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The day we discovered our parents were Russian spies - Guardian Article
Posted on 5/11/16 at 8:13 am
Posted on 5/11/16 at 8:13 am
I searched and didnt see anything:
LINK
Pretty freaking crazy
LINK
Pretty freaking crazy
quote:
For years Donald Heathfield, Tracey Foley and their two children lived the American dream. Then an FBI raid revealed the truth: they were agents of Putin’s Russia. Their sons tell their story
quote:
If Tim and Alex’s story sounds eerily familiar to fans of The Americans, the television drama about a KGB couple living in the US with their two children, that’s because it’s partly based on them. The show is set in the 1980s, providing a cold war backdrop, but the 2010 spy round-up served as an inspiration. The show’s creator, Joe Weisberg, trained to be a CIA case officer in the early 1990s and, when I speak to him on the phone, tells me he always wanted to put family at the heart of the plot
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Posted on 5/11/16 at 8:15 am to TigerRob20
you sure they weren't German spies?
eta: just kidding. I've always wanted to make a dumbass Germans joke
eta2: I just downvoted myself.
eta: just kidding. I've always wanted to make a dumbass Germans joke
eta2: I just downvoted myself.
This post was edited on 5/11/16 at 8:19 am
Posted on 5/11/16 at 8:22 am to TigerRob20
I wonder which one of them is RedRifle?
Posted on 5/11/16 at 8:44 am to TigerRob20
Holy shite
Posted on 5/11/16 at 8:54 am to TigerRob20
It's a real life version of the Americans.
Posted on 5/11/16 at 8:55 am to TigerRob20
That was a great read.
Posted on 5/11/16 at 9:03 am to hoopsgalore
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That was a great read.
Agreed. It's hard to imagine the kind of shock that would bring to a person, much less adolescents like the 2 mentioned in the story.
Posted on 5/11/16 at 9:03 am to TigerRob20
In this video embedded in the article one of the former spies says that a big threat to America's world dominance would be a Russia and Germany (or China) alliance. Is Germany really a potential alliance candidate with Russia? I thought they were a solid US ally -- like Barry O and Angela did the no-pants dance or something.
Also, was The Americans inspired by the spies being rounded up in 2010?
Also, was The Americans inspired by the spies being rounded up in 2010?
Posted on 5/11/16 at 9:04 am to TigerRob20
We've got some good threads going this morning.
Posted on 5/11/16 at 9:07 am to Napoleon
quote:The Americans is a fake life version of this real life story
It's a real life version of the Americans.
Posted on 5/11/16 at 9:09 am to Mac
quote:
Also, was The Americans inspired by the spies being rounded up in 2010?
The quote in my OP stated that this roundup was the inspiration for the writer.
Posted on 5/11/16 at 9:17 am to TigerRob20
I didn't read your post, I just clicked on the link. Haven't finished the article yetPosted on 5/11/16 at 9:18 am to ReauxlTide222
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The Americans is a fake life version of this real life story
I actually am not as excited to watch episodes of the Americans after the first season and a half because it got too ridiculous. I much preferred the more "reality" based version at the very beginning that at least more closely resembled this story. There was some far fetched stuff, but it was somewhat believable.
I can easily see the situation in the article. Live your life and try to position yourself to gain some info here and there. Not lead a fake life as an American, then you marry some FBI secretary to lead a secondary double fake life, killing someone every episode with karate and all that shite.
Posted on 5/11/16 at 9:25 am to TigerRob20
This has been happening in this country since the Russian Revolution of 1917.
If any of you are familiar with author and commentator David Horowitz, his autobiography is about this. His parents were Communists who protested in the U.S. as early as the 1920s and during the war! He, himself was deep into it, and fomented the protest movements of the 1960s, until it all got too close and his friends started ending up dead.
Radical Son : a generational odyssey
If any of you are familiar with author and commentator David Horowitz, his autobiography is about this. His parents were Communists who protested in the U.S. as early as the 1920s and during the war! He, himself was deep into it, and fomented the protest movements of the 1960s, until it all got too close and his friends started ending up dead.
Radical Son : a generational odyssey
This post was edited on 5/11/16 at 9:26 am
Posted on 5/11/16 at 9:28 am to TigerRob20
good read.
Posted on 5/11/16 at 9:35 am to Mac
quote:
Is Germany really a potential alliance candidate with Russia?
I have a better chance of starting a sexual relationship with Jennifer Lawrence and getting the green light from my wife to do so than Germany & Russia forming an alliance.
Posted on 5/11/16 at 9:44 am to Darth_Vader
This.
The German people and the Russian people have no love for each other, and don't trust each other as far as they can throw each other. Now, on an individual basis, there may be some detente, and concerning power politics it may happen. But it would be a VERY temporary and convenient alliance.
The German people and the Russian people have no love for each other, and don't trust each other as far as they can throw each other. Now, on an individual basis, there may be some detente, and concerning power politics it may happen. But it would be a VERY temporary and convenient alliance.
Posted on 5/11/16 at 10:44 am to TigerRob20
Whoa, im def bookmarking to read later
Posted on 5/11/16 at 10:48 am to TigerRob20
Awesome read.
And I can't help but feel for the kids. They seem like incredibly intelligent guys that have no home.
And I can't help but feel for the kids. They seem like incredibly intelligent guys that have no home.
Posted on 5/11/16 at 10:54 am to TigerRob20
Great read.
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