BradGuth wrote:
On Nov 2, 8:33 pm, Warhol <mol... at (no spam) hotmail.com> wrote:
Russian who spied on Israel shot dead in Moscow
http://theyeshivaworld.com/article.php?p=41442
Shabtai Kalmanovitch, an Israeli immigrant from the former Soviet
Union who served time in prison for spying for the KGB, was shot and
killed while driving in downtown Moscow, news agencies reported on
Monday.
According to the Interfax news agency, Kalmanovitch was shot while
driving in his Mercedes in the Russian capital.
The report said Kalmanovitch was shot by assailants armed with semi-
automatic weapons who drove by in a passing vehicle.
Kalmanovitch's driver, Fyotor Tomnov, and another associate who was
with them were also wounded in the attack, according to reports. The
driver is currently hospitalized in serious condition.
The shooting is believed to be connected to a business dispute,
according to reports.
Kalmanovitch is a businessman and a former agent for the Russian
secret services who has been implicated in criminal activities in the
past.
As a youth, he immigrated to Israel in 1972. One of his assignments as
an agent was to ascertain information about Nativ, a Zionist
immigration and liaison agency which was active in the former Soviet
Union.
Moscow had always viewed Nativ as a front for espionage activity that
fomented unrest and dissent against the Soviet regime.
Kalmanovitch tried unsuccessfully to land a position with the prime
minister's bureau during Golda Meir's tenure in office. Afterwards,
though, he was hired to work for former MK Samuel Flatto-Sharon.
Kalmanovitch also gained access to former finance minister Yigal
Hurvitz during the latter's tenure as a member of Knesset.
Flatto-Sharon and Kalmanovitch were linked with Wolfgang Vogel, an
East German lawyer and a well-known associate of officials in the
Stasi. Vogel was considered an expert in negotiations which brokered
swaps for prisoners of wars.
Vogel was involved in the negotiated release of an Israeli, Miron
Marcus, who was taken prisoner by rebels in Mozambique after his plane
was forced to land in the African country.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1125329.html
It never pays being a double agent, and Israel is especially well
known for enforcing their nondisclosure policy. Not sure which one of
those two is worse or more lethal than the other, because they each
seem to exterminate their share of spies and even investigative
reporters don't stand much of any chance.
It is time that we execute every Israeli spy in America and then go
after all that have spied on us in the past.
