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Edward Snowden was targeted by Russian spies 6 years BEFORE he exposed US secrets - Mir... - 0 views

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surveillance-state Snowden KGB SVR ad hominem attacks

shared by Paul Merrell on 10 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • Ex-KGB Major Boris Karpichkov said spies from Russia’s SVR intelligence service posing as ­diplomats tricked Snowden into ­seeking asylum in Russia
  • Russian spies had whistleblower Edward Snowden in their sights SIX YEARS before he exposed US secrets, reports the Sunday People.Moscow believed the cyber wizard working for the CIA in Geneva was ripe for defection in 2007 and opened a file on him, says a KGB defector.But secret agents did not swoop until last year when Snowden, 30, fled to Hong Kong with 1.7 million top secret documents which he leaked to the media.Ex-KGB Major Boris Karpichkov said spies from Russia’s SVR intelligence service posing as ­diplomats tricked Snowden into ­seeking asylum in Russia.And when the turncoat went there the information was leaked to ­provoke the US into cancelling his passport , so restricting his movements, said Karpichkov.
  • “He wasn’t a Russian spy before he went to Moscow . But death threats have frightened him."These threats were a carefully planned operation by the Russian security services to make Snowden stay in Russia.“Snowden cannot leave Moscow even if he wanted as the Americans have cancelled his passport.”He was admitted to the country on a 12-month renewable visa.But Karpichkov said Snowden’s flight to Moscow was deliberately leaked by the Russians to provoke the Americans into just such an action.
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  • Last week the Sunday People ­revealed how Snowden has given so much away about how our GCHQ eavesdroppers gather information on Islamist killers that officials have been forced to set up new procedures.This week it has emerged that GCHQ staff named by Snowden have made plans to rush their partners and kids to safety should they become targets for terrorists.A senior Whitehall source told us: “Parts of the radar have gone dark and that is very worrying. Snowden has committed the worst kind of treachery.”Karpichkov agreed.He said: “There is no doubt he has put Britain and America in grave danger.”
  • Paul Merrell on 10 Jun 14
     
    To say I am dubious is a gross understatement. From the publication of his first leaked document, the western military intelligence/industrial complex has been attempting to kill the messenger rather than address the message. The meme that he defected to the Russians has been making the rounds for months, but without any supporting allegations, ignoring that his stay in Russia while in transit to Ecuador was the result of the U.S. pulling his passport. Now we have a story in a British yellow-journalism tabloid fairly infamous for publishing hoaxes that meets that criticism, Suddenly, we are told by a former KGB officer that Russian intelligence maneuvered the U.S. into pulling Snowden's passport while Snowden was on layover in Moscow during his travel from Hong Kong to South America.  But the public opinion polls have been moving in the civil libertarians' direction so an escalation in the quality of attacks on Snowden has been entirely predictable. And of course the article ends with an ad hominem "treachery attack on Snowden attributed to GCHQ and an anonymous "senior Whitehall source."  It will be interesting to see what Snowden and Glenn Greenwald have to say about this. If you're interested in the background of the ex-KBG officer, the following Google query will get you lots of information: +kgb +"boris karpichkov" -Snowden  
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shared by Paul Merrell on 30 Aug 14 - No Cached
  • Russia's External Intelligence Service (SVR) warned Kremlin that the US is using the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorist group to create a new front against Russia in the Central Asia. "The SVR has warned Kremlin in a report that the US is seeking to lead the ISIL forces in the Caucasus and the Central Asia to create a new front against Russia in the Central Asia in future to implement their plots and policies in the Middle-East," an informed source, who is close to Kremlin officials and asked to remain unnamed due to the sensitivity of his information, told FNA on Tuesday. "Using Saudi Arabia's facilities, which has shown its capability in transferring terrorists to Syria and Iraq, for recruiting forces in the Central Asia, the US has coaxed the Wahhabi clerics affiliated to Riyadh into attracting fighters from different Central Asian states, including Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, to prepare them mentally for being sent to Syria and Iraq. Then, they are trained in Kyrgyzstan and transferred to Istanbul and then to Syria and Iraq," the source said.
  • The report warns Russia of the danger of a US-led front run by the ISIL fighters in the Central Asia, stressing that the threat will sooner or later jeopardize the country's security, he concluded. Analysts believe that given the situation in the Middle-East if the ISIL creates a radical Islamic state in the region, then that would become a catalyst for what can become a much more widespread war and chaos involving not only the regional powers but given the interests of other international powers in the region, including Russia, China, the United States, some pretty serious conflicts among these great powers. They say that any success of the ISIL cult would have “a very important indirect effect” on the US and on the rest of the countries in the Eurasian region.
  • Paul Merrell on 30 Aug 14
     
    Well, duh!
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