{"id":180649,"date":"2017-02-16T19:06:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T00:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/02\/16\/interesting-speculation\/"},"modified":"2017-02-16T19:06:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T00:06:00","slug":"interesting-speculation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/02\/16\/interesting-speculation\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Speculation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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87 miles as the crow flies<\/i><\/div>\n

Here is an interesting bit of speculation on why a Russian spy ship is hanging out in international waters off of Long Island Sound<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I love maps. They often reveal things quickly and simply in a way text cannot. Like this map I\u2019ve pulled together showing two points recently in the news. <\/p>\n

To the right, Groton, Connecticut, where the U.S. has a naval facility <\/p>\n

To the left, Glen Cove, New York \u2014 the location of a waterfront compound, Killenworth Mansion, owned for decades by Russia. The site was used for electronic spying according to the Reagan administration. A second compound, Norwich House, located five miles away in Upper Brookville, was vacated in December<\/a> after former president Obama issued new sanctions on Russia in response to alleged interference in U.S. 2016 presidential election. <\/p>\n

Multiple news reports yesterday noted a Russian spy ship \u201cloitering\u201d approximately 30 miles south of Groton<\/a>, near Long Island\u2019s shoreline, in international waters. <\/p>\n

But none of them mentioned the ship was approximately 60-80 miles from the site of the Russian government compounds.<\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

It\u2019s almost if the Russians left something behind on Long Island and were looking for it. <\/p>\n

Or listening for it.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/a>As Mr. Spock would say, “Fascinating.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

87 miles as the crow flies Here is an interesting bit of speculation on why a Russian spy ship is hanging out in international waters off of Long Island Sound: I love maps. They often reveal things quickly and simply in a way text cannot. Like this map I\u2019ve pulled together showing two points recently …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[817],"class_list":["post-180649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}