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Originally Posted by Lchoy
Didn't see a thread on this. Very interesting story with the RCMP taking a Canadian Intelligence Officer in for allegedly passing secrets to the Russians.
Paging CP's resident military expert, for comment
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This is a block buster story, a unit like HMCS Trinity would know about all of NATO's ship movements, and that includes dum dum dah submarine deployments and patrol paterns.
Basically if that's the theory, because the Russians are already pretty aware of the technical aspects of NATO equipment, then knowing patrol paterns and deployments gives you a powerful advantage.
For the most part, especially with the American's ship deployments are pretty well public knowleged, patrols are tracked through satellite, but that changes if I'm right.
If the Russian's get patrol patterns (Because again, even the American remaining missile boats can't keep deployments a secret, but if the Russian's know when they're leaving and where they're going to patrol, they can track and target and destroy a missile boat if the crap hits the fan and that puts a big hole in American detterance ability.
I don't know how much more information that he would have, but its unlikely that the Russians would rish a fairly highly placed spy on getting things out like computer specs on a frigate.
Its more then likely that this trial will be closed and locked down.
If Canada's CSIS counter espionage was behind this arrest, its more then likely that a deal has been cut in exchange for information on his controller.
Even with the destruction of the KGB, the Russians are still the varsity club of the spy game.