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Russian spies used French Alps as 'base camp' for hits on Britain and other countries


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2019 Dec 6, 10:40am   586 views  2 comments

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Fifteen Russian spies, including those accused of the Salisbury nerve agent attack, used the French Alps as a “base camp” to conduct covert operations around Europe over a five-year period, according to reports.

The revelations came as Germany expelled two Russian diplomats after prosecutors said there was “sufficient factual evidence” linking Moscow to the killing of a former Chechen rebel commander in central Berlin.

According to Le Monde, British, Swiss, French, and US intelligence have drawn up a list of 15 members of the 29155 unit of Russia's GRU military spy agency who all passed through France’s Haute-Savoie mountains close to the Swiss and Italian borders.

They stayed between 2015 and late 2018, notably in the towns of Evian, Annemasse and Chamonix - the scene of a ski chase in the 1999 James Bond film, The World Is Not Enough.

They arrived from London, Moscow, Spain and often Geneva.

The Le Monde report added five new names to those already published by online investigative outlets such as Bellingcat and The Insider.

Their identities and movements were uncovered during a joint probe by allied counterespionage services in the wake of the attempted poisoning of defector Sergei Skripal in Salisbury in March 2018, said the paper.

Britain and its allies accuse the Kremlin of seeking to assassinate Mr Skripal, a charge Russia vehemently denies.

Those who stayed in the Haute-Savoie included Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov - the cover names of the two GRU agents accused of carrying out the attack on Mr Skripal, along with Serguei Fedotov, the suspected mastermind.

According to Le Monde, a fourth agent believed to be linked to the Skripal assassination attempt and who stayed in the Alps, Serguei Pavlov, was located in the UK by MI6 in 2017.

Le Mondesaid the five new names cited, all aliases, are Alxandre Koulaguiine, Evgueni Larine, Tour Nouzirov, Naman Youssoupov and Guennadi Chvets.

The unit was also active in areas such as Bulgaria, Moldova, Montenegro and Ukraine.

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"The most likely hypothesis is to consider it (Haute-Savoie) as a rear base for all the clandestine operations carried out by unit 29155 in Europe," said a senior French intelligence official, quoted by Le Monde.

The paper said that one theory is that by staying in the Alps, the agents hoped to shake off any suspicion before they carried out their missions, which could explain why they conducted no covert missions on French soil.
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/12/05/russian-spies-used-french-alps-base-camp-hits-britain-countries/

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1   RWSGFY   2019 Dec 6, 11:28am  

The juiciest part:

"The suspected killer was captured by police attempting to dispose of a gun believed to be the murder weapon in the nearby river Spree.

He was carrying a Russian passport which identified him as Vadim Sokolov, but German prosecutors on Wednesday confirmed that they now believe that is a false identity.

Police findings indicate that it is “highly likely” the arrested man is Vadim Krasikov, a Russian national previously wanted for the murder of a businessman in Moscow in 2013, prosecutors said.
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France denies any “laxism” by its embassy in Moscow for handing him a 90-day emergency visa on July 29 on a fictitious address. He passed through Paris before travelling on to Berlin."


Basically the fucking guy walks into fucking French embassy with a fake passport w/ non-existing address and blank biometic information and gets an "emergency" visa anyway.

Combine all this with Macron obviosly exhibiting signs of Putin's dick being permanently lodged deep in his rectum and the logical question arises: has fucking France surrendered to a foreign fascist regime again?
2   Bd6r   2019 Dec 6, 11:36am  

Now waterboarding Mr. Sokolov would be torture that I would 100% support.

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