Posted on 06/28/2023 8:45:24 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
The C.I.A.’s concerns were not unwarranted. In 2019, the Russians undertook an elaborate operation to find Mr. Poteyev, forcing a scientist from Oaxaca, Mexico, to help.
The scientist, Hector Alejandro Cabrera Fuentes, was an unlikely spy. He studied microbiology in Kazan, Russia, and later earned a doctorate in the subject from the University of Giessen in Germany. He was a source of pride for his family, with a history of charitable work and no criminal past.
But the Russians used Mr. Fuentes’s partner as leverage. He had two wives: a Russian living in Germany and another in Mexico. In 2019, the Russian wife and her two daughters were not allowed to leave Russia as they tried to return to Germany, court documents say.
That May, when Mr. Fuentes traveled to visit them, a Russian official contacted him and asked to see him in Moscow. At one meeting, the official reminded Mr. Fuentes that his family was stuck in Russia and that maybe, according to court documents, “we can help each other.”
A few months later, the Russian official asked Mr. Fuentes to secure a condo just north of Miami Beach, where Mr. Poteyev lived. Instructed not to rent the apartment in his name, Mr. Fuentes gave an associate $20,000 to do so.
In February 2020, Mr. Fuentes traveled to Moscow, where he again met with the Russian official, who provided a description of Mr. Poteyev’s vehicle. Mr. Fuentes, the Russian said, should find the car, obtain its license plate number and take note of its physical location. He advised Mr. Fuentes to refrain from taking pictures, presumably to eliminate any incriminating evidence.
But Mr. Fuentes botched the operation. Driving into the complex, he tried to bypass its entry gate by tailgating another vehicle, attracting the attention of security.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Ukraine ping
The Russians could have used illegals (i.e. SVR employees without diplomatic cover - or immunity) to do this. That they chose to use an amateur suggests they’re not exactly flush with cash to train and maintain illegals abroad. If they don’t even have the budget to do this in the US, Russia’s biggest likely adversary, chances are this ain’t your granpappy’s all-singing, all-dancing KGB.
How many Freepers hope he does get kill3d in Florida?
I think you are a missing part of it. The FSB/KGB/NKVD was always the Fredo of Russian intelligence. If the GRU did, he’d be dead. and we’d never know about it.
>> How many Freepers hope he does get kill3d in Florida?
By the CIA or Russia?
Either?
Is this the Poteyev of the 2011 Russian spy ring that included Anna Chapman?
If it is, then this Poteyev is connected to the late Sergei Tretyakov...
who was involved in the UN Oil for Food scandal involving Saddam Hussein:
Russian agent ‘betrayed spy ring for money’(boozing agent ratted out Anna Chapman et al)
Jiji Press ^ | 05/05/11
Posted on 5/6/2011, 12:01:18 PM by TigerLikesRooster
Russian agent ‘betrayed spy ring for money’
A top Russian secret service agent suspected of blowing the cover of a sleeper spy ring in the United States was a heavy drinker who betrayed Moscow purely to make money, sources said on Wednesday.
Alexander Poteyev, who will go on trial in absentia for treason in Moscow on May 16, is charged with having tipped off Washington about a ring of 10 Russian spies who were later deported in the biggest post-Cold War spy scandal.
The Izvestia daily Wednesday published a slew of new information about Poteyev, saying he was linked to Russian defector Sergei Tretyakov who died last year and had also managed to avoid taking a lie detector test.
A high-ranking source in the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) told the paper that Moscow Centre believed there was no ideology behind Poteyev’s betrayal of the spies, who included the notorious femme fatale Anna Chapman.
He sold himself in the most banal way. Money and nothing other than money, said the source, which was not named. He has two weaknesses — he loves money and loves drinking.
What damage he has brought to his country and his colleagues, just because he needed 20,000-30,000 dollars! the official added.
We are all feeling a desire for revenge. He should be put against the wall. Today we don’t use the word traitor much but Poteyev is a real traitor. Before, such people were shot dead and rightly so, added the source.
(Excerpt) Read more at jen.jiji.com ...
Bill Gates’ Young Russian Lover Linked to Kremlin Spy Anna Chapman – Suspicions Arise That He May Have Been Targeted for Kompromat – Epstein Tried to Blackmail Microsoft Boss Over His Affair
GATEWAY PUNDIT ^ | 5/30/2023 | PAUL SERRAN
Posted on 5/30/2023, 6:23:23 PM by bitt
The revelations about the Jeffrey Epstein trafficking ring as coming hard and fast, but so far, few stories can compare in terms of impact with the revelations around Mila Antonova, who as a young woman was said to be a ‘lover’ of billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates.
We now have seen evidence of a link between Antonova and Russian spy Anna Chapman, and we also learned that Epstein tried to leverage his knowledge of Gates’ relationship with Antonova in order to compel him into investing in a ‘charitable fund’ that the pedophile was setting up....
Hillary Clinton is laughing with scorn at these amateurs.....
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Excellent point. During the Cold War, the GRU often proved to be a more formidable adversary than the KGB, and it presumably remains so today. After the FSB botched the job of subverting Ukraine’s leadership so as to make the Russian invasion a walkover, the GRU was put in charge. It is not clear if they are more effective though.
The head of MI5 in the 50s and 60s was a GRU mole.
I would guess none. Why should any of us care?
For all anyone knows ... the CIA is the one who wants ... someone dead. And they do the Russia-Russia-Russia thing ... because the Deep State makes the rules ... for ... lots of stuff.
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Now give me my Pulitzer Prize./s
Yep!
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