Surely, you mean a Kafka novel.
For Sure, Bro.
That âbackware Râ has the sound of ya in Russian.
That reminded me of this stupid bitch:
Fuentesâs alleged Russian handler purportedly told him not to take a picture of car
Now thereâs some gonzo reporting right there
Two of us. Field agents always have a hidden minder keeping an eye on things.
Just another day in the workaday world of Russian espionage. I mean, seriously, thatâs what this is. Including the part where the FSB (which is supposed to be limited to domestic counter-intelligence and internal security) isnât supposed to be engaging in foreign espionage but is institutionally incapable of handing off an operation like this to the GRU or the SVR the way FBI would (routinely if grudgingly) hand an op off to CIA, when the ostensible counterintelligence purpose enables them to encroach on the other agenciesâ turf.
But that aside, this is how human intelligence works and what it looks like, day in, day out hundreds or thousands of times a year. Russiaâs three main intelligence agencies have three to five thousand âillegalsâ working in the U.S. at any given time and they still mostly operate by the âanything goes no-limits except the gentlemanâs agreement not to kill other intelligence service agentsâ rules the Checka inherited from the Okhrana and passed on to its successor organizations.
And all major foreign intelligence services are, in their own ways, just as nasty when it comes to willingness to mess up the lives of ordinary people who put themselves in compromising positions. The CIA has some limits, both legal and cultural, that Russiaâs agencies donât (e.g. we donât use actual agency agents to bait honeypots) but that doesnât make us nicer. So, except for Russiaâs growing penchant for brazen wetwork, I tend not to get outraged by other nationâs spying and roll my eyes when people get outraged about ours.
But people do need to understand that the prospect that members of Congress and senior government officials, up to and including Trump, have been compromised and are working for Russian intelligence agencies, itâs not just throwing around insults. Compromising members of Congress and elected officials, and tracking and getting at rising politicians early, is a crucial mission for them. Itâs a thing we try to do as well, but the problem is that we are far more vulnerable to it than the Russians or the Chinese are.
And so when you look at Lindsay Graham, his obvious physical deterioration and the edge of hysteria since his abrupt flip flip, the more subtle change in attitude of the Moscow 7 and yeah, Iâll say it, certain highly visible politicians and âjournalistsâ with long-standing ties to Russia, yeah, itâs not âMcCarthyismâ to suspect theyâve been compromised.
I guess the FSB must pretend that they are busy spying on the US, otherwise their budget will get slashed. But the reality is that anything the Russians want to know they can get it through the moron in the WH, and now that they will be controlling US intelligence agencies via Richard Grenell they will have a real-time stream of intelligence. I guess they will still need to verify the information, but otherwise they could just focus the FSB to those countries that the US agencies ignore.
And before anyone says that what I am saying is ridiculous and and over the top. Raise your hand those who donât believe Trump would pass highly sensitive intelligence to the Ruskies if it benefits personally. Now, raise your hand those who donât believe that Grenell wouldnât obey Trump orders? Finally, raise your hand those of you that you donât believe that the GOP Senators and the rightwing media is going to find a way to justify outright treasonous actions.
Isnât it odd how we can have âoneâ idea of a person (based on the Jimmy Stewart movie) and the personâs reality is SO DIFFERENT?
PBS had a Secrets of the Dead or something about Lindberg which went into this and there is a widespread suspicion that Lindberg had his son âkidnappedâ to put him in a âhomeâ because the child was developmentally disabled and, well, LINDBERG WAS A NAZI-SYMPATHIZER who believed in eugenics.
It was a shock to me to find out about the other family.
I mean Murder on the Orient Express was based on the Lindberg-baby case and the family in THAT was just the nicest-bestest people EVER.
Are you sure it was Murder on the Orient Express that was based on the case? Because itâs not one family that are traveling on the train.
And it wasnât just one other family - it was two. I had also thought that the âmaster race planâ was our sides propaganda - but it turns out it was true. Not only did Hitler give medals to non-jewish women who had 10 or more children, he actually did find âpureâ women to breed with his soldiers. I only believed it after reading two accounts from GIs who encountered these âcrechesâ while they were fighting their way through Germany.
If you delve deeply into the history of the 30âs and 40âs, you will learn that there is almost nothing we said about Hitler and the Nazis after the war that wasnât true, and very little we said about them during the war that wasnât true.
The Brits faked up a propaganda movie of Hitler doing his âVictory Jigâ at the French surrender out of what was really just a couple of gleeful stomps. The plan to replace Christianity with paganism was more aspirational and long term fuzzy than reality, the plan actually put into effect being to suppress Catholicism and take control of the protestant churches and pervert the doctrine. The stories about making soap from concentration camp victims on a mass scale didnât happen and instead they âonlyâ developed a process and âonlyâ did it on an experimental scaleâbecause, turns out you canât make soap out of people youâve been giving less than a thousand calories a day. And oh yeah, they were a conveniently unavailable scapegoat for Stalinâs atrocities in his half of Poland after the war.
And sure, the carpet chewing rumors are difficult to nail down and most of the stuff that was said about Hitlerâs sex life is unverifiable hearsay but at least is sourced to people who were in a position to know what they claimed to know.
Other than that, itâs all true. The worst shit youâve heard about them is all true and whatever youâve heard, thereâs worse shit you probably havenât heard of. The monstrous human âexperimentsâ at Auschwitz, the lamp shades, the SS creches and Himmler encouraging unwed women to have Waffen SS babies and married SS men to knock up ten women before they go to the front, the kidnapped children from occupied countries. The mass sterilization and mass murder of the disabled.
The six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust and the at least five million Roma, homosexuals, Slavs, and Russian POWâs machine gunned, starved, gassed or just worked to death in in the Holocaust era.
They are still the ultimate warning to mankind that no one is more dangerous or capable of greater evil than people who know, with absolute certainty, that they are absolutely right.
I have read deeply into 30âs and 40âs history. I only read history and non-fiction books.
The family in the âoriginal caseâ were the Armstrongs, the father was a war hero and his daughter Daisy was kidnapped and murdered by Ratchett. That was all based on the Lindberg Baby Kidnapping. Christie ramped it up by having Sonia (the mom) pregnant and dying in premature childbirth along with her child and then Armstrong killed himself.
Yes, different, but based on the Lindberg Baby Case nonetheless, just reworked by Christie to have TWELVE people taking revenge on Ratchett.
I did not know Lindberg had TWO families in Germany and I did not ever know he was such an SOB. The more I know about him the less I like him.
Everybody on the train was somehow involved in the Daisy Armstrong kidnapping and its aftermath.
Yes, he was very into blood purity and Aryanism.
The story on a PBS investigation was that the son was developmentally disabled and he was being put into a âhomeâ but something went wrong and the kid died.
If any of that is true then Lindberg was involved in the murder (actual MURDER) of Bruno Hauptmann.