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[EWSoccer64]

Well Folks, it turns out that there is a "mole hunt" going on in D.C.

The NSA (National Security Agency, aka "No Such Agency") is convinced that they have at least one Russian mole there, and that there are others inside the Intelligence Community in the DC area.    A little known fact is that a senior Russian SVR official (department head, no less!) defected shortly before the ring of 10 Russian Illegals was rounded up.   Now it turns out that those 10 Russians (Guys, the red head later appearred in the Russian edition of "Maxim".   Wow, the modern age of Russian Espionage!) had, among other duties, that of passing on the take from other agents.   The rumor is that the ring of 10 were "blown" by the defecting Russian Colonel of the SVR.   This colonel, whom the Russian government have ordered to be killed on sight, did not know the identities of the other agents now being sought.

Some people are pointing to at least one other mole in the DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency).   

Why is this being allowed to leak out right now?    One reason might be the wikileaks release of US cables.   These cables were encoded under a relatively low order code.   It is a little known fact that all the US military and diplomatic codes are prepared by the NSA.   (It was one of the core functions of the NSA when it was formed back in the day).  So know it is publicly known that the Russians (the arch-enemy of old) were probably reading all that stuff as soon as it was being transmitted, and lots more besides.   Which means that the wikileaks case is not the biggest breach of security, something more damaging is happening instead.

Another thing to point out is that we all remember the haste in which the Russians ransomed their agents back.   They used the old Soviet technique of trading human rights activists for their spies that were caught.  But the ten Russians sere shipped back before they were properly interrogated.   hence we do not have the identiites of their contacts in the USA, we no longer have access to them to get the names of the moles in our intelligence aparat from them.  It was a political decision to ship them back.   Presidential meddling in intelligence matters like this goes a long ways back, back to Kennedy and Nixon.

[HandBall]

The Pentagon's spokesman was on FoxNews last week discussing the WikiLeaks disaster. He was challenged directly to explain why the Pentagon was in pure defensive mode in reacting to the leaks (the 4th?), instead of going on the offense with their Cyber division to attack WikiLeaks before the leaks occurred. The guy was not prepared for the question - that was certain. Incredibly, but seemingly overlooked by everyone in the MSM, he admitted that the decision not to go on the offense was made by the Pentagon's political appointees.

Why would the Obama administration intentionally prevent the WikiLeaks disclosures from being stopped? I'm convinced that it was intentional and I think I know why, but I'll leave the question to the rest of you to ponder.

[EWSoccer64]

And now for our friends across the pond .....

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LONDON (Reuters) – A young Russian woman working for a British lawmaker is facing deportation after security services detained her on suspicion of espionage, the Sunday Times reported on Sunday.

The paper reported that Katia Zatuliveter, 25, secretly worked for the Russian intelligence as a "sleeper" agent.

She had been working for Liberal Democrat MP Mike Hancock who sits on parliament's defense select committee which examines defense policy but has no access to secret material.

Hancock, who is also an MP for Porstmouth in southern England where there is a large naval base, denied his research assistant had done anything wrong.

"She is not a Russian spy. I know nothing about espionage, but she has been subjected to a deportation order," Hancock said in a statement. He said she would appeal moves to deport her.

The lawmaker said that the domestic security service, MI5, had never raised any concerns about her with him.

"No one has ever said to me under any circumstances whatsoever that she has been involved in anything like that," he said. "It is now in the hands of her lawyers. I am sure that in the end she will be proved to be right."

Hancock told the BBC in an interview she was arrested on Thursday morning and taken to an immigration detention center in London, before being moved to another center where she is being held and putting her appeal together.

"Nobody has shown me any evidence to support the view that she is any way a threat to the United Kingdom," Hancock said.

He said his assistant, who had worked for him for close to three years, had passed strict security vetting procedures to work in parliament.

The paper said her removal was approved by Home Secretary (interior minister) Theresa May after being briefed about her activities.

The Home Office said it could not comment on individual cases or confirm deportation orders were in place. London's Metropolitan police referred all queries to the UK Border Agency, who was not answering calls.

The Russian embassy in London could not be reached for comment.

A security source told the Sunday Times Zatuliveter's presence was not "conducive to national security," and the intention was to "show her the door."

The paper said it was the first time since the end of the Cold War that someone working in parliament had been accused of spying for the Russians.

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I wonder how widespread the disruption of Russian espionage efforts is going to be from the SVR Colonel's defection.