Turkey’s autocratic president Recep Erdogan has a two track mind. Erdogan proclaims he is fighting (Kurdish) terrorism and while his government empowers ISIS to advance his geopolitical agenda. New details emerge in this detailed (but uncorroborated) report in The Investigative Journal. Citing wiretap evidence collected in investigation of the 2015 Ankara train station bombing, author...
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France: General Board of External Security (DGSE)
(From Top World Intelligence Agencies) The Direction Générale De La Sécurité Extérieure (DGSE) has focused its efforts on counterterrorism since a string of terror attacks in Paris in 2015. France has also stationed many intelligence officers in Africa, which became apparent in 2016 when three DGSE agents were killed in a helicopter crash in Libya. The...
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Targeting Russia’s IRA, Twitter Closes More Accounts
U.S. intelligence agencies are not the only ones who say Russian influence operations against the United States continue. On January 31, Twitter extended its purge of “potential information operations” by announcing the deletion of 418 Russian accounts 2,617 Iranian accounts 1,196 Venezuelan accounts Twitter’s actions are a snapshot of the information warfare battlefield. From Russia,...
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NBC News’ Attack on Rep. Tulsi Gabbard Relies on Firm Caught Fabricating Russia Data
Hawaii Congresswoman Rep. Tulsi Gabbard’s critique of U.S. foreign policy is so threatening to the custodians of conventional wisdom that the NBC News abandoned to basic journalistic practice to smear her as a tool of Russia. In The Intercept Glenn Greenwald demolishes the NBC News report purporting to show that Gabbard, a 2020 Democratic presidential...
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More on ‘Putin’s Chef’ and His Private Army Called Wagner
National Security Correspondent for NPR Greg Myre’s article analyzes the background of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the man dubbed “Putin’s Chef,” and his role in the Russian government. “He epitomizes a real renaissance man in contemporary Russia, which is to say that he runs some very high-end restaurants,” said Angela Stent, the head of Russian Studies at Georgetown...