Posted on 07/05/2018 3:36:09 AM PDT by AdmSmith
Lol...your deep state shilling is becoming embarrassing.
GCHQ isn’t gonna be pleased.
Very "Deep State" cover.
Concurring bump...and what are the odds that the 'random' couple found frothing at the mouth also happen to be long time drug addicts?
LMAO at the incompetent British deep state and their feckless shills.
I didn’t say “what about” anything...did I?
Dan Kaszeta has listed 12 Russian versions to shift blaim:
Story 1: Britain poisoned its own residents to distract from Brexit (RT – 4 July)
Story 2: Britain poisoned people to help out the Trump visit (random Russian trollbot 3 July)
Story 3: Britain poisons its own people to own the Russians (Sputnik, natch.)
Story 4: It’s all a big something or other to do with Porton Down (Sputnik and half my crazy timeline 4 July et seq.)
Story 5: The British government needs to kill its own residents to distract from the World Cup (Russian Embassy in NL, 4 July)
Story 6: “It’s domestic terrorism in the UK, naught to do with any other country.” Some guy in the Duma. 4 July.
Story 7: “It could be from anywhere” - also some guy in the Duma, 4 July
Story 8: This is all just some weird dirty political game by dark forces in British politics. (Russian MFA spokesperson)
In all fairness, this is really just a variant, IMHO, of some of the other ones.
Story 9: It’s all a plot to do a large political provocation against Russia. Russian MFA official. Again, this is a variant on a theme.
Story 10: It was bad drugs. (NTV, 6 July)
Story 11: The UK poisoned its own citizens to disrupt the meeting between Putin and Trump. (Channel 1, 8 July)
Story 12: A former Porton Down employee who we cannot name or describe or say anything about, surely did it. (Rossiyskaya Gazeta, 5 July)
https://twitter.com/DanKaszeta/status/1016293927928958976
The widely publicised attack on Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury in March 2018 certainly did a lot to bring chemical warfare agents, particularly nerve agents, into the public consciousness in the UK and elsewhere. Recent developments in the neighbouring town of Amesbury, where a couple are ill due to coming in contact with the same materials, continue to keep this case in the spotlight. These incidents also bring a lot of questions ranging from the sensible to the ridiculous, and the situation bred numerous odd “alternative narratives” and conspiracy theories.
Read more:
https://integrityinitiative.net/articles/yes-you-can-be-poisoned-novichok-and-survive
Putin’s Killer Spies Have Finally Gone Too Far
This week, the May government put the case back on the front pages by publicly outing Kremlin agents as the Salisbury assassins. The prime minister named two Russian spies, Aleksandr Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, as the “officers of the Russian military intelligence service” wanted for the crime, adding, “This was not a rogue operation. It was almost certainly approved outside the GRU at a senior level of the Russian state.”
Petrov and Boshirov are aliases, and according to British intelligence the GRU officers have traveled extensively outside Russia on travel documents in those names. The case against the men revealed by London is impressive, encompassing security footage of the hitmen in several English locations in early March, including Salisbury, as well as evidence that their hotel room had Novichok in it. British investigators tracked Petrov and Boshirov’s travels to England and back to Moscow for the hit, providing images of the perfume bottle the GRU officers used to transport their highly lethal nerve agent.
Sergey Skripal’s cooperation with the Spanish authorities in exposing the criminality of the Russian oligarchs rather than the idea that this action was revenge by the security services for someone who betrayed them is a far more likely explanation for Moscow’s decision to poison him, Vitaly Portnikov says.
http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2018/09/moscow-attacked-skripal-for-betraying.html
Sergei V. Skripal, the former Russian spy targeted in a nerve agent attack this spring, fed Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service information about a 1990s-era corruption scheme that reached all the way up to Nikolai P. Patrushev, a top Russian intelligence chief and close ally of Vladimir V. Putin, a new book contends.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/01/world/europe/spy-russia-britain-putin.html
Second GRU Officer Indicted in Montenegro Coup Unmasked
Bellingcat and the Insider have now succeeded in unmasking “Popov”’s actual identity, which is Vladimir Nikolaevich Moiseev. Moiseev, who is a lieutenant colonel or colonel with Russian military intelligence, was born on 29.06.1980, the same date as the fictional “Popov.”
Bellingcat’s findings in the case of Popov/Moiseev add important and intriguing details to GRU’s modus operandi in undercover operations, including use of sham business operations, and add to the understanding of GRU’s covert operatives’ world, previously provided by our reporting on the two Skripal suspects, Anatoliy Chepiga and Alexander Mishkin. As in the case of Chepiga and Mishkin, our findings directly contradict Kremlin’s statements that “Popov” was an innocent Russian tourist unjustly accused by a hostile foreign government.
and for FR readers that prefer to read in Russian: https://theins.ru/politika/128525
The head of Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency, General Igor Korobov, has died aged 62, Russia’s defence ministry says.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46298959
in early October, a journalist with insider GRU knowledge reported Putin was enraged over the identification of agents Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, as well as a number of other GRU cock-ups.
The spy boss emerged shaken from the dressing down and collapsed at home in sudden “ill health”, claimed journalist Sergey Kanev in October.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7798802/russian-spy-chief-igor-korobov-dead-vladimir-putin-novichok/
A murder investigation is under way in Italy after the death of a Moroccan model who testified against former PM Silvio Berlusconi in 2012. Imane Fadil, 33, died on 1 March in a Milan hospital, a month after being admitted with stomach pains. At the time she said she had been poisoned.
Italian media say she may have been poisoned with a radioactive substance. She was a key witness against Mr Berlusconi, who was accused of paying for sex with an underage prostitute.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47595320
She was hospitalized for a serious bone marrow dysfunction that had stopped producing white, red and platelet cells.
A decision by the Public Prosecutor’s Office: “Don’t let anyone, not even friends and relatives, approach the corpse”. An autopsy is expected Wednesday or Thursday.
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