{"id":6210,"date":"2010-06-29T15:40:27","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T20:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=6210"},"modified":"2011-01-20T14:03:24","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T19:03:24","slug":"alleged-russian-espionage-ring-busted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/06\/29\/alleged-russian-espionage-ring-busted\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged Russian espionage ring busted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6211\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/06\/top-secret-stamp-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"top secret stamp\" width=\"95\" height=\"95\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/06\/top-secret-stamp-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/06\/top-secret-stamp-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/06\/top-secret-stamp.jpg 346w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 95px) 100vw, 95px\" \/>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/\">FBI<\/a> arrested 11 people for allegedly <a title=\"spying\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/06\/29\/AR2010062901057.html?sid=ST2010062901071\" target=\"_blank\">spying<\/a> for the Russians while living secret lives in American communities &#8211; from Washington, D.C., to Seattle &#8211; sent here years ago to infiltrate U.S. society and steal its secrets.\u00a0 It&#8217;s unclear what the alleged spies actually found.\u00a0 Two BU <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ir\">international relations <\/a>professors, <a title=\"Arthur Hulnick\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ir\/faculty\/hulnick.html\" target=\"_blank\">Arthur Hulnick <\/a>and <a title=\"Joseph Wippl\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ir\/faculty\/alphabetical\/wippl\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joseph Wippl<\/a>, are both long-time veterans of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/\">CIA<\/a> and quite familiar with the world of spies.\u00a0 They offer their thoughts on the big bust.<\/p>\n<p>Hulnick: <em>\u201cThe case demonstrates that the FBI is really good at uncovering such spy rings.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure what will happen to the Russians who have devoted so much time and effort to what appears to be a failed operation.\u00a0 I suspect the Russian government will deny that it is behind the operation.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Wippl: <em>\u201cUnlike diplomats, none of the 11 has diplomatic immunity which would result in a PNG (Persona Non Grata) expulsion from the U.S.\u00a0 Without diplomatic immunity, they will be prosecuted in a U.S. court according to the charges brought against them.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Arthur Hulnick, 617-353-8978, <a href=\"mailto:hlnk@aol.com\">hlnk@aol.com<\/a>, or Joseph Wippl, 617-353-8992, <a href=\"mailto:jwippl@bu.edu\">jwippl@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FBI arrested 11 people for allegedly spying for the Russians while living secret lives in American communities &#8211; from Washington, D.C., to Seattle &#8211; sent here years ago to infiltrate U.S. society and steal its secrets.\u00a0 It&#8217;s unclear what the alleged spies actually found.\u00a0 Two BU international relations professors, Arthur Hulnick and Joseph Wippl, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[3289,3278,3220,962,3292,3261,1060,202,2891,3260,3291,3266,3290],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6210"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7682,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6210\/revisions\/7682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}