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On January 25, 2017, it was announced that Sergei Mikhailov, a senior officer of the Federal Security Service (FSB) had been arrested on charges of treason in Moscow.

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Similarly, Ruslan Stoyanov, whorked as the Head of Computer Incident Response Investigations at Kaspersky Lab was also arrested.

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A few days before, on January 13, 2017, Andrei Gerasimov was fired from his position as Director of the Center For Information Security, which is the cyberintelligence branch of the Federal Security Service.

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The arrest of Sergei Mikhailov happened in early December 2016.

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Major Dmitry Dokuchaev, who also worked at the Federal Security Service, was revealed as the hacker "Forb" who was threatened with jail unless he worked at the FSB (similar to Catch Me If You Can). Dokuchaev was arrested and charged with treason.

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Both Sergei Mikhailov and Dmitry Dokuchaev were accused of violating their oath by co-operating with the Central Intelligence Agency.

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On March 15, 2017, Dmitry Dokuchaev was indicted by the United States Department of Justice for hacking into Yahoo!'s systems in 2014. Others indited included Igor Sushchin, Alexsey Belan and Karim Baratov.

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According to a media report by Tsgrgrad TV on Sergei Mikhailov, he was accused of providing United States agents on information which allowed the CIA / FBI to issue the election hacking report, blaming Russia.

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On December 31, 2018, Josh Gerstein at Politico published the article "Suspect's Twitter messages played role in NSA hacking-tools leak probe".

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"Messages that the former NSA computer security specialist, Hal Martin, sent via Twitter appear to have led to an FBI raid on his Maryland home and to his arrest on charges of retaining a vast trove of classified information there without permission."

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For reference, Harold T. Martin III was arrested on August 27, 2016 after the Shadow Brokers initiated a hunt within the National Security Agency, where they found 16 years worth of classified information.

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Since @jimsciutto doesn't understand that Christopher Steele was hired in June 2016 and the contract between Fusion GPS and Free Beacon ended before then, and that the first memo was written for June 20, 2016, I will explain it:

Christopher Steele was hired to write the dossier.
The fact that @CNN and @jimsciutto keep saying that Republicans funded the dossier would join with @Comey's idea that Republicans funded the dossier, which is completely incorrect.
You know, it's not the first time @jimsciutto has claimed that parts of the dossier have been verified. This was back in February 2017 though. I wonder who his source is?

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"The DNC had several meetings with representatives of the FBI's Cyber Division and its Washington Field Office, the DOJ's National Security Division, and US Attorney's Offices, and it responded to a variety of requests for cooperation..."
"... but the FBI never requested access to the DNC's computer servers", Eric Walker, the DNC's deputy communications director, told BuzzFeed News in an email.

Quote is from Ali Watkins' BuzzFeed News article from January 4, 2017, "The FBI Never Asked For Access To Hacked Computer Servers".

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) officers detained US citizen Paul Whelan in the Russian capital during a spy action, the FSB's press service said on Monday. sputniknews.com/russia/2018123…
The United States Embassy in Moscow said it had no information about the arrest and referred inquiries to the State Department in Washington.
Detention of US citizen Paul Nicholas Whelan contained in the FSB statement: “We can add that the US Embassy in Moscow was informed in a timely manner of the detention in accordance with the bilateral consular convention,” the ministry said.
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Felshtinsky wrote "Blowing Up Russia" with Alexander Litvinenko. Litvinenko also wrote a second book about the transformation of the Russian Security Services (FSB) into a criminal & terrorist organization called "Lubyanka Criminal Group."

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🕵️‍♂️At 43 years old, Litvinenko was poisoned by radioactive polonium-210 placed in his tea Nov 1, 2006. He was a former FSB agent, but became a critic of Putin after he moved to to the U.K. & became a citizen.

⚡️He didn't die until Nov 23, 2006.
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📹During that time period, he was interviewed by BBC Russian Service & said he was investigating the assassination of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya,

☕️Litvinenko's tea was with former FSB & KGB agent Andrei Lugovoi—the main suspect—& Dmitri Kovtun, a former KGB agent.
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⁉️How did Vladimir Putin come into power in Russia?

💣It was after this happened: 293 people died, 1,000+ people were killed in a series of apartment building bombings: September 4, 1999 in Buynaksk; Sept 9 & 13 in Moscow and Sept 16 in Volgodonsk.

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💣David Satter reported that the Russian Duma speaker and close Putin associate Gennady Seleznev announced the last bombing in Volgodonsk three days before it happened, September 13, 1999.

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💥This was also mentioned in the Russia Report, released by Senator Ben Cardin in January 2018.

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U.S. SECRET SERVICE RESPONSE TO THE GUARDIAN REPORTNG

@drawandstrike @ThomasWictor @HNIJohnMiller @jihadaeon1 @rising_serpent @_ImperatorRex_ @Debradelai @LarrySchweikart

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(Washington, D.C.) On Thursday, August 2, 2018, The Guardian published an article by Nick Hopkins entitled, Exclusive: suspected Russian spy found working at US embassy in Moscow. The article is wrought with irresponsible and inaccurate reporting based on the claims of...
“anonymous” sources. Prior to the Guardian publishing their article, the U.S. Secret Service provided their editor with our official statement as well as background information clearly refuting unfounded information.
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Skripal, a former Russian military intelligence officer sold out his country. He began working for the United Kingdom's MI6 in 1995 and passed on state secrets, such as the identities of Russian Intelligence agents.

This would be considered a serious crime by any country.
I think there is something very strange about the Skripal affair
Dec 2004, he was arrested by Russia′s Federal Security Service (FSB) and later tried, convicted of high treason, imprisoned, and given a 13 year sentence.
But in 2010 he was pardoned and released in a spy exchange🤨
Think about it. He (a Russian) was one of 3 spies released by Russia, in exchange for 10 Russian spies held by US in 2010 - and his release was at the insistence if the UK govt.

Why did the UK insist on his release. He was in jail since 2010.
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13 Russians criminally charged for interfering in US election, Mueller announces
🔹All were charged w conspiracy to defraud the US
🔹Three charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud
🔹Five defendants charged with aggravated identity theft theguardian.com/us-news/2018/f…
2/ This is the tip of the iceberg
3/ Let’s roll up our sleeves and dig into these indictments, shall we?
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