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So Yevgeny Prigozhin's Internet Research Agency -- the troll farm -- created a fake left-wing news site, complete with AI-generated editors. They duped freelancers into contributing to "PeaceData". Great expose by @Graphika_NYC: public-assets.graphika.com/reports/graphi…
Perhaps just a coincidence that the IRA decided to give PeaceData's editor-in-chief the same name as Hillary Clinton's senior policy adviser:
Standard fare for a tankie digital pub, including a lot of cross publication from other brands:
And note the websites whose articles PeaceData cross published the most:
.@charliearchy interviewed one of the freelancers they duped. He was offered more money than they paid him. businessinsider.com/writer-for-pea…
PeaceData is having none of it, of course:
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From the annals of Russian intelligence poisonings: Ignace Reiss (real name: Ludwig Poretsky), an early Fourth Department/GRU defector, was originally supposed to be murdered with strychnine-laced chocolates given to him by one of his agents, Gertrude Schildbach.
Schildbach got cold feet when she realized Reiss’s wife and child would also die from ingesting them. So instead Reiss was machine-gunned at point blank range after an attempted abduction near Lausanne went sideways.
(One of the OGPU/KGB agents responsible, Renata Steiner, had also surveilled Trotsky’s son, Lev Sedov in Paris. Sedov later died under suspicious circumstances during recovery for acute appendicitis. He was almost certainly poisoned in hospital by the OGPU....
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THREAD. Welp. I think I've found the former beauty queen Trump is rumored to have gotten to know perhaps a little too well in Moscow in 1996.

The SSCI leaves several clues about the "Miss Moscow" pageant winner, even amidst all the annoying redactions.
"Miss Moscow" is in fact only mentioned twice in the entire report. Here are both mentions.

1. A news article, translated from Russian, from 1998. Note "Miss Moscow" is in inverted commas (I'll come back to that).

2. Footnote from architect Theodore Liebman's interview.
The SSCI also cites Trump's alleged mystery paramour as being written up or quoted in the Russian press -- the sources are redacted, but the first is from 1998 and the second from 2007.
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Today might be a good day to note that Bannon's Cambridge Analytica work was evidently also the brainchild of Kilimnik, identified in the SSCI report as an active GRU officer (and implicated here in the DNC hack and leak operation).
I suppose we can be pedantic here and say that Kilimnik might belong to a different service, not the GRU. But the evidence in his c.v. and as established by the SSCI doesn't bear that out.
He attended the Military Institute for Foreign Languages in Moscow in 1987; the institute minted GRU officers. (Today it is part of the Kremlin’s Military University, tied to the Russian Ministry of Defense.)
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