July 9, 2010, at 7:25 pm
I have to be honest, I never read the news. But for some reason today I thought I should start, and I actually found it pretty interesting. According to msnbc.com at 5:15 am this morning, a spy exchange took place in Vienna between the U.S. and Russia. Ten Russian spies, that were according to the U.S. only minor players, were exchanged for four U.S. spies, two of which were Russian Colonels that were “convicted in their home country of compromising dozens of valuable Soviet-era and Russian agents operating in the West”. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev even signed a decree pardoning the four traitors. According to State Department spokesman Mark Toner, “The network of unlawful agents operating inside the United States has been dismantled”.
It’s pretty interesting how this exchange occurred exactly two weeks before Angelina Jolie’s new film, SALT, comes out in theaters – July 23rd. SALT tells the story of CIA agent Evelyn Salt (Played by Jolie) who is accused by a Russian defector of being a KGB sleeper agent, who is plotting to kill the President of the United States. Salt goes on the run to try and clear her name and prove she is not a Russian spy but the question remains, who is Evelyn Salt?
