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10 Apr, 4 tweets, 2 min read
11 years ago today the Polish government was decapitated by a catastrophic plane crash in Russia. Serious questions linger about what really happened at #Smolensk -- questions that the MSM and elite influencers will attack you for even asking. 1/3

observer.com/2018/05/eviden…
In 2010, the notion of hidden Kremlin involvement in #Smolensk seemed fanciful. After Moscow's murderous lies about MH17 (299 dead), after GRU assassins used novichok in Salisbury, it's the idea that Russia didn't have some role in the Smolensk tragedy that seems far-fetched. 2/3
I am a veteran of NSA not NTSB. I don't know what really happened at #Smolensk. I want to know. People who work for the Kremlin and people who claim to be very anti-Kremlin both get very upset when you suggest that questions linger in this case. That intrigues me. 3/3
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John Schindler Profile picture
20 Feb
Helpful update here. However, a couple comments.

1st, you don't need a KGB insider to tell us what Trump's secret relationship with the Kremlin was.

It's obvious to anyone serious versed in CI issues relating to Russia and its special services (a small group, I know)...
In short, the KGB back in the 1980s wanted Trump as an agent of influence (агент влияния), an Armand Hammer 2.0 for Moscow, but he wound up as a confidential contact (доверительный контакт) because Don's so unreliable and unpredictable.

It's all here:

topsecretumbra.substack.com/p/words-matter…
Last, while it's probably on editors not @jonathanchait, Shvets left KGB/PGU in 1990 as a major.

He was an intel officer, not an agent.

People who don't understand such basic, 101-level espionage terminology should steer clear of commenting on complex issues like Chekist MO.
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10 Dec 20
There is a serious point here. Since 2016, too much of the MSM & Democrats have decided that anything that's mentioned by Kremlin-controlled or Kremlin-friendly outlets is off-limits and ipso facto untrue.

This is about politics, not disinformation.

Let me explain...
There is a clear distinction among counterpropaganda professionals between (actual) fake news and regular old disinformation, which often contains a fair amount of truth. The former includes outright fabrications, eg the Seth Rich deception, which was authored by the Kremlin...
The complete lie that Rich was murdered by a DNC death squad was literally authored by the SVR -- a fact which I was the first to expose several years ago, per below. It was completely made up, and still lives on in certain fetid online swamps...

observer.com/2017/08/russia…
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John Schindler Profile picture
7 Nov 20
Let's be clear: This is bonkers. No such NSA program exists, nor could it exist, legally. NSA has no domestic intelligence mission, it is a FOREIGN intelligence agency.

The Upside-Down lunatics need to cut it out.

While NSA+CYBERCOM have a role now in protecting the integrity of our elections, that is a defensive mission aimed at deterring and diminishing HoIS operations against US campaigns and the election itself...that has NOTHING to do with the actual voting process or counting votes.
Lt Gen (ret) McInerney was a USAF pilot a long time ago. He knows no more about IC ops than an average citizen on the street, much less about NSA + CYBERCOM activities. This is dangerous nonsense.

noqreport.com/2020/11/04/ham…
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John Schindler Profile picture
17 Aug 20
Please don't scream this.

I'm sorry, Cheri, but this simply isn't true.

This is not what NSA thinks.

RIS did cyber-recon on some US voting systems in 2016. They didn't mess with voting. Nor is there any indication they plan to in 2020.

#Facts, please.

Please pay attention to what NSA & CYBERCOM are saying about election security. It's not 2016 anymore. They're devoting enormous effort to maintaining the integrity of our elections ===>

cyberscoop.com/election-inter…
DIRNSA has been way out front, listen:

“Our 1 one goal, our number 1 objective at NSA & CYBERCOM, is a safe secure and legitimate 2020 election. How are we going to do that?...We’re going to know our adversaries better than they know themselves.”

breakingdefense.com/2020/07/2020-e…
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18 Jun 20
With this retweet Trump has really outdone himself.

This is almost too perfect for words.

Who is this Blumenthal guy? Which one, you ask?

Let me explain... Image
Gotta love the irony: Max's father Sid Blumenthal (remember him? you should...) has spent the last 3 years trying to stand up every last morsel of the Steele Dossier and prove Donnie is an SVR agent....
Meanwhile Sid's Lefty spawn pushes the Kremlin line nonstop (and Assad's too, because of course) and says this is all a Deep State conspiracy. Even Dr Freud would say this is too on-the-nose for him...
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13 May 20
Unlike 99.999% of the people commenting on this story I've actually done SIGINT "unmaskings" for NSA, which makes me what @RadioFreeTom would call an Expert, so I have a couple comments on this story...

1st, Mike Flynn's notorious call to RU Amb Kislyak, which got this whole furball rolling, was on 29 DEC 2016...and a lot of these unmasking requests are wayyyyy before that. Back to 30 NOV, in fact.

Hmmmmm.....
2nd, this looks like a very normal unmasking request list, given what we know Flynn was talking about during the transition and with whom (ie RU, TU). There are all pretty senior policymakers or IC personnel -- some indeed very senior -- not random GS-13s....
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