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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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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How Bellingcat and Russia Insider Unmasked a Suspected Assassin
The crowdsourced investigative site Bellingcat and The Insider (in Russian) have beat their legacy competitors on the story of the Skripal assassination suspects.
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Furious Putin Says Skripal Is a ‘Scumbag” and ‘Traitor”
Vladimir Putin has a migraine named Sergey Skripal and the pain is making him testy According to The Guardian, the Russian president denounced Skripal with harsh words.