AUG. 31, 2017Where There’s Smoke, There’s a Conspiracy Theory at a Russian Consulate
Amid rare extreme heat in San Francisco, it was unusual to see black smoke billowing from a chimney on Friday — not to mention that it was coming from the Russian Consulate, the day after the Trump administration ordered it closed.
But a darker conspiracy theory was also in the air: that
the Russians were burning documents ahead of what a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman in Moscow described as a search of the building scheduled for Saturday by American security services.
“Maybe they are shredding first and burning what they shred,” said one woman standing on the tree-lined sidewalk outside the consulate on Friday afternoon, identifying herself only by her first name, Marion. “I don’t care what they do as long as fire doesn’t start coming out the windows.”
Where There
In Retaliation, U.S. Orders Russia to Close Consulate in San Francisco
AUG. 31, 2017
The Trump administration ordered Russia on Thursday to close its consulate in San Francisco and two diplomatic annexes, in New York and Washington, in a carefully calculated riposte to Russia’s order that the United States cut its diplomatic staff in Russia.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/31/u...n.html?mcubz=3
Definitely sounds like a document burn!
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