'One of the parties Zelenskyy moved on was led by Putin’s close ally, Viktor Medvedchuk, who was supposed to take reign of the Ukrainian government had Putin’s plot of assassinating Zelenskyy succeeded. He was arrested right after the invasion.'—@olganyc1211 for @talk_spy
'The SBU has long been mired in scandal and drawn scrutiny from activists calling for reform. Right after the start of Russia’s invasion, reports began surfacing of some SBU agents assisting its troops in capturing towns'
Jun 21, 2021 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Chinese Defector Mystery Deepens: Beijing’s sketchy report of Dong Jingwei’s appearance at a spy-catcher seminar adds suspicion that top counterintelligence official fled to U.S.—by @matthew_brazil & @SpyTalker for @talk_spyspytalk.co/p/chinese-defe…#espionage#China#spies
Rumors that China's top spy catcher had defected to the US reached a fever pitch over the weekend, propelled largely by unfounded reports in anticommunist and pro-Trump circles that Dong had evidence that the Covid-19 pandemic originated in a Wuhan lab leak, not from an animal.
Jun 17, 2021 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
High-level Chinese Defection Rumored: State Security Vice Minister Dong Jingwei's defection would be highest ever in the history of the People's Republic. By @matthew_brazil & @SpyTalker for @talk_spyspytalk.co/p/high-level-c…
'Dong is, or was, a longtime official in China’s Ministry of State Security, responsible counterintelligence, since being promoted to vice minister in April 2018. If the stories are true, he would be the highest-level defector in the history of the People’s Republic of China.'
