Sunday, July 11: The spies next door

It's a story with all the intrigue, lies, and betrayal of a Cold War thriller: Secret codes, forged passports, invisible ink, and a real-life femme fatale. But this great power drama unfolded in just the last two weeks -- the biggest spy swap in a generation. Ten "deep cover" agents for Russia, swept up from leafy American suburbs and city streets and hustled back to Moscow, exchanged for four people convicted of spying for the West. Now, we take you -inside- this 21st century version of From Russia with Love. Dateline correspondent Dennis Murphy is on the trail of "The Spies Next Door."

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Such a BS story! All Anna was accused of is meeting an undercover FBI agent and turning his bogus passport to Police.

They never actually say she ever meat any of the other 9. If she was passing the info to a Russian diplomat over computer, then where is that diplomat? Why isn’t he sent back to Russia too?

So ? No story, only BS.

    Reply#1 - Sun Jul 11, 2010 8:06 PM EDT
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    The story on tonight's Dateline made one point about their Russian handlers using leverage, things like, "We paid for your college, now we expect something in return."

    What I'd like to know is, who paid for Barrack Obama's college? Maybe the FBI already knows....

    Where's J. Edgar when we need him? He had the goods on every President going back to the 1930's.

      Reply#2 - Sun Jul 11, 2010 8:34 PM EDT

      That's not leverage. Your family back home is leverage. "We paid for your college" is kids talk.

        #2.1 - Sun Jul 11, 2010 8:48 PM EDT

        I guess you're right. There's a little more edge to something like, "Inspector Petrov stopped by your Babushka's dacha last night."

          #2.2 - Sun Jul 11, 2010 9:14 PM EDT
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            Reply#3 - Sun Jul 11, 2010 9:12 PM EDT

            I agree, the president himself is a spy, but he is too "under-covered" and no one really wants to deal with THOSE who ordered him to carry on the hidden mission to kill US from inside.. ..However, if you really wants to know how many and who working as a spy people in the US, ask the American Embassies officials who let them in US, knowingly of their mission and I am sure they also know who they are ..I actually know personally that they know ...The borders of the US will never be secure enough with such socialistic views of our current president ..

              Reply#4 - Sun Jul 11, 2010 11:39 PM EDT

              I agree, the president himself is a spy, but he is too "under-covered" and no one really wants to deal with THOSE who ordered him to carry on the hidden mission to kill US from inside.. ..However, if you really wants to know how many and who working as a spy people in the US, ask the American Embassies officials who let them in US, knowingly of their mission and I am sure they also know who they are ..I actually know personally that they know ...The borders of the US will never be secure enough with such socialistic views of our current president ..

                Reply#5 - Sun Jul 11, 2010 11:53 PM EDT
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