Jameski Bondski
Posted on 09/05/2010 8:47:38 PM PDT by anymouse
A mysterious accident in which one of Russia's most powerful spies was found dead on a Turkish beach has provoked speculation that the deputy head of the country's foreign military intelligence service had been murdered.
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The general was last seen visiting the building site for a new Russian military base in the Syrian coastal city of Tartus, which is being expanded as a base for Russia's Black Sea fleet.
After his visit, he left for a meeting with Syrian intelligence agents. He then went missing, the Turkish newspaper Vatan reported today.
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The Kremlin assigned Ivanov to lead its war against Chechen separatists in 2000, and he allegedly masterminded a series of assassination attacks, which the Russian secret service carried out on Chechens living abroad. In 2004, two GRU agents killed the Chechen separatist leader Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, blowing up his SUV in Qatar.
The Qatar authorities swiftly arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment two Russian GRU spies who were said in court to have been acting under direct orders from the Russian leadership. The pair were extradited back to Russia in 2005 to serve out their sentences on home soil. Both then promptly disappeared.
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¨From Russia With Love¨
Over here, when they do you in, you never see the guy again, like Jimmy Hoffa.
Over there, they just let you be found and shrug.
‘eh, interresting.’
Viktor Bout, the Russian Mafia weapons gun runner being extradited to the US by Thailand worked for the GRU and the same time as “The General”. Interesting timing, may be???
This is very, extremely serious. Deputy head of Russia’s foreign military intelligence, the GRU. An organization as ruthless, perhaps more ruthless, than the KGB(*).
Unless his murder was ordered by the Russian government, which is a strong possibility, a whole bunch of people are going to die.
(*) Typically, back in Soviet times, someone declared a traitor in the GRU would be strapped to a gurney, and pushed headfirst into a blast furnace. They even made a video of that being done, to show new recruits.
Jameski Bondski
Coincidence we have a dead Russian spy general and the movie “The American” with George Clooney opening on the same weekend?
I think not...
Did you see it? Was it any good?
Maybe he went surfing with former Aussie Prime Minister Harold Holt.
Either Chechens masquerading as Syrian operatives,
or agents of a certain ME country (noted for efficient
spycraft) masquerading as Syrian operatives....
This sounds like a Israeli operation and the Turks get the blame...LOL...
'Top Russian Spy Unexpectedly Found Dead'
‘Went swimming’ in Syria.
Washed up in Turkey.
Still sounds like an Israeli operation to me....now Syria gets the blame...
Or they do it in front of a crowd in Dallas.
“Or they do it in front of a crowd in Dallas.”
Oh, wow. Yes. Russian way.
But at least they didn't forge any passports. /s
Note BTW, the Russians got caught, whereas the 52 or 101 or whatever Mossad agents all made it safely out of Dubai (even if some took the unorthodox route via Iran(!)).
being dead on a beach in turkey must suck more.
a dead communist spook doesn't suck much.
SPECTRE
Russia is going to come out swinging.
No way this was an Israeli op....
And Putin should come to Syria to verify it....
,(: >)
(and he can bring his fish girlfriend... or he can sleep with them)
ALLAAHHHH, CRAPSKI!
PS - re anti-ottoman (and I presume anti-ruski) alliance:
wonder how the chinese are getting the funding to them?
Feel the love?
Once in the Aquarium, there was only one way out: through the chimney of the crematorium. Great book.
Perhaps the Chechnya folks finally got smart and started targeting the actual big guys instead of the Russian public. I’d be more likely to believe in that scenario. The curious thing is that a guy like this would typically have a couple of guards with him at all times. So, are the guards dead too? We haven’t seen a word about the guard detail....which I think is very odd.
The last possibility...late at night...drunk....the General walks out by himself from his cottage on the beach and drowns.
My guess is that on his state-sponsored vacation, he ran into an exotic Turkish dish that was a little more exotic than his heart could stand.
“Eet was Moose and Squirrel!”
“Went swimming in Syria wound up in Turkey”
Exactly what I questioned when I read this as well as ; “While examining plans for a Russian “Black Sea” naval base in Syria”. Something we wouldn’t know about thanks to our MSM.
How much noise was made about this base by the Israelies or was there ? Who benefits from this mysterious demise beside the usual Al Quaeda suspects ?
Maybe he didn’t wait 30 minutes before going swimming like his mother always told him. Don’t mess with mothers...
Haven’t seen it yet (The American), but will. Probably even spend the extra dollars and see it at a movie theater rather than wait for RedBox.
Good job Doog!!!!!
Lately I’ve been blaming everything on “Moose and Squirrel!”
The Russians to the chagrin of the Turks by-passed the Dardanells constriction by having a naval base in the Mediterrean. The present Turk regime zealots are slowly turning from their secular ways and “Islamizing”. Turk Islamization may be part of their reasoning to have a base there.It’s been a Czarist-Stalinist dream
What is interesting is there has not been a lot of kicking and screaming on the part of the Israelis who may see the Russians as a mollifying force in Syria.
I doubt Moussad had anything to do with this and it could be the Turk extremist element who did. If indeed he was murdered.
*smiles*...knew who you meant
Better headfirst that feetfirst.
Ping me if you hear more... Thanks.
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