Posted on 01/08/2024 7:34:58 PM PST by Timber Rattler
A counterintelligence directorate created by former Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin and made famous by the James Bond novels of author and former British spy Ian Fleming has reportedly made a return to Russia.
SMERSH is a portmanteau of the Russian for "death to spies," or "smert shpionam." It was announced in 1943 as a move to target Nazi spy rings, traitors and foreign agents during the World War II, before it was disbanded in 1946.
Fleming portrayed the group as cold-blooded foes of James Bond. One of his characters was Rosa Klebb—an assassin handy with a flick-knife shoe, who was played by Austrian actress Lotte Lenya in the 1963 film version of From Russia with Love.
Not just a byword for the brutality of the Stalin era, SMERSH has been recreated in the present day to hunt down intelligence officers Moscow believes are targeting Russia, the British Ministry of Defence said on Monday.
In December, Andrey Gurulyov, a Russian parliament (Duma) member and former military commander, told state television channel Russia-1 that SMERSH had been revived in Ukrainian regions that Vladimir Putin declared as annexed, although they are only partially under the control of his forces.
Meanwhile, a video posted on Belgorod Telegram channel Fonar showed local resident Denis Boban apologizing for sharing video of Russian air defenses that had been operating on January 2 against a Ukrainian attack.
He was flanked by two men wearing fatigues with SMERSH uniform patches and described his "willingness to take responsibility," although it is not clear if he faces any criminal charges.
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I’m sure they’re a bunch of bad dudes but I’m somehow doubting they’re much worse than CIA deep state scum.
Countries that live in Glass Houses should avoid throwing stones.
“The official statute of SMERSH listed the following tasks to be performed by the organisation: counter-intelligence, counter-terrorism, preventing any other activity of foreign intelligence in the Red Army; fighting “anti-Soviet elements” in the Red Army; protection of the front lines against penetration by spies and “anti-Soviet elements”; investigating traitors, deserters, and self-inflicted wounds in the Red Army; and checking military and civil personnel returning from captivity.”
Borrowed from the Wikipedia page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMERSH
Notwithstanding Ian Fleming’s decision to utilize SMERSH for his own works of fiction, what exactly did the real SMERSH do that would warrant being called a “Bond villain”?
Discussions over kidnapping or killing Assange occurred “at the highest levels” of the Trump administration, said a former senior counterintelligence official. “There seemed to be no boundaries.”
So Trump wanted to kidnap or kill Assange?
No. Pompeo.
Pompeo was not at the “highest level” of the Trump Administration. The buck went a bit further.
No. Pompeo.
Trump considered a pardon for Assange, but pressure from Deep State like Pompeo and threats from McConnell stopped him.
He was Pompeo's boss, no? And sat at the "highest level" of his administration.
There is lots that the Deep State like Pompeo hid from Trump, or lied to him.
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/us-troop-levels-syria-jeffrey-interview/
Remind me again who nominated “Deep State” Pompeo as CIA Director and then Secretary of State.
So in Ukraine, we had the former prosecutor of Ukraine - prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko - he gave a TV interview the other day.
In this interview the former Ukraine prosecutor General said that Ukraine loses 30,000 people a month - 500,000 dead and wounded - in this conflict.
This is what he told this TV station during the interview - and he's saying this - the interesting part about this interview is that he's saying this not in order to push zElensky towards a capitulation and a peace.
He is saying this in order to motivate Ukrainians to mobilize. That is why he brought up this number.
In his opinion, the authorities should publish the real numbers of losses of the Ukrainian Army in order to show people the seriousness of the situation and thereby motivate them to serve in the armed forces of Ukraine and not avoid mobilization by all means.
That's our little snek-bot.
Remind me again why you quit Free Republic for five years...
Trump hater, and a Super Zeeper as well
and
Trump hater, and a Super Zeeper as well
I guess the irony and hypocrisy in your name calling is completely lost on both of you.
So you left FR due to hatred of Trump, and only came back to support DeStupid ?
Or are you cheering for Nikki, Asa Hutchinson, Christie and Pence ?
I’d say the WEF comes a lot closer.
I’m no fan of Putin, but he’s not openly calling for 1/2
of the global population to volunteer to die.
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