This sounds like something out of the movies:
Russia said yesterday it had caught four British diplomats “red-handed” in espionage after releasing surveillance video revealing how they used a fake rock as an electronic version of the age-old “dead-letter drop”.
The FSB domestic intelligence agency, the main successor to the Soviet-era KGB, said a decision on whether to expel the diplomats – who were named by the Russian media – would be taken “at the political level”.
A man, allegedly a British embassy staff member, kicks the ‘rock’. Later, another man is seen carrying it away
The agency claimed that the diplomats had been closely involved in funding pro-democracy groups in Russia, raising accusations that the Kremlin was trying to besmirch the reputation of organisations promoting human rights and good government.
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Al Maviva
Retaliation for Britain’s hard line on Russia’s punking of the Ukraine’s natural gas export business. Vintage Cold War espionage politics. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Gamer Girl
A fake rock? That’s the best they could come up with? sigh…
BIRDZILLA
Hey dont he have DIPLOMATIC IMUNITY?