The British Spy Rock

LOL! The device cost "tens of millions of pounds?" Yeah, right! It looks like some kind of traffic control thing, maybe a cell phone relay site...something like that.

Although some observers giggled about the spat, especially scenes that apparently showed a British spy kicking the stone to try to make it work,
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What?!? The thing didn't work? Ok, it's definitely a government spying device, then.
 
That piece of rock costs millions of dollars?! It doesn't even look like it can do much. The things people come up with these days.
 
Hmm. This is interesting. The plot thickens...

At Blair's monthly news conference, reporters demanded answers to the scandal of the undercover rock reportedly containing a British transmitter.

"Prime Minister, there are allegations that British diplomats in Moscow have been involved in some rather curious espionage. What is your attitude to this?"

"Mmm, right," said Blair. "Look, I only saw it myself on teletext this morning and I am afraid you are going to get the old stock-in-trade of never commenting on security matters," he paused before adding with a grin: "except where we want to".

"I think the less said about that one the better," he concluded. The pack laughed. Fears of World War III, with nukes hitting Manchester and Moscow, diminished under Blair's trust-me-I'm-human smile.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/natio...of-the-sidestep/2006/01/27/1138319444949.html
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Is it upside down as it doesn't look like a rock to me! It looks more like a rock pool!!!

Weird, perhaps it has some expensive computer chip or tracking device or something inside it to make it so expensive! It looks cheap to me though.
 
My god it looks so phony! I think if I saw that on the street I would have a look to see what it was! I would not think it was a rock.

Very much like a stage prop.
 
OK, another theory...

Tony Blair has laughed off the latest spy row with Russia, telling journalists with a smile: "I think the less said about that, the better."

For the Prime Minister the revelations of British diplomats using electronic devices hidden in rocks may seem like another escapade in the spy games played for centuries by Britain and Russia.
 
But in Moscow the affair is more ominous - it marks the latest attempt by the Kremlin to throttle the human rights and pro-democracy groups.

Moscow is appalled by the "colour revolutions" that have removed its clients in the former Soviet Union - such as the Orange Revolution in Ukraine a year ago.

President Vladimir Putin seems convinced that the West now wants to use pro-democracy organisations in Russia itself to destabilise his increasingly autocratic rule.
 
The Kremlin has passed legislation to control non-governmental organisations (NGOs) deemed to pose a threat to security. It is no coincidence that the Russian revelations of British espionage focus heavily on the links between British diplomats and civil society groups.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/mai...py124.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/01/24/ixhome.html
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My god it looks so phony! I think if I saw that on the street I would have a look to see what it was! I would not think it was a rock.

Very much like a stage prop.
 
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