[To Be Quite Honest]

Originally Posted by Cowperson

I was laughing at this description in the New York Post this morning . . . .

The "secret agents" the Russians sent to America over the last 10 years came off as a crew of rank amateurs who made so many blunders, they came close to blowing their cover, their neighbors told The Post.

In Cambridge, Mass., accused spy Tracey Lee Ann Foley warmly approached a neighbor and introduced herself after buying a condo with her husband, alleged agent Donald Howard Heathfield.

"We started talking in English, and she was telling me she was from Montreal, so we started speaking in French," said the neighbor, Doris Stanley, who studied French, Russian and Italian at Yale.

"Then suddenly she switched to English and I said, 'Oh, this is odd, I've never understood anyone from Montreal because they use a different grammar and there's a different accent than natives of France,' " Stanley said.

"I said, 'Pardon me, this is a little rude, but where did you say you're from in Montreal?' "

Foley replied, "The reason you . . . understand me is because I went to school in Switzerland," Stanley recalled.

"She started explaining more about her accent, and she appeared a little nervous-like, and she said, 'Oh, you know everyone in this country comes from somewhere else, or has relatives from somewhere else,' " Stanley said.

"It was at that point at which I said, 'Oh yeah, my father came from Odessa' " -- a city in the former USSR -- and "I saw her eyes widen, I swear, I saw a definite emotional reaction," Stanley said.

In Montclair, NJ, alleged spies Richard and Cynthia Murphy told neighbors they were from Toronto. "But when this one woman mentioned a particular [Toronto] neighborhood to them, they didn't know what she was talking about," said local resident Chris Manthy.

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/nationa...#ixzz0sMIYTB30

Cowperson

Looks like all the money used for training these spies went to the KHL to sign NHL players. Taking over the world indeed!