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| 2010-07-01 |
| When Donald Heathfield appears in a Boston court today asking to be released on bail, a complicated past life will come back to haunt him. So will the short, tragic life of a Canadian boy whose identity he allegedly stole. The fake Mr Heathfield, according to the FBI, came the closest of all the alleged Russian spies arrested on Sunday to acquiring real intelligence for his paymasters. He made contacts in "US power circles", sent cables to Moscow about senior CIA staff changes in the run-up to the 2008 election, and discussed nuclear "bunker-busters" with a US government official. The real Donald Heathfield was born in Ontario on February 4, 1963. He died six weeks later in his cot. Yesterday his elder brother, now 51, expressed outrage at the theft of his sibling's name, identity and birth certificate, which the FBI found in a Massachusetts safe deposit box nine years ago. "At first we thought it was a joke," David Heathfield told The Times from his home in Canada. "It's not a joke any more. I didn't even know there were spies after the Cold War. I thought it was a dead thing, but it's quite real now. How does this man get off using someone else's name? What he has done to our family is despicable." The Boston Globe has other material: "I kept thinking how nice this is; finally, there's someone who's really friendly,'' Doris Stanley, 65, said yesterday from her front porch. But then Stanley, a French teacher, said she noticed some inconsistencies. "I noticed she [Mrs. Heathfield] had an accent, and I said -- because I'm nosy -- 'What's this accent you have?' '' Stanley recalled. "And she said, 'I'm from Montreal.' '' The two women began speaking French. "I was thinking, 'That's strange,' because I actually understood this person, and I usually don't understand people from Montreal,'' she recalled. |
| Posted by:Anguper Hupomosing9418 |
| #5 They over look that this may well not be the Russian government, but a Russian mafia operation. The problem is that both entities overlap in style, personnel, cooperation and goals that the ability to separate discretely who is doing what for why becomes a challenge. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-07-01 10:29 |
| #4 Why bother with illegals when the Neo-Soviets have the son of a KGB agent in the White House? |
| Posted by: ed 2010-07-01 00:47 |
| #3 {TV's BENSON + KRAUSE here] change to ["TELEFON"'s CRARLES BRONSON + LEE REMICK?]. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-07-01 00:38 |
| #2 WaPo has a short article on steganography. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-07-01 00:35 |
| #1 Wehell, ANNA CHAPMAN > iff RUSSIA allegedly has circa 50 Male-Female "Spy Couples" engaged in espionage, etc. agz the US, RADICAL ISLAM HAS DITTO ..... COUPLES? Given the MSM-Net's well-repor past + still-ongoing collusion between dedicat Commies-Socs + Islamists. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-07-01 00:33 |