Fifth Columnists for Russia in the West

[peddlerscross]

I was all over him the time he was edged out by Calyx in the Coventry Stakes at Royal Ascot.

[Special_Olympiakos]

@Spidey

Wasn’t Sergey Prokopiev a good 2 year old for Aidan O’Brien once upon a time @BruidheanChaorthainn ?

The theme tune to the apprentice is a fine legacy too

[Biff_Egan]

Mattie McGrath is too shrude to be honeytrapped

[Cheasty]

@Biff_Egan

Mattie McGrath is too shrude to be honeytrapped

You assume he’d need to be honeytrapped, which seems a big assumption.

[Cheasty]

It’s usually the most obvious person

Cobalt could not be arrested or charged with espionage because he did not have access to any classified material, therefore could not disclose its contents to a hostile state. Instead the security services believe he was used as an asset: an easily influenced person who could make introductions, disrupt public discourse or air the Kremlin’s views if and when prompted. There are still conflicting views on whether he was pressured to co-operate or agreed to allow the Russians to use him because they massaged his ego, according to multiple sources familiar with the affair. The full scale of Cobalt’s activities is still a mystery.

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Agent Cobalt has engaged in many activities that have undermined public trust in institutions, though for legal reasons we cannot say how.

[glenshane]

@myboyblue

Be interesting to see who comes out on here and tries make little of this issue. That will tell a lot

There’ll be some whispering and pointing in the aisles this morning. There should be a special mass, so there should.

[Massey]

@Cheasty

massaged his ego,

Has to be Leo

[Massey]

A Red Mass?

[Julio_Geordio]

Okay so.

Leon Varadski
Mikel Martinov
Katerina Martin (you’ve to say Martin in a Russian way)
Daniel Healy Raesky

[Julio_Geordio]

Be like 1950s America with the red scare. All of the labour party are guilty until proven capitalist.

The Shinners are Trotskyist so they are safe. More Russian than the Russians themselves

[Massey]

@Julio_Geordio

Be like 1950s America with the red scare

Who’s our Joe McCarthy then?

[caulifloweredneanderthal]

Be the kind of job to bring in big Phil Hogan from the cold for.

[Batigol]

I have any strong opinions on this other than that I absolutely hope it’s Simon Harris

[TreatyStones]

Is this new news? Was this not reported ages back?

That John Byrnes is a bit of a dolt and prone to blowing up his "massive " security stories, with very little in the way of hard facts.

[TreatyStones]

I picked up the Sunday Times this morning for the first times in ages, €4.30!

[glenshane]

This is what our leaders do. Introduce a very serious, non-specific threat, frighten the bejaysus out of simple folk, and turn them against one another.
Anyone who scoffs at this nonsense is obviously a ‘putin apologist’.
I’m very disappointed in some of you. You should know better.

[Cheasty]

@Massey

Has to be Leo

[tallback]

@Cheasty

@Biff_Egan

Mattie McGrath is too shrude to be honeytrapped

You assume he’d need to be honeytrapped, which seems a big assumption.

Christ - the Russian agent assigned to honeytrap someone like Matty is a true patriot

[Batigol]

That, more than even the 6000 nukes, shows the true might of the Russian military

[Elvis_Brandenberg_Kr]

@Cheasty

It’s usually the most obvious person

Cobalt could not be arrested or charged with espionage because he did not have access to any classified material, therefore could not disclose its contents to a hostile state. Instead the security services believe he was used as an asset: an easily influenced person who could make introductions, disrupt public discourse or air the Kremlin’s views if and when prompted. There are still conflicting views on whether he was pressured to co-operate or agreed to allow the Russians to use him because they massaged his ego, according to multiple sources familiar with the affair. The full scale of Cobalt’s activities is still a mystery.

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Agent Cobalt has engaged in many activities that have undermined public trust in institutions, though for legal reasons we cannot say how.

That’s the salient point. They’re pretty much identifiable from that.