By Lissa Harris
6/28/10 - 7:12 pm
A bag of money buried in a field in Sullivan County led to the arrest of 10 people on charges of -- we kid you not, readers -- spying for Russia. (Another suspect is still at large.) The New York Times's Charlie Savage reports:
Criminal complaints filed in federal court on Monday read like a thriller novel: Secret Russian agents were assigned to live as married couples in the United States, even having children who were apparently unaware of their parents’ true identities. A spy swapped identical bags with a Russian official as they brushed past each other in a train station stairwell. Messages were written with invisible ink, hidden in the data of digital pictures, and encoded in messages sent over shortwave radio.
The Times Herald-Record, whose story relies heavily on the New York Times account quoted above, claims the bust was traced, in part, to a bag of cash buried in a field in Wurtsboro: Read more
