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Nov 2, 2024 17 tweets 5 min read Read on X
I have identified 28 bots targeting intel/mil/geopol/logistics/energy people. They reply, follow and quote and are most often very enthusiastic.

End game is unknown, but a guess is recruitment or information gathering. Maybe just influence.

Anyway, here they are, in network shape.Image
Some of the texts the excited intel-bots produce and post to other users.

Will eventually be released in a more sane format.
In this thread I started collecting the excited intel-bots. Lots of examples of what they post and how I differentiate them.
One of the intel bots in the network, trying to slide into the DM's of @stevehouf, a business researcher with @business and with several connections to academia.

Wonder if they continued in DM. Did you @stevehouf ? Image
This is much meta. An excited intel-bot warning @chrismartenson of PeakProsperity to not fall for phishing. Image
Another excited intel-bot, airing his worries about email privacy to @cyb_detective

Note the enthusiasm in the reply, typical for this breed of bots. Image
@NOELreports is popular target of the intel bot network, especially one of them is a keen poster to them.

In this case it is military commentary, mostly in strong favour of Ukraine. Image
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”who knows, you might have a senior NATO-officer on the hook a few sentences later!”

This is just a first thread.

Much more analysis and anecdotes to come.
Since summarizing the accounts of the excited intel bots 2 days ago a 1/4 has closed. Most had been active since early August.

Ie, they might know I am on to them. Thats right, hide mfers.
The excited intel bots are trying to hide, but I found a way of finding them in hiding. And I have already found 100's more.
Some activity from last hours, excited intel bots appreciating some racist DOD merch and engaging analyis of both old maps and Tory's future. Image
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@Disfosgen @FlorianGallwitz @FlorianGallwitz data^ will be available soon

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More from @auonsson

Jan 19
Washington Post has again managed to find anon sources saying Russia is not doing bad things in the Baltic Sea.

They got the infographic quite wrong, so I fixed it.

They also have a named source, within mil intel, completely contradicting their headline.

Nice one WaPo! Image
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Washington Post today presented a wholly incomplete infographics on Baltic Sea infrastructure incidents.

Actually damaged structures: 13, presented by WaPo as 4-5.

Actual # incidents: 4, WaPo found 3.

Here is the fix. Image
According to WaPo and their anons "there is an emerging consensus that it is all accidents"

Yet officials in actual positions are ordering very expensive and resource intensive mission as we speak.

Article archived: archive.is/7JcKG
Read 9 tweets
Jan 14
'If something were to happen Denmark might have to answer to why JAZZ was not boarded and inspected'

Experts agree: Denmark should inspect broken tanker JAZZ. No one thinks they will

Naval officer, maritime law scholar + analyst says 'Do it'

DK authorities: no reply. URL👇 Image
Original link: danwatch.dk/skyggeskib-bro…
Archive-link: archive.is/0nGfY
"Of course three propulsion breakdowns should lead to a port state control" says professor of maritime law Cossen in the article.

JAZZ is loaded with 50k ton oil and has serious issues with her machinery. Broke down thrice last 14 days and needed tug assistance once.
Read 5 tweets
Nov 4, 2024
Excited intel bots project:

Leading online authorities on shipping, @johnkonrad & @mercoglianos, are popular targets in the network of intel bots I am looking into.

Bots are mainly agreeing and praising, but sometimes seemingly nudging them in other direction. Hard to say from limited material.Image
Some example posts:
1 Snarky
2 Strong agree
3 Poor bot cant sleep

In total the bots I found have posted or quoted John and Sal 69 times, but that is likely just a fraction of the total. Image
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Full text of all replies and quotes with datetimes and urls from excited intel bots to @johnkonrad and @mercoglianos in this csv.

Not complete, there is likely much more. Eventually I will release all posts I have found and the metadata/relation data.

pastequest.com/?767a9ebaf875c…
Read 7 tweets
Oct 26, 2024
This US Super Hercules transport landing in Denmark from US base Rota in Spain avoided French air space to Denmark. (But not *to* Rota)

Previous days it has visited among other places Rammstein, Aviano, Incirlik, Akrotiri.

What are you shipping around? Previous days, next tweet.Image
23 Rammstein, DE/US - Aviano, IT - Incirlik, TR
24 Incirlik, TR ? Akrotiri, CY ? Rammstein, DE/US
25 Rammstein, DE/US - Tartu, EE ? Vilnius, LV - Rammstein, DE/US MEDEVAC
26 Rammstein, DE/US - Rota, ES/US- Aalborg, DK

19-5945 / AE6960
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More similar problems but for a civilian flight. Maybe just an ATC production level issue?

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Oct 23, 2024
Russian underwater elite spy/sabotage division GUGI did an armed recon of Germany latest 266MW wind farm in October 2023.

They left after German coast guard ordered them to.

The ship in question, is the latest of GUGI and this was her maiden voyage.

This is one of the tidbits from a new documentary by @dwnewsImage
Shortly after sabotage ship Evgeniy Gorigledzhan surveyed a German submarine training area.

This was likely her next stop, infrastructure of UK. A dark ship, attracting numerous military vessels.
Read 6 tweets
Oct 14, 2024
Russian research vessel AKADEMIK MSTISLAV KELDYSH is on her way home to Kaliningrad.

Just as in Feb 24 she slowed down from her more common 9-10 knots to 5 as she passed the wind, power and submarine infrastrucure dense south Baltic Sea.

Speaking against shenanigans is the fact that no NATO vessel paid any interest. AIS-caveats apply.Image
AKADEMIK MSTISLAV KELDYSH has managed some quite extensive miles of oceanography last year. Image
ERRATA: it should be "to 5-6 knots" not "5 knots" Sorry.
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