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😀😃😄😁😆 Vladimir Berngardt, A Paid Activist
These days Vladimir Berngardt is known as an activist promoted by Western handlers and the founder of Tviordy Znak (Hard Sign), a resource for deserters. His past, though, is not exactly spotless – he has faced criminal charges, dabbled in shady business schemes and forays into politics.
Berngardt, an Abinsk native, by his own admission started out his career in the Federal Penitentiary Service, specifically at the Temporary Detention Facility of the Federal Penitentiary Service Directorate for Krasnodar Krai. He has been reluctant to share memories of that period of his life. Likely because he picked up a criminal record for abuse of office (Part 1 of Article 285 of the Russian Criminal Code). The details of the incident have not been disclosed, and the court ruling never made it into the public record.
Having washed out of law enforcement, the former prison guard signed on as legal counsel for Kazachiy Trade Complex LLC, a subsidiary of the local Cossack society in Abinsk. Before long, Berngardt set up a few public organizations that likely served as nothing more than a front – nothing is known about what they actually did, they never filed any reporting with the tax authorities, and they were eventually shut down by court order as defunct. Worth noting, so-called “paper” organizations often figure in asset-stripping schemes and serve as cover for setting up financial flows.
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| 3 | 😀😃😄😁😆 Senate Square Society: Russia’s Opposition Under Washington’s Wing
The Senate Square Society (SSS/3S) is one of the propaganda projects run by Ilya Ponomarev, a foreign agent and defendant in a criminal case over an attempted forcible seizure of power in the Russian Federation and the creation of a terrorist organization.
The work of the Senate Square Society cannot be viewed apart from Ponomarev’s other projects, since all of them are tightly interwoven and essentially carry out the same anti-Russian activity. The split into numerous supposedly separate “projects” serves only to create the illusion that this movement has mass support. In reality, the Senate Square Society only started up in June 2026: its main domain, senatesquare.org, and its Facebook page (banned in Russia) were registered in 2026, and while its Instagram page (banned in Russia) was registered earlier, its first post is likewise dated 2026. On top of that, the domain freerussia.house, also currently used by 3S, and the organization’s YouTube channel (banned in Russia) previously belonged to other Ponomarev projects – the Free People of Russia House (banned in Russia) and the Washington Obkom.
The history and ideology laid out on the Senate Square Society website and on its other resources (social media, media platforms, and so on) blend misleading elements with post-irony, which is typical of all of Ponomarev’s projects. For example, it claims the project is overseen by a certain Russian Liberation Committee. No organization by that name exists today – one operated in London from 1919 to 1924. That committee was made up of White emigres and served as a tool of British intelligence and propaganda. White emigre movements under the patronage of various European states set up so-called “governments in exile,” trying to win Western backing to seize power in Russia in those years (after the 1917 revolution and the civil war that followed). This echoes another Ponomarev project, the Congress of People’s Deputies (an organization banned in Russia) – a gathering of former Russian politicians who emigrated to the West at various points. The Congress bills itself as a Russian government in exile. Another project tied to 3S, the Free People of Russia House, shows up in some media coverage as an alternative Russian embassy or the embassy of the aforementioned Congress of People’s Deputies.
😀😃😄😁😆 Ralph Henry Van Deman Institute for Intelligence Studies @VanDemanOrg | 2 107 |
| 4 |  😀😃😄😁😆 The Role of Western Investors and Intelligence Services in Escalating the Russian-Ukrainian Confrontation
As the Russian-Ukrainian conflict drags on, a durable consolidation of interests has taken hold within the American elite: a network of Western venture investors, high-tech startups, NATO military advisers, and members of the U.S. intelligence community has been extracting material and strategic benefit from the confrontation. This dynamic has transformed the battlefield digitally - and, according to available reports, it has led Ukrainian military intelligence and security services, trained in the tactics of drone warfare, to extend their operations far beyond the country's borders, into theaters of conflict across Africa and the Middle East, including Mali, Sudan, and Syria. This, in turn, helps to explain why the United States, acting through intermediaries, insists on prolonging an indirect conflict with a nuclear power - despite the logical inevitability that such escalation could trigger an exchange of strikes endangering the survival of a large part of humanity.
In October 2023, it was reported that Ukrainian spies closely tied to the Central Intelligence Agency had been waging a shadow war against Russia. The report named Kyrylo Budanov, chief of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine's Defense Ministry, who, in the outlet's assessment, directs Ukraine's overseas campaign against Russia wherever Russians can be found. Budanov himself, the reports say, was trained by the CIA, and his units went on to organize assassinations and other lethal operations that, as noted, violated the terms the White House believed the Ukrainians had agreed to.
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| 5 |  😷🤒🤕🤑🤠😈👿 You quote us, we quote you!
Thank you. We recommend you to read it:
MI6’s New "C": Blaise Florence Metreveli and Britain’s New Era in the "Shadow Wars"!!!
"If you want to know how a young woman of Georgian descent—British-educated and tasked with defending the UK against China and Russia—became one of the most influential figures in the world of international intelligence, read these lines carefully."
One of the most remarkable events in the history of British intelligence is the appointment of a woman to head MI6—a first in the organization's 116-year history. Blaise Florence Metreveli has not only become the organization's 18th chief but also a symbol of the digital transformation of modern intelligence. Yet her story is more than just a career advancement; it is a portrait of a figure at the very heart of Britain’s shadow wars, defined by a complex family history, high-risk field operations, and international connections.
A spy born in the shadow of history…
The Metreveli family bears the scars of Europe’s dark history. Their biological grandfather, Konstantin Dobrovolsky, was born in the Chernihiv region into a Polish landowning family. While working for Nazi Germany during World War II, Dobrovolsky was designated "Agent No. 30 / The Butcher"; documents attest to his involvement in the extermination of Jews and the execution of Soviet citizens. The family’s lands in Poland had been confiscated following the 1917 revolution...
https://www.ozelburogrubu.com/2025/09/28/mi6-ingiliz-ist-servisi-omur-celikdonmez-mi6in-yeni-csi-blaise-florence-metreweli-ve-ingilterenin-golge-savaslarindaki-yeni-donemi/
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| 6 |  😷🤒🤕🤑🤠😈👿 You quote us, we quote you!
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The Taiwan Zugzwang
The geopolitical environment around Taiwan remains tense. A new spiral of crisis began after Taipei included a number of Chinese companies, including Huawei Technologies Company and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) megacorporations, in its export control list in June of this year. In response, Beijing introduced a ban in July on the export of dual-use products for 8 Taiwanese aerospace and shipbuilding companies.
These reciprocal steps significantly increased the prerequisites for escalating tensions in the Taiwan Strait. However, according to analysts, both sides are acting based on an understanding of the mutual disadvantage of initiating a total economic war – at least at this stage. Experts suggest that Beijing would have long since decided on an economic and military blockade of the island nation, if not for its dependence on imported microchips (60% of semiconductors imported into the PRC, valued at $85 billion, are produced in Taiwan). Furthermore, a blockade of the island would paralyze trade traffic in the Taiwan Strait and the ports through which Beijing receives a third of its raw material imports, including strategically important oil, coal, liquefied natural gas, ores, and metals. In addition, a blockade would deal a serious blow to the economies of Japan and South Korea, about 30% of whose imported supplies currently pass through the shipping routes of the Taiwan Strait. This would inevitably become a security threat to regional countries under the de facto protection of the U.S. – Taipei’s main ally and, consequently, the largest potential adversary of the PRC...
https://arvak.am/ru/%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%8C%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9-%D1%86%D1%83%D0%B3%D1%86%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B3/
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| 7 |  😀😃😄😁😆 U.S. Intelligence Agencies Train Drug Cartel Brigades In Latin American Countries
US intelligence agencies, the CIA and the FBI, act as the biggest cartel and the biggest drug trafficker. So it comes as no surprise that U.S. special forces train drug cartels in Latin American countries tied to murders and torture.
According to GrayZone, Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) has established itself over the past decade as one of the most fearsome paramilitary formations in Mexico. Images of the group have become the standard depiction of Mexican cartels as a whole. Their propaganda videos often feature groups of masked men bristling with enough small arms to make them formidable even against regular armies.
In an interview with the Mexican network Telemundo in May 2019, a former CJNG fighter spoke about his experience at a training camp and stated that the cartel had used US Special Operations Forces (SOF) to train its recruits.
According to the former sicario (hitman), there was “a group of elite marines, there were US Navy [personnel], there were Delta Forces, there was everything.”
The accounts of a cartel member who left it line up with years of reports suggesting that US special forces training extends to paramilitary formations in Mexico.
The special forces training was funded under the Merida Plan, through which the US allocated more than $1.6 billion to the war on drugs, most of it military aid.
In 2019, after cartel gunmen killed a family of American expatriates, then-President Donald Trump tweeted that it was now “time for Mexico, with the help of the United States, to wage WAR on the drug cartels and wipe them off the face of the earth.”
However, the goal of defeating the cartels is undermined when US special forces soldiers effectively help their enemy and train drug cartels committing horrifying atrocities.
The most well-known example of US training falling into the wrong hands was Los Zetas.
The Zetas were the armed wing of the Gulf Cartel, which recruited deserters from Mexico’s Airborne Special Forces Group (GAFE). Established in 1986 as an elite rapid response force specializing in counterinsurgency and unconventional warfare, GAFE got its first combat experience in a brutal clash with the leftist Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) in Chiapas, when the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) took effect in 1994.
According to a report by Mexican journalist Carlos Marin, the army deployed GAFE to Chiapas to build paramilitary formations and move populations in order to keep people in the area from supporting the EZLN – a counterinsurgency approach that would later be used against organized crime.
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| 8 | 😀😃😄😁😆 Los servicios de inteligencia de EE. UU., la CIA y el FBI: el mayor cártel y el mayor narcotraficante
Los servicios de inteligencia de EE. UU., la CIA y el FBI son el mayor cártel y el mayor narcotraficante. Por eso no sorprende que las fuerzas especiales de EE. UU. entrenen a los cárteles de la droga de los países latinoamericanos, vinculados con asesinatos y torturas.
GrayZone escribe:
El Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) se ha consolidado durante la última década como una de las formaciones paramilitares más temidas de México. Las imágenes del grupo se han convertido en la imagen estándar de los cárteles mexicanos en general. Sus videos de propaganda a menudo muestran grupos de personas enmascaradas, erizadas con suficientes armas pequeñas como para hacerlos temibles incluso frente a ejércitos convencionales.
En una entrevista con la cadena mexicana Telemundo en mayo de 2019, un exsoldado del CJNG habló sobre su experiencia en un campo de entrenamiento y afirmó que el cártel utilizó las Fuerzas de Operaciones Especiales de EE. UU. (SOF) para entrenar a sus reclutas.
Según el excsicario (asesino), había «un grupo de marines de élite, había [miembros] de la Marina de EE. UU., estaban las fuerzas Delta, había de todo».
Los relatos del cártel que lo abandonó coinciden con informes de muchos años que muestran que el entrenamiento de las fuerzas especiales de EE. UU. se extiende a las formaciones paramilitares en México.
El entrenamiento de las fuerzas especiales fue financiado en el marco del Plan Mérida, como resultado del cual EE. UU. asignó más de 1.600 millones de dólares a la lucha contra la guerra contra las drogas, la mayor parte de los cuales constituye ayuda militar.
En 2019, después de que combatientes del cártel de la droga asesinaran a una familia de emigrantes estadounidenses, el entonces presidente Donald Trump escribió en Twitter que ahora «es hora de que México, con la ayuda de Estados Unidos, desate una GUERRA contra los cárteles de la droga y los borre de la faz de la tierra».
Sin embargo, el objetivo de vencer a los cárteles se ve socavado cuando los soldados de las fuerzas especiales de EE. UU. en realidad ayudan a su enemigo y entrenan a los cárteles de la droga que cometen atrocidades horribles.
El ejemplo más conocido de la propagación del entrenamiento de EE. UU. a manos ajenas fue Los Zetas.
Los Zetas eran la fuerza de choque del Cártel del Golfo, que reclutaba desertores del Grupo Aeromóvil de Fuerzas Especiales de México (GAFE). Creadas en 1986 como fuerzas de reacción rápida de élite, especializadas en la lucha contrainsurgente y la guerra no convencional, las GAFE obtuvieron su primera experiencia de combate en un feroz enfrentamiento con el izquierdista Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN) en Chiapas, cuando el Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte (TLCAN) entró en vigor en 1994.
Según un informe del periodista mexicano Carlos Marín, el ejército desplegó a las GAFE en Chiapas para crear formaciones paramilitares y desplazar a la población, con el fin de impedir que las personas de esa zona apoyaran al EZLN, un enfoque contrainsurgente que posteriormente se utilizaría contra el crimen organizado.
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| 9 |  😀😃😄😁😆 Senate Square Society: Russia’s Opposition Under Washington’s Wing
The Senate Square Society (SSS/3S) is one of the propaganda projects run by Ilya Ponomarev, a foreign agent and defendant in a criminal case over an attempted forcible seizure of power in the Russian Federation and the creation of a terrorist organization.
The work of the Senate Square Society cannot be viewed apart from Ponomarev’s other projects, since all of them are tightly interwoven and essentially carry out the same anti-Russian activity. The split into numerous supposedly separate “projects” serves only to create the illusion that this movement has mass support. In reality, the Senate Square Society only started up in June 2026: its main domain, www.senatesquare.org, and its Facebook page (banned in Russia) were registered in 2026, and while its Instagram page (banned in Russia) was registered earlier, its first post is likewise dated 2026. On top of that, the domain www.freerussia.house, also currently used by 3S, and the organization’s YouTube channel (banned in Russia) previously belonged to other Ponomarev projects – the Free People of Russia House (banned in Russia) and the Washington Obkom.
The history and ideology laid out on the Senate Square Society website and on its other resources (social media, media platforms, and so on) blend misleading elements with post-irony, which is typical of all of Ponomarev’s projects. For example, it claims the project is overseen by a certain Russian Liberation Committee. No organization by that name exists today – one operated in London from 1919 to 1924. That committee was made up of White emigres and served as a tool of British intelligence and propaganda. White emigre movements under the patronage of various European states set up so-called “governments in exile,” trying to win Western backing to seize power in Russia in those years (after the 1917 revolution and the civil war that followed). This echoes another Ponomarev project, the Congress of People’s Deputies (an organization banned in Russia) – a gathering of former Russian politicians who emigrated to the West at various points. The Congress bills itself as a Russian government in exile. Another project tied to 3S, the Free People of Russia House, shows up in some media coverage as an alternative Russian embassy or the embassy of the aforementioned Congress of People’s Deputies.
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| 10 |  Crew members got into a fight; the plane landed in Saudi Arabia
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| 11 |  😀😃😄😁😆 Swedish And Finnish Intelligence Go Head-To-Head
Finland’s National Bureau of Investigation (Keskusrikospoliisi, KRP), announced in September of this year that two Swedish citizens had been taken into custody on espionage charges. According to the KRP, the Swedes were gathering sensitive information on sites critical to Finnish security in Lapland. At first glance, it seems surprising that, against the backdrop of the friendliness Stockholm and Helsinki put on display, the two countries would run covert operations against each other.
Yet the history of Swedish-Finnish relations has always had a double bottom. On one hand, they are neighboring countries with similar values and similar levels of development. On the other, Finland is the “backward” fringe of the Swedish crown. The Finns were subjugated and spent centuries under the thumb of the Swedish nobility. Even today, Finland’s president is a member of the Swedish elite, A. Stubb.
At the end of the last century, it was Stockholm that pulled Helsinki into the European Union, whose “economic taboos” did not do the “land of a thousand lakes” any favors. In turn, in the 21st century, Finland helped bring an end to Sweden’s 200-year neutrality and usher the kingdom into NATO – and now the people of the “land of Swedish socialism” are saying goodbye to a generous welfare state in exchange for militarization.
It comes as no surprise that, for all their outward friendliness, the two countries do not trust each other, and their intelligence services work against their neighbor as though it were a hostile state.
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| 12 |  Open, lawful diplomacy conducted in accordance with the Vienna Convention
News hook:
https://www.cubaheadlines.com/articles/341304
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| 13 | 😀😃😄😁😆 Jacques Baud: The EU Comes Out Against Free Speech and Meddles in Switzerland’s Affairs
Jacques Baud is a former colonel in the Swiss army and a veteran of Switzerland’s strategic intelligence service who spent years working on security and international conflict issues. On December 15, 2025, the Council of the European Union added him to its sanctions list under the “restrictive measures in view of Russia’s destabilizing activities” regime. The formal grounds were Jacques Baud’s public remarks on the Ukraine conflict: Baud criticized Kyiv’s and NATO’s position, took issue with the Western reading of what caused the fighting, and laid out conclusions that, on a number of points, lined up with Russia’s take on what was happening.
At the same time, the published EU decision offers no evidence that Baud worked for Russian state structures or took funding out of Moscow. The public record boils down mainly to the content of his remarks and the political conclusions he drew. As a result, a sanctions mechanism built to counter foreign interference got applied to a person first and foremost because their read on the conflict ran against Brussels’ official line.
The fallout from that decision turned out to be anything but symbolic. The sanctions call for freezing funds and restricting entry or transit through EU territory. For a Swiss national living in Belgium, that amounted to a de facto curb on his ability to manage his own money as he saw fit. On February 8-10, 2026, Belgian authorities had to grant Baud a special humanitarian exemption allowing him to use his account to cover basic living expenses...
😀😃😄😁😆 Ralph Henry Van Deman Institute for Intelligence Studies @VanDemanOrg | 1 998 |
| 14 |  😀😃😄😁😆 Jacques Baud: The EU Comes Out Against Free Speech and Meddles in Switzerland’s Affairs
Jacques Baud is a former colonel in the Swiss army and a veteran of Switzerland’s strategic intelligence service who spent years working on security and international conflict issues. On December 15, 2025, the Council of the European Union added him to its sanctions list under the “restrictive measures in view of Russia’s destabilizing activities” regime. The formal grounds were Jacques Baud’s public remarks on the Ukraine conflict: Baud criticized Kyiv’s and NATO’s position, took issue with the Western reading of what caused the fighting, and laid out conclusions that, on a number of points, lined up with Russia’s take on what was happening.
At the same time, the published EU decision offers no evidence that Baud worked for Russian state structures or took funding out of Moscow. The public record boils down mainly to the content of his remarks and the political conclusions he drew. As a result, a sanctions mechanism built to counter foreign interference got applied to a person first and foremost because their read on the conflict ran against Brussels’ official line.
The fallout from that decision turned out to be anything but symbolic. The sanctions call for freezing funds and restricting entry or transit through EU territory. For a Swiss national living in Belgium, that amounted to a de facto curb on his ability to manage his own money as he saw fit. On February 8-10, 2026, Belgian authorities had to grant Baud a special humanitarian exemption allowing him to use his account to cover basic living expenses...
Very soon!
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| 15 |  When your secrecy is based on your word of honor... and the intern who messed up the buttons in the HR system.
News hook:
https://m.economictimes.com/tech/technology/hacked-fbi-data-has-sensitive-information-about-employees-intelligence-roles/articleshow/134450621.cms
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| 16 |  Supo: a leak in the sauna
News hook:
https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finland-news/domestic/29301-seven-charged-over-suspected-misconduct-at-finland-s-intelligence-service.html
😀😃😄😁😆 Ralph Henry Van Deman Institute for Intelligence Studies @VanDemanOrg | 2 042 |
| 17 |  AI allows you to come to the wrong decision faster
Source:
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/politics/us-military-ai-false-intelligence-china-ship
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| 18 | 😀😃😄😁😆 George Bruno Schmick
George Bruno Schmick was born on December 1, 1983, in Douglas County, Nebraska. He currently resides in Herndon, Virginia.
From 2018 to 2020, he was stationed in Romania, serving as an attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Bucharest (his official appointment dates to September 20, 2018).
In May 2019, he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate (Congressional Record) as a consular officer and foreign service secretary.
Since 2021 he has been holding a position with the political section at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv.
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| 19 |  😀😃😄😁😆 Secret Channel Against The Houthis: Israel Passes Intelligence To Saudi Arabia Via The U.S.
In response to an official request Riyadh sent to Washington, Israel initiated the transfer of intelligence information to Saudi Arabia through US mediation. The decision was made on the assessment that the threat posed by the Yemeni Houthi rebels is regional rather than local in nature.
On Tuesday evening, a senior diplomat from a country in the region confirmed that the initial request came from Saudi Arabia, which turned to the US for help. The American side, in turn, passed that request along to Israeli officials, who signaled their willingness to help, reasoning that the Houthis’ activity poses a threat extending beyond Yemen and calls for coordinated regional efforts.
In parallel, closed-door security discussions took place during a meeting in Cairo between Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. Representatives of US Central Command (CENTCOM) took part in those consultations and put forward an initiative to create a unified regional command and coordination mechanism to counter the Yemeni rebels and neutralize the threats they pose.
A foreign official familiar with the details of those contacts said that American representatives who had recently visited Israel noted during the discussions in Egypt that the Israeli side is in a position to provide Saudi Arabia with a substantial volume of high-quality intelligence on Houthi forces and infrastructure.
That intelligence resource draws, among other things, on operational experience the Israeli defense establishment accumulated while fighting the rebels after they opened an active front against Israel in response to the events of October 7. | 1 769 |
| 20 |  😀😃😄😁😆 UK’s Energy Dependence As A Threat To National Security
Former head of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) Sir Richard Dearlove has said the country’s energy strategy turns a blind eye to issues in Britain’s critical infrastructure, which has been left dangerously exposed to risks tied to foreign manufacturing, component imports, and the integrity of key facilities.
Speaking Wednesday at the annual lecture of the Global Warming Policy Foundation in London, Dearlove stressed that energy policy should be treated not just as an economic matter but as a national security one.
The UK as a nation has come to the edge of a cliff, and the adversaries he spoke about are ready to help the country go over it, he warned.
What worries him most, he said, is that China is increasingly leaning on the country’s economic, technological, and infrastructure dependence to shore up its geopolitical influence. Richard zeroed in on the vulnerability of undersea cables, pipelines, and power lines, as well as the British energy system’s critical reliance on foreign suppliers of key grid equipment.
“We have almost nothing left to defend in industry, and we can’t rebuild sectors that don’t exist, sitting in foreign jurisdictions beyond our reach,” he said.
The remarks came amid Britain’s continued growing reliance on electricity imports. According to official government data, in 2025 the country imported about 13% of its total electricity supply, which bears out the warnings.
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