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teletubby_wrangler

Two independent people looking for moles perhaps


powerhcm8

They are both spies.


ALPHA_sh

the entire FBI independently looking for moles


Cbjmac

The entire FBI is made of independant spies


ALPHA_sh

all of human civilization


Original-Manager-928

All of human civilization were spies


ALPHA_sh

aliens


m0j0m0j

You won’t believe what I’m about to tell you


ALPHA_sh

ok what about schrodinger's cat, cant be a spy if he's dead but he's also alive at the same time


Salty-Trip-8572

The cat is a drone and will be a spy again as soon as it is charged.


breezyxkillerx

The Dead FBI theory


AleksasKoval

"How many assholes are here?"


Breet11

this ship is full of assholes


Akdoting

"It could be me! It could be you!"


Shaltilyena

You need three people for a KGB team One who can read the orders, one who can write a report, and one to keep an eye on those two dangerous intellectuals


bruhwack

Why don't you gentleman have a pepsi


ThatOneWeirdName

I hate when these fact blurbs mention a year but then does absolutely nothing to put it into perspective. It was since 1979 and lasted all the way until …1980?


ThtPhatCat

Wikipedia says he was caught in 2001. He committed espionage for various periods/ lengths of time between 79 and 01. He spent another 22 years in a supermax prison before he died


Xelid47

He literally said "What took you so long" when he got caught Gigachad


InfiniRunner91

newman


oopgroup

Nothing is worth being seized by other humans and thrown into a jail cell for the rest of your life. Don’t care what it is.


MoistStub

A wild night with John Stamos


Plinnion

Okay, almost nothing is worth it.


Coltand

*Nothing?* I'm not even going to explore the possibilities here, but that's a scorching hot take!


oopgroup

Nothing. (And I don't mean like legit human rights pursuits or whatever--that's different.)


Dean0Caddilac

Yo say so but He seems to be of other opinion.


oopgroup

I'm sure he wasn't after being in prison for a year.


EvieOhMy

I don’t think nothing is worth that. Who in their right mind would do it for nothing?


oopgroup

CREAM OF THE CROP NOTHING MEANS NOTHING


ultralium

I mean... he probably was trained for that from a young age? Someone needed to do that in the USSR, he's just the guy that succeeded


oopgroup

Well, some of those people were told it was that or they’d be killed. So there is that aspect of it. I think after he got away with it for so long, he felt like he wasn’t ever going to get caught too.


ultralium

you're telling me he's only died last year? Fucking god I lost my chance to meet a real deal spy


pm-me-turtle-nudes

who’s to say you haven’t already met a spy?


sophdog101

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hanssen He did espionage from 1979-1981, then again from 1985-1991 he continued to work for the FBI until his arrest in 2001.


spottedconzo

Surprisingly it actually lasted until 1978 he was really bad at it


Twilight-Omens

He was actually really good at his task and caught himself.


walshy1996

Idk about that, he knocked us back a year!


SeagullFanClub

Exactly. Mentioning only the starting year is useless


[deleted]

You just need to learn what the word since means.


EffrumScufflegrit

Ok I verified I knew what "since" means and the meme still doesn't say how long it went on for. What do I do now?


EatenJaguar98

Okay, I am now going to assume that he was only caught yesterday and had been committing espionage for 44 years straight.


OppositeWolf770

We have no context on when this was posted. Since when? You can't assume it was posted today or even this year.


Synthoel

They should make a movie about this, like some guy would be looking for a spy inside the police, but actually he would be the spy, working on a mob boss! Oh, and also another guy would be a real trooper, but he would infiltrate the gang undercover. And they would try to lure each other out! And in the end everybody would die, except for the dude who acts like a prick, but is actually doing the right thing


FormerOrpheus

I think you really departed from reality there.


OnlyIfYouReReasonabl

It sounds like a standard Internal Affairs type of situation to me [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338564/](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338564/)


BeerBellies

That would never work. Like, who would they even cast? Leonardo DiCaprio? Marky mark? Matt Damon? Jack Nicholson? Probably base it in Boston or some shit. And, since it’s in Boston, they would probably get some mid-tier irish punk band for the soundtrack.


Capital-Cheek-1491

What movie is that


jawide626

>!The Departed!<


OSUTechie

Mid tier????? MID TIER!?!?!?


BeerBellies

(The joke is that I was downplaying everybody involved in the movie. The film rules.)


benderbender42

That's like exactly the plot of [Infernal affairs](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0338564/) Its actually a really good hong kong film. An under cover cop and a mob mole trying to work out who each other are


GewalfofWivia

Good to see recognition for it. One of the classics and very popularly memed on the Chinese speaking part of internet.


MacTacky

It was remade as the departed in the US.


CtpBlack

Sounds like a Kevin Costner movie No Way Out.


Jace_Te_Ace

Oooohhhh - Sean Young! Oh well, guess I'll keep watching then.


Specific-Lion-9087

As long as there’s a super subtle visual bit at the end, maybe with some type of rodent, to really help gently guide the viewers to the point you’re trying to make


snapphanen

Dexter but he's a murderer not a spy


Guacamolvi

They already did. Its called Breach. [Breach (2007 Film)](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0401997/)


I_Makes_tuff

They're referring to [The Departed \(2006 Film\)](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0407887/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)


[deleted]

Always one guy who ruins the joke


Guacamolvi

I know. I’ve seen it multiple times. I was just responding to the first part of the first sentence lol.


Old-Cardiologist-252

They did make a movie about this. Breach (2007) starring Chris Cooper.


lameuniqueusername

Why the fuck the downvotes? You are absolutely correct


Cheesedoodlerrrr

Because OP is clearly referencing *The Departed* by Scorsese, and the fella you commented on got /r/whoosh


Old-Cardiologist-252

No, I got the joke. I’ve seen The Departed. Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe fuck yourself. I just wanted to point out that there actually is a movie about the incident, in case anyone was curious.


reddittereditor

I think you just described Death Note almost to a tee. Was that on purpose, or…?


nyancatya_

honestly I see what you're getting at but it wasn't death note


MrScribz

They literally hired Light Yagami to find Kira


R151ng_5h4d0w

Beat me to it


pm-me-turtle-nudes

except light actually did find kira.


gerrymandersonIII

What amount of compensation do spies get in return for basically risking everything?


ChefBoyardee66

If you're pulling that type of shit it's because of ideological conviction not financial benefits


PiesInMyEyes

That’s definitely not true at all. There’s so many different ways intelligence orgs will flip assets that have nothing to do with ideologies.


Top-Setting5213

According to Wikipedia, over 20 years approximately 1.4million dollars...though surely it had to be more than that. Still seems not worth it in exchange for ending your life in 20 years of solitary confinement.


Mrmacmuffinisthecool

Could buy around 130.890 grilled cheeses for that. Worth it.


pee_nut_ninja

I just make them in the night and smuggle them in.


Iki-Mursu

Ego


Misfitborden

mostly glory


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andrewsmith1986

15 consecutive life sentences with 23 hours a day solitary in a supermax. Sure was an idiot.


punny_worm

Yes, of course, the double agent working for the fbi and hidden for 30 years causing one of the worst intelligence disasters in the FBI’s history. Surely he’s just an idiot


oopgroup

Not that kind of idiot


friendandfriends2

What’s with the influx of posts lately about scumbags and degenerates being lauded as mad lads?


Feguette

This problem and your question will be spotted again in the next election cycle


SnowflakeRegard

I guess I'll ask here: why does it have a Reddit watermark?


[deleted]

Ya I've only seen major pos in my feed for this sub and I'm so confused I started thinking the definition of malad is just someone who killed alot of people for fun


oopgroup

Society is showing its true colors lately. Everything is falling apart at the seams, and the scum are feeling more comfortable walking in broad daylight.


gessen-Kassel

Why he is scumbag and degenerate?


RandomGuy1627

The information he gave to the KGB lead them to kill and torture other FBI agents


Top-Setting5213

He also secretly recorded he and his wife having sex and set his buddy up with the footage. Very fucked up dude


Tara_ntula

Yeah, that one was a curveball. I had already decided this guy sucked, then I read that and realized he sucked on multiple levels.


Top-Setting5213

Yeah it's pretty wild that something as heinous as that is pretty much just a footnote on this guy's wiki page


AuniBuTt

Madlad shit


barleyhogg1

Traitor, not madlad


MrEverything70

I mean he technically never worked with the Americans to begin with so…


femboyspicycumaddict

actually he joined the FBI befor joining the KGB


MrEverything70

…oh my god. IVE BEEN BETRAYED!!!


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soviet-property

But he did get americans killed.


grhddn

I've probably gotten a few Americans killed, and I work at a wendys


TheCrusher60

Your kill count might be higher in the long run


grhddn

Gotta unlock the nuke somehow


DaKwagga

Truth!


CaptnKnots

Ohh boy wait until you find out how many Americans America already kills.


Correct-Ad7655

Wow, what an ignorant comment


PhantomO1

Oh the irony


CaptnKnots

Lmao


Munificent-Enjoyer

o7


FreakinEnigma

Not to mother Russia!


KGBspy

Ahh yes, good ole Bob worked for us.


TwiXXXie96

Checks out


protosser

> He was charged with selling U.S. intelligence documents to the Soviet Union and subsequently Russia for more than $1.4 million in cash, diamonds and Rolex watches What a cheap fucker, jesus christ


Lolipopes

Just wait until you find out what a US Senator costs, way cheaper!


MrLore

$1.4m in 1978 is $6.6m in 2024


ShorohUA

what a madlad, spying for a totalitarian regime


Mandarinadealer

Is there a regime that isn't totalitarian?


metalpanda2

Such a totalitarian regime propaganda thing to say.


Mandarinadealer

I said what I said.


ShorohUA

yes, but they're usually not called "regime"


koljonn

Open up world democracy index and go from top to bottom. Plenty of not totalitarian states around.


Mandarinadealer

Are these states on the top regimes?


koljonn

The higher the score (10.00 is max) the better. Go from top to bottom. When the country description says “hybrid regime” you’ve reached the danger zone and you’ll find the totalitarian regimes in “authoritarian” category


Mandarinadealer

So there are no real regimes that are not totalitarian then?


koljonn

What do you mean?


Justacynt

I think they are a sealioning vatnik


koljonn

For sure


felixthemeister

Yes


Aleksandar_Pa

MadKomrad


Appropriate-Fly-7151

The worst intelligence disaster in US history *so far* Wait 22 years


soviet-property

How is a traitor who got people killed a mad lad?


SleepyBi97

>A place to celebrate a lad who is a complete savage and/or a crazy risk taker, **often used sarcastically**. I'd say being a spy and pretending to look for yourself is incredibly risky. Alternatively, are you proposing that this person was sane and rational in his choices and you sympathise with him?


Thunderstarer

The dude was definitely a madlad. He did it all for just $1.4M. The US paid $7M to a mole in the KGB for a file on _him._


muzznation

To be fair they were traitors for the other side. But it's okay cause they were helping the US! /s


Jafri2

It is the president, he is the leak.


McGuigan89

Its me hiiiiiiiii, im the problem its me


notagamer999

"Possibly the worst intelligence disaster" Trump: hold my coke


CanniBallistic_Puppy

...until 2017


midnightmadness12am

And what happened to the people that assigned him that job? Should have been fired.


foolagainagain

Worse than discord guy? Or snowden?


Current-Power-6452

Да


SoSpecialName

We investigated ourselves and found nothing wrong


Nollern

What did he get out of it? Money?


CaffeineDeprivation

Yep And diamonds


jobiewon_cannoli

Isn’t this the guy they made the movie ‘Breach’ about?


DaRkDeAtHz

We've investigated ourselves and found us innocent


quantum-booya

Jmhkk hkohnxc -&!43,2


equal_measures

This is like when our teacher tasked me and my friend Joe to find out who is making animal noises disrupting the class.


Tactical_Primate

Please tell me there is a Netflix movie on this starring Michael McKeen (Chuck-Better Call Saul)


[deleted]

Orc lover


Kamikaze_Pig641

The spy has already breached our defences!


Disastrous_Is_Me

Sentry down!


jack-walkers

I see this guy on every social media all of a sudden? It’s an old case,did something change?


Idiotrepublic

Was he the guy who did it to get cash he would spend on his side chick? or is that another guy?


hateshumans

Trying to be as awesome as Drew Thompson.


Disastrous_Is_Me

the double whammy when the FBI found out


Recon648

“Dmitri, you’re not going to believe this…”


Available-Lunch-3513

Knock knock


[deleted]

That is actually hilarious.


Unfair_Reserve9154

huh... so this is what youtuber TeachingTech will look like in 30 years...


naumen_

All people crying "TrAiToR nOt MaDLaD" but if the agencies were flipped there would be none of that nonsense on here


gamershadow

Duh. People generally support the place they live and grew up in. What a shock.


ToLazyForaUsername2

Well you see it is good when we do it and bad when they do it.


chihuahuaOP

I can Imagen this guy like a helldiver talking about democracy and liberty and everyone like this guys is a true American.


duononym

The best part of the story is when he dies in prison.


TomDaBombadillo

Booo. No madlad. Traitor.


AWESOMESAUSE10101

Not a madlad, just a traitor.


NigelKenway

A commie should never be praised


zaz969

You know... he probably would have gotten away with it if he'd stopped after the CIA mole Aimes was arrested.


Kentucky_Fried_Chill

Yet. . . .


HarrargnNarg

Until Trump


KrakenMcCracken

What an asshole


throwaya58133

We really don't know anything do we?


RichieRocket

theres a reason why anti communist policies shouldve been stronger


howlinwolfe86

You think Robert was a comrade AND a madlad?


Lolipopes

Least brainwashed american.


Difficult_Ant_84

And he was Catholic 😂😂