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Mar 14 ā€¢ 6 tweets ā€¢ 3 min read
The Smirnov case is an excellent one to create a network map & teach some OSINT skills. If you want to help & learn some cool techniques, hit me up. In addition to the ETT Texas connections, Chris Condon is linked to Russian agent Smirnov, through GRU spy Cherkasov - both Condon & Cherkasov went to Johns Hopkins.

Cherkasov tried to gain access to the International Criminal Court as an intern & is jailed in Brazil.



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Feb 15 ā€¢ 9 tweets ā€¢ 5 min read
Alexander Smirnov, FBI Confidential Source (CHS) from 2010-2020, indicted for giving false information used in criminal investigations into Hunter Biden regarding Burisma

In 2020, Smirnov retroactively claimed to have meetings back in 2015/16

Letā€™s look at this complex timeline


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To contrive ā€œevidenceā€ against Hunter & Joe Biden, Smirnov sent a photo claiming Hunter & Joe Biden were golfing with the CEO of Burismaā€¦ but it was not.

Smirnov clearly stated he wanted Trump elected in 2020 & was attempting to interfere in the US Presidential Election.
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Feb 14 ā€¢ 4 tweets ā€¢ 1 min read
Bulgaria arrests 2 Russian spies - a police officer in the organised crime unit & an employee of the state security agency.

Both were handled by one of the PNGed Russian spies under diplomatic cover kicked out of Bulgaria. Democratic Bulgaria MP Atanas Atanasov, former intel agency director, claims Bulgarian President Rumen Radev gives Russian spies citizenship to infiltrate the security services.

This is organised by a Ukrainian-Russian agent in Moscow.

Atanasov says he has documentation.
Jan 27 ā€¢ 5 tweets ā€¢ 2 min read
Family of GRU agents run a logistics hub from Brussels to Moscow supplying critical equipment for Kinzhal missile production

ā€¢Viktor Labin -Brussels - point of origin
ā€¢Ruslan Labin -middleman & Moscow base via Sonatek
ā€¢Roman Labin -pro-Russian European protest shit stirrer Russian GRU intel officer Viktor Labin (founder), with sons Roman (CEO) & Ruslan (CFO) ship sensitive electronics to Russiaā€™s defense companies through their company Groupe d'Investissement Financier in Belgium. In April 2023, middleman Sonatek began using Turkey as the tween.
Nov 12, 2023 ā€¢ 7 tweets ā€¢ 7 min read
Erik Prince has 3 ongoing arms trafficking investigations in Austria. 2 for supplying modified Thrush aircraft (a crop duster) to South Sudan & 2 regarding importing weapons to Libya.

Letā€™s look at his Austrian company, Airborne Technologies GmbH. Radar SCAR pod for fixed wing & rotary aircraft

AESA stationary radars w/ long-range detection, SAR, ISAR, GMTI & CCD capabilities. Modular design. Integrates w/ the Airborne LINX Mission Management Unit & operated from customized Tactical Workstations.

airbornetechnologies.at/media/filer_puā€¦


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Oct 10, 2023 ā€¢ 11 tweets ā€¢ 4 min read
Shortly after the blink-and-you-miss-it Wagner coup, Russia took ownership of Wagner as an arm of Russia, funded by Russia.

Wagner training Hamas is Russia training Hamas.

h/t @NZ_Trav May 2022: Hamas delegation lands in Moscow to meet with officials in the Russian Foreign Ministry.

April 2022: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh held a rare phone call with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entryā€¦
Sep 23, 2023 ā€¢ 8 tweets ā€¢ 3 min read
@CollinRugg Derkach still working with Grassley & GOP despite being an indicted agent @CollinRugg Then thereā€™s Trumpā€™s campaign manager, Manafort, and his long relationship with GRU spy, Kilimnik
Aug 26, 2023 ā€¢ 83 tweets ā€¢ 33 min read
PART 9: Cambridge Analytica, SCL, AIQ doc dump

Each part = 100 tweets

Below are parts 1-8 The usual caveats:

ā€¢I provide this info for public good. Itā€™s by no means exhaustive.

ā€¢I do my part, now you do yours by sharing & exploring.

ā€¢All the sources are public. None are hacked material. I couldnā€™t hack my way out of a paper bag.

ā€¢Journalists & OSINT: DMs open
May 23, 2023 ā€¢ 4 tweets ā€¢ 2 min read
Roman Protasevich, who was pulled off a Belarus-hijacked Ryan Air plane with girlfriend, Sofia Sapega, has been given a pardon from Lukashenko after betraying Sapega (6 yrs in prison) & marrying a mystery woman when he was moved to cushy home arrest.

nytimes.com/2023/05/23/worā€¦ Protasevich helped many anti-Lukashenko activists and protestors post-election. He started @nexta_tv while exiled to Lithuania & Poland.

How connected he was to many of the inner workings of groups now helping Ukraine through sabotage in Belarus cannot be understated.
Mar 16, 2023 ā€¢ 34 tweets ā€¢ 13 min read
In light of Guo's arrest on an 11 count indictment, it's time to revisit some of the Guo & Bannon action this extensive fraud funded.

Bannon held talks with Guo's inner circle stating plans for the Jan 6 insurrection & that he was behind the Hunter Biden laptop conspiracy. Bannon explained Cambridge Analytica style weaponization using Guo's Chinese diaspora media empire at AmFest, a far right extremist gathering.
Mar 14, 2023 ā€¢ 11 tweets ā€¢ 4 min read
The Mackey (Ricky Vaughn) trial is significant. Be prepared for some interesting testimony Cooperating Witnesd, who was in Mackey's DM rooms. Far right extremists should be nervous:

...presently involved in multiple, ongoing investigations and other activities in which he or she is using assumed internet names and ā€œhandlesā€ that do not reveal his or her true identity.
Mar 3, 2023 ā€¢ 6 tweets ā€¢ 3 min read
Kash Patel paid the GOP's faux whistleblowers to testify in Jim Jordan's fake congressional hearings.

The testimony came from former suspended FBI agents spewing Jan 6th insurrection conspiracies - bought & paid for by Kash Patel.

nytimes.com/2023/03/02/us/ā€¦ Jordan's sleazy line up includes:

ā€¢George Hill - retired F.B.I. supervisory intel analyst
ā€¢Stephen Friend - ex-special agent
ā€¢Garret Oā€™Boyle - suspended special agent
ā€¢Other potential witnesses are FBI employees who were disciplined for attending the Jan 6 insurrection
Mar 3, 2023 ā€¢ 7 tweets ā€¢ 3 min read
Trumpā€™s campaign contacted Proud Boys leader, Enrique Tarrio, weeks after Trump publicly endorsed the white nationalist group.

Trump to PB: stand back and stand by

truthout.org/articles/trumpā€¦ As it happened, I was keeping track of Proud Boys marching from the White House directly to the Capitol, skipping Trump's speech that PBs now claim spontaneously radicalized them on Jan 6th.
Mar 2, 2023 ā€¢ 9 tweets ā€¢ 4 min read
Mark Muffley arrested for a bomb in his luggage... & a can of butane, a lighter, a pipe with white powder residue, a wireless drill with cordless batteries & 2 circuit breakers taped together.Ā 

Be prepared for more lone actor attacks.

bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-ā€¦ White Supremacist Scott Anderson & 4 others arrested in 7 bombings in the Fresno area.

Seized
ā€¢11 illegal firearms
ā€¢hundreds of rounds of ammo
ā€¢90 grams of packaged methamphetamine
ā€¢$50,000

Expect more lone attacks

latimes.com/california/stoā€¦
Feb 28, 2023 ā€¢ 8 tweets ā€¢ 3 min read
Russian ultra-nationalist street gang simp & creator of the silly Z symbol, Igor Mangushev, was shot in the head in Luhansk by 9mm at close range.

He was a leader of the Yenot (Raccoon) PMC & pal of Wagner's Prigozhin...

intelnews.org/2023/02/07/01-ā€¦ Assassinated Russian neo-Nazi, Igor Mangushev was the little man parading a skull of an alleged Ukrainian fighter killed defending the Azovstal steel works in a video.

He worked with Wagner PMC's Yevgeny Prigozhin, as a political strategist. šŸ¤”

bbc.com/news/world-eurā€¦
Feb 7, 2023 ā€¢ 6 tweets ā€¢ 2 min read
Brandon Russell, founder of accelerationist N@zi group, AtomWaffen Division (AWD), plotted to attack the Baltimore power grid with his prison girlfriend.

Russel is an ex-Florida National Guardsman

rawstory.com/nazi-power-griā€¦ Russell went by Odin on the Iron March social platform that brought multiple neo-Nazi groups together & served as an effective recruitment tool for the N@zi curious.

From Iron March, many violent groups emerged, including AWD & The Base
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019ā€¦
Feb 5, 2023 ā€¢ 8 tweets ā€¢ 5 min read
Yesterday, I saw a video showing water canons allegedly used by Poland against Ukrainian refugees. It was posted by a tiny Russian account. Now the extreme right picked it up.

This is what I observed with the earliest QAnon on Twitter
@Poland Small, inconsequential accounts would post something no one should have seen. 1-3 days later bigger accounts referenced the material or made a statement about it - including Trump.

The seed accounts were mostly Russian aligned. The pick up was always US far right extremists.
Nov 11, 2022 ā€¢ 6 tweets ā€¢ 2 min read
How to lose $44 billion in 30 days or less

businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitā€¦ FTC is concerned Mitter (Musk+Twitter) is breaking a privacy consent decree. Claims it has "new tools" to enforce compliance.

bbc.co.uk/news/business-ā€¦
Oct 1, 2022 ā€¢ 66 tweets ā€¢ 29 min read
811/ When Palantir has plans to infuse itself into NHS without scrutiny, avoiding political resistance.

Personal health data was critical to Cambridge Analytica's behaviour modeling.

Governments need more resilience in contracts & DD.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/ā€¦ 812/ Palantir consistently ran at a loss until Trump, who gave Palantir unprecedented foothold in gov contracts.

In 2019, Palantir had access to live, real-time consumer spending thru US Federal Reserve in something that sounds like the NHS takeover.

federalreserve.gov/econres/feds/fā€¦ ImageImage
Sep 20, 2022 ā€¢ 345 tweets ā€¢ >60 min read
Earlier this year, Wikimedia Foundation banned 7 editors from China & removed administrator privileges from another 12 when they discovered a Chinese infiltration group.

finance.yahoo.com/news/wikipediaā€¦ SBU detained a 62-year old female FSB agent passing defence developments, targeting, technology & troop movements in the Dnipro region to Russia.

t.me/SBUkr/5060
Sep 10, 2022 ā€¢ 7 tweets ā€¢ 3 min read
Everything is going according to plan & ahead of schedule

ā€¢Dissolution of puppet regimes in occupied Donbas
ā€¢Ukraine liberating Crimea
ā€¢NATO expansion
ā€¢Losing European natural gas market
ā€¢Russian economic collapse
ā€¢Int'l isolation & iron curtain

nv.ua/en/50269166.htā€¦ Lol. Halliburton announces it is leaving the Russian market Sept 8, 2022, having bled dry any benefit for the last 7 months.

nv.ua/en/50269007.htā€¦