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Merkel and Russian Spies hit the fan...
2019-12-21
[20Committee] Top German Spies Unload on Merkel’s Kowtowing to Putin

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#22  * Gehlen, Spy of the Century
Posted by: Lex   2019-12-21 20:03  

#21  Wo ist Genscher wenn man ihn braucht?
Posted by: Lex   2019-12-21 12:35  

#20  No one recall how infiltrated the old West German government was by the Eastern Block intel services? Nothing has changed, just the actors involved.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-12-21 12:24  

#19  Can't have a good spy novel without Russians but throwing in a few Chechen terrorists makes it even more fun. And now we have the Deep State which is arguably even more sinister than the old Soviet Union.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2019-12-21 11:54  

#18  Sounds like we're about ready to bring back some of the good, old-fashioned spy novels set in Berlin that made the Cold War so much fun.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2019-12-21 11:39  

#17  #15 The remote controlled tank.
Posted by: Ominesing Jomoter7168   2019-12-21 07:00  

#16  Ref #14: I thought Germany’s spy masters were supposed to be intelligent.

They're very intelligent, just a bit out of practice.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-12-21 06:35  

#15  from #13 Lex's Montenegro: a great movie with hot Susan Anspach. I still remember the guy partying away with a knife stuck in his head
Posted by: Frank G   2019-12-21 06:31  

#14  Worse and worse. We have an article in the archive about Mr. Khangoshvili’s assassination here, in which the Kremlin accuses him of having been a fighter in the separatist group Caucasian Emirate— a vicious bunch associated first with Al Qaeda, then with ISIS that originally fought to establish a caliphate at home.p. Many of them fled Chechnya for Syria when Russia started hunting them down. The Germans figured this out once they got his real name — he filed for asylum under the name “Tomike K.” — and rejected his asylum application.

What an ugly play by the German Deep State. It’s analogous to protesting against ICE ignoring the Constitutional rights of those personable young lads of MS-13. I thought Germany’s spy masters were supposed to be intelligent.
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-12-21 06:03  

#13  From Dusan Makaveyev's classic, Montenegro (1981):

Marilyn Jordan to Tirke, the delicious young Serbian student age meets in the Stockholm nightclub, Zanzi-Bar: What were you doing each summer in Dubrovnik?

Tirke: I fuck foreigners for good English!
Posted by: Lex   2019-12-21 04:25  

#12  Bild adds the role played by the Russian diaspora in Germany in espionage, as well as a prominent part played by the Russian Orthodox Church in clandestinely serving the Kremlin abroad.

I always wondered (paranoid old bastid that I am) about the large RU Orthodox church in the village of Ramstein. After our second visit, we were assigned an attractive young translater, ha, no joke. Holding the hymnals upside down I suspect. Perhaps EC has more into on all of that (or not), he's very familiar with the region.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-12-21 03:58  

#11  ^ Agreed. It deserves to be a meme with the usual players in the frame.
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-12-21 03:13  

#10  ^ Grom for the gold. Sums it up.
Posted by: Lex   2019-12-21 02:56  

#9  Frat boys playing Lawrence of Arabia
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB   2019-12-21 02:47  

#8  #5 Cult of McCarthy and military/diplomatic soirees in Riyadh harems. There.
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-12-21 02:33  

#7  Shit. Again ? What's going on ? Harems.
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-12-21 02:32  

#6  Hamlet ? I coulda sworn I wrote hamlet.
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-12-21 02:31  

#5  Cult of McCarthy and military/diplomatic soirees in Riyadh hamlets ?
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-12-21 02:29  

#4  Good lord.

WTF are we aligned with a Chechen warlord? what possible interest do we have in either Chechnya or Georgia?

Why are we hostile to the Islamists' mortal enemy, Russia, and aligned with Islamist Turkey, Pakistan and Soddy?

Does this make any f---ing sense?
Posted by: Lex   2019-12-21 02:20  

#3  Google the fucker
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB   2019-12-21 02:09  

#2  "Chechen terrorist"? Do you have a link?

Curious because this piece describes the CIA asset quite differently: Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, a Georgian of Chechen background living in Germany as a political exile
Posted by: Lex   2019-12-21 01:55  

#1  German spies object to Russia killing a Chechen terrorist valued by CIA?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB   2019-12-21 01:49  

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