Yesterday’s drama at the U.S. Federal Court in Manhattan unfolded beyond the wildest dreams of countless observers. One week earlier, federal agents executed multiple raids on Michael Cohen, the president’s longtime attorney, fixer and factotum. Granted unusually broad remit, FBI...
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Sean Hannity Takes Center Stage in Trump’s Kremlin Drama
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British Intelligence: Yes, Russian Spy Was Poisoned by Kremlin
When the histories of Cold War 2.0 are written, the attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal on March 4 of this year will appear as a turning point. With that act of madcap aggression, unleashing a military-grade nerve agent in a...
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The Spy Brief: IC 101 — Welcome to SpookWorld
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The U.S. Intelligence Community is the best-funded and most complex collection of spy agencies on the planet. The “IC,” as the cool spy kids call it, is simply the catch-all term for America’s intelligence agencies, 16 of them in all.... -
Mueller Finally Unmasked the Trump Campaign’s Secret Russian Operative
Since its establishment a hundred years ago, at the dawn of Bolshevik rule, the Main Intelligence Directorate of Moscow’s General Staff—GRU for short—has been the shadowiest of the Kremlin’s spy agencies. While the KGB was known worldwide, its military counterpart...
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More on the Mysterious Maltese Professor
BBC has an interesting new short documentary on Professor Joseph Mifsud, the Maltese semi-academic who played a role in clandestine Kremlin contacts with the Trump campaign in 2016 (for a refresher, see my backgrounder), and I’m in it. You can...
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Putin Gang Stunned by Theresa May’s Resolve
For the past dozen years, Russian President Vladimir Putin has employed his spies as assassins in the West, beginning with the murder of the defector Aleksandr Litvinenko in London in late 2006. Kremlin killers have left a trail of bodies...
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Putin Sends the West Another Deadly Message
It’s happened again. Another Russian spy who’s taken up residence in the West has been poisoned under mysterious circumstances. At this hour, he is in intensive care, his fate undetermined. Worse, his daughter was poisoned with him and likewise is...
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Trump Gets Caught in His Own Web of Lies
Ever since Donald J. Trump was inaugurated as president 13 months ago, with his White House shrouded in a fog over its murky Russia ties from day one, Fridays have been the day that big news gets dumped, per venerable...
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Jeremy Corbyn Was a Communist Spy
Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has been a controversial player in British politics for decades. Back in the 1980s, when the anti-nuclear cause was at its peak, his strong left-wing views placed him in the anti-NATO movement, while his long-term...
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American Spies Get Fooled by the Kremlin Again
The National Security Agency has had a rough half-decade. Beginning with Edward’s Snowden unprecedented theft of classified information and subsequent defection to Moscow in the spring of 2013, NSA’s recent history resembles a tale of seemingly unending woe. One security...