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(Canadian) Moscow embassy vulnerable to attack, espionage
Source: Canadian Press
Canada's diplomats in Moscow will have to work another three years in an embassy compound that's vulnerable to attacks and the prying eyes of foreign spies, The Canadian Press has learned.
Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird was warned in an internal memo from a senior bureaucrat that Canada's embassy in the Russian capital offers "almost no protection" against an attack.
A leaked copy of the memo details the stalled embassy project, outlining why diplomats won't be moving to a more secure facility until January 2016 instead of last July as planned.
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/11/18/russia-embassy-compromised.html
Hmm, John Baird is a member of the Canadian Conservative Party, part of the Stephen Harper administration...so any future attack by Russians on the embassy will be Harper's Benghazi?
