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U.S. Hires Company With K.G.B. Link to Guard Moscow Embassy
Source: NY Times
U.S. Hires Company With K.G.B. Link to Guard Moscow Embassy
MOSCOW — When President Vladimir V. Putin in July ordered American diplomatic missions in Russia to slash their staff by 755 employees, the State Department said it would need time to assess the “impact of such a limitation and how we will respond to it.”
Part of that response has now become clear: To make up for the loss of security guards axed in the Russian-mandated staff cuts, Washington has hired a private Russian company that grew out of a security business co-founded by Mr. Putin’s former K.G.B. boss, an 82-year-old veteran spy who spent 25 years planting agents in Western security services and hunting down their operatives.
Under a $2.8 million no-bid contract awarded by the Office of Acquisitions in Washington, security guards at the American Embassy in Moscow and at consulates in St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Vladivostok will be provided by Elite Security Holdings, a company closely linked to the former top K.G.B. figure, Viktor G. Budanov, a retired general who rose through the ranks to become head of Soviet counterintelligence.
A State Department official in Washington, speaking on condition of anonymity in accordance with the department’s rules, said that Elite Security and individuals associated with it had been “vetted” with “relevant national and local agencies” and would not increase the threat risk.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/14/world/europe/embassy-moscow-kgb.html
Treason on so many levels ..... Dog help us now.
Rachel Tonight, Holy Shit; Rex Tillerson gave the security contract on the US Embassy in Moscow ..
.... to a Vlad Putin company.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/14/world/europe/embassy-moscow-kgb.html
U.S. Hires Company With K.G.B. Link to Guard Moscow Embassy
MOSCOW — When President Vladimir V. Putin in July ordered American diplomatic missions in Russia to slash their staff by 755 employees, the State Department said it would need time to assess the “impact of such a limitation and how we will respond to it.”
Part of that response has now become clear: To make up for the loss of security guards axed in the Russian-mandated staff cuts, Washington has hired a private Russian company that grew out of a security business co-founded by Mr. Putin’s former K.G.B. boss, an 82-year-old veteran spy who spent 25 years planting agents in Western security services and hunting down their operatives.
Under a $2.8 million no-bid contract awarded by the Office of Acquisitions in Washington, security guards at the American Embassy in Moscow and at consulates in St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Vladivostok will be provided by Elite Security Holdings, a company closely linked to the former top K.G.B. figure, Viktor G. Budanov, a retired general who rose through the ranks to become head of Soviet counterintelligence.
A State Department official in Washington, speaking on condition of anonymity in accordance with the department’s rules, said that Elite Security and individuals associated with it had been “vetted” with “relevant national and local agencies” and would not increase the threat risk.
Rachel Tonight
The Trump campaign worked with Russia to disseminate stolen
documents in order to hurt Hillary.
Lock em up.
CNN Papadopoulos' Professor has now gone missing.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/08/politics/joseph-mifsud-trump-russia-investigation/index.htmlAcademic at heart of Clinton 'dirt' claim vanishes, leaving trail of questions
(CNN)Joseph Mifsud, the Maltese academic suspected of being a link between the Trump campaign and Russian officials, was once a regular on the foreign policy circuit, attending conferences the world over.
Now, after being identified as a key figure in the US special counsel investigation into Russian influence over the 2016 US presidential election, Mifsud has gone to ground.
Last Thursday he disappeared from the private university in Rome where he teaches. Repeated attempts to reach him since have been unsuccessful, though he appears to have read some messages from CNN.
But more details are emerging of the background and contacts of the man who emerged last week as "the professor" in court filings relating to charges brought against former Trump aide George Papadopoulos.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029836578 The Coffee Boy was very busy.
Why Roy Moore's goose is cooked almost surely cooked.
Ms. Corfman who went on record that Roy Moore sexually assaulted her as
a 14 year old girl last week said something like Roy took her to a cabin in the
woods where he sexually assaulted her so to me it comes down to one simple
question; Did Roy Moore and or his family ever own such a cabin in the woods
at the time the assault was said to have taken place?
Rachel was getting very close to saying Trump is trying to destroy America tonight and ....
... in the end she just said, "Why?"
My thought is:
We have a Russian agent in the White House and he is working to bring down America.
Politico: Johnstown(PA) Never Believed Trump Would Help. They Still Love Him Anyway.
Trump Voters
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/08/donald-trump-johnstown-pennsylvania-supporters-215800
In a depressed former steel town, the president’s promises don’t matter as much as they once did.
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Del Signore said he’s been following politics far more than before because of Trump. Trump, he said, is just “more interesting.” So now he likes watching the news. “Ninety-nine percent of the time I watch Fox,” he said. “Sometimes I’ll be sitting there listening to all this Fox stuff, and I’ll say, ‘Maybe they aren’t right, maybe I’ll flip to CNN’—but every time I’ve found that Fox has been correct, and CNN is definitely fake news.”
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The NFL?
“Niggers for life,” Schilling said.
Sister of Texas church shooting Victim: "No more guns."
Source: CNN
(CNN)The family of one of the 26 people shot and killed in a Texas church Sunday morning appeared on CNN's "New Day" Tuesday with a simple message: "No more guns."
Evangelina Santos, whose brother Richard Rodriguez died in the attack in the small town of Sutherland Springs, choked back tears as she told anchor Alisyn Camerota, "Anybody can carry a gun now, even crazy people. Tell the President that. No more guns."
Santos's niece, Regina Rodriguez, was also emotional as she explained that she was unsure how to tell her five children what happened to their grandfather.
"I just explain to all my kids that he's in heaven," she said. "I don't know what else to do."
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/07/us/texas-massacre-victim-family-trump-no-more-guns-cnntv/index.html
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