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Tango0110 May 2016 3:21 p.m. PST

I like the serie … so reading this…

"For years Donald Heathfield, Tracey Foley and their two children lived the American dream. Then an FBI raid revealed the truth: they were agents of Putin's Russia. Their sons tell their story

Tim Foley turned 20 on 27 June 2010. To celebrate, his parents took him and his younger brother Alex out for lunch at an Indian restaurant not far from their home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Both brothers were born in Canada, but for the past decade the family had lived in the US. The boys' father, Donald Heathfield, had studied in Paris and at Harvard, and now had a senior role at a consultancy firm based in Boston. Their mother, Tracey Foley, had spent many years focused on raising her children, before taking a job as a real estate agent. To those who knew them, they seemed a very ordinary American family, albeit with Canadian roots and a penchant for foreign travel. Both brothers were fascinated by Asia, a favoured holiday destination, and the parents encouraged their sons to be inquisitive about the world: Alex was only 16, but had just returned from a six-month student exchange in Singapore.

After a buffet lunch, the four returned home and opened a bottle of champagne to toast Tim reaching his third decade. The brothers were tired; they had thrown a small house party the night before to mark Alex's return from Singapore, and Tim planned to go out later. After the champagne, he went upstairs to message his friends about the evening's plans. There came a knock at the door, and Tim's mother called up that his friends must have come early, as a surprise…"
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…. I feel sorry for the two boys. They were born in Canada …. and see themselves as Canadians …. not Russian. To adjust to a new life in Russia …. after becoming use to a life in Canada and the U.S. …. it must have been quite a shock!

Amicalement
Armand

Don Perrin10 May 2016 4:55 p.m. PST

Agreed. Interesting story that I thought was mostly a Cold-War myth. Who knew this stuff really happens?

cosmicbank10 May 2016 6:04 p.m. PST

Yep

NavyVet10 May 2016 7:13 p.m. PST

These are the ones we hear about. Wonder about the ones we don't.

Tango0111 May 2016 10:37 a.m. PST

Agree!!! (smile)

Amicalement
Armand

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