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Sweejak
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| Quote: | | Nevzlin has now scooted from Israel to New Jersey! |
And the Russians have asked the US to arrest him. |
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Sweejak
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| Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 2:11 am Post subject: |
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What Scaramella is arrested for.
Via Rossliskaya Gazeta:
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Der Spiegel suggests that Scaramella allegedly tried to enlist the services of his vis-a-vis who needed money in compilation of materials implicating Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi.
Scaramella was arrested on his return from London on December 24. The Italian justice turned out to have a great deal of question to the "consultant."
First, the Italian was charged with slander against Alexander Talik, ex-agent of the Ukrainian KGB, who had allegedly planned the assassination of Senator Paolo Guzzanti, chairman of the so-called Mitrokhin Commission. Talik and his three Ukrainian assistants living in Naples were detained. The investigation was thoroughly
dismayed to discover that all of that was a tall tale invented by Scaramella and that he himself had sent hand grenades to the alleged assassins.
Scaramella then said that he had received this information from Litvinenko. The investigation exposed this as another lie. The investigation maintains that Scaramella deliberately misled the Mitrokhin Commission presenting himself as the only authority on KGB activities in Italy and misinformed the police. He told the Naples police in 2005 that a grenade launcher had been smuggled into
Italy for terrorist acts. Secret services arrested an Ukrainian
truck with two grenades without fuses in it. Truck owners were vigorously interrogated but kept saying that they had no idea where the grenades had come from. The consultant then informed the police of a weapons cache in Naples. The team dispatched to the site he had indicated found an air gun, a small caliber automatic rifle, and 160 rounds of various ammunition. Prosecutors suspect that Scaramella
himself planted grenades in the Ukrainian truck and the weapons in the heap of rubble but pinned the blame on Russian and Ukrainian secret services. In fact, it was these suspicions that led to Scaramella's arrest.
Surprisingly enough, the exact nature of Scaramella's
activities isn't even known in Italy itself. The "consultant" has described himself as a professor at the University of Naples, but the university's personnel department denies it. The first interrogation made it plain that the investigation would take time and Scaramella will have to meet the New Year behind bars despite his defense's efforts.
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parvati_roma
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| Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 1:43 pm Post subject: |
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A very accurate account - compliments to whoever compiled it.
Main things left out is that straight after bringing charges against the Ukrainian Talik - who'd previously been working for him in exchange mainly for promises of big deals and abundant euros - Scaramella had dinner with him, seems Talik was later "overheard" asking Scaramella what he should say when in court!! 
The Ukrainians directly involved with Scaramella were/are mostly low-level if not actual deadbeats - the Ukrainians' truck in which the grenades were planted was doing its rounds wholesaling cheap n' nasty local-neapolitan and/or chinese products to market stalls and street-vendors, the grenades had been hidden under heaps of 50c "novelty goods"... classy! 
Other aspect not reported there is that Scaramella is the worthy son of a very minor Neo-Fascist party honcho from Naples, the historical homeland of the world's most "creative" scams and con-tricks - and present-day Camorra Central for profitably inscrutable Italian-godfather interweavings with both Ukrainian and Russian mafias and racketeers... amongst others.
(I know I should have been doing updates myself ...  but there's so much Italian background to explain! - big effort required - so I've been lazily sitting back counting on someone-else-somewhere-else who actually gets paid for it sooner or later putting together a decent summary of the court-info being published in the Italian press. Must say the brit-press has been disappointing, never bothered to explain the charges simply says they're not directly linked to the Litvinenko case while denying-but-somehow-still-implying Scaramella has been jailed at Prodi's request... crappy reporting! )
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JLK
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| Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 9:54 pm Post subject: |
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Interesting rumors about Scaramella. PR, I would be interested in what the Italian press is saying about him.
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parvati_roma
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That Scaramella's essentially an ambitious bit player linked to - and trying to scam his way to higher things through - NATO/CIA fringe skulduggery endeavours, which in Italy's case focus on assisting "Atlanticists" such as Berlusconi by attempting to discredit less US-subservient "Europeanists" such as Prodi (in detail, Scaramella's nuclear-aspect stuff seems very non-concrete, btw - smoke-and-mirrors scam-flummery designed to invent himself some non-existent credentials for plummy "consultancy" contracts). In the US... Madsen gives a fair idea of what the games focus on.
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parvati_roma
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More Litvinenko spystory updates from Axisglobe - Brits saying "we know whodunnit, of course it was Lugovoi and Kovtun but of course the Russians will never extradite 'em", Russian press saying "nya-nya-nya, yeah how convenient - hey if you want 'em from us so you can pin it on 'em, how about you first give us back Berezovski and Zakayev".... plus a few more possible big-money Russian poisoning stories... plus cute lil' international-love-and-friendship offtopics such as head of Pskov FSB advising locals to ring the secret service removals squad straight away if Jehovah's Witnesses or other lyin' spyin' creepycrawly western sect adherents come snoopin' around their door.. etc. etc. ... wish it was that easy to get rid of them here!
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JLK
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| Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 7:24 pm Post subject: |
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Here is one theory.
A group associated with Berezovsky has an old Russian warhead and is planning to use it in a false flag attack. The warhead is so old that it needs to be reconditioned with polonium or it won't work. This presents little problem to the group, which has the resources of a Middle Eastern nuclear weapons state at its disposal.
Russia learns of the plot. Knowing that it will receive some blame because it was the source of the warhead in the first place, it has its agents poison Litvenenko (a person associated with both Berezovsky and Islamic militants), knowing that this will generate a lot of publicity. Now if an old warhead goes off, Berezovsky and his crew will get immediate scrutiny because of the polonium tie-in. Russia has averted a nuclear terror attack.
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Sweejak
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| Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 7:38 pm Post subject: |
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Via Wayne Madsen. He's been very hot on this story and I find his work more than a little interesting.
| Quote: | anuary 9, 2007 --
WMR previously cited the links between Alexander Litvinenko colleague Mario Scaramella, now under arrest in Italy, and a 22-year CIA veteran based in Miami named Louis Palumbo. Palumbo's Miami-based security firm, Ackerman & Palumbo, the forerunner of Incident Management Group (IMG), which has been linked to Scaramella and his colleague Filippo Marino, was founded in 1977, just after George H. W. Bush's stint as CIA director.
Recently-released CIA documents point to the presence in Miami of a major CIA front company operation that for some time involved George H. W. Bush's Zapata Petroleum and Zapata Offshore. In fact, internal CIA memos from 1975, written at the time Gerald Ford selected Bush to succeed the late William Colby as CIA director, cite a number of Bush-affiliated front companies in which CIA veteran Thomas J. Devine was also involved. These include Zapata; the Wall Street investment firm of Train, Cabot and Associates; and CIA proprietary firms using the cover names WUSALINE and WUBRINY/LPDICTUM.
The minute Bush was nominated as CIA director by Ford, Miami was restored as a major center for CIA proprietary operations. The CIA's Miami station, code-named JM/WAVE, was responsible for planning the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, an operation that involved Bush and Zapata. After Bush's one year stint at Langley, not only did Miami draw Palumbo, Ted "Blond Ghost" Shackley (who was to assist Bush in the 1980 October Surprise negotiations with Iran in Paris), and other CIA officers but Ackerman & Palumbo hired a senior Foreign Service officer who had been First Secretary of the US Embassy in Paris at the time Bush was in Paris hammering out the "no hostages for arms" deal.
CIA chickens coming home to roost for Poppy.
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Ok, that was a little off topic but after reading the Dunlop paper which aside from some possible mistakes (Surkov's name change), leads me to conclude that the illegal drug operations are the world's first truly global organization; borders, passports, and the very concept of nations don't matter. Furthermore they are militant and wealthy. Hence, they are key to operations which include political "engineering", ie. False flags, and being mercenary will operate under any flag depending on which way the wind blows. Perhaps they prefer the skull and bones of the Jolly Roger?
| Quote: | | They would never go under any other “roof”—even the Kremlin--because they already have one: the Americans. They simply pretend they are loyal to the Kremlin. |
http://left.ru/burtsev/ops/petrov_en.phtml |
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Sweejak
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| Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 2:29 pm Post subject: |
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Depp to make film about poisoned ex-spy
| Quote: | D'ARCY DORAN
Associated Press
January 13, 2007
LONDON - Johnny Depp is planning a film about a former Russian security agent whose poisoning in London has touched off an international mystery, according to the trade magazine Variety - one of three possible Hollywood projects about the case.
One of the other projects, involving the director Michael Mann, came after Columbia Pictures agreed to pay $1.5 million for the film rights to a book about the former Russian agent, Alexander Litvinenko, being co-written by his widow and a close friend, the report said. |
http://www.spokesmanreview.com/ap/story.asp?AP_ID=D8MKI7U80 |
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Sweejak
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| Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 2:53 pm Post subject: |
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Not many comments aside from noting the headline doesn't quite match the story, but that's not unusual anymore.
Also why is it only now revealed that Litvinenko had a meeting on the 4th floor of the Millennium. If memory serves, I recall only a meeting at the hotel bar and polonium traces in the bathroom.
Anyway, maybe this is a break in the case.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2556377,00.html
| Quote: | Police match image of Litvinenko's real assassin with his death-bed description
January 20
Police have identified the man they believe poisoned Alexander Litvinenko. The suspected killer was captured on cameras at Heathrow as he flew into Britain to carry out the murder.
Friends of the ex-spy say that the man was a hired killer, sent by the Kremlin, who vanished hours after administering a deadly dose of radioactive polonium-210 to Litvinenko.
He arrived in London on a forged EU passport and reportedly slipped the poison into a cup of tea he made for Litvinenko in a London hotel room. Litvinenko was reportedly able to give vital details of his suspected killer in a bedside interview with detectives just days before he died on November 23 at University College Hospital.
Police have decided not to publish pictures of this man, who was seen on CCTV cameras as he flew in from Hamburg on November 1, the day that Litvinenko fell ill.
He is described as being tall and powerfully built, in his early thirties with short, cropped black hair and distinctive Central Asian features.
He reportedly travelled on the same flight as Dimitri Kovtun, a Russian businessman who is being investigated for trafficking the radioactive material used in the poison plot.
Oleg Gordievsky, a former KGB agent and friend of Litvinenko, who has worked closely with police on the investigation, said: “This man is believed to have used a Lithuanian or Slovak passport. He did not check into any hotel in London using the name or that passport, and he left the country using another EU passport.”
German police are investigating how polonium-210 was found in various locations Mr Kovtun visited in Hamburg.
According to police sources, until now it has not been revealed that Litvinenko visited a fourth-floor room at the Millennium Hotel to discuss a business deal.
He had gone to the room with Mr Kovtun and another former Russian agent, Andrei Lugovoy.
The three men were joined in the room later by the mystery figure who was introduced as “Vladislav”.
Mr Gordievsky told The Times yesterday how “Vladislav was described as someone who could help Mr Litvinenko win a lucrative contract with a Moscow-based private security company.
“Sasha (his name for Litvinenko) remembered the man making him a cup of tea.
“His belief is that the water from the kettle was only lukewarm and that the polonium-210 was added, which heated the drink through radiation so he had a hot cup of tea. The poison would have showed up in a cold drink,” he added.
The hotel room where Litvinenko thought he was poisoned remains sealed off. This room reportedly showed the heaviest concentration of polonium-210 found at a dozen locations across London.
Both Mr Lugovoy and Mr Kovtun were questioned by Scotland Yard detectives in Moscow last month. They strenuously deny playing any role in the posion plot.
Scotland Yard have asked to return to Russia so that they can continue their hunt for the suspected murderer, but have been told that they will not be allowed back until after a team of Russian investigators have completed their own inquiry in London.
The fear is that the Russian investigators will use their trip to pursue enemies of President Vladimir Putin living in London. The Kremlin has offered an amnesty for some on its wanted list in return for information against Mr Putin’s main foes given asylum in Britain. They are thought to include former executives of the fallen oil giant Yukos, whose assets have been seized by the Kremlin.
Alexei Golubovich, former director of corporate finance and strategic planning at Yukos, came back from Italy this month after striking a deal with Russian prosecutors, who had issued an international warrant for his arrest.
Mr Golubovich was held in Italy last year but fought off extradition attempts. He is now said to be co-operating actively with Russian prosecutors.
The Kremlin agreed apparently to drop fraud charges if he returned to Moscow and provided testimony against Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the founder of Yukos, and his deputy, Leonid Nevzlin.
Khodorkovsky was jailed for fraud and tax evasion in 2003 in what was widely seen as a government vendetta against the oligarch, who had been highly critical of President Putin. Mr Nevzlin fled to Israel.
Yuri Chaika, the Prosecutor-General in Moscow, has accused Mr Nevzlin of involvement in Litvinenko’s death, a charge dismissed by the former Yukos number two. Mr Nevzlin told The Times how Litvinenko flew to Israel shortly before he was poisoned to warn him about a plan by the Kremlin to claw back millions of pounds from exiled Yukos executives through a covert campaign of intimidation and murder.
At least a dozen former Yukos personnel have been given asylum in Britain. Three attempts by the authorities in Moscow to have them sent back to Russia were blocked by the English courts.
All these executives are understood to be on the list of people the Russian investigators want to question in their murder inquiry.
Mr Chaika added to the intrigue this week by announcing that Moscow had “evidence of attempts to poison several witnesses in the Yukos case with mercury”.
He also asked Scotland Yard to investigate the sudden deaths of two Russians working in London, although police here insist the men died of natural causes. |
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parvati_roma
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| Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 11:47 am Post subject: |
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Very interesting - these aspects of Russian news remind me more and more of Italy's plot-ridden, extremely factionalised and out-of-control "deviated" secret services in the strategy-of-tension years ... complete with false-flag bombings and murders. Our intel plotters (consisting of powerful faction-networks inside Italian intel services) operated 99.9% outside direct government knowledge and control, btw - in particular, they fancied the idea of bringing down the govt. in favour of a military coup, had both mafia and far-right ties. Also some evidence they had some CIA (or CIA faction) backing and occasional Mossad links.
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Re the times story - so the Brits have a photographed face, an apparent Kovtun link (but no proof Kovtun himself in on the plot, indeed the fact of his contamination points away from this....) and traced use of fake ID docs.. but "who" the guy was working for and with what objectives remains as murky as ever - so all the "who stands to gain" arguments still stand .
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Sweejak
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| Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 12:07 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the Italian parallel. I find the article highly suspicious, but even propagandists use the truth. How much is in here I don't know.
And I'm seeing that Suvorov is once again shown to be, real name Vladimir Rezun, but I swear I posted somewhere that Suvrov denies this and offers an explanation. Can't find that but I'm looking. |
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SteveS
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| Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 8:49 pm Post subject: |
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| ABC News is reporting that the Brits have broken the case and found the radioactive teapot. They are claiming that this was a Russian state-sponsored assassination |
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