Second, it is obvious to almost everyone that “Russia is not interested in a victory over ISIS.†Moscow’s foreign policy at present is about confrontation with the West in general and the US in particular, and both Vladimir Putin and many Russian commentators have suggested that the US and NATO not ISIS is Russia’s main enemy.
Stanislav Belkovsky, a Russian opposition political analyst, said that Putin “knew about the terrorist acts in Paris in advance because he has a broad network of agents in ISIS,†a network created and expanded by former KGB chief and Russian foreign minister Yevgeny Primakov. Vladimir Milov of Russia’s Democratic Choice Party has said the same.
And fourth, Russian and Soviet arms have turned up in ISIS. Russian propagandists say they came from Ukraine or somewhere else, but the leaders of the LNR and DNR would not be sending arms to anyone else without the direct approval of Moscow. That reality clearly suggests a Moscow connection.
http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.de/2015/12/fsb-defectors-claims-about-moscows-ties.html?m=1
The problem we’re dealing with in trying to get this stuff across to the non-putinistas is it’s very complex. You try to tell people these things and they react as if you’re talking about flying saucers or big foot. Or they lump you in with 911 conspiracy type kooks. This is precisely what the clever bastards in Moscow bank on. The Russians are masters at the art of deception. They play chess, thinking many moves ahead of their opponents, while most us, unfortunately, have enough trouble playing checkers.
"Romanian intelligence defector Ion Mihai Pacepa alleged that an operation for the removal of chemical weapons was prepared by the Soviet Union for Libya, and that he was told over thirty years ago by Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu, KGB chairman Yury Andropov, and later, Yevgeny Primakov, about the existence of a similar plan for Iraq.
It is 'perfectly obvious', wrote Pacepa, that the Russian GRU agency helped Saddam Hussein to destroy, hide, or transfer his chemical weapons prior to the American invasion of Iraq in 2003. 'After all, Russia helped Saddam get his hands on them in the first place.'[13]
John Loftus, director of The Intelligence Summit, said in the November 16, 2007 issue of FrontPage Magazine that many documents from Iraq point to WMD being transferred to other countries such as Syria: 'As stated in more detail in my full report, the British, Ukrainian and American secret services all believed that the Russians had organized a last minute evacuation of CW [chemical] and BW [biological] stockpiles from Baghdad to Syria.'
His researchers allegedly found a document ordering the concealment of nuclear weapons equipment in storage facilities under the Euphrates River a few weeks before the invasion.[14]"