Ireland just asked Russia to downsize their embassy staff rather than selecting which ones to formally designate as spies and boot out.
Which strikes me as more reasonable.
Unrelated but added here because I can’t post more than twice in succession:
Wondering about her involvement in this. Willing participant? Or a dupe?
The Finnish Security and Intelligence Service (Supo) has reiterated that there’s a growing risk that Finns could be taken hostage as the Russian regime uses prisoners as leverage.
Russian intelligence services are building up their presence in Mexico for spy operations targeting the United States, a return to Cold War tactics by an increasingly aggressive regime, according to U.S. officials and former intelligence officers.
Lynch was associated with British, American and other intelligence services through his various companies, including the cyber security company he founded, Darktrace.
Watertight safes? On a boat? Why, that’s a stroke of pure genius!
Perhaps they too could be fitted with some form of buoyancy device so that they could function, briefly, as boats. Ones that you could wait on until rescue perhaps.
Quick, to the time machine! Let’s tell Harland & Wolff all about it!
Stale jokes aside, if it’s a safe for really sensitive stuff on a boat I’d think about a salt plug or maybe a combination of burn box and scuttling device.
(should have been a reply to @FGD135)
And water-soluble ink, as the WWII codebooks on Nazi subs had.
I don’t doubt that they did but that seems like a really bad idea, considering a U Boat was dripping condensation from the walls like a Clydesdale after having been mistaken for a racehorse.