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Russian Spies Thwarted By Old Technology?

Posted July 01, 2010 9:22 AM

From Discovery News - Top Stories:

Monday's New York Times reported that the Justice Department had arrested a Russian spy ring in the United States. The articles read like chapters of a Ludlum book. The whole story is tremendously weird, starting with the fact that there were Russian spies trawling for state secrets in Montclair, New Jersey (home to a Starbucks, a Talbots, and a Supercuts, but crucially bereft of a CIA, an FBI, or any other of the 16 intelligence agencies that pepper our nation).

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07/02/2010 1:17 PM

We're being fooled too easily. They're not after the FBI (that'd be too obvious), they're clearly after the secrets of Starbucks. One of them probably saw an establishment across the street from another, and decided to find the "American" secret to creating such an addictive substance, that two places of business need to be right across the street from one another just to deal with oncoming customer flow.

That or they want the secret to the Vanilla Chai Tea Latte. I'd start a spy ring for that. I heard that the secret ingrediant was 'love', but I like to think it's 'big business'.

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