John M. Newman and Tennent H. Bagley

[Tom Graves]

Dear Lance,

Tak.

It wasn't I who first brought up your wife.

If I remember correctly, it was you who volunteered that she used to work in the same Minsk factory that Oswald worked at (or some-such thing), that she used to be "almost embarrassingly pro-Trump," and it was you who intimated that the only thing she doesn't care about him now is his stance on the war in Ukraine.

You said that you voted for Obama twice yadda yadda yadda, and that most recently your "Trumpean" ballots were not counted because they were damaged or filled out improperly or some-such thing.

So, you're a Trump supporter.

I don't hate Trump supporters, Lance, but I certainly despise them for being the gullible, naive, "useful idiots" that they are.

Regardless, have you read PhD Dr. Tennent H. Bagley's 2007 Yale University Press book, Spy Wars: Moles, Mysteries, and Deadly Games, yet, or even his 35-page follow up article, "Ghosts of the Spy Wars"? Or do your "eyes glaze over" at the thought?

If so, 'tis a pity, because if you were to read them, you'd realize what great lengths the KGB*, with a "mole" or three already in place, went to from 1959-on to get us to the point at which we now find ourselves.

*Today's SVR and FSB

-- Tom

PS You can still read them for free by googling "spy wars" and "archive" simultaneously and "ghosts of the spy wars" and "archive" simultaneously.

I'm bumping this for Lance "Hoot" Payette.