Excerpt:
According to court documents, a Russian government official recruited Fuentes in 2019 and directed Fuentes to rent a specific property in Miami-Dade County, Florida. The Russian official told Fuentes not to rent the apartment in Fuentes’s own name and not to tell his family about their meetings. Fuentes traveled to Russia and informed the Russian government official about the arrangements. The official approved and told Fuentes to see him again on his next trip to Russia.
In February 2020, Fuentes traveled to Moscow again and met with the Russian government official. At this meeting, the Russian government official provided Fuentes with a physical description of a U.S. Government source’s vehicle and told Fuentes to locate the car, obtain the source’s vehicle license plate number, and note the physical location of the source’s vehicle. The Russian official instructed Fuentes to meet the Russian official again in April or May 2020, to inform him of the results of the search for the source’s vehicle.
Well this is a shock/s
Another Maria Butina or a real Cuban spook?
“Fuentes and his travel companion arrived at Miami International Airport to leave to United States, on their way to Mexico City. U.S. Customs and Border Protection inspected the phone of Fuentes’s travel companion and found a close-up image of the license plate of the U.S. Government source’s vehicle in the “recently deleted folder” of her phone. When asked about the photo, Fuentes admitted tasking his travel companion to take the photo of the vehicle’s license plate. CBP’s review of Fuentes’s phone revealed a WhatsApp message from his travel companion sent to Fuentes with the same photograph of the vehicle license plate.”
With the things he was up to, you would think he might have heard about using a long and complex password. Or keeping his personal phone 100% clean. The spy who knew too little I guess.
As an aside, it would be kinda cool to know the US Govt target and why? Politician? FBI agent? Trade rep? Was the person being recruited? Or were they innocent?
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also,
rememeber there was a guy arrested for pretending to be part of DJT’s helicopter crew?
and the machete man who left his car over the bridge and was heading towards Mar a Lago?
lots of danger afoot...