Spies in the U.S.: the International Communist Conspiracy

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**olympia**

Shocking news about those commie spies in the United States. OMFG, they lived like normal suburban schmoes for a decade while infiltrating and corrupting and subverting and indoctrinating!!!

**Frazzled**

Indeed. Hang them, on Oprah.

**WarOne**

Or put them in a movie with Ahrnuld:

And don't we already have a thread for the spies already?

**Frazzled**

Yes but this is evoliving better.

How about Thunderdome? Two spies enter, one spy leaves!

**WarOne**

Oh yes, because we all remember the Thunderdome as the best form of judiciary resolution the world ever produced in a post apocalyptic world. It also gave us midget man- half midget, half man:

**greenskin lynn**

i wish we could have thunder-dome at work.....but apparently kids have rights or some-such, and the state has laws against death fights or some nonsense

**olympia**

Damn, some of those commie bastards evidently used Irish passports. First massad forges Irish passports and now the ruskies.

**Frazzled**

Evidently Irish passports are easy to fake, or they just like stopping over in Irish pubs.

**WarOne**

It is not too hard to visit an Irish embassy and get a passport. Ireland has over 9000 of them:

**gregor_xenos**

With all the idiots wearing Chairman Mao and Che shirts at college, and fomous actresses with their Commie-star Handbags; they thought they would fit right in.

**dogma**

Frazzled wrote:Evidently Irish passports are easy to fake, or they just like stopping over in Irish pubs.

Irish passports, as EU standard passports, are among the most difficult documents to fake.

The Irish passport is, however, one of the most frequently issued under fraudulent premises. Very likely because the Irish state is quite corrupt.

**WarOne**

Grease the right palms, have the right people look the other way, or find and exploit the mortal weaknesses of the government machinery and you can easily invest yourself into the heart of the target you wish to extract information from.

**ShumaGorath**

WarOne wrote:Grease the right palms, have the right people look the other way, or find and exploit the mortal weaknesses of the government machinery and you can easily invest yourself into the heart of the target you wish to extract information from.

Grease the wrong palms and you and 10 of your co-workers go to jail. Don't pretend this kind of thing is easy.

**WarOne**

ShumaGorath wrote:

Grease the wrong palms and you and 10 of your co-workers go to jail. Don't pretend this kind of thing is easy.

But espionage was what they were trained for and knowing who to talk to and what to obtain and where to get it had kept them off the radar for some time. They eventually got caught of course. But to go undetected for any length of time has alot to do with a combination of their skill and the government's lack of intervention for various different reasons that I am sure the FBI will not want to elaborate on.

**dogma**

WarOne wrote:
But espionage was what they were trained for and knowing who to talk to and what to obtain and where to get it had kept them off the radar for some time. They eventually got caught of course. But to go undetected for any length of time has alot to do with a combination of their skill and the government's lack of intervention for various different reasons that I am sure the FBI will not want to elaborate on.

It kept them from arrest for some time. We have no idea how long they operated unbeknownst to the relevant agencies.

**ShumaGorath**

WarOne wrote:
ShumaGorath wrote:

Grease the wrong palms and you and 10 of your co-workers go to jail. Don't pretend this kind of thing is easy.

But espionage was what they were trained for and knowing who to talk to and what to obtain and where to get it had kept them off the radar for some time. They eventually got caught of course. But to go undetected for any length of time has alot to do with a combination of their skill and the government's lack of intervention for various different reasons that I am sure the FBI will not want to elaborate on.

I'm not disagreeing with it's possibility, I was disagreeing with your assessment that international spywork is somehow "easy".

**Mr. Burning**

ShumaGorath wrote:
WarOne wrote:
ShumaGorath wrote:

Grease the wrong palms and you and 10 of your co-workers go to jail. Don't pretend this kind of thing is easy.

But espionage was what they were trained for and knowing who to talk to and what to obtain and where to get it had kept them off the radar for some time. They eventually got caught of course. But to go undetected for any length of time has alot to do with a combination of their skill and the government's lack of intervention for various different reasons that I am sure the FBI will not want to elaborate on.

I'm not disagreeing with it's possibility, I was disagreeing with your assessment that international spywork is somehow "easy".

We have all seen James Bond and the Bourne series and maybe read a few spy novels...we all know how it works......

Anyway, read up about Roger Hollis, former head of MI-5. It will never be known if he was a soviet agent or not. If he was it proves that with the right connections and level of intelligence you can accomplish anything under the noses of people sworn to hunt you down.