Tuesday, August 18, 2009

But Seriously, Folks

The CIA, our nation's clandestine spy agency does some amusing things with the mandate it is given (remember the exploding cigar thing)... This story is even stranger. It is about a group of fairly clueless American citizens from sunny El Paso, Texas who land illegally in Siberia in the middle of winter trying to buy ageing Mi-17 Soviet helicopters for use against the Taliban in Afghanistan. Even an accomplished spy fiction writer might have difficulty making this up.

Full (bizarre) story here.

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