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If you're associated with the Belarus KGB it's probably not too hard to have some passengers suddenly missing their flight for one or another reason. Probably t
by capableweb 5y ago
If you're associated with the Belarus KGB it's probably not too hard to have some passengers suddenly missing their flight for one or another reason. Probably they don't even need to buy a ticket, flash your badge at the airport and most guards/staff there lets you through.
- mcky 5y agoI'm not sure how kindly the Greek authorities would take having KGB operatives on their soil
- BBC-vs-neolibs 5y agoWHY would it work like that?
- jeltz 5y agoSeems like a great way to get detained by Greek airport security. I do not see why Greek airport staff would do anything other than call security when someone flashes a KGB badge.
- disabled 5y agoLOL do you think they actually carry badges? That would be quite incriminating. Instead, it’s more like they are carrying fake passports issued by the Russian Federation. But, one likely would not get caught traveling on a fake passport issued by their country’s government’s spy service, unless they had already travelled on another (perhaps legit) passport abroad (Russia has internal passports too) that has fingerprint information in combination with a photo of the individual. This drastically reduces false negatives when things like this need to be flagged. My US passport only contains a photo as biometric information, while my European Union passport contains fingerprints and my photo as biometric information.
- ummonk 5y agoRussia provides passports for Belarussian agents?
- tgragnato 5y agoYeah they apparently had Russian passports and the full support of the Russian state. Maria Zakharova even wrote that “It is shocking that the West calls the incident in Belarusian airspace ‘shocking,’”. She is the Director of the Press Department for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and is famous for claiming things as ludicrous as this one… https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/konstantinbenyumov/maria-zakharokva-profile-russian-foreign-ministry https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/konstantinbenyumov/mari...
- ummonk 5y agoThanks. I could swear like a decade ago it seemed like Belarus and Russia had had a falling out but I guess they patched things up since then (or the falling out didn’t impact cooperation like these passports).
- lupire 5y agoBelarus is the last Soviet satellite.
- dgellow 5y ago> flash your badge at the airport and most guards/staff there lets you through. No? Why would that be the case?