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Were those guys in the car likely to be card-carrying CIA operatives or just hired thugs given orders from the CIA/MI6?
by pphysch 5y ago
Were those guys in the car likely to be card-carrying CIA operatives or just hired thugs given orders from the CIA/MI6?
- tablespoon 5y ago> card-carrying CIA operatives I realize you're just using that as an expression, but I recently watched an old Columbo episode [1] that featured just that, and if it were true it would be the literal dumbest thing. [1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072804/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072804/
- pphysch 5y agoI agree, but certainly not beyond the capabilities of a CIA headed by the brilliant and successful Mike Pompeo. :)
- Fnoord 5y agoOn the field on foreign soil it'd be dumb, yes. They likely have some fake identity issued by the US government which the proper US government officials can direct to them being a CIA asset. Ie. they'll look like normal civilians, probably even with a company, job, Facebook, etc.
- londons_explore 5y agoI wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't just some private detective paid just over minimum wage to sit there for multiple years and radio in if anything happens.
- pphysch 5y agoThere's at least 3 fairly muscular dudes in the car
- blitzar 5y agoI wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't just 3 fairly muscular dudes paid just over minimum wage to sit there for multiple years and radio in if anything happens. The guarding of the embassy to stop assange from walking out cost £3mil a year, thats a lot of muscular dudes sitting in cars drinking coffee 24 hours a day.
- londons_explore 5y agoThat £3m could have caught plenty of other criminals... It isn't like Assange is even violent!
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