The crowd-sourced investigative site Bellingcat has identified a third suspect in the poisoning of Sergey Skripal, the reneged Russian intelligence officer. The report is credible because Bellingcat and collaborators in the independent Russian media broke the the story that two GRU officers were involved in the poisoning of Skirpal, an allegation the Russian government no...
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The Six Worst Spies of 2018
It was a banner year for bad spies. The ideal covert operation, a CIA man once said, remains secret “from conception to eternity.” So too with the ideal spy. The true artists of espionage are those who are never detected or are detected too late to be harmed, humiliated, prosecuted or persecuted. The most famous...
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Two Russians Arrested for Selling Information that Identified Skripal Poisoning Suspects
A Russian news site is reporting the arrest of two government officials for allegedly selling information that helped link two GRU officers to the poisoning of a turncoat Russian agent in England
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ICYMI: bellingcat’s Russia scoop
This Investigative Outlet Was Accused of Pushing ‘War Propaganda’ — But Its Major Scoop Has Been Confirmed | Alternet
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AP Confirms Bellingcat: Russian Suspect in UK Poisoning, Is Hero to His Home Village
“Alexander Petrov,” a Russian man accused of an assassination attempt in England, is actually a decorated GRU officer named Alexander Mishkin. The story, first reported by Bellingcat, the crowd-sourced investigative site, and The Insider, a Moscow-based news site, has now been confirmed. AP reporter Nataliya Vasilyeva went to Mishkin’s home town and discovered it was...
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