Spy v. Spy - Part Duh

A sidebar of Russian spies to cut through the jabberwocky of institutionalists

In my morning missive, Spy v. Spy - FBI Shoegazing and the Obfuscation of Christopher Wray, I wrote about media parasitizing. I cited a CNN report which planted both FBI sources and the FBI director’s dismissive tone about Charles McGonigal’s treachery.

I cited this CNN quote: “At least for now, FBI officials view McGonigal not as a spy, but more as a corrupt former official…”

I refer to that as the jabberwocky of institutionalists.

While we await the other shoe to drop on this massive breaker - which calls into question the 2016 election and the very foundation of our democracy - I thought it vital to list some of the Russian spies, double agents, useful idiots, and “corrupt former officials” busted in recent years, and why that matters:

• Russian indicted for using US groups as foreign agents - my report in Byline Supplement revealing a Kremlin cutout funding chaos and destabilization efforts in America using right and left groups (an example: ‘CalExit’ was a Russian-funded op)

• Three spies busted in New York - charged with recruiting people working for major companies, and New York college coeds. The 2015 story also reminds readers of the 11 intelligence agents busted in 2010 and returned to Moscow in a spy swap

• Red Sparrow Maria Butina - infiltrated the GOP through the NRA. Upon her return to Moscow, she continues to be a first-rate propagandist

• MI5 Director General Ken McCallum said in November that 600 Russian officials were expelled from Europe in 2022, with 400 of them judged to be Russian spies. He said the UK removed 23 Russian spies posing as diplomats

• British embassy security guard admitted spying for Russia - in November of 2022

• MI5 refused to investigate ‘Russian spy’s’ links to Tories - the January article notes that “Russian president Vladimir Putin has been accused of deploying more intelligence agents in London than at the height of the Cold War.”

• Catalan president moves to Moscow in after his Moscow ties revealed in separatist attempt

• German cybersecurity chief bounced after Russian ties revealed

• German BND intelligence agent arrested on suspicion of being a Russian spy

• Swedish brothers convicted for being Russian spies

• Recording reveals Russian attempts to funnel millions to Salvini

• Russian spies arrested in Ljubljana

• The useful idiots Russian DNC hackers passed emails to

• Russian connections to Germany’s failed coup plot

• Russia has more spies deployed to Mexico than in any other country

The above list offers just a hot take, but combined with the refresher below, I think you’ll see the pattern.

Here is a short list of former intelligence agents and politicians on the Bratva’s payroll:

• Former FBI director William Sessions worked as an attorney for Semion Mogilevich - the head of Russia’s Bratva, organized crime syndicate

• Bob Dole took $560,000 from Oleg Deripaska to help him obtain a visa, when intelligence agents knew Deripaska was part of Russian organized crime

• Haley Barbour’s firm, Barbour Griffith & Rogers, took two million in lobbying fees from Alfa, which was under US investigation for money laundering at the time

• Trump’s pro bono campaign manager, Paul Manafort took $75 million in service to the Russian mob. As Craig Unger noted, “Doesn’t that make him a spy of some sort?

• Mike Flynn was paid tens of thousands of dollars for appearances in Russian, including Kremlin-state media

• Trump - who sold condos to anonymous Russian buyers - received $100 million in income from Russian sources in one-time transactions, and don’t let’s forget all those casino bailouts and straw men convictions regarding inauguration payments from Russian oligarchs

• Former FBI director Louis Freeh was paid by Russian real estate firm Prevezon to negotiate a settlement with the US over money laundering and a tax fraud scheme

The bottom line, as I wrote in-depth in my Byline Supplement report, The Rolling Insurrection: How Putin is Waging a Covert War Against the West, we are living through a global rolling insurrection directed by Vladimir Putin and Fifth Column traitors:

“By now it should be obvious to the entire world that Russia’s ham-handed attempts to foment chaos and coups in liberal democracies across the globe are derived specifically from the network of corrupt businessmen and politicians, and transnational organized criminals — the Iron Triangle that Robert Mueller warned about over a decade ago,” said my podcast partner Joshua C E Fidel, who is a network analyst with Aos Sí Consultants. “There are constant revisions and updates as their plans continue to fail.”

Fidel told Byline Supplement: “One need only look to those who still sing Putin’s praises - the hollow strongmen of Viktor Orbán and Alexander Lukashenko, Jair Bolsonaro and Donald Trump, the billionaires, princes and presidents of oil and petroleum, the fascist Fifth Column masquerading as conservatives, and those who would, through an overabundance of caution, fear, or compromise, allow Ukraine, Africa, and liberal democracy to be consigned to the graves Putin and Wagner mercenaries try to fashion, to see where the murderous madman in Moscow continues to cause chaos.”

After reviewing the McGonigal indictments, Fidel added:

“If Craig Unger can see the counterintelligence threats, if Keir Giles understands Russia’s war on everybody, I have but one question for the American intelligence services: Are you incompetent or are you complicit?”

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