Ex-KGB Jack Barsky and ex-CIA Bob Baer Appalled over Kushner’s Russian Backchannel

“Kushner, in his naiveté about government, may also not have remembered that Barack Obama was still president and in charge of all negotiations with Russia. And it was an innocent oversight that Kushner failed to mention his talk with Kislyak on his government security clearance form. Even under the benign theory that Kushner thought a secret back channel was like a small boy’s tin-can telephone, his life in the coming months and maybe years will be a study in misery.”

The Guardian — May 29 2017

More bad news for Jared Kushner.  Special counsel Robert Mueller is reportedly investigating his finances and business dealings. Former KGB  Jack Barsky and former CIA Bob Baer comment on the reports that Jared Kushner asked Russian ambassador to establish a secured backchannel. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading

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INTEL TODAY DIARY — JUNE 17 2017

Islamic State leader Baghdadi ‘may have been killed by Russia’ — Russia investigation: Mike Pence hires personal legal counsel — Ex-Panama president, shackled in Miami court — Telegram founder: U.S. intelligence agencies tried to bribe us to weaken encryption

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi seen delivering a sermon in 2014

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KAZAKHGATE — An Easy Primer

“A drama is being played out in the unlikely setting of a Brussels parliamentary committee room that could have made the plot of a John Le Carré novel, perhaps coupled with Game of Thrones.”

Nick Kochan — Investigative writer and journalist based in London

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Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev

A Belgian parliamentary Commission is investigating how a Kazakh deal to buy helicopters from France was hijacked in 2010 by a group of Central Asian businessmen known as the “TRIO”. One of them — known for his link to the late KGB — is a close associate of US President Donald Trump. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading

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INTEL TODAY DIARY — JUNE 16 2017

Scandal Drove Brussels’s Mayor From Office. Now He’s Nowhere to Be Seen — Trump-Russia inquiry: President ‘probed for obstruction of justice’ — NSA links Wannacry worm to North Korea — CIA Gina Haspel: Trump’s Darling

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Manchester Bombing — What do we know so far? [UPDATE — JUNE 14 2017]

“The question needs to be asked:  why was the Manchester bombing allowed to happen?”

Paul F. — UK


At about 2230 on Monday evening, 22 May, Salman Abedi exploded an improvised explosive device (IED) in the Foyer of the Manchester Arena, killing at least 22 people and seriously injuring many more. What do we know so far? Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading

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INTEL TODAY DIARY — JUNE 15 2017

What Sessions did (and didn’t) tell us — Spy chief, a frequent guest at the White House, is MIA at headquarters — Saif al-Islam Gaddafi case: ICC calls for arrest of ex-Libya leader’s son — Israeli Mossad Forms Startup Investment Fund to Get Access to Newest Tech

Former FBI Director James Comey

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ZEMBLA — “The Dubious Friends of Donald Trump: The Russians”

“I have nothing to do with Russia – no deals, no loans, no nothing!”

Donald Trump

“The Russians are alleged to be in possession of sensitive information about Trump. And that exposes Trump to blackmail.” Fake news? Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading

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INTEL TODAY DIARY — JUNE 14 2017

A legal ‘dream team’ looking at Trump — What next for Saif al-Islam Gaddafi? — How a crippling shortage of analysts let the London Bridge attackers through — Jeff Sessions denies third meeting with Russia envoy

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French Intel Agencies — Macron picks three new directors

“The Middle East we have known is over. We see that Syria is already divided on the ground, that the regime is controlling only a small part of the county, only one-third of the country which was established after WWII. We have the same thing in Iraq. I doubt really that one can come back to the previous situation.”

Former DGSE Director Bernard Bajolet

Pierre Bousquet de Florian will run the CNR. Laurent Nunez, and Bernard Emié should head the DGSI and the DGSE respectively. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY Continue reading

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INTEL TODAY DIARY — JUNE 13 2017

U.S. Cyberweapons, Used Against Iran and North Korea, Are a Disappointment Against ISIS — Monitoring Nuclear Testing is Getting Easier — What Did [CIA Director] Mike Pompeo Do? — Manchester bombing was planned for months, Libya says

Trump meeting in the Oval Office last month with the Russian foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, and the ambassador to the United States, Sergey I. Kislyak.

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