Spies Like Us?

How can you spot the Russian spy in Cambridge, MA? He’s the guy his neighbors like but think is “a little too conservative.”

The Russian 11 (and counting) story is absolutely fascinating, fun to read and, in the end, just plain bizarre.  The FBI folks say what we’ve seen is “just the tip of the iceberg.”  We’ll see, but so far—from a spying standpoint—it ain’t much.

It is interesting that the common thread in the story is that the spies all set up shop in liberal suburbs like Cambridge, MA and Westchester County, NY.  Liberals will claim that this is a coincidence, of course, but their problem is that, from Alger Hiss to Ted Kennedy, the tradition of “progressives” betraying their nation to foreign powers (Russia in particular) is well established.

The Kennedy story still amazes me.  After the fall of the Soviet Union, reports came to light that Sen. Kennedy reached out to the Soviet Union with offers to work with Soviet leadership in opposing Reagan policies. A sitting US Senator offering to work with the Soviets against the elected American president.  Kind of big news, huh?

But you’ve never read it in the Boston Globe-Democrat, and you never will. In part because it’s Ted Kennedy, and in part because the Globe-Democrat sided with the Soviets against Reagan, too. If the Cambridge Left’s appeasement policies had been pursued, the Soviet Union would be with us today, and hundreds of millions of people would still live in Communist tyranny.

Remember: In Cambridge circa 1985, AMERICA was the bad guy.

That’s why this Russian spy story is so odd.  If these spies were actual, real-live Communists, they’d have allies in Cambridge today.  But working for the Russian kleptocrats?  They’re just oddballs.

UPDATE!  May these Ruskies ARE true believers, after all.  They donated to liberal Marty Walz’s re-election campaign.