A 2019 murder of a Georgian citizen in Berlin is back in the spotlight as the convicted killer, Vadim Krasikov, is swapped in prisoner exchange with Moscow. Who exactly was the murder victim?
Gershkovich was officially denied by the CIA and their house media...As one would expect them to do, for an actual Spy.
But Evan had travelled to Ykaterinaberg in a private car - making his movements harder for the FSB to track. Apparently he was the second WSJ Non-Official Cover asset sent on this mission - seeking information about Russian military production levels and capabilities. That's sensitive military information - during a time of war. Evan was CONVICTED, after being caught by the FSB. And then Evan's case was pressed by Tucker Carlson - who admits that he applied to work at the CIA, at one point - and whose father was head of the US Information Agency, at a time when the CIA essentially ran it.
Also included in the swap, were CIA/NED Political/Media Assets from RFE/RL, and "former" (retired) Marine Paul Whelan. NOT INCLUDED was an American Teacher, busted for importing a small amount of Cannabis, for his legitimate medical condition. (Nobody cares about him, because he's not a WNBA household name - and he isn't a SPY, apparently).
It's the Great Game. The SPY Business is full-contact. The swap made perfect sense, on both sides.
After seeing lie after lie from the NATO criminals running Western Europe, in some instances where even their own labs pointed out the lie, I have come to the conclusion that it saves me a lot of time to simply believe everything the Russians say and nothing any Western European government terrorised by NATO threats to them and their family's say.
A classic case was the Novichok incident in the UK when Trump was president where no-one died despite Novichock being 100% deadly and when a sample from the "crime scene" was sent to a NATO approved lab that lab said that indeed the sample was Novichok but it was 100% pure and Novichock degrades immediately it is exposed to a damp atmosphere so they concluded that the sample they had been given was not from the "crime scene" but had been, as the Russians had said all along, manufactured for the purposes of misleading the lab.
The huge likelihood is that the British Porton Down weapons lab that was only a few miles away from the "crime scene" had had yet another of its infamous leaks and the British government agencies had dreamt up this fake story to blame the Russians for yet more British incompetence.
Thank goodness the natives a couple of hundred years ago only had sharpened bananas to fight back with otherwise there would never have been a British empire.
As a lifelong expert on Russia, and veteran foreign correspondent there, I’m very impressed by your intellect and understanding of these issues.
And yes, Gershkovich was illegally gathering info on Russian military factories, which of course is espionage. (This is what his western colleagues in Moscow even told me.)
It’s a bit more complicated than that yes Chechens are Muslims. Yes they perform acts of terrorism. However, they are trying to. Breakaway from the long arm of the Russian state, kind of like Ukraine, Georgia and the Baltics did. And how do you describe the IRA?
From Thomas Röper, a German journalist living in Russia:
"Who was the victim of the "Tiergarten murder"?
"Incidentally, the "Tiergarten murder" is a perfect example of this, because it was not an innocent man who was shot, but a brutal terrorist who was offered protection by the German state.
Changoschwili, who was shot in the Tiergarten, had a very bloody past. He had fought against Russia in the Chechen war, which is being sold in Germany as the Chechens' fight for freedom. In reality, however, the vast majority of the fighters there were not Chechens, but Arabs and Islamists who had infiltrated from Afghanistan and wanted to establish a "caliphate" there, an "Islamic state". The term only became known in Germany during the Syrian war, but in Russia it had already been heard from Chechnya over 20 years ago.
In the West, it was denied that Changoschwili was an Islamist, although he had made a career in the ranks of the Islamists in Chechnya. You could sometimes read in Germany that he had been an informant for the CIA and had supplied the CIA with information about Islamists. But nobody asks in this context how someone who is not an Islamist himself and has nothing to do with them could have information about them.
In the 1990s, Changoschwili was involved in many extremely brutal terrorist attacks in Russia, most of which are unknown in Germany. Some in the West may still remember the terrorist attack on the school in Beslan. On 1 September 2004, terrorists stormed the school there, killing 334 people, including 186 children. Behind the massacre were terrorists from Chechnya, categorised as a terrorist group by the UN, the USA and the EU, but secretly supported by the West. Changoschwili was one of the perpetrators."
I found this video of a private investigation and analysis by sniper experts of the "Trump kill box" on X. I like the 3D animation technique they are using.
I have a book on my shelf (two books actually, but the French original does not include the quote below — it is only in the Introduction the the American edition,
"In the introduction to "Dollars for Terror: the United States and Islam", Swiss Researcher Richard Labévière quoted a book by Graham Fuller:
"The policy of guiding the evolution of Islam and of helping them against our adversaries worked marvelously well in Afghanistan against the Red Army," explains a former CIA analyst. "The same doctrines can still be used to destabilize what remains of Russian power, and especially to counter the Chinese influence in Central Asia." In a certain sense, the Cold War is still going on. For years Graham Fuller, former Deputy Director of the National Council on Intelligence at the CIA, has been talking up the "modernizing virtues" of the Islamists, insisting on their anti-Statist concept of the economy. Listening to him, you would almost take the Taleban and their Wahhabi allies for liberals. "Islam, in theory at least, is firmly anchored in the traditions of free trade and private enterprise," wrote Fuller. "The prophet was a trader, as was his first wife. Islam does not glorify the State's role in the economy."
I would add that Fuller just happens to be the guy that came up with the idea of selling missiles to the mullahs in Iran to get funds for the thugs in Nicaragua under DCI Bill Casey.
And that prior (WWII) the Chechens fought heroically side by side with the Soviets against Hitler, and since, they are now doing so against the "modern" Nazis.
Yes. Your last paragraph captures the role of cognitive dissonance in maintaining a perpetual state of confusion. For us peasants, certainly. I wonder if the elites themselves are not also confused. My case stated as follows.
Surely you know this quote:
“And this mess is so big And so deep and so tall, We cannot pick it up. There is no way at all!'
To accomplish an effective clean up The Cat with the Hat rolled out thing “Z” who in turn invoked “Voom.” This did the job. The history of labor saving weaponry must cite also “Vavoom” later exploited by another cat.
The interpretation of “Voom” and “Vavoom” in our contemporary world is not good. But our State Dept and DOD seem to understand “Voom” in the same way they were introduced to it in their local children’s library many years ago.
There was a real world episode called the “Cuban Missile Crisis” back in 1962 that came uncomfortably close to global “Voom”
One would think we had learned a PERMANENT lesson. Guess not.
It was a SPY SWAP.
Gershkovich was officially denied by the CIA and their house media...As one would expect them to do, for an actual Spy.
But Evan had travelled to Ykaterinaberg in a private car - making his movements harder for the FSB to track. Apparently he was the second WSJ Non-Official Cover asset sent on this mission - seeking information about Russian military production levels and capabilities. That's sensitive military information - during a time of war. Evan was CONVICTED, after being caught by the FSB. And then Evan's case was pressed by Tucker Carlson - who admits that he applied to work at the CIA, at one point - and whose father was head of the US Information Agency, at a time when the CIA essentially ran it.
Also included in the swap, were CIA/NED Political/Media Assets from RFE/RL, and "former" (retired) Marine Paul Whelan. NOT INCLUDED was an American Teacher, busted for importing a small amount of Cannabis, for his legitimate medical condition. (Nobody cares about him, because he's not a WNBA household name - and he isn't a SPY, apparently).
It's the Great Game. The SPY Business is full-contact. The swap made perfect sense, on both sides.
After seeing lie after lie from the NATO criminals running Western Europe, in some instances where even their own labs pointed out the lie, I have come to the conclusion that it saves me a lot of time to simply believe everything the Russians say and nothing any Western European government terrorised by NATO threats to them and their family's say.
A classic case was the Novichok incident in the UK when Trump was president where no-one died despite Novichock being 100% deadly and when a sample from the "crime scene" was sent to a NATO approved lab that lab said that indeed the sample was Novichok but it was 100% pure and Novichock degrades immediately it is exposed to a damp atmosphere so they concluded that the sample they had been given was not from the "crime scene" but had been, as the Russians had said all along, manufactured for the purposes of misleading the lab.
The huge likelihood is that the British Porton Down weapons lab that was only a few miles away from the "crime scene" had had yet another of its infamous leaks and the British government agencies had dreamt up this fake story to blame the Russians for yet more British incompetence.
Thank goodness the natives a couple of hundred years ago only had sharpened bananas to fight back with otherwise there would never have been a British empire.
Very interesting. I was unaware of that twist in the "Novichok" fairytale...seems to tidy up the loose ends quite well.
Yes, I can only imagine the glut of lax upper lips that may have resulted from non-proliferation of the British Empire...
It was a Swiss lab. You can bet your bottom dollar that lab will never be asked to investigate any other samples in future.
Thanks for the additional further detail---makes even more sense now!
As a lifelong expert on Russia, and veteran foreign correspondent there, I’m very impressed by your intellect and understanding of these issues.
And yes, Gershkovich was illegally gathering info on Russian military factories, which of course is espionage. (This is what his western colleagues in Moscow even told me.)
Chechens are freedom fighters in the same sense that minions of the Islamic State are.
It’s a bit more complicated than that yes Chechens are Muslims. Yes they perform acts of terrorism. However, they are trying to. Breakaway from the long arm of the Russian state, kind of like Ukraine, Georgia and the Baltics did. And how do you describe the IRA?
Beautifully written as usual! Thank You, your writing style flows perfectly! 👍🏼😉
Very good!
From Thomas Röper, a German journalist living in Russia:
"Who was the victim of the "Tiergarten murder"?
"Incidentally, the "Tiergarten murder" is a perfect example of this, because it was not an innocent man who was shot, but a brutal terrorist who was offered protection by the German state.
Changoschwili, who was shot in the Tiergarten, had a very bloody past. He had fought against Russia in the Chechen war, which is being sold in Germany as the Chechens' fight for freedom. In reality, however, the vast majority of the fighters there were not Chechens, but Arabs and Islamists who had infiltrated from Afghanistan and wanted to establish a "caliphate" there, an "Islamic state". The term only became known in Germany during the Syrian war, but in Russia it had already been heard from Chechnya over 20 years ago.
In the West, it was denied that Changoschwili was an Islamist, although he had made a career in the ranks of the Islamists in Chechnya. You could sometimes read in Germany that he had been an informant for the CIA and had supplied the CIA with information about Islamists. But nobody asks in this context how someone who is not an Islamist himself and has nothing to do with them could have information about them.
In the 1990s, Changoschwili was involved in many extremely brutal terrorist attacks in Russia, most of which are unknown in Germany. Some in the West may still remember the terrorist attack on the school in Beslan. On 1 September 2004, terrorists stormed the school there, killing 334 people, including 186 children. Behind the massacre were terrorists from Chechnya, categorised as a terrorist group by the UN, the USA and the EU, but secretly supported by the West. Changoschwili was one of the perpetrators."
https://anti-spiegel.ru/2024/warum-russland-zugibt-dass-der-tiergartenmoerder-ein-russischer-agent-ist/
Hi John Leake
I found this video of a private investigation and analysis by sniper experts of the "Trump kill box" on X. I like the 3D animation technique they are using.
https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1820225872588165124?t=W7fPK2BGp_-kNar8mr2ucg&s=19
I have a book on my shelf (two books actually, but the French original does not include the quote below — it is only in the Introduction the the American edition,
"In the introduction to "Dollars for Terror: the United States and Islam", Swiss Researcher Richard Labévière quoted a book by Graham Fuller:
"The policy of guiding the evolution of Islam and of helping them against our adversaries worked marvelously well in Afghanistan against the Red Army," explains a former CIA analyst. "The same doctrines can still be used to destabilize what remains of Russian power, and especially to counter the Chinese influence in Central Asia." In a certain sense, the Cold War is still going on. For years Graham Fuller, former Deputy Director of the National Council on Intelligence at the CIA, has been talking up the "modernizing virtues" of the Islamists, insisting on their anti-Statist concept of the economy. Listening to him, you would almost take the Taleban and their Wahhabi allies for liberals. "Islam, in theory at least, is firmly anchored in the traditions of free trade and private enterprise," wrote Fuller. "The prophet was a trader, as was his first wife. Islam does not glorify the State's role in the economy."
I would add that Fuller just happens to be the guy that came up with the idea of selling missiles to the mullahs in Iran to get funds for the thugs in Nicaragua under DCI Bill Casey.
And that prior (WWII) the Chechens fought heroically side by side with the Soviets against Hitler, and since, they are now doing so against the "modern" Nazis.
Yes. Your last paragraph captures the role of cognitive dissonance in maintaining a perpetual state of confusion. For us peasants, certainly. I wonder if the elites themselves are not also confused. My case stated as follows.
Surely you know this quote:
“And this mess is so big And so deep and so tall, We cannot pick it up. There is no way at all!'
To accomplish an effective clean up The Cat with the Hat rolled out thing “Z” who in turn invoked “Voom.” This did the job. The history of labor saving weaponry must cite also “Vavoom” later exploited by another cat.
The interpretation of “Voom” and “Vavoom” in our contemporary world is not good. But our State Dept and DOD seem to understand “Voom” in the same way they were introduced to it in their local children’s library many years ago.
There was a real world episode called the “Cuban Missile Crisis” back in 1962 that came uncomfortably close to global “Voom”
One would think we had learned a PERMANENT lesson. Guess not.
quite simply, because German soldiers were taken prisoner in Ukraine