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Michael Weiss

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19 Dec

@JohnHultquist

As @JohnHultquist said, the SVR is still inside many of these computer systems, having built themselves back doors in the event their malware was uncovered and deleted. So Trump's claim that this is a contained nothing-burger is characteristic bullshit. washingtonpost.com/national-secur…

And keep in mind, a lot of the compromised organizations (around 18,000) are private or publicly traded companies, which are now weighing the financial risks of admitting to the size and scope of their breaches.

So while POTUS can try to argue that our nukes are safe, stop worrying -- and oh maybe it was a fatty magoo in mom's basement in Beijing wot done it -- what he doesn't realize or seem to care about is how his beloved stock market might be impacted by this operation.

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Michael Weiss

@michaeldweiss

7 Dec

@4freerussia_org

NEW: Several months ago I obtained a tranche of secret Russian military intelligence (GRU) files on psychological warfare. These documents are dated from within the decade and @4freerussia_org has translated them all. 4freerussia.org/aquarium-leaks…

Two of the documents are lectures delivered by GRU faculty specialists at Russia's Military University (not to be confused with the Military-Diplomatic Academy).

One lecture is a kind of order of battle, explaining how psyops are organized, planned...

... and executed by the GRU, right down to the company levels of each branch of the Russian Armed Forces.

Another lecture explains how to study and attack targets in the West as well as the proper means of interrogating prisoners of war. newlinesmag.com/dispatch/insid…

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Michael Weiss

@michaeldweiss

9 Nov

https://twitter.com/bernardkerik/status/1325474132885114880

“Smiley is suspicious, Percy!”

https://twitter.com/bernardkerik/status/1325474132885114880

"It's a new secret source of mine. He runs a septic tank drainage company in north Philly and writes haikus on Reddit signed, 'MK-Ultron.' We believe the intelligence is credible."

"I just got Jared's text at Benjamin Bar that it was a convicted paedo telling us not to concede. Where the bloody head is Control?"

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Michael Weiss

@michaeldweiss

21 Oct

NEW: A German cybersecurity guru who took part in two Russian influence operations last year snagged meetings with top DHS officials, Amazon, Microsoft and U.S. public utilities on a bicoastal tour of America: thedailybeast.com/cybersecurity-…

Hans-Wilhelm Dünn's trip to these shores took place about six months after a major German media exposé of his collaboration with Vladislav Sherstyuk, a former KGB officer and director of FAPSI, Russia's signint agency. Caused quite a fuss in Berlin.

Dünn also went on one of Prigozhin's "election monitoring" missions to Zimbabwe, alongside European neo-Nazis. They met Mugabe and took pics -- all uploaded to Dünn's Twitter feed. Prigozhin's org describes itself as a "network of agents of influence." thedailybeast.com/prigozhin-is-u…

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Michael Weiss

@michaeldweiss

12 Oct

[Thread] Meet Martin Möller, an Austrian colonel who spent decades spying for Russian military intelligence. In the last half-decade or so, he worked with a specific unit of the GRU: dennikn.sk/2082755/russia…

First, what you might expect: intel on German military units and equipment, anything that might be gleaned from (non-NATO) Austria's alliance with NATO member-states:

This involved giving his handlers a look at the Structural Planning Department at the Austrian Ministry of Defense as well as NATO troop vulnerabilities in Afghanistan (where Austrian troops also fought), from meetings held at NATO HQ in Brussels, which Möller attended:

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