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The architect spy?

Urbanist

Thought this was funny: One of the Russian spies to be traded back to Russia was allegedly a suburban architect:

MSNBC: "Richard and Cynthia Murphy, Montclair, N.J.: Richard was an architect, a neighbor told The New Jersey Star-Ledger, and Cynthia had just gotten an MBA. Richard said he was from Philadelphia; Cynthia said she was from New York. The couple lived with two young daughters, Katie, 11, and Lisa, 7, in a home on Marquette Road in Montclair that they purchased for $481,000 in the fall of 2008. The two had come to the U.S. in the mid-1990s, first living in an apartment in Hoboken, N.J."

 
Jul 8, 10 5:58 pm
Janosh

You knew something was fishy the moment you saw that they owned a half million dollar house.

Jul 8, 10 10:57 pm  · 
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DSal

That's actually cheap for the NYC area.

Jul 9, 10 4:16 pm  · 
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citizen

Hey! A new sideline for the profession!

Plus there's the added fun (for some, at least) of secreting classified documents inside bodily orifices, then retiring in two-room walk-up in East Moscow.

Jul 9, 10 5:09 pm  · 
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Urbanist

the funniest part of this was that Murphy played the part of an UNEMPLOYED architect... ad stay at home dad - which gave him the cover he needed to do spy stuff and manage his little network of Russian infiltrators while his MBA cover wife brought home the bacon as a banker in Manhattan.

Jul 10, 10 1:32 pm  · 
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