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A E Hayes's avatar

things that make you go Hmm... and wonder how does he come to be working for Elon Musk?

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Teri Lammers's avatar

Clearly there is a genetic proclivity for deception if nothing else. Apples don’t fall far from the tree. Reminds me of the mole programmer kid in Le Bureau thriller series.

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Greed Apocalypse by Juan Munoz's avatar

Not unbelievable at all.

The chaos expands.

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John Moore's avatar

fascinating stuff, especially how the same people crop up in varied contexts

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Carol's avatar

That is huge! And Musk knows this guy.

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Thomas Graves's avatar

I'm convinced Vitaly Yurchenko was a false defector and that Dmitry Polyakov for one year (1962) and Aleksei Kulak for fifteen years (1962-1977) were Kremlin-loyal triple-agents at the FBI's NYC field office. (It's interesting that Oleg Kalugin defends the bona fides of Nosenko and Yurchenko.

Pete Bagley says in his 2014 article Ghosts of the Spy Wars that it's unlikely that Hanssen and Ames betrayed everyone who was rolled up in 1985. He points out that a KGB officer by the name of Alexandr Kouzminov wrote in a 2005 Russian-language book that he thinks most of the CIA's spies inside the KGB who were betrayed by Ames in 1985 were in fact loyal staffers pretending to help the CIA.

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