Why would Moscow send guys like that?
In Russia, when you want to sabotage a job, you put a guy like that in it. They want a guy without any initiative, to make sure the Washington station doesn’t recruit anybody without authorization. Are you saying Russia doesn’t want to spy on the U.S. anymore? No, they don’t. Not really. Why not? It’s a political decision. The top level in Moscow understands that Russia depends tremendously on the United States, for financial aid and so on. They don’t want to provoke the United States. To take money with one hand and to recruit turncoat agents in Washington with the other is, is … bad manners. But wouldn’t Moscow want to know some things say, about secret U.S. military plans? Let me tell you a true story. A couple months ago the United States fired a few missiles at Iraq. Three days before, they privately informed the Russian foreign ministry. Afterward, the Russian press found out about it. They demanded to know what the foreign minister did about it, and he was very good at not ans
