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2020-08-23 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
'Shocking betrayal:' Former Green Beret charged with spying for Russia over 15 years
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Posted by trailing wife 2020-08-23 03:34|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top

#1 Life imprisonment? How about a few days being stretched in half.
Posted by Mad Eye Angonter1301 2020-08-23 08:51||   2020-08-23 08:51|| Front Page Top

#2 "a retired Green Beret."

Officer? CPT? MAJ? COL? Just curious.

" In 2008, after leaving active duty service...."

I can read that a couple of different ways.
Posted by Clem 2020-08-23 09:18||   2020-08-23 09:18|| Front Page Top

#3 Perhaps they meant... special services. Fellas who hand our basketballs at the post gym. Something not quite wright about the 'periodic Russian travel' and security clearances. I'm going with special services.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-08-23 10:19||   2020-08-23 10:19|| Front Page Top

#4 The Washington Times has more here, Besoeker. Perhaps this will provide more insight.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-08-23 13:48||   2020-08-23 13:48|| Front Page Top

#5 Debbins’ mother was born in the Soviet Union, and Debbins met his wife in the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, where they were married in 1997, according to the indictment.

Been fed Borscht all his life.

Why did it take 15 years to find him?
Guess we'll be hearing about a trade soon.
Posted by Skidmark 2020-08-23 14:46||   2020-08-23 14:46|| Front Page Top

#6 Bes, the First Special Services Force would like to talk to you. Apparently they received multiple requests to put on concerts while they were holding part of the line above Anzio.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2020-08-23 15:16||   2020-08-23 15:16|| Front Page Top

#7 This guy was working for the Russians before he graduated college. Why did his TS not catch that? He joined to be a spy for mother russia. He will have a long time to count every brick in Leavenworth...
Posted by 49 Pan 2020-08-23 20:11||   2020-08-23 20:11|| Front Page Top

#8 Yet another example of a PR not catching a spy. If he reported everything and all was favorably adjudicated, then, well, there we are.
Posted by Clem 2020-08-23 20:36||   2020-08-23 20:36|| Front Page Top

#9 “Debbins thought that the United States was too dominant in the world and needed to be cut down to size,” prosecutors alleged.

That may be the case, but that is beside the point!
Posted by Clem 2020-08-23 20:40||   2020-08-23 20:40|| Front Page Top

#10 He was promoted to Captain in 2001, same year he transferred from a Chemical WF company to Special Forces. In 2004 or 2005, he was busted for some kind of security violation, relieved of command and eventually kicked out but with an honorable discharge. In 2010, his security clearance was restored, and he was listed as in the reserves then.
Posted by JC 2020-08-23 20:59||   2020-08-23 20:59|| Front Page Top

#11 In 2004 or 2005, he was busted for some kind of security violation, relieved of command and eventually kicked out but with an honorable discharge.

Rank has its privileges. If he had been enlisted, things might have turned out differently.
Posted by Clem 2020-08-23 21:15||   2020-08-23 21:15|| Front Page Top

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