Posted on 09/28/2022 6:42:40 PM PDT by cuz1961
It is awkward in places , feels translated doesn’t it.
Darren Beattie On Nord Stream Pipeline Apparent Sabotage And Theory On Who Is Responsible
http://www.booknotes.org/Watch/64553-1/Yuri-Shvets
Washington Station: My Life as a KGB Spy in America
Mr. Shvets talked about his recently published book, Washington Station, published by Simon and Schuster. It is based on his experiences as a K.G.B. agent in Washington, D.C. from 1980 to 1990. He believes that intelligence was one of the most inefficient aspects of the Cold War, and that the money and resources expended injured the Soviet Union more than the United States
. . .
LAMB: I don’t know where to start, because there’s so many little stories that you tell in the book about what it was like. But let me ask you about Socrates.
SHVETS: OK.
LAMB: Who was that?
SHVETS: Socrates was the chief of the department in the Office of Management and Budget in the Carter administration.
LAMB: Say that again.
SHVETS: He was the chief of department in the Office of Management and Budget in the Carter administration.
LAMB: The name you use in here, Martin — is that accurate?
SHVETS: No, it’s not accurate. His real name is John Helmer, and in early days of Carter administration he was the chief of the task group in charge of reorganization of the staff at the White House.
LAMB: How did you meet him?
SHVETS: I met him after his resignation from Carter administration. I met his wife. She was well-known journalist.
LAMB: The name you use in here is Phyllis Barbour. Is that accurate?
SHVETS: No, her correct name is Claudia Wright.
LAMB: Now why are you using their correct names now?
SHVETS: Well, I was ready to do that from the very start, and as a matter of fact, their real names were in the galley copy of the book. So about a month before these galley copy went into publishing house, the people in Simon & Schuster just dropped the name. It was their own decision.
LAMB: Where do they live now?
SHVETS: Socrates lives in Moscow since 1991 on a permanent basis. And his wife — she is an Australian; she is in very bad shape, for she has Alzheimer’s disease for many years.
LAMB: What were you trying to do when you met these two people?
SHVETS: Basically, my job as an intelligence officer was to pinpoint people which I believed would be willing to cooperate with the KGB. So my job was to screen the people I would meet this way and if I had a feeling that this is a promising — like they call it in the KGB — for recruitment, I would pursue further contacts with them.
Claudia Wright was known for the KGB Washington residency for her sharply critical articles about the United States and about the Reagan administration, and she drew attention with these articles, but no one ever tried, before me, to approach her because she was believed to be too known — extremely known — to be willing to cooperate. And the funny thing was that, when I met her, she suggested to me to meet her husband.
And therefore, from the very beginning, I had a feeling that he needed something from me. He was an experienced man and she was an experienced journalist, so from my behavior — and I tried to make as many hints as possible that I was not just a regular Soviet correspondent. So I led them to believe that I had something to do with the Soviet intelligence. And the fact that he invited me to meet him and the way we talked to him suggested to me that he is a promising candidate.
LAMB: What year was this?
SHVETS: It was the first time I met her, it was somewhere in October of ‘85 on the wake of Yurchenka case. . .
http://www.booknotes.org/Watch/64553-1/Yuri-Shvets
Washington Station: My Life as a KGB Spy in America
Mr. Shvets talked about his recently published book, Washington Station, published by Simon and Schuster. It is based on his experiences as a K.G.B. agent in Washington, D.C. from 1980 to 1990. He believes that intelligence was one of the most inefficient aspects of the Cold War, and that the money and resources expended injured the Soviet Union more than the United States
. . .
LAMB: I don’t know where to start, because there’s so many little stories that you tell in the book about what it was like. But let me ask you about Socrates.
SHVETS: OK.
LAMB: Who was that?
SHVETS: Socrates was the chief of the department in the Office of Management and Budget in the Carter administration.
LAMB: Say that again.
SHVETS: He was the chief of department in the Office of Management and Budget in the Carter administration.
LAMB: The name you use in here, Martin — is that accurate?
SHVETS: No, it’s not accurate. His real name is John Helmer, and in early days of Carter administration he was the chief of the task group in charge of reorganization of the staff at the White House.
LAMB: How did you meet him?
SHVETS: I met him after his resignation from Carter administration. I met his wife. She was well-known journalist.
LAMB: The name you use in here is Phyllis Barbour. Is that accurate?
SHVETS: No, her correct name is Claudia Wright.
LAMB: Now why are you using their correct names now?
SHVETS: Well, I was ready to do that from the very start, and as a matter of fact, their real names were in the galley copy of the book. So about a month before these galley copy went into publishing house, the people in Simon & Schuster just dropped the name. It was their own decision.
LAMB: Where do they live now?
SHVETS: Socrates lives in Moscow since 1991 on a permanent basis. And his wife — she is an Australian; she is in very bad shape, for she has Alzheimer’s disease for many years.
LAMB: What were you trying to do when you met these two people?
SHVETS: Basically, my job as an intelligence officer was to pinpoint people which I believed would be willing to cooperate with the KGB. So my job was to screen the people I would meet this way and if I had a feeling that this is a promising — like they call it in the KGB — for recruitment, I would pursue further contacts with them.
Claudia Wright was known for the KGB Washington residency for her sharply critical articles about the United States and about the Reagan administration, and she drew attention with these articles, but no one ever tried, before me, to approach her because she was believed to be too known — extremely known — to be willing to cooperate. And the funny thing was that, when I met her, she suggested to me to meet her husband.
And therefore, from the very beginning, I had a feeling that he needed something from me. He was an experienced man and she was an experienced journalist, so from my behavior — and I tried to make as many hints as possible that I was not just a regular Soviet correspondent. So I led them to believe that I had something to do with the Soviet intelligence. And the fact that he invited me to meet him and the way we talked to him suggested to me that he is a promising candidate.
LAMB: What year was this?
SHVETS: It was the first time I met her, it was somewhere in October of ‘85 on the wake of Yurchenka case. . .
Pelosi met with Alex Soros today
https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1575228608792399873?t=pmo7gzhNnfmtY4_FmuEVag&s=19
That’s not the point. The Poles blew up this one, sp blow up the new one they like. Same way, and act mystified about whodunit.
What?! That's an obvious Hatch Act violation..
It is a very good read, the source has no credibility and the story is most likely fictional. But I grant the point that it was readable.
Same as everyone here, I can only guess....
My guess is Vlad had his own pipelines blown up to spook the Europeans and to introduce a wild card factor into his war on Ukraine. To make it seem that other pipelines and data cables might be blown up too. Part of the spooking is Europe seeing tons upon tons of Russian natural gas bubbling up in the Baltic sea.
For months Vlad has been flaring off 8 million dollars of natural gas daily, that was supposed to go to Germany. Destroying pipelines is similar.
Why would Vlad destroy his pipeline when he can shut off the valves? Because he can and doesn’t give a F. This is all a grand psyche out by Vlad, as Europe’s winter approaches
Vlad has just slammed Germany, that even if it wants to go wobbly and cave. It is now useless. Due to no pipeline gas for months, until Nord Stream can be repaired. Vlad has hastened clarity for Germans and Europe.
Plus cancerous Vlad is having a good laugh jerking them (Europeans) around. Slavic Vlad making high and mighty Western Europe tremble. Vengeance for the way Western Europe always treated Russians as uncultured, strange and inferior.
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