After the much-ballyhooed sanctioning of Russia for its alleged cyber-meddling during the 2016 U.S. election, President Barack Obama went one step further and shut down two Russian-owned compounds he suspects of espionage involvement.
The two compounds, one in Maryland and one in New York, were part of a plan to expose and punish Russia for influencing the election to benefit of President-elect Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton. The Washington Post characterized the move as part of Obama’s “retaliation” against Russia.
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While the location of the New York compound is not being revealed — although local rumors indicate it’s the Killenworth estate in Glen Cove, a kind of “country home” for Moscow’s delegation to the United Nations — the Russian-owned estate in Centerville, Maryland, on the Eastern Shore, has been well known since its beginnings in 1972 as a resort for Soviets living stateside. Since then, rumors of its espionage activities have become almost charming to neighbors…..
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Despite the compounds enjoying a somewhat innocuous reputation, Obama ordered Thursday that they be evacuated within 24 hours, calling them “beachside spy nests sometimes used by Russian intelligence operatives to have long conversations on the sand to avoid being ensnared by American electronic surveillance.”
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Obama orders US Russian resorts closed, calls them ‘spy nests’ https://t.co/99MIpOKTV0 pic.twitter.com/mdspFwJ9ZU
— TheBlaze (@theblaze) December 30, 2016
Russians depart Russian compound in Maryland- bus and vans and cars with diplomatic plates pic.twitter.com/d9pdjNn4Ex
— Betsy Klein (@betsy_klein) December 30, 2016
NEW: @NBCNewYork confirms that the Russian compound being closed in New York is in Upper Brookville on Long Island.
— Tom Winter (@Tom_Winter) December 30, 2016
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