Post by Andrew Beckwith

It would be so easy to call this just a GERMAN problem. Nope. It is true in America, too, in numerous places in the EU and in right wing parties all over the world funded by Vladimir Putin. Der Spiegel has laid out a shocking level of penetration of Putin agents in the Federal Republic of Germany. Before Americans get in the tut tut mode, it is worth remembering Tucker Carlson of Fox news, giving verbatim renditions in English of rants in the Russian Duma, as of the fake Ukraine biowar lab story, in March 2022, not to mention the Freedom caucus repeating Russian lies about Ukraine for FOUR solid years, 2018 to 2022 and M. Greene declaiming " Real Americans do not care about Ukraine". quote As is so often the case in espionage cases, there is a lack of definitive proof, but the circumstantial evidence is overwhelming. K. used passports that appear to be from a series issued by the GRU. She pursued Peruvian citizenship using false information and sought proximity to employees of the two military bases – until she invented the cancer story to go underground. According to our reporting, her real name is Olga Vasilyevna K., born in June 1982 in rural southern Russia. Just before her stirring Facebook message, a brand new Audi A3 was registered in her name in Moscow. end of quote AH, Yes a Russian illegal. Good that it is documented. Again before one gets too excited, let us remember the story of Anna Chapman, the Russian illegal whom was deported from America (a Russian Illegal) whom in a semi comic episode after Snowden fled to Russia actually had the chuzpah to ask Snowden if he would marry her, after he fled to Russia. quote But other agents, who are significantly more numerous than the "illegals," likewise play an important role in Russia's espionage battle, working for the embassies and consulates of the Russian Federation abroad. Their work may not be as glorified as that of colleagues, but there are many of them. Insiders believe that SWR maintains around 3,000 of these spies, and the GRU up to 1,000. Most are disguised as diplomats. At the beginning of the year, Western intelligence services estimated that more than 150 Russian spies with diplomatic accreditation were still working in Germany alone. Their informants usually don't know that they are dealing with Russian intelligence agents. Who, after all, would suspect that Pavel Rubtsov, the former deputy head of the trade and economic office at the Russian Embassy in Berlin, is in fact likely a representative of the foreign intelligence service SWR? He has since been expelled from the country. end of quote YUP, cover, cover and all that. Lets give credit where it is due when LAVROV was invited by then PRESIDENT TRUMP in 2017 for a victory bash after Trump fired FBI director James Comey, and Russian media in the 2017 OVAL office photo shopping the happy occasion There is work to go around aplenty/ we need to give credit where it is due.