{"id":685,"date":"2007-04-13T16:15:42","date_gmt":"2007-04-13T16:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=685"},"modified":"2007-04-13T16:27:04","modified_gmt":"2007-04-13T16:27:04","slug":"russian-spies-at-cold-war-level-time-for-cheese-and-pitch-bending-from-slovenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=685","title":{"rendered":"Russian spies &#8216;at Cold War level&#8217;: time for Cheese and pitch bending from Slovenia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The influx of strange demos continues. This one consists of a wedge of cheese:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.irdial.com\/cheese_pack.JPG\"><br \/>\n<i>The Package<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.irdial.com\/cheese_label.JPG\"><br \/>\n<i>Closeup of the label<\/i><\/p>\n<p>It came with a cardboard stiffener and a pink post it note, with some lines about beer.<\/p>\n<p>OMW. WTF.<\/p>\n<p>Which brings us to:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Russian agents are as active in Britain now as at the height of the Cold War, senior Whitehall officials have said.<\/p>\n<p>The sources told the BBC&#8217;s Frank Gardner there were more than 30 identified intelligence officers trying to get secrets by covert means.<\/p>\n<p>Targets include military hardware, scientific know-how and technology, and inside tips on Westminster politics.<\/p>\n<p>Businessmen who may have access to sensitive information are also of interest, as are Russian dissidents.<\/p>\n<p>Such dissidents include Boris Berezovsky, friend of the murdered former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Very extensive&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Sir Paul Lever, a former member of the Joint Intelligence Committee, said: &#8220;Russian espionage activity in Britain is very extensive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In scale it&#8217;s probably pretty much as it was at the height of the Cold War.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk\/6452519.stm\">BBQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>&#8220;Russians fighting Russians is bad for Russia&#8221;.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I wish I could attribute that quote to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roman_Abramovich\">Roman Abramovich<\/a>, but it&#8217;s mine.<\/p>\n<p>More on the demos; we received this VERY interesting one in the last seven days, from Ljubljana in Slovenia, which arrived with some patent application diagrams for a novel guitar pitch-bending arrangement (foot controlled) a CDR of movies featuring it and its inventor in action, a contract proposal and a nice letter. Yes, &#8216;nice&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.irdial.com\/bender_patent.jpg\"><br \/>\n<i>Excerpt from the patent application<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But what did it sound like?&#8221;, I hear you cry.<\/p>\n<p>Like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.well.com\/user\/wellvis\/indian.html\">Brij Bhushan Kabra<\/a> on Crystal Meth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The influx of strange demos continues. This one consists of a wedge of cheese: The Package Closeup of the label It came with a cardboard stiffener and a pink post it note, with some lines about beer. OMW. WTF. Which brings us to: Russian agents are as active in Britain now as at the height [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,22,16,39,13,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}