{"id":6233,"date":"2010-06-30T17:16:27","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T22:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=6233"},"modified":"2011-01-20T14:02:50","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T19:02:50","slug":"fallout-from-russian-spy-ring-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/06\/30\/fallout-from-russian-spy-ring-bust\/","title":{"rendered":"Fallout from Russian spy-ring bust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6234\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/06\/spy-vs.-spy-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"spy vs. spy\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Even as his government acknowledged that its citizens were among the 11 people that U.S. authorities charged were part of a long-running spy operation, Russian Prime Minister Putin <a title=\"criticized\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE65R5OU20100629\" target=\"_blank\">criticized<\/a> U.S. law enforcement for busting up the espionage ring.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ir\/\">International relations<\/a> Professor <a title=\"Joseph Wippl\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ir\/faculty\/alphabetical\/wippl\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joseph Wippl<\/a>, a 30-year<a href=\"http:\/\/cia.gov\"> CIA<\/a> veteran, says Russia has continued a robust intelligence collection program since the break up of the Soviet Union, believing that relations between countries and regions can and will change.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cGood relations can become poor relations.\u00a0 Neutral relations can develop into hostile relations.\u00a0 For Russia, intelligence is not about countries that are hostile but about countries that are important.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Joseph Wippl, 617-353-8992, <a href=\"mailto:jwippl@bu.edu\">jwippl@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even as his government acknowledged that its citizens were among the 11 people that U.S. authorities charged were part of a long-running spy operation, Russian Prime Minister Putin criticized U.S. law enforcement for busting up the espionage ring.\u00a0 International relations Professor Joseph Wippl, a 30-year CIA veteran, says Russia has continued a robust intelligence collection [&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":[962,3261,2891,3300,1456,3302,3266,3303,3301],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6233"}],"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=6233"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7678,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6233\/revisions\/7678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}