Re: Russian smuggler
Subject: Re: Russian smuggler
From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
Date: 7/28/10, 15:29
To: Tim Rogers <timr@dmagazine.com>

Okay, just did a phone interview with the lawyer. He's not letting her talk to any press (Good Morning America and others were trying as well), but he had a few interesting things to say. Got it all recorded, and he says he'll take whatever other questions I can think up in the next day or so if we'd need more info. So, if you'd be interested in a piece sans an interview with Anna, I can do that for you - and can also throw in some media criticism to boot insomuch as that there's quite a bit of irrational coverage going on  to the effect that she's a spy simply because a bunch of other attractive Russian women were spies. Let me know how to proceed.

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
Actually, yes, I've got some good contacts as well in this regards (former CIA covert fellow who's now a novelist and blurbing my book/member of my sekrit club, plus Russia analyst Mark Adomanis - you may remember I told you I was on Russian TV couple weeks back) to quote regarding the obviousness of what's really going on here, and just got back from the gun range myself and at any rate know plenty of reasons why, from a weaponry standpoint, this is not the espionage case that certain outlets have assumed it to be. I'll put a call in to her lawyer; would be surprised if counsel would have her talk to the press insomuch as that she was clearly breaking the law, but I'll see what I can find out this afternoon.


On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Tim Rogers <timr@dmagazine.com> wrote:
You at all interested in writing about this woman if you can get an interview with her?


On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
She was almost certainly doing this so that her husband could resell them in Russia for a great deal more, either to a hunter or a hitman. There's zero reason for the Russian government to seek to acquire two or three of these particular scopes.


On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Tim Rogers <timmytyper@gmail.com> wrote:
What do you make of this?

http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/2010/07/27/dallas-gets-its-own-hot-russian-smuggler-allegedly/

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