The consistently excellent Lobelog describes how Vladimir Putin is using the the Russian private military company, Wagner, for deniable and lucrative military operations in the Middle East and Africa. The story, by Nicolai Due-Gundersen does not mention the CEO of Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, but does demonstrate that Wagner is a tool of Putin’s statecraft. Prigozhin...
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British Intelligence Rejects Trump’s ‘Ridiculous’ Spying Charge
British intelligence has rejected claims that it was asked by the administration of former President Barack Obama to spy on then-President Elect Donald Trump after the 2016 presidential election. The Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the equivalent of America’s National Security Agency, says it never happened. It is true that the GCHQ, which works closely with the...
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Mueller’s Report Blunts the Criticism of Former Spy Chiefs
The report of Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller, as summarized by Attorney General Bill Barr, significantly qualifies the U.S. intelligence community’s January 2017 finding about Russian involvement in the 2016 presidential election. The unclassified findings of the CIA, FBI, and National Security Agency set the stage for the special prosecutor’s investigation by asserting that Russian President...
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Russia’s FSB: We’re Ready to Publish Correspondence With U.S. on Alleged Election Interference.
Nikolai Murashov, the deputy director of the FSB’s National Computer Incident Coordination Center (NCCIC), said Tuesday that Moscow was ready to disclose the full correspondence between Russia and the United States on the alleged election interference, but said that it would need Washington’s consent to do so, the state-run RIA Novosti news agency reported Tuesday....
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Reality Check: Top-Secret NSA Report Details Russian Hacking Effort Before 2016 Election
The argument that Russia’s attempts to manipulate the 2016 presidential election are “fake news” or Cold War posturing has crumbled under an avalanche of evidence. A year ago, this NSA document, leaked by now-jailed NSAA employee Reality Winner and published by The Intercept, provided a reality check.