Mata Hari get and did she get them at all? It is important that she is a courtesan, artist, seducer. The organs understand this. And they present the goods from the most profitable side. Well, the press swallows the bait.

From Anna Chapman, the star did not make a Kremlin agitprop at all, but the American press. It was stupid not to use. Putin, like Lancelot, pulled out a gentle girl from the claws of a fierce dragon. And the Virgin turned into a diva. True, she will not be able to convert her story in a sonorous coin: under the terms of the transaction with American justice, all income from the commercial use of this plot will be confiscated and entered the US federal budget. But you can write about the intrigues of the world backstage against Pushkin - the matter is simple, for this, as it turned out , it is enough to be able to make a copyist.

The rest of her accomplices is not visible on the catwalk or on the TV. What to do, these are the laws of the genre.

Today we already know in small details, as the decision on exchange was made by the American side. The case, as rightly noted, was unprecedented. Similar transactions of the Cold War were the exchanges of prisoners of war. And now we have a reboot. Is it worth it to be publicly grabbing the hand of a guest stealing silver spoons from a buffet? Is it not better to take him aside and solve the issue quietly, without driving him or himself in the paint? But that’s the thing that in Washington there was no certainty that Moscow would at least turn slightly, and not roll up a tantrum. Therefore, the idea of ​​exchange arose before arrests.

It was more difficult to persuade the arrested themselves than Moscow. The failed agents who had grown into American soil wanted to know what would happen to them in their homeland, to have guarantees of a wealthy future, since all their property in the United States was subject to confiscation. The fate of minor children also worried them. It is for this reason that Russia recognized them as its citizens and sent them to a meeting with each employee of the consulate. The most difficult thing was from Vika Pelav, who has no Russian citizenship. She was promised a free apartment and $ 2,000 of a monthly "scholarship". Now she is the Columonist of the newspaper Moscow News. Her and Mikhail Vasenkov, the children remained in the United States and recently received by the court’s decision the personal belongings of the parents previously confiscated.

The most entertaining thing is that the fading glory of the Spy Etueli Anyuta Chapman suddenly decided to refresh the FBI. It published a dossier of video clips, photographs and documents (documents, however, we have already seen) about Anya and her associates.

If they had not explained to us that these are spies, we would never have guessed! At the same time, the bureau refers to the law on freedom of information, but for some reason does not specify which media directed the request.

Bureau employees can be understood. A multi -apartment building similar to the open book, in which Patrish Mills and Michael Zotolly lived, they are Natalya Pereverzeva and Mikhail Kutsik, is clearly visible from the balcony of my former apartment in Arlington. We went for groceries in the same supermarket, played tennis on the same courts, and soon their eldest son would go to the same primary school in which my daughter went. The neighbors of the arrested spies gasped, were amazed - they say, they were not at all like spies, and now it is necessary! - But they perceived their neighborhood with them rather as a curious curiosity than as a source of danger. This, of course, is a normal, healthy reaction that has nothing to do with the gloomy spyingomania of the Cold War. In addition, the journalists began to laugh: they say, they tied some amateurs who did not really whine anything.

This is not good. But what about the laurels of counterintelligence? The explanations for the collection of clips say: although they never got to real secrets, "they had serious intentions from the very beginning." An nameless counterintelligence adds: "The Russian government has spent significant funds and for many years to prepare and introduce these agents. No government will do this, not hoping that the investment will pay off." And at the end of the note, edification: the threat of espionage remains extremely real and does not come down only to Russia.

It is well -being. Having filled the price of yourself, Volens Nolens has to demonize the enemy.