Гордиевский: у России столько шпионов в Британии сейчас как СССР делал | Мировые новости | опекун

Гордиевский: у России столько шпионов в Британии сейчас как СССР делал | Мировые новости | опекун: Sheymov, who reached a settlement with the CIA last fall and now runs a computer security company called Invicta Networks, said defectors face daunting problems. Federal law allows the CIA director to bring in as many as 100 defectors a year and grant them immediate citizenship when it's "in the interest of national security or essential to the furtherance of the national intelligence mission." Without commenting directly on the Seattle couple's lawsuit, intelligence officials say the only lifetime obligation the CIA routinely incurs is to ensure defectors' safety, beginning with new identities upon arrival. All defectors sign secret contracts providing them with resettlement benefits that can include lump-sum payments, annual stipends and help with health insurance, housing and education. The Seattle couple, identified in court papers only as John and Jane Doe, signed an initial agreement in the early 1980s entitling them to health insurance benefits and an annual stipend that grew over time from $20,000 to $27,000. [...] when the husband, in his late fifties and suffering from health problems, lost his job in early 1997, the CIA refused to restart the couple's cash stipend a