Children of Spies moved to Russia

[Brookswood]

A pair of Russian spies from Argentina were captured by Slovenian authorities after they moved to Slovenia to continue their spying mission. The man and woman had two children born in Argentina. The spies were freed after a deal that brought home several Western people being held for espionage in Russia. The children never knew their parents were Russian and they were Russian citizens also. Now they are in Russia with their parents.

they had been sent to Argentina, where Daniel and Sophie were born. When Moscow moved the couple from Buenos Aires to a sleepy suburb in the capital of Slovenia, the children enrolled in an international school, completing the facade of a normal family.

Even after they were caught and jailed for espionage, the couple still hadn’t told their children that Spanish— the family’s language— was a second tongue, learned to fluency for a secret assignment meant to last until the siblings came of age and could hopefully be recruited to follow in their footsteps.

The two officers from Directorate S, the so-called “illegals department” of Russia’s SVR foreign intelligence agency, had spent more than a decade building fake identities. Their children, 9-yearold Daniel and 11-year-old Sophie, knew their mom and dad as Argentine citizens named Ludwig Gisch and Maria Mayer Muños. What they didn’t know is that their family was a carefully constructed lie.

 

[VaughanJB]

We had a pretty big case in the UK of a female British Citizen who went to join the Taliban. She had several children while with them, although they died in the war. Eventually, she wanted to return to the UK, and the government said, "no". It's gone through every level of our justice system here, but the end result was - she's no longer a UK citizen, and is not allowed to return. She's in Syria now, I think.

Anyway, sounds harsh on the children, I wonder how old they are? If young, they'll adapt quickly. Sadly, it's the responsibility of the parents to care for their kids, and their parents choices affect them too.

 

[Magna-Carta]

Seems similar to something I vaguely remember in the news about 10 to 15 years ago. The Russian spies at the time living in the US. Some buying houses, pretending they are married (the spouse who turned out to be another Russian agent), and the agents having children together in the US. Even setting up thair own businesses in the US