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Pete Strzok

@petestrzok

9 months

Oh well. $250,000 freed up for other use.

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Overnight, Germany - using more than 3,000 security and law enforcement personnel - arrested 25 people suspected of plot to overthrow govt. Movement included QAnon beliefs, and leadership had made contact with Russian officials seeking assistance.

German police arrest 25 suspects in plot to overthrow state

Police have arrested 25 suspected members or supporters of a "domestic terrorist organization" aiming to topple the German state. Justice Minister Marco Buschmann said the network was part of the...

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Russia “sought to denigrate the Dem Party…and undermine confidence in the election, most likely to undermine US support for Ukraine.” Hard to overstate how critical the 2024 elections are to Russia–and Putin personally. Expect unprecedented interference across national races.

Eric Geller

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DHS, DOJ, and ODNI have released declassified versions of reports on foreign interference in 2022 elections. Hacking: No evidence election infrastructure compromised. Influence: Adversaries shifted to amplifying US narratives.

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ICYMI-the arrest of Michael Lee Tomasi for making online threats against FBI agents. You might have missed it because neither DOJ's press release-nor the statements of senior DOJ/FBI personnel-detail the website & specific threats. So let's do that. 1/

Arizona Man Arrested for Making Online Threats Against Federal Agents and Employees

Michael Lee Tomasi, 37, of Rio Verde, Arizona, was arrested on Friday after a grand jury indicted him on three counts of threats against a federal official and three counts of making interstate...

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A historic set of cases worked by a remarkable group of investigators and intelligence professionals. We met the threat then and we must now.

FBI

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4 years

#OTD in 2010, the FBI arrested 10 illegals, including Chapman. Eleven days later, the spies pleaded guilty to conspiring to serve as unlawful agents of the Russian Federation within the U.S. You can read more about Operation Ghost Stories at .

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I read through the complaint, and it's bad - very bad. 🧵 It's a 3 count complaint: - 18 USC 371 (conspiracy to act as foreign agent/defraud the US) - 18 USC 951 (acting as illegal agent of foreign govt - 18 USC 1542 (use of passport obtained via false statement) 1/

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Convicted pedophile Josh Schulte sentenced to 40 years for a variety of crimes surrounding his theft and leaking of what comprised the Vault 7/Vault 8 releases on Wikileaks. Tremendous credit to the FBI, USIC, and DOJ for a lot of long, hard work.

Inner City Press

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Judge Furman: Mr. Schulte please rise. You are remanded to the Bureau of Prison for 480 months

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2 arrested and 34 charged in secret US domestic PRC "police station." “The PRC, through its repressive security apparatus, established a secret physical presence in New York City to monitor and intimidate dissidents and those critical of its government"

Two Arrested for Operating Illegal Overseas Police Station of the Chinese Government

A complaint was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, charging two defendants in connection with opening and operating an illegal overseas police station, located in lower Manhattan,...

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Ahh f*ck me this is like the Logan’s Run nightmares I had as a child

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“Russia has approached MEPs, but also paid [them], to promote Russian propaganda here” If Russia is willing to expend this much money and effort with EU lawmakers, imagine what they're willing to do to influence US Congressional policy towards Ukraine.

Russian propaganda network paid MEPs, Belgian PM says

Prague and Brussels collaborated to smash “Russian influence operation.”

www.politico.eu

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11 months

Hey tovarishes, you only get the $250,000 if he’s alive.

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5 months

The media talks about political violence that might come in the future - but it's here now. Why the comparative anodyne statements from DOJ, AG Garland, and FBI Dir Wray? Hopefully a desire to avoid touching a third political rail didn't prevent DOJ from saying more. 6/end

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The group’s leadership included a member of “a minor German noble family” and a second who was a former paratrooper. The 25 arrested included a “currently-serving soldier in the Bundeswehr's Special Forces Command (KSK) as well as several Bundeswehr reservists” and one Russian.

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She also allegedly helped obtain fraudulent visas for Russians and lied to the FBI before fleeing to Russia in 2020. SDNY complaint linked below. Once in Russia, she was interviewed by a red-haired Russian agent on RT, a state controlled TV station. 2/

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Interesting open source work exploring origins of the leaked classified USG docs, which may have begun even earlier than March. Along with identification of a spotting scope manual in the background of some photos, points to strengths of OSINT community.

From Discord to 4chan: The Improbable Journey of a US Intelligence Leak - bellingcat

A recent leak of sensitive US intelligence documents leads to stranger corners of the internet than initially thought.

www.bellingcat.com

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Take a moment to read this achingly beautiful meditation from @davidfrum Gift link:

Miranda’s Last Gift

When our daughter died suddenly, she left us with grief, memories—and Ringo.

www.theatlantic.com

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1 year

Whole lot of bad things suddenly happening to Russian officers and agents 🧐

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1 year

Yet more spy arrests in Sweden. They follow Sweden's arrest of two other suspected Russian spies earlier this month, Norway's arrest of a suspected GRU illegal in October, the Netherlands' arrest of another in June (now jailed in Brazil) & Poland's arrest of yet another in March.

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“As President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has pursued enemies abroad, his intelligence operatives now appear prepared to cross a line that they previously avoided: trying to kill a valuable informant for the U.S. government on American soil.” Gift link:

Russia Sought to Kill Defector in Florida (Gift Article)

A failed plot to assassinate a C.I.A. spy in 2020 in part led to expulsions of the agency’s chief in Moscow and his Russian counterpart in Washington.

www.nytimes.com

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Neither DOJ's press release, nor the statements of senior DOJ/FBI personnel, include any specific threats from the indictment. It doesn't even include a link to the indictment! And no reporting I've seen bothered to read it. Turns out Tomasi isn't an especially nice person. 3/

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But when you get to the actual threats that form the basis of the alleged criminal activity, it gets worse. 5/

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No, not her. This is Anna Chapman. As @NoahShachtman points out, she’s busy taking advantage of the collapsing Russian economy by selling her own shoe line (the Devil Wears Putin?). 3/

Noah Shachtman

@NoahShachtman

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Maria Butina is going on the BBC to claim that the Ukrainians are bombing themselves. Meanwhile, fellow Russian agent Anna Chapman is using the invasion to ... hawk her own patriotic clothing line.

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Tomasi's indictment notes the threats appeared on patriots[.]win. Neither DOJ's press release, nor the statements of senior DOJ/FBI personnel, mention the nature of patriots[.]win, let alone its progenitor website, thedonald[.]win, and its role in the run-up to Jan 6. 2/

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@ratemyskyperoom Max was told there was food in the kitchen

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Nor is it surprising to see his apparent political motivations. 4/

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Shane MacGowan’s funeral in Nenagh, Co Tipperary earlier today

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Plus: Glen Hansard and Lisa O’Neill perform ‘Fairytale of New York’ as a reflection after Communion. Can honestly say this is the first time I’ve ever seen dancing in the aisles at a funeral…

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Sure are a lot of Russian spies being rounded up, Slovenia edition: “‘Maria and Ludwig’ were in fact elite Russian spies known as ‘illegals.’ The arrests came after Slovenia received a tipoff from a foreign intelligence service.”

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1 year

Sure are a lot of Russian spies being rounded up, Greek edition: EYP found the woman was “a Russian national under the identity of Irena A. S. They also found that she had come to Greece initially using a fake passport from a Latin American country”

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“A retired RCMP officer has been charged with foreign interference…William Majcher, 60, ‘allegedly used his knowledge and his extensive network of contacts in Canada to obtain intelligence or services to benefit the People's Republic of China’”

Alexander Panetta

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A retired Canadian Mountie has been charged with working for China to track down and intimidate someone in Canada. This after charges a while ago against a top RCMP intelligence official.

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Beyond bounties on the heads of American soldiers, the GRU allegedly recruited a US Army veteran to spy for them for almost 15 years — a spy the Russians used to target other US servicemen. What will it take for this administration to stand up to Russia?

Former Army Special Forces Officer Charged in Russian Espionage Conspiracy

A Gainesville, Virginia, man was arrested today for conspiring with Russian intelligence operatives to provide them with United States national defense information.

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Sure are a lot of Russian spies being rounded up, US edition. Deep dive into Russian GRU illegal Sergey Cherkasov from @gregpmiller . "The FBI and CIA have played extensive behind-the-scenes roles in this wave of arrests and expulsions" Gift link:

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Sure are a lot of Russian spies being rounded up, Slovenia edition: “‘Maria and Ludwig’ were in fact elite Russian spies known as ‘illegals.’ The arrests came after Slovenia received a tipoff from a foreign intelligence service.”

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Sweden raising the bar on espionage arrests, fast roping from a Blackhawk onto the Stockholm home of two Russian agents, both in their 60s. On the one hand, seems extra. On the other hand, makes me wildly jealous.

Misstänkta paret gripet i ”Operation Spjut”

Plötsligt slog insatsstyrkan till i det lugna villaområdet i Stockholm. Med Blackhawk-helikoptrar genomförde Noa tillsammans med Säpo och Försvarsmakten en gryn

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Sure are a lot of Russian spies being rounded up, Australian edition: ASIO “spent months tracking the Russian spy ring, which comprised purported embassy and consular staff and operatives using other deep cover identities” before taking down the group.

Fake Russian diplomats revealed as heart of ‘hive’ spy ring

ASIO would not name the country behind the spy operation but sources confirm it was run out of Russia’s embassy.

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“he had been promoted to head of the dept tasked with vetting candidates to join the agency and making sure that no foreign country had managed to compromise spies already inside.” If true, brass ring of recruitments – GE needs to get their house in order

Exclusive: German football coach unmasked as 'Russian double agent'

The Telegraph can reveal the identity of the man at the heart of the biggest intelligence scandal to rock Europe in decades

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I doubt we’ll ever know the extent of the damage caused by Rocha. But it sure looks like Cuba planted an applicant into the State Department, nurtured him into the NSC, and eventually had a US Ambassador as an agent. And ran him and kept it quiet for more than 40 years. 15/end

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3 years

Potential intel windfall/CI disaster: huge amount of sensitive detail in sealed documents like warrant affidavits. Names of subjects; cooperating witnesses/human sources; GJ and investigative info incl testimony, phone, email, financial/banking records.

Federal Judiciary’s Systems Likely Breached in SolarWinds Hack

The electronic filing system used by federal courts has likely been compromised in the SolarWinds hack, federal judiciary officials said, extending to another branch of government the impact of a...

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Great work by CSIS identifying clandestine PRC support for at least *11* candidates in Canada’s 2019 election. New laws needed: “until we make legislative changes on interference, it’s just CSIS telling our politicians, ‘Hey, be careful out there.’”

Canadian intelligence warned PM Trudeau that China covertly funded 2019 election candidates:...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was warned that China has allegedly been targeting Canada with a vast campaign of foreign interference, according to Global News sources.

globalnews.ca

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More on how the alleged clandestine NYC facility is part of an international PRC effort violating the sovereignty of several nations - including Japan, Italy, France, Britain, Germany, Hungary, and Czech Republic - is detailed in this reporting. Gift:

With F.B.I. Search, U.S. Escalates Global Fight Over Chinese Police Outposts (Gift Article)

Beijing says the outposts aren’t doing police work, but Chinese state media reports say they “collect intelligence” and solve crimes far outside their jurisdiction.

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Sure are a lot of Russian spies being rounded up, Greek edition: EYP found the woman was “a Russian national under the identity of Irena A. S. They also found that she had come to Greece initially using a fake passport from a Latin American country”

Η Irena S. και η κρυφή ζωή στο Παγκράτι | Η ΚΑΘΗΜΕΡΙΝΗ

Φως στη δράση της Ρωσίδας Irena S., η οποία ζούσε στην Ελλάδ�� με πλαστά στοιχεία ως «Μαρία Τσάλλα», προσπαθούν να ρίξουν τα στελέχη της ΕΥΠ μετά την αποκάλυψη ότι ήταν κατάσκοπος στην υπηρεσία ξένης...

www.kathimerini.gr

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Sure are a lot of Russian spies being rounded up, Australian edition: ASIO “spent months tracking the Russian spy ring, which comprised purported embassy and consular staff and operatives using other deep cover identities” before taking down the group.

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Waking up to unexpected news? Wondering what the uncertain future holds? Need to talk to someone? No one answering at Yasenevo? The good news is there’s someone here to listen. Signal по номеру +1-771-201-4210

FBI Washington Field

@FBIWFO

1 year

Отмечая первую годовщину российского полномасштабного вторжения в Украину, ФБР приглашает к сотрудничеству сотрудников РФ, обладающих секретной или закрытой информацией. Вы хотите изменить своё будущее? Связаться с сотрудниками ФБР можно в Signal по номеру +1-771-201-4210.

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A double agent passing classified info, bitcoin, jewelry, PRC intel officers and more - extraordinary info in a recently unsealed criminal complaint pointing to the PRC’s efforts to obstruct and impede the US’s investigation of what appears to be Huawei.

#1 in United States v. HE (E.D.N.Y, 1:22-mj-01137) – CourtListener.com

SEALED COMPLAINT and affidavit in support of arrest warrant as to GUOCHUN HE (1), ZHENG WANG (2). Signed by Judge Ramon Reyes dtd 10/20/2022. (SY) (Entered: 10/21/2022)

www.courtlistener.com

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Correcting above due to incorrect earlier reporting - *44* defendants, charged with "various crimes related to efforts by the national police of the [PRC]... to harass Chinese nationals residing in the NY metro area and elsewhere in the United States."

40 Officers of China’s National Police Charged in Transnational Repression Schemes Targeting U.S....

Two criminal complaints filed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York were unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging 44 defendants with various crimes related to...

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“But now, with dueling Russian spy recruitment videos rolling out across social media, we have a different question: Given the longtime CIA-FBI rivalry, who has made the better ad?”

CIA vs. FBI: Which Is Better at Recruiting Russian Spies? - Washingtonian

They're both looking for Russians disillusioned by the war in Ukraine. But the agencies' approaches on social media differ.

www.washingtonian.com

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Rocha told the UC that “since the Dirección asked me…to lead a normal life…I have - have created the legend of a right-wing person.” Good thing no intel service would ever think of using that legend to get someone onto the Mar-a-Lago grounds. 😒 10/

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@ratemyskyperoom Max wishes you and everyone a vigilant 2024

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Substack: Mastodon: @PeteStrzok @mastodon .social CounterSocial: @PeteStrzok Insta: @PeteStrzok

The UNSUB files | Peter Strzok | Substack

Thoughts about the intersection of intelligence, counterintelligence, and the world. Click to read The UNSUB files, by Peter Strzok, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

petestrzok.substack.com

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Twitter’s Slack currently has hundreds of employees giving the 🫡 emoji, meaning they decided to not stay for Musk’s “Twitter 2.0” cultural reset. The company had just under 3,000 employees remaining before the deadline to say “yes” or not hit 20 min ago.

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Great thread. The Soviet theft of US atomic bomb secrets was one of the Cold War’s greatest intelligence achievements.

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If you’re seeing #Oppenheimer this weekend—it’s a masterpiece— check out these documents from MI5’s dossier on Oppenheimer First, an FBI liaison report, describing the infamous approach by Chevalier (depicted in the film) Thread 1/

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@JoyceWhiteVance Agreed. Lessons learned from a career parsing out deliberately true-but-obfuscating lawyer-speak (present company excluded 😉). I'd be shocked if Meadows still has any material. No real upside. Probably one of the reasons his wife complained his suits smelled "like a bonfire."

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Thrilled the documentary War Game was just selected for the 2024 @sundancefest Film Festival. It was a privilege to participate in the development and filming of the simulation through @VetVoiceFound .

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@ratemyskyperoom Max was preoccupied with his additional duty of making sure the mud puddles in the back yard are safe and not hiding foxes

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Interesting–and doesn’t include the fact that Bitcoin alone consumes more electricity per year (91 terawatt-hours) than entire individual nations such as Finland or Belgium. Close to half a percent of all the energy consumed *in the world*. Just Bitcoin.

Bitcoin Uses More Electricity Than Many Countries. How Is That Possible? (Published 2021)

The most popular cryptocurrency wastes energy by design. Why is that, and could it ever be greener?

www.nytimes.com

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- Crypto is a scam - Bitcoin is not really useful - The whole thing looks like a massive transfer of wealth from individual traders to wealthy, sophisticated investors My interview with one of crypto’s most eloquent critics, programmer Stephen Diehl:

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Mirrors earlier arrests of US law enforcement clandestinely assisting the PRC. “As alleged, this case involves a multifaceted campaign to silence, harass, discredit and spy on U.S. residents for exercising their freedom of speech”

Five Individuals Indicted for Crimes Related to Transnational Repression Scheme to Silence Critics...

Yesterday, a grand jury returned an indictment in federal court in Brooklyn charging five defendants with various crimes pertaining to a transnational repression scheme orchestrated on behalf of the...

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“blaming multiculturalism and ‘leftist ideals’ for ostensibly driving the US into crisis had elicited responses from US males who were more than 40 years old and interested in ‘rightwing conservatism’” ODNI report on foreign threats to midterm election:

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Cuba has several intelligence and counterintelligence entities; the complaint identifies the Directorate of Intelligence/Dirección General de Inteligencia (commonly known as the DGI) as the entity Rocha allegedly worked for. 2/

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Sounds like a Trump campaign speech - Russian actors “cast aspersions on the integrity of the midterm elections, including by claiming the voting software was vulnerable, Americans expected cheating to undermine the midterm elections, and Democrats were stealing the elections”

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Rocha worked for Dept of State from 1981-2002 - the entire time also allegedly working for the DGI. He was the NSC Director of Inter-American Affairs (the FBI even traveled down to Santo Domingo to update his clearance), later at the US Interests Section in Havana. 3/

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- why did it take so long to discover Rocha, and what does that say about the reliability of other past and current sources? Great Cuban compartmentation, but this also wouldn’t be the first time Cuba played a variety of double agents against the US. 14/

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Sure are a lot of Russian spies being rounded up, Swedish edition. Comprehensive reporting with video receipts from @svt . Swedish investigative show "investigated 21 suspected intelligence officers who are [or were] active in Sweden"

These are Putin's spies in Sweden

They act under diplomatic cover – but are actually russian intelligence officers. Uppdrag granskning has investigated 21 suspected agents, seven of them active today.

www.svt.se

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1 year

Sure are a lot of Russian spies being rounded up, US edition. Deep dive into Russian GRU illegal Sergey Cherkasov from @gregpmiller . "The FBI and CIA have played extensive behind-the-scenes roles in this wave of arrests and expulsions" Gift link:

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The complaint is vague as to when the FBI became aware of Rocha - "Prior to Nov 2022, FBI received information that Rocha was a covert agent of the DGI" - but on Nov 15, an FBI undercover employee contacted him on WhatsApp pretending to be a DGI representative. 4/

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Bellingcat

@bellingcat

2 years

@AricToler Among the many users affected by the 1.2 gigabyte leak are serving agents of Russia’s security services and military, who in several cases even ordered food to their places of work using their official email addresses.

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“The Soviets helped Maclean to defect to Moscow in 1951. In Moscow, Maclean worked as a specialist on British policy and relations between the Soviet Union and NATO. He died there on 6 March 1983.”

Donald Maclean (spy) - Wikipedia

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Read about the arrest, along with Russian intelligence's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad past several months at my new Substack post (which is free!)

Sweden raises bar for espionage arrest technique

Säpo, Noa, and Swedish armed forces team fast rope onto residence of couple in their 60s suspected of spying for Russia

petestrzok.substack.com

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Pretty hard to square "TikTok Parent ByteDance Planned To Use TikTok To Monitor The Physical Location Of Specific American Citizens" With "We are confident that we are on a path to fully satisfy all reasonable U.S. national security concerns"

Forbes

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SCOOP: TikTok’s China-based parent company ByteDance planned to use the TikTok app to track the physical location of specific American citizens, according to materials reviewed by Forbes.

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The UC established his bona fides with Rocha in part by noting "I know that you have been a great friend of ours since your time in Chile," with a footnote explaining Rocha lived in Chile in 1973 - 8 years before he joined State and the beginning of the alleged activity. 5/

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In perhaps the most chilling part of the complaint, Rocha notes, “They [the US] underestimated what we could do to them. We did more than they thought…What we have done…it’s enormous…More than a grand slam.” 11/

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Follow the money. "[O]fficials from intelligence, police and judiciary agencies in several countries now say [Marsalek] used his defunct payments company to illegally help Russian spy agencies move money to fund covert operations around the world."

WSJ News Exclusive | He’s Wanted for Wirecard’s Missing $2 Billion. He’s Now Suspected of Being a...

Jan Marsalek, the jet-setting former COO of now-defunct Wirecard, enabled Moscow to fund covert operations around the world, officials say; “whiff of Silicon Valley.”

www.wsj.com

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Heck of a story. And in part because (crazily) non-Canadian citizens who “cannot vote in elections at any level of government in Canada — can still vote in a party nomination process as long as they are party members,” Canada has a heck of a PRC foreign influence problem.

Sam Cooper

@scoopercooper

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#Breaking : My investigation for Global News identifies that PM Justin Trudeau's senior aides were allegedly briefed by CSIS shortly before the October 2019 federal election, that candidate Han Dong, was suspected to be involved in PRC Foreign Interference.

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The complaint doesn't say what happened in Chile in 1973, or what the FBI knows about it - but it set Rocha's mind at ease about the UC being DGI, or at least needing to play along in case the DGI had a mole: "They must have told you something because you mentioned Chile" 6/

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Rocha had 3 mtgs with the UC, conducting surveillance detection routes (SDRs) going to mtgs w/ the UC and telling the UC about his tradecraft training, including "I have always...received sufficient training to know that you must be on the alert to - to provocations." Oops. 7/

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The complaint raises several troubling questions: - did the DGI direct Rocha to join the State Department? It certainly appears so: “I knew exactly how to do it and obviously the Dirección accompanied me” 12/

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War Game’s premier at @sundancefest this Tuesday, January 23rd is sold out! Honored to have been part of a bipartisan group of government, military, and intelligence community veterans in this timely documentary from Jesse Moss and Tony Gerber. #WarGame #Sundance @VetVoiceFound

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Rocha helpfully notes his last contact with DGI was in 2016 or 2017 in Havana, and that he entered Cuba using a Dominican rather than US passport. 8/

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Great forfeiture work by FBI/DOJ, with significant detail about a portion of Abramovich's shell company structure. The Gulfstream appears to be in Russia, but his custom $350 million Boeing 787 is in Dubai. Interesting test for a lot of tangible oligarch assets in the region.

Adam Klasfeld

@KlasfeldReports

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The warrant of seizure has been judicially authorized. You can read it in full, along with the supporting affidavit that unmasked the alleged shell companies behind the beneficial ownership, here.

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- did Rocha pass classified to the DGI? The complaint doesn’t allege it, but given the depth of his devotion to Cuba, and the span of his access - he had “special responsibility” for Cuba while on the NSC, and later advised the Southcom Cdr - the USIC has to assume he did. 13/

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And proceeds to lay out his various views about the ongoing Cuban revolution and glorious aspects of the socialist workers paradise. 9/

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@petestrzok

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“Recruiting other spies is the top tier of espionage,” one of the officials said. “And our technical reconnaissance unit is one of the most important departments of the B.N.D. To find someone relatively high up there? That makes this case explosive.”

A Russian Mole in Germany Sows Suspicions at Home, and Beyond (Gift Article)

A director at Germany’s spy service was picked up on suspicion of passing intelligence to Russia. German officials and allies worry just how deep the problem goes.

www.nytimes.com

Pete Strzok

@petestrzok

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“he had been promoted to head of the dept tasked with vetting candidates to join the agency and making sure that no foreign country had managed to compromise spies already inside.” If true, brass ring of recruitments – GE needs to get their house in order

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“[F]ar-right groups have grown increasingly sympathetic to Russia, enamored of Mr. Putin’s nationalistic rhetoric. Germany has struggled to root out far-right sympathizers in its security services, including in the military”

As Neo-Nazis Seed Military Ranks, Germany Confronts ‘an Enemy Within’ (Gift Article)

After plastic explosives and Nazi memorabilia were found at an elite soldier’s home, Germany worries about a problem of far-right infiltration at the heart of its democracy.

www.nytimes.com

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@petestrzok

2 years

The PRC “threaten[ed] to imprison a Fed economist during a trip to Shanghai unless he agreed to provide nonpublic economic data, a congressional investigation found.” Unsettling story highlighting PRC counterintel threat to economic & financial sectors.

China Targeted Fed to Build Informant Network and Access Data, Probe Finds

The investigation by Senate Republicans found that the decadelong effort included threatening to imprison a Fed economist during a trip to Shanghai unless he agreed to provide nonpublic economic data.

www.wsj.com

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@AnnaBower “[U]nless a state law prohibits such disclosure, AT&T Mobility is required to respond to valid subpoena demands from civil litigants or criminal defendants for call detail records, which in the case of AT&T Mobility may include location information.”

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“It’s extremely worrying from the human rights perspective. We’re essentially allowing the Chinese diaspora to be controlled by the P.R.C. rather than subject to our national laws. That…has huge implications for national sovereignty.”

With F.B.I. Search, U.S. Escalates Global Fight Over Chinese Police Outposts (Gift Article)

Beijing says the outposts aren’t doing police work, but Chinese state media reports say they “collect intelligence” and solve crimes far outside their jurisdiction.

www.nytimes.com

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@RadioFreeTom Red line pretty boy. You just got finished some Georgetown teaching assistant gig and now you’re fancy at Harvard Square. Let me know when you graduate to the Blue Line and the pre-revolutionary utopia and the capital-forming effects of Wonderland.

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Really enjoyed this in depth conversation about counterintelligence with @benjaminwittes (yes he’s banned here go find him on thread$)

Chatter: Coups and Counterintelligence with Peter Strzok

Peter Strzok talks to Ben Wittes about how he ended up in a career focused on counterintelligence

www.lawfaremedia.org

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@petestrzok

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“Maclean seemed totally at one with Soviet ways… He would say ‘we’ and ‘our’ when speaking of the Soviet Union and defended his adopted country’s brutal crushing of the Hungarian Uprising in 1956”

Why British spy Donald Maclean’s wife dumped him for traitor Philby

Shrewd and devious, Melinda Maclean knew her husband Donald was a spy from the outset - but as this gripping series reveals, she managed to convince MI5 otherwise while plotting their reunion.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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The beginning of the end of an era. “Traditional” illegals have faded in the face of biometrics and ubiquitous PII. Russia once (in theory) relied on illegals as a means to continue intelligence activity if their IOs operating under official cover were expelled during conflict.

Gordon Corera

@gordoncorera

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Russian 'illegal' spy Mikhail Vasenkov has died, according to the Foreign Intelligence Service, the SVR.

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2021 FISA numbers continue to plummet. This is a real national security problem. We need to understand the cause. Glad NSD/DOJ shares the concern. Hope the FBI does too.

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A “what-if exercise conducted among Beltway insiders – and dear god, this sounds both exciting and absolutely terrifying.” - Rolling Stone “This could prove to be one of the more politically pertinent films coming out of this year’s festival.” - Vulture

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I'm sure the shopping will go over well in Yasenevo. You, too can shop in Paris ФБР приглашает к сотрудничеству сотрудников РФ, обладающих секретной или закрытой информацией. Вы хотите изменить своё будущее? Связаться с сотрудниками ФБР можно в Signal по номеру +1-771-201-4210.

Anton Gerashchenko

@Gerashchenko_en

1 year

Tatyana Naryshkina, wife of Sergey Naryshkin, Director of Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, arrived to Paris for some shopping. On the 📷: the car of Russian ambassador in France and Tatyana inside it. Source: Gulagu net/Telegram

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"The [Hungarian] developers of War Thunder have even had to enact specific policies against the sharing of classified material on their forums." Should have been in someone's defense intelligence collection basket.

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“And what are we to make of his loathing for the work of a spy, even as he was determined to do it? Ideology and distaste for the job were always at war inside him; it was, he said, ‘like being a lavatory attendant – it stinks but someone has to do it’”.

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@Timodc Big energy

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Looking forward to this at #Sundance2024 “an actual what-if exercise conducted among Beltway insiders — and dear god, this sounds both exciting and absolutely terrifying.” - Rolling Stone

Meet the Artist 2024: Jesse Moss and Tony Gerber on "War Game"

Meet Jesse Moss and Tony Gerber, the filmmakers of "War Game," which is playing in the Special Screenings section at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. Present...

www.youtube.com

Tony Gerber

@MarketRoadFilms

4 months

Sneak peek— Meet the Artist 2024: Directors Jesse Moss and Tony Gerber on "War Game" @djessemoss @jgoldbeck @stevebullockmt @markdicrist @Toddlubin @jackocrackus @VetVoiceFound @MatadorContent @BOATROCKER @anoncontent @Lynnbrooklyn #wargame #Sundance2024

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Just got my Georgetown class tickets for the @GeorgetownHoops battle against the Evil Empire on December 9th. @Georgetown @GeorgetownSFS professors and adjuncts, join us with your students. #BeatCuse #WeAreGeorgetown

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2 years

Office friction over TDY cubicle space at Yasenevo and the Aquarium beginning to mount.

Shashank Joshi

@shashj

2 years

Updated count (0800 BST, April 7th) of US and European diplomatic expulsions of (mostly) suspected Russian intelligence officers. The latest, today, is Austria (4). I make that a total of 427 expulsions, of which 414 from Europe. More coming.

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Put another way, more than all the electricity consumed by West Africa (terawatt-hours/year, 2018/2019 data) 🇳🇬 29 🇬🇭 8.8 🇨🇮 6.7 🇸🇳 3.8 🇲🇱 3.0 🇬🇳 2.0 🇧🇫 1.8 🇳🇪 1.6 🇹🇬 1.3 🇧🇯 1.2 🇲🇷 0.9 🇨🇻 0.5 🇬🇲 0.3 🇱🇷 0.3 🇸🇱 0.2 🇬🇼 0.04

List of countries by electricity consumption - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

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HT @RadioFreeTom for parallel “Colleagues at the Moscow institute where he had worked as an analyst…told Western reporters that he had died Sunday, apparently at the comfortable apartment near the Moscow River where he had lived alone in recent years.”

DONALD MACLEAN OF SPY FAME DIES (Published 1983)

www.nytimes.com

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@secretsandlaws Good question, I wondered the same. My best guess is a legal/authorities issue. Role as domestic DNI rep? Would explain the oddly worded “We’ll have the FBI on board as well, under the counterintelligence authorities for categorizing and assessing the platform itself.”

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@emptywheel Since a lot of people are getting excited and pointing at tHeIR TiMeLinEs, I'm not sure who needs to hear this, but since Marcy both cares and follows this sort of information, here it is. A thread of minutiae: The Sept 7 referral Ratcliffe declassified is known as a CIOL. 1/

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@ratemyskyperoom Max vigilantly taking care of Heine test that information must be closely held in order to be considered related to the national defense (151 F.2d 813 (2d Cir. 1945) for the natsec law nerds)

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@emptywheel The issue is a semantic one/imprecise habit of practice. In the FBI, 951 investigations were typically opened under the 97 classification code - covering FARA - because it’s the closest fit for a bunch of reasons (who works it, what HQ program supervises it, etc). 1/

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@john_sipher @sundancefest @VetVoiceFound

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Late last year I explored the possible reasons for the drop - and why it’s a problem. Nothing I’ve seen or heard causes me to change my assessment.

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@RadioFreeTom Especially with (I think, hard to tell except the hairline) Gerasimov in uniform on the other side of the table. But hey, edible forest moss!

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