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Volodymyr Zelensky and the breadbasket-case of Europe: The deep politics of a hybrid regime

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[PDF file]: […] a separate investigation of his was being blocked by Ivan Bakonov, chief of Ukraine’s internal security service, the SBU (Sluzhba Bezpeky Ukrainy, roughly analogous to the UK’s MI5). Ryaboshapka had been looking into the long-running PrivatBank scandal, which had shocked Ukraine when it came to light in 2016. The private-sector bank, which held the […]

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[…] is Lauria’s second omission. Ukraine Reading Craig Murray’s blog post ‘Rethinking Ukraine: Putin and the Mystery of National Identity’,34 I noticed this: 29 30 And this included MI5 who had 100% penetration of the Party. See ‘The British Gladio and the murder of Sergeant Speed’ at or . 31 It had been leaked in […]

Newsinger Uproar

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[…] way of keeping them out of the USA. According to Norman: ‘The Bureau had regarded Mick as an anti-American subversive since 1967 when its collusion with British MI5 in the Acid King David affair had led to his trial, imprisonment, and consequent exile from the United States for two years afterwards’. In 1972, Jagger […]

Signs of the times

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[PDF file]: […] Trade Unions; and that committee was a front for the CPGB.13 Moscow gold In the conclusion of my essay The Clandestine Caucus14 I discussed the fact that MI5 chose to allow the Soviets to fund the Communist Party of Great Britain. They had known about the money – literally bags of used notes from […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

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[…] a separate investigation of his was being blocked by Ivan Bakonov, chief of Ukraine’s internal security service, the SBU (Sluzhba Bezpeky Ukrainy, roughly analogous to the UK’s MI5). Ryaboshapka had been looking into the long-running PrivatBank scandal, which had shocked Ukraine when it came to light in 2016. The private-sector bank, which held the […]

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[…] ‘Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)’. Would s/he need to put MI6 in brackets for a CIA audience? * Brian Crozier is described as a ‘UK Security Service ( MI5) agent’. Not according to Crozier’s memoir, Free Agent, he wasn’t; and Crozier wasn’t shy about boasting of his connections to the intelligence world. On the Web4 […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

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[…] a separate investigation of his was being blocked by Ivan Bakonov, chief of Ukraine’s internal security service, the SBU (Sluzhba Bezpeky Ukrainy, roughly analogous to the UK’s MI5). Ryaboshapka had been looking into the long-running PrivatBank scandal, which had shocked Ukraine when it came to light in 2016. The private-sector bank, which held the […]

Six Moments of Crisis: inside British foreign policy by Gill Bennett

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[PDF file]: […] the embassy in 1968 the Russians had side-stepped it by filling the Soviet Trade Delegation with intelligence officers and by making use of “working wives”.’ By 1971, MI5 estimated that of the near-1,000 Soviet officials (and wives) in the UK, a quarter were involved in ‘undiplomatic activities’. How had this been allowed to happen? […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

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[…] a separate investigation of his was being blocked by Ivan Bakonov, chief of Ukraine’s internal security service, the SBU (Sluzhba Bezpeky Ukrainy, roughly analogous to the UK’s MI5). Ryaboshapka had been looking into the long-running PrivatBank scandal, which had shocked Ukraine when it came to light in 2016. The private-sector bank, which held the […]

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[…] state that is America? Is it just personal greed? See no evil On a single day in mid August I found the following stories on dailymaverick.co.za: ‘Revealed: MI5 and MI6 are training senior spies from Saudi Arabia, UAE and Egypt’ ‘”Paralysing a nation”: Evidence emerges of Royal Navy’s complicity in Saudiled sea blockade of […]

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