december 2004 and the successor agency to the k.g.b. arrests another turnkout double agent colonel, another double agent secretly spying for the west while serving in russian military intelligence. 2004, they snatched him off the street, december of 2004 on suspicion of treason. they put him on trial secretly in a military court. nobody knew what had become of him for two solid years before finally in 2006 the russian government announced that in this secret military tribunal he had been convicted of treason. he confessed to selling the names, addresses and code names of several dozen russian agents to the british security service to mi-6. many of the russian agency betrayed were deep cover spies in britain and in europe. the newspaper in russia reported
another double agent secretly spying for the west. 2004. they snatched him off the street, december 2004. on suspicion of treason. they put him on trial, secretly in a military court. nobody knew what had become of him for two solid years before finally, in 2006, the russian government announced that in this secret military tribunal, he had been convicted of treason. quote, he confessed to selling the names, addresses and code names of several dozen russian agents to the british security service to mi6. many were deep-cover spies in britain and europe. a newspaper in russia reported at the time that his conviction was announced, they reported at the time that his convection was announced in 2006. the sfv considered the dam age e
dodgy dealing and tomb robbing. so you ve got a very interesting and perhaps volatile mix. it s an allegation oded golan vigorously denies. this is just a ridiculous accusation. what they hold in my hand was a small box of very old tools in which i use to restore antiquities like any other collector. for more than a year golan is held under house arrest while the iaa prepares its case. the story switched from being a nice happy archaeological story to being a story about a criminal mastermind trying to change the course of history. in december 2004 at the district court of jerusalem, golan and four others are charged on 44 counts of fraud and forgery. they accused him of being part of an international forgery ring, faking the historical record by forging such important
after they decided on anonymity. once david hackworth broke the story, other news organizations were able to follow his reporting, track down those letters. in fact, he was proven to be right. it was november 2004 when hackworth wrote that column. the following month, december 2004 it was leo shane writing stars and stripes, ivan med a medina, a new york resident, whose twin brother irving told stripes, quote, to me it s an insult not only as someone who lost a loved one but also as someone who served in iraq. illinois betty sullivan whose son was killed in 2003, she was incensed when she and her son s wife and her grandchildren all received the exact same condolence letter with the apparently stamped signature. sullivan told stripes, quote, how many signatures does this
the following month, december 2004 it was leo shane writing at stars and stripes, ivan medina, a new york resident, whose twin brother irving was killed in a road bombing in 2004, told stars and stripes, to me it is an insult not only as someone who lost a loved one but also as someone who served in iraq. illinois betty sullivan whose son was killed in 2003, she was incensed when she and her son s wife and her grandchildren all received the exact same condolence letter with the apparently stamped signature. sullivan told stripes, quote, how many signatures does this amount to? for those of his wife and children and mother, no, no, no. so david hackworth started off that reporting. and the pentagon denied it, but hackworth was proven out and donald rumsfeld and the pentagon ultimately relented.