1/24 In todays SALO we will discuss Sextapes & Female Spies and the way The Kremlin uses them to obtain strategic goals. Russia has a long tradition in using these ‘femme fatales’ not unlike your ordinairy James Bond movie.
2/24 Putin was hired into the secret service by then KGB boss and later president Yuri Andropov. His spydoctrine consisted of using false flags and blackmail. Spying on businessmen in bugged hotelrooms and using prostitutes, it's still textbook material for the secret services.
3/24 In the mid 90s Boris Yeltsin & Roman Abramovic asked Putin for help. Could the former KGB agent make those annoying corruption investigations from proscecutor Skuratov dissapear? Not soon after a spicy sextape pops up. It was the end of his career and the investigation.
4/24 In his memoirs Skuratov mentions that Putin had blackmailed him with the sextape. Moreover Putin had confessed that there also had been compromising material of himself recored in the same appartment. According to former FSB agent Litvinenko it involved sex with children.
5/24 everal sources pointed to Putin liking younger kids. During his presidency Putin had one weird incident were he publicly kissed a boy on his belly later explaining how he just liked the little naughty kid...
6/24 Putins pesidency was marked by getting rid of critics one way or another. The makers of political tv-cabaret Kuhkly noticed this first hand. The creative brain of the show was framed by an FSB send female spy (picture) in another sextape scandal, revenge for mocking Putin.
7/24 Scott Ritter currently best known as a Russian propagandists was once a weapons inspector for the UN. On a inspectionjob in Russia he started an affair with a translator. Ritter realised it could get him fired and used the only loophole possible: marry her.
8/24 As a translator Khatiasvili had to report to the KGB in the past. In unrelated events Ritter got caught in a sexsting operation in the early 2000s and in 2009 for intend to have sex with a minor. Does Marina still report to the FSB and do they have Komprimat on him?
9/24 In 2009 a sextape emerged of a Brittish diplomat in Russia with two prostitutes. A Russian website dupped the feat “The adventures or Mister Hudson.” After closer inspection it became apparant that the recording was done in a professional manner: James Hudson was set up.
10/24 The case of mister Hudson was far from unique as in the same year it happened to an American diplomat. The Obama administration was on to the smearcampaign and ousted its discomfort with Russias old KGB tactics.
11/24 Model Anna Vasilyevna, better known as Anna Chapman, became part of the FSB like her father. She lead a spyring in the US and was apprehended in 2009. She returned via a prisonerswap to Russia. In her new instagramcareer the model heavily promoted Donald Trump.
12/24 he FSB had clearly picked up the lesson of giving their spies better coverstories. So they did, Olga Kobolova became Maria Adela Kuhfeldt Riviera, complete with fake Peruvian backstory. She was send to Italy to infiltrate NATO, as a cover she ran a jeweleryshop.
13/24 Kobolova soon joined the local Lions Club in Naples that was founded by a NATO member. She then found her way by mingling with NATO and US officers and through the affairs gather intelligence from the local NATO base. Eventually she was found out by photo recognition.
14/24 Mikael Kasyanov was the prime minster of Putins first cabinet (2000-2003). After a dispute over the privatisation of a gascompany Putin blew up the coalition. Kaysanov didn’t return and was not allowed to start a political party himself. Yet he remained a Putin critic.
15/24 A sextape of Kaysanov and another female opposition figure popped up in 2016. Natalia Pelevina, the woman in the tape, says she was ordered by the FSB to record the escapade. Both were part of RPR-PARNAS one of the last liberal opposition parties. Both quit the party.
16/24 After exposing Russian corruption and also pleading to install the Magnitsky Act, Bill Browder knew he was one of Putins main enemies. The Kremlin had used many tricks to catch Browder. A fake interpol arrest warrant, and proposing a prisonerswap to Trump.
17/24 Around 2016 The Kremlin tried ‘The Honey Trap’. When Browder was in Monaco to lobby on his Magnitsky-Act a Russian delegation spotted him. A pretty blonded had somehow obtained his number and texted “I felt a connection, I want meet you again”. Browder didn’t fall for it.
18/24 Russia also another femme fatale to try and infiltrate American politics. Seductive Redhead Maria Butina attended Trump rallies in 2015 to make contacts, according to some intel she used sex as a trademark to gather intel.
19/24 Another pretty Russian popped next to pro Russian propagandist Jackson Hinkle. That Hinkle was an important informationasset was apparent by the big artificial way he gained followers. Hinkle got millions of followers within days on twitter, a clear sign of Russian bots.
20/24 Miss Russia Anna Linnikova even got engaged with Jackson Hinkle. Then suddenly Linnikova announced on X that they broke up. It’s interesting how in X she sort of confirms the theory she was asked to cozy up to Hinkle by the FSB. She wouldn't be the first woman to do so...
21/24 During the unrest of the ‘protests’ in Eastern Ukraine in 2014 Russia had send many thugs to create mayham. Russia also send a female spy on a special mission. A Russian woman in her early 20s later admitted to the SBU she had killed a few people to create more unrest.
22/24 The Kremlin also send a female spy to obtain sensitive info on Zelensky to help with an assination plot on a visit in Mykolaev. We have to admit she wasn’t a stunner, yet the same psychology applies here: women are least expected in the game of intelligence gathering.
23/24 There have been strong rumours of Russia having a Trump Sextape. Those claims haven't materialised in something substantial yet. We do know Trump visited Russia in the 80s when it was common to gather blackmail on businessmen.
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