Mulitple Russian news sites identified the CIA spy exfiltrated from Russia because of concerns about his safety, while U.S. news outlets did not. He is Oleg Smolenkov, an assistant to a top foreign policy adviser to President Vladimir Putin. American outlets reported the asset fed the CIA secrets for years and was able to photograph...
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As China Absorbs Xinjiang, Mosques Are Disappearing |
The scope of Chinese social engineering in the western province of Xinjiang is amazing and appalling. The province, home to the non-Chinese Uighur people, most of the Muslim, is now subject to surveillance and “re-education”on a scale not seen anywhere else in the world. Now Bellingcat, the online investigative site, says the Chinese government is...
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The Story Behind Bellingcat: Truth in a Post-Truth World
Hans Pool’s latest documentary, first aired on Sunday at the South by Southwest festival, is called Bellingcat: Truth in a Post-Truth World. From Wired The film tells the story of Bellingcat, a collective of investigative researchers, many of whom started as amateurs, who spend their off hours meticulously stringing together kernels of information they find...
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Bellingcat Confirms Iranian Forces Hacked U.S. Drone
Last week The Deep State reported the claim of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) that it had hacked a U.S. drone forcing American forces to destroy it This week Nick Waters of the Bellingcat open-source investigative site says that independently obtained video confirms that Iranian back forces did bring down a U.S. drone in...
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Third Suspect in Skripal Poisoning Identified by Bellingcat
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...