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2014-07-24 -Lurid Crime Tales-

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Posted by Uncle Phester 2014-07-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 But it won’t be long before the bad-luck giant spy ship Ural is gone for good, having never deployed

Typical Soviet Navy.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2014-07-24 10:54|| 2014-07-24 10:54|| Front Page Top

#2 Having just returned from the Baltic, I became interested in a story of the sinking of the Estonia 20 years ago this September. It has a similar "great spy intrigue" aspect, however with great loss of life:
http://www.facts-are-facts.com/magazin/1-estonia.ihtml

If anyone knows if a movie has ever been made of this please reply...They are still arguing about what happened 20 years on.

Posted by Capsu78 2014-07-24 17:42|| 2014-07-24 17:42|| Front Page Top

#3 They are still arguing about what happened 20 years on.

That is the gold standard of espionage -- NO ONE knows what happened, decades after the event.

Posted by Old Patriot 2014-07-24 22:00|| 2014-07-24 22:00|| Front Page Top

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