Quote: Wrote:(Center for Strategic International Studies) CSIS’s Risk and Foresight Group created four plausible, differentiated scenarios to explore the changing geopolitical landscape of 2025-2030, including the potential lasting first- and second-order effects of Covid-19. The scenarios center on the relative power and influence of the United States and China and the interaction between them, along with detailed consideration of other major U.S. allies and adversaries within each of four worlds.

Each scenario narrative was informed by deep trends analysis and subject-matter-expert interviews. CSIS’s Dracopoulos iDeas Lab brought to life the scenarios in four engaging videos designed to test policymakers’ preconceived notions about the defense and security challenges facing the United States and its allies in the second half of this decade. This research was sponsored by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s Strategic Trends Division.
Center for Strategic International Studies

Quote: Wrote:This scenario analysis found that the highest likelihood outcome for world order in the decade ahead would not be a unipolar order or a bipolar Cold War-style competition, but a loose multipolarity. Under any outcome, the relative strength of both the United States and China would be diluted or balanced by the influence and independent foreign and security policies of India, Japan, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and others. There also emerged in the scenarios a growing number of contestations of U.S. power and influence—in particular due to the “spoiler” or other nefarious behavior of Russia, Iran, and North Korea. Despite its relative loss of economic power during this timeframe, Russia remained the most problematic global actor for the United States and its allies, with only limited room for cooperation on issues of strategic stability. Iran was most aggressive across scenarios in which it sensed weakened U.S. commitment to the Middle East. North Korea remained a consistent challenge in the expansion of its weapons programs, though it was more open to negotiation when the United States was stronger and China was weaker. Violent extremist organizations were active across scenarios but more localized and less transnational. They preyed on relative U.S. weakness or its seeming retreat from key regions where they sought to consolidate gains and when they sensed diminished U.S. cooperation with regional partners.

Quote:In this shocking video, we delve into the recent Islamic stabbing attack in Germany that has left over 30 people injured. Witness the harrowing footage that captures the chaos and panic of the incident. We explore the events leading up to the attack, the response from law enforcement, and the implications for security in Germany and beyond. Join us as we discuss the societal impact of such violent acts and the ongoing debates surrounding immigration and extremism. This incident raises important questions about safety, community, and the challenges of integrating diverse cultures. Stay informed and aware of the realities of our world today.

https://www.timesnownews.com/world/us/us...-113719282

Quote:Surface-to-air Missiles And Kill Teams In New Donald Trump Plot? Claims Surface

An international war correspondent on X, platform formerly known as Twitter, on Thursday claimed that nine surface-to-air missiles have been smuggled into the US to target Trump Force One. Ann Vandersteel added that the operation will allegedly be led by Sinaloa Cartel of Mexico. However, she did not provide any concrete evidence to back the story.

Quote:[/url] Former Democrat Candidate Indicted for Threatening to Kill Republican Anna Paulina Luna Using Ukranian Hit Squad
[url=https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/09/29/former-democrat-candidate-indicted-for-threatening-to-kill-republican-anna-paulina-luna-using-ukranian-hit-squad/] September 29, 2024 | Sundance | 148 Comments
I have tongue-in-cheek called attention to the unstable mindset of the Ukrainian extremists, frequently in alignment with the “alligator emoji” people, by saying “Slava Ukrani.”  At the end of my purposefully Freudian snark (misnomer I know), it was always the intent to draw attention to the rabid ideological outlook of those who promote World War Reddit.
However, putting aside prior snark, deep inside this unstable and tribal mindset there exists a very real and dangerous proclivity toward violence. Given the nature of how the IC has positioned Iran to be the suspect of any foreign assassination attempt upon President Trump. Personally, I consider that proactive narrative as a deflection from the very real foreign violence threat represented by those who are Ukranian extremists.
In essence, if there was to be any further attempt on the life of President Trump, specifically related to the reports of extremely dangerous weapons (missiles) smuggled into the United States, the most likely nationality of the trigger operators would be Ukraine, not Iran.  The second assassination attempt by a Ukraine sympathizer Ryan Routh only underscores the view.
Under the guise of sympathy toward Ukraine, the UniParty power brokers in Washington DC have made substantial financial deposits toward their endeavors.  Yes, within the U.S-Ukraine relationship there are billions at stake; and it is within that reality the origination of any threat to Donald Trump must be reviewed.
Adding context to this violent outlook, yet another unstable ‘Slava Ukraini’ story surfaces.  Republican Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna (Tampa, Florida) received death threats from her democrat opponent, William Braddock, who then fled to the Philippines and was recently captured.

New York Post – A former congressional candidate was charged over allegations that he threatened to dispatch a hit squad to murder his political opponent while he was running against Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.)
William Braddock, 41, of St. Petersburg, Fla. is accused of making the alleged threats on June 8, 2021 — including one where he threatened to “call up my Russian-Ukrainian hit squad” to take out his rival. (read more) 
FROM THE DOJ: […] “According to the indictment, William Robert Braddock III, 41, of St. Petersburg, and Victim 1 were candidates in the primary election to represent the 13th Congressional District of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives. Victim 2 was a private citizen and acquaintance of Victim 1. On June 8, 2021, Braddock made several threats to injure and kill Victim 1 and Victim 2 during a telephone call with Victim 2. Specifically, Braddock threatened, in part, to “call up my Russian-Ukrainian hit squad” and make Victim 1 disappear.
After making the threats, Braddock left the United States and was later found to be residing in the Philippines. Braddock was recently deported from the Philippines to the United States and made his first court appearance yesterday in Los Angeles.
Braddock is charged with one count of interstate transmission of a true threat to injure another person. If convicted, Braddock faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison. A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.” [Read Indictment Here]

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2024/25 are not just 'election years' they are THE election years. With over 2 billion people voting in over 50 countries around the world, the stakes have never been higher.

We've seen an alarming increase in online censorship recently, and an ever increasing amount of that is under advisement from our respective governments and their liberal supporters, though, there is also an uptick in censorship by the right.

Do we have freedom of speech? Or not?

Are we able to decide for ourselves, what to believe, or not to believe? And then, to express it?

The problem with misinformation and disinformation isn't a 'people' problem, but, as the evidence reflects, it is an 'intelligence agency' and a 'health agency' and an 'economic agency' problem, as recent history attests, they are the main proprietors and cause of the problem, yet, they are also in charge of the 'solution'

Classical Hegelian Dialectic, and the 'people' fall for it every time:

Quote:As the U.S. 2024 presidential election gets underway, social media companies are caught in an unenviable position: trying to stop the spread of misinformation while also facing more and more allegations of censorship.

Claims of censorship online have, in some cases, stymied efforts to combat false election news shared online. The problem is not unique to the U.S.: high-stake elections are being held in dozens of countries around the world this year and some worry that misinformation could influence the results.

"Half of the world is voting this year and the world could stick with democracy or move toward authoritarianism," Darrell West, a senior fellow of technology innovation at the Brookings Institution, said. "The danger is, disinformation could decide the elections in a number of different countries."
CBS News

Quote:The Canadian cyber spy agency, the Communications Security Establishment (“CSE”), has stated that it is “very likely” that Canadian voters will encounter some sort of foreign interference ahead of the September 2021 election. This type of interference may come in the way of overt hacking attempts, or the more insidious dissemination of “fake news” on online platforms.
McCarthy

Quote:Just days before Slovakia's national election last fall, a mysterious voice recording began spreading a lie online.

The manipulated file made it sound like Michal Simecka, leader of the Progressive Slovakia party, was discussing buying votes with a local journalist. But the conversation never happened; the file was later debunked as a "deepfake" hoax.

On election day, Simecka lost to the pro-Kremlin populist candidate Robert Fico in a tight race.
CBC

Quote:While it's nearly impossible to determine whether the deepfake file contributed to the final results, the incident points to growing fears about the effect products of artificial intelligence are having on democracy around the world — and in Canada.

"This is what we fear ... that there could be a foreign interference so grave that then the electoral roll results are brought into question," Caroline Xavier, head of the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) — Canada's cyber intelligence agency — told CBC News.
CBC

Quote:After weathering a years-long political and legal assault, researchers who study disinformation say they see reasons to be cautiously hopeful as their efforts heat up ahead of the 2024 election.

These researchers, along with the universities and nonprofits that they work for, have been in the crosshairs of Republicans and their allies, accused of acting as government proxies in a Biden administration plot to censor conservative speech online. Since 2021, those who worked to identify and combat disinformation around the last presidential election and Covid-19 have faced lawsuits, congressional inquiries and attacks online and in right-wing media that have threatened their reputations, careers and personal safety.

On Monday, during oral arguments at the Supreme Court, most of the justices voiced some support for governments and researchers working with social media platforms on content moderation, especially related to national security, emergencies and health.
NBC

Quote:As destructive as these false election narratives have been, there is good reason to believe the problem may be markedly worse in 2024. Five factors are poised to degrade the election information environment even further compared with 2020: 1) right-wing legal and political attacks have successfully deterred key institutions, organizations, and government agencies from addressing falsehoods about the election process; 2) domestic actors appear increasingly robust and coordinated in their broader efforts to undermine confidence in American elections, too; 3) social media companies have drastically reduced efforts to moderate false election content and amplify accurate information; (4) a convergence of recent geopolitical crises seem set to galvanize renewed interest from foreign adversaries such as Russia, China, and Iran to interfere in U.S. elections; and (5) recent advances in artificial intelligence mean adversaries of American democracy have access to tools that can boost voter suppression efforts and pollute the information environment on a scale and level of sophistication never seen before in a federal election cycle, though AI may also help address these threats.
Brennan Center

Quote:The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued a decision that could have enormous consequences for the 2024 election, saying the US government can – for now – keep warning social media companies about mis- and disinformation threats it’s seeing online.

Although the case was decided narrowly on a technicality and not on the substance of the issues, the decision is nonetheless among the most consequential of the court’s current term.

The government’s outreach to social media platforms has been happening since the 2016 election and in direct response to Russia’s attempts to meddle in US politics. In 2020, a congressional inquiry faulted the US government and tech platforms for not working together more to respond to those types of informational threats, which could baselessly sow division among voters and weaken the United States on the world stage.
CNN

Quote:The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued urgent safety recommendations on Thursday to Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in response to the potential for a jammed or restricted rudder control system on some 737 Next-Generation and 737 Max 8 aircraft. 
The rudder controls the side to side movement of the nose of the aircraft, otherwise known as the yaw motion. 
BOEING 737 MAX INCIDENT UNDER INVESTIGATION OVER 'STUCK' RUDDER PEDALS
The agency is in the midst of investigating a February incident in which the rudder pedals on a United Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 were "stuck" in their neutral position during the landing rollout at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey. 
   
United Boeing aircraft parked at gates at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey on March 19, 2024. (Photographer: Angus Mordant/Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)
At the time, the captain had to rely on the nosewheel steering tiller to control the airplane’s direction after touching down, the NTSB said.
The pilots reported that the plane was able to taxi to the gate "without further incident" and all 155 passengers and six crew members were able to deplane. No injuries were reported. 

Quote:From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia United Airlines Flight 585 N999UA (left), the aircraft involved in the accident Accident Date March 3, 1991 Summary Loss of control due to rudder hardover[1] Site Widefield Park, near Colorado Springs Municipal Airport, United States 38°44′09.4″N 104°42′42.4″W Total fatalities 25 Total injuries 1 Aircraft Aircraft type Boeing 737-291 Operator United Airlines IATA flight No. UA585 ICAO flight No. UAL585 Call sign UNITED 585 Registration N999UA Flight origin Greater Peoria Regional Airport Stopover Quad City International Airport Last stopover Stapleton International Airport Destination Colorado Springs Municipal Airport Occupants 25 Passengers 20 Crew 5 Fatalities 25 Survivors 0 Ground casualties Ground injuries 1 United Airlines Flight 585 was a scheduled passenger flight on March 3, 1991, from Denver to Colorado Springs, Colorado, carrying 20 passengers and 5 crew members on board. The plane experienced a rudder hardover while on final approach to runway 35 at Colorado Springs Municipal Airport, causing the plane to roll over and enter an uncontrolled dive. All 25 people on board the Boeing 737 were killed on impact. The National Transportation Safety Board, (NTSB), was initially unable to resolve the cause of the crash, but after similar accidents and incidents involving Boeing 737 aircraft, the crash was determined to be caused by a defect in the design of the 737's rudder power control unit.[1]: ix 

I have not seen him this worked up before. Edit to add I do believe this could be said about most countries that have opened the flood gates of immigration.

It seems like since Elon and Trump have become friends the great arm of the federal government in the form of the Federal Aviation Administration has started screwing with Space-X's launch plans.. No doubt China loves this stuff !

There used to be a magazine (maybe 20 years ago" called "US Aviator" that wrote about and exposed many of the corrupt vengeful acts by certain regional departments of the FAA. There were many stories about inept idiots at work. One I still remember was a twin engine aircraft that had the new "Q" tipped props.. A fed during a ramp check grounded the aircraft and accused the pilot of almost landing gear up and managing to make a go-around; thus the prop tips were perfectly bent over (no scratches or runway rash visible..yet that must be the cause!!"

So the aircraft was grounded for several days even though they had been given the paperwork about the new propellers installation which was legal and certified.. Federal bureaucratic B.S.

This was posted at ATS by TheSingleBillie https://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1351888/pg1 and I think many of his points are spot on..

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The elite class of Hollywood, influential liberals and leftists in the nation and the world can not tolerate Trump because he refuses to be controlled by them.

Elite Democrats are keen to get rid of Trump any way they can because Trump believes that most Americans are smart enough to make their own decisions about their lives. While Democrats feel they must force "new moralities" on the US population and ways of life many Americans do not want.

Trump is also not beholden to the elite of the elite class, now mainly Democrats that have caused the following to happen to the US people, against the will of many.

giving more support and aide to illegal immigrants than they give to needy US citizens;

encouraged large numbers of illegal immigrants to enter unchecked into the nation, so many that the number of unchecked illegal immigrants in the US now exceeds that of the entire population of Wyoming, or of the individual population of 36 other states;

caused inflation to spiral out of control:

forced citizens to accept transgenders with penis’ participating in women's sports and exposing themselves in high school and gym locker rooms;

have ended energy independence in the US made the country dependent on countries for energy that shout “death to America”;

Democrat politicians have been marching in protests chanting phrases that mean “genocide the Jewish people” while calling 74+ million Republican voters Nazi's and fascists;

for a year liberals have been telling the US population that people should vote solely for Democrats to save Democracy. Then they inform ordinary average voters, their primary votes don't count and the elite of the elite Democrats anoint Kamala the Presidential Candidate.

they are trying hard to do what 9 Dem run states already are doing, allow a healthy uterus owner with a healthy full term 9 month fetus to be extinguished it at will, with no reason given;

insisting nearly daily that Trump AND at a minimum half of the 74+ million US citizens, who voted for Trump are racists, sexists, homophobes, domestic terrorists, insurrectionists, and a threat to the nation and to Democracy, purposely fomenting hatred and division among the US population;

Harris and other Dems have openly affirmed they want to take away gas stoves, furnaces, lawn tools, cars from the American people by forbidding their production and thus replacement if they should break;

The elite of the elite Democrats want Trump gone because he does not believe any of these things above are what the American people want or are good for the nation. The elite Democrats also want as Hillary has said more than once over the past 4 years, Trumps supporters (voters) put into formal deprogramming (like the Chinese are doing to the Ughyers?)

Biden is clearly in the mid stages of dementia, it is obvious to me that an unelected elite group was telling Biden what to do and how to run the nation. It is clear Kamala can only speak in "word salad" off the cuff, unrehearsed or without a teleprompter. Therefore, I think that the same cabal will be running the nation if she becomes "President". This unelected elite of the elitists in the world wants to stay in power running the US, and will do whatever it takes to stay in power, including lawfare or far worse, imposing their "new morality" on the US and forcing the population to accept things that they find offensive or detrimental to the nation.

Unfortunately, I firmly believe Kamala and the Democrats will win, no matter what because the unelected and very powerful elitist cabal will not lose power and will do whatever it takes, and I mean whatever, to win.

The justice hammer falls...



57 pages of criminal allegations against the New York City mayor Eric Adams. Eric Adams is surrounding himself with clergy members and saying he will not resign. He's smiling and acting like this is a political witch-hunt, sound familiar? Perhaps he went off the narrative reservation by speaking out against the out of control illegal immigration.

Starting in 2016, Adams secretly begins accepting free luxury travel from the Turks.


Count 1: Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud, Federal Program Bribery, and to Receive Campaign Contributions By Foreign Nationals

Count 2: Wire Fraud

Count 3: Solicitation of a Contribution by a Foreign National

Count 4: Solicitation of a Contribution by a Foreign National

Count 5: Bribery

Count allegations are detailed on pages 49-55.

Turkey official have been extensively referenced in campaign donations & luxury travel expenses for Adams.


Page 27: Unlawful Matching Funds
* All told, the 2021 Campaign reaped over $10 million in Matching Funds based on the false certifications that the campaign complied with the law, when in fact ERIC ADAMS, the defendant, knowingly and repeatedly relied on illegal contributions.

Page 27: Bribe Allegation
* In 2021, ERIC ADAMS, the defendant, intervened with the FDNY to permit the Turkish Consulate to occupy a skyscraper that had not passed a fire safety inspection, in exchange for, among other things, luxury travel benefits provided by the Turkish Official and the Airline Manager.

I dunno, sounds all normal for democrats.

USA vs Eric Adams

From the indictment:

Eric Adams claims he changed his cell phone password to prevent his staff from deleting any messages or information. Unfortunately, he told investigators, he immediately forgot the new password and so wouldn’t be able to assist them in opening his phone...





LOL, I'm sure this happens a lot with other politicians...




Eric Adams Armenian Genocide denial bribery:



That wouldn’t be the first concerted effort at Armenian genocide denial in New York City... quite a spectacle that Turkey hired a multiracial pogo stick flash mob and sky writers to deny the Armenian genocide in NYC back in 2016.


Daily Mail


The DOJ alleges that Eric Adams placed a Turkish Airlines official (Cenk Öcal) on his transition team in exchange for free upgrades on Turkish Airlines:



Eric Adams and Cenk Öcal (the Turkish Airlines executive) at a Turkish Airlines party.


Photo source (Resident Luxury Lifestyle magazine, July 2019)

"Mr. Öcal, according to a Turkish news report, was fired from the airline in early 2022 during a shake-up at the company." NY Times (Nov 16, 2023)

While the straw donor scheme outlined in the indictment is meatier, Adams seemed easily bribed by luxury flights and accommodations provided by Turkish Airlines.





Adams seems to have been wheeling and dealing with the Turks from what is likely Osteria La Baia, the fancy restaurant run by a pair of convicted money launderers. He goes to La Baia practically every other day; the self-proclaimed vegan almost always gets the Branzino.


The twin brothers Robert and Zhan Petrosyants, convicted felons, whom employees referred to as the restaurant's owners, are close friends of the Mayor. Source: Eric Adams After Dark: A Private Table and Tarnished Friends (NYT, Aug 22, 2022)

From a previous Eric Adams straw donor scandal involving his old NYPD buddies and, in a minor role, the girlfriend of a disgraced pollster, Sean McElwee who popularized “Abolish ICE” before taking a job with Sam Bankman-Fried.
The Washington gambler (WaPo, April 26, 2023)


"The feds have been scrutinizing donations from people connected to the Turkish government, but sources tell CBS News New York agents served subpoenas for information on five more foreign governments over the summer."


The DOJ has gone after democrat senator Bob Menendez (due to be sentenced October 29), democrat rep for Texas Henry Cuellar (indicted, case is ongoing), and Sue Mi Terry (Korean-American, a former CIA analyst, indicted as an unregistered foreign agent of the South Korean government); all indicted on FARA (Foreign Agents Registration Act) charges over the last two years.

I'm actually surprised we aren't seeing Dems accusing the DOJ of unfairly targeting them because most of the FARA cases appear to be Dem or Dem-leaning figures. Hunter Biden almost got hit on FARA as well.

Also, much of this is probably charges a politician could have gotten away with 10-15 years ago, as shown with Mendendez escaping punishment on similar charges in 2018, but New Cold War paranoia is very high and likely contributing to a push toward aggressive pursuit of FARA cases. Expect more fallout in the coming months.

Interesting piece on Havana Syndrome that might make you go, Hmmm...

Quote:This newsletter has published several deep-dive pieces about the so-called Havana Syndrome, what the U.S. Intelligence Community prefers to euphemistically term Anomalous Health Incidents. Just a few days ago, Top Secret Umbra’s latest analysis of AHIs established, based upon considerable evidence, that the Biden-Harris administration, through its intelligence bosses, since 2021 has engaged in an active cover-up to conceal from Congress and the American public that it knows the unpleasant reality lurking behind the Havana Syndrome. The difficult fact is that AHI is caused by a special weapon from Moscow. To refresh:

The terrible truth is that, for many years, multiple hostile intelligence services have employed a Russian-designed and built acoustic directed energy weapon against Americans to harm and cripple them. The culprits are Russia’s Federal Security Service or FSB (for attacks inside or near Russia), the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff or GRU (for attacks further afield) and Cuba’s Dirección de Inteligencia or DI, a close Kremlin spy partner since the 1960s (many of the attacks in the Western Hemisphere, including inside the U.S., are the DI’s handiwork).

Our Intelligence Community is well aware of what the mystery weapon is and how it works. American spies have possessed fragmentary information about this clandestine Russian spy program for decades. Now, based on extensive intelligence collection and analysis, the IC has identified a half-dozen variants of this unique weapon, which was initially developed by the KGB during the late Cold War. The variants represent improvements in terms of capability, portability, and range. The top-shelf model is customarily deployed in a van and has an effective range of several hundred meters. The smallest weapon is man-portable in a backpack and is employed against close targets at a hundred meters or less. All variants produce similar symptoms and long-term medical harm.

The Biden-Harris administration, in the greatest scandal in the history of American intelligence, has assiduously hindered discussion of this secret Kremlin weapon and who’s using it to cripple and even kill Americans, including attacks inside the United States. Since 2021, the Intelligence Community has told lies, prevented the truth from reaching Congress and the public, and executed a bureaucratic conspiracy to stifle discussion of Havana Syndrome. Of course, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his “special services” know exactly what they’ve done. And they know that we know.

They simply don’t care. What if the deep, dark secret here is that there is really no secret? What if the KGB placed the unpleasant truth about AHIs in public view decades ago, but nobody in the West even noticed? What if the only people in the dark about Havana Syndrome are Congress and the American public?

Recently, a friend of mine who came out of that old system shared with me an obscure book he picked up in the former Soviet Union back in the late 1990s. His is the sincere loathing of Communism and its ugly, mass-murdering secret police culture that only someone who grew up around it possesses. Putin says that he is a proud Chekist, to use the proper term: my friend doesn’t share that view.

To understand the relevant context, we must go back to the mid-1990s, after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the KGB, when many Chekists were cut adrift, without ideological moorings or a steady paycheck. Some got in bed with organized crime and related less-than-legitimate enterprises. Some tried to curry favor with Russia’s new elites. More than a few sold Soviet secrets to Western intelligence agencies. Others got by as best they could. Some wrote books to cash in on the KGB secrets they had in their heads.

For a few years in the 1990s, there was a strange free-for-all where former Chekists [1] published tell-all (or at least tell-some) books about their Cold War activities. Some of the authors embellished their spy stories, just as Western authors in that genre are wont to do. Nevertheless, this represented a bonanza for Western counterspies. Here were accounts which, even if fictionalized in places, offered the highly classified secrets of Soviet intelligence. If you knew Russian and could decipher the Chekist tea leaves, you could learn a lot. I cracked open more than one Cold War mole mystery by carefully reading such KGB reminiscences – which, when paired with cold case counterintelligence information, unmasked deep Kremlin secrets.

That said, the era of revealing Chekist memoirs proved short-lived. Once Vladimir Putin, the former KGB major, took over the Kremlin in 1999, state archives were shut, and authors were discouraged from revealing state secrets. Those who didn’t get the message were shut down, run into exile, and in some cases died under mysterious circumstances.

The long-term value of those 1990s KGB remembrances can be fairly termed a mixed bag. It’s difficult to assess when an author is being entirely truthful – that’s never a Chekist specialty – and it will be impossible to verify certain accounts, particularly regarding KGB spy operations, until Putinism falls someday, and a future Russian government decides to open the archives to researchers. I’m not holding my breath and neither should you.

Moreover, some of those 1990s Chekist memoirs are rather strange. The book my friend alerted me to fits firmly in the “Weird KGB Stuff” category. It was published by a minor firm in Minsk in 1997 under the title Your Own Intelligence: A Practical Guide (Своя разведка: Практическое пособие). The author is listed as Roman Ronin, but that’s an alias. Under his nom de plume, “Ronin” published a few “spy story” books about supposed KGB espionage operations. The author’s identity remains unknown, but he clearly possessed deep knowledge of KGB modes of thought and action. [2]



The book reads like it’s ripped from KGB classified internal training curriculum, bolstered by personal notes about Chekist modus operandi. Its overall tone is that of an experienced insider in the Soviet spy business. Essentially, in the aftermath of the collapse of the KGB, the author provides the reader with a concise and detailed guide for How to become your own Chekist.

This was perhaps helpful advice in the Wild, Wild East that was the former Soviet Union in the 1990s, when gangsters and oligarchs proliferated as normal folks struggled to just survive. Belarus remained so mired in Soviet-era models, unlike Russia where the KGB broke up into several successor agencies, that Minsk never even changed the name of its secret police, which to this day remains the KGB (it would have cost a fortune to change the letterhead).

Your Own Intelligence constitutes a mystifying read for Westerners. The author is an unapologetic Chekist and makes jaw-dropping statements, encouraging the reader to do whatever is necessary to get the job done. The author didn’t get his manuscript approved by Amnesty International and there’s encouragement for torture that makes waterboarding look like a picnic: “If there is a lot of time to spare, it is more humane and effective to use gradually increasing pressure on the psyche accompanied by physical pain, but when there is almost no time, it is easier to use primitive physical violence.”

Overall, the book offers a guide to the full range of intelligence operations, from the collection of HUMINT (there’s a lot on how to recruit and validate assets) and SIGINT (which wiretaps work best, plus how to protect your own communications security), to intelligence analysis, even how to apply disinformation. There’s considerable discussion about how to mess with the heads of your target with physical and psychological manipulation, and here’s where things get interesting. The author elaborates the uses of a full array of unpleasant spy tricks, including hypnosis, the use of compromising materials (i.e. kompromat) including sex and drugs to influence the mind, plus there’s frank discussion of torture, even something termed “zombification” (essentially a Chekist take on coerced mental programming).

Of greatest interest to AHI is the book’s section on “technotronic methods” for influencing the target, including an alarmingly frank explanation of how to effectively use electric shock to make your subject confess, without killing him, as well as how to apply ultrasound to “bake” the target’s brain, as here:

In this case, both thermal and mechanical effects of elastic vibrations with frequencies over 100 kHz are used. Even the low intensity of such concentrated vibrations significantly affects the thought structures and nervous system, causing headaches, dizziness, visual and respiratory disorders, convulsions, and sometimes loss of consciousness. Devices for such effects are easy to make yourself. "Baking" selected areas of the brain with well-focused ultrasound is sometimes used to permanently remove unwanted memories from memory, but this is only possible with well-trained personnel and special equipment used in medicine.

“Ronin” continues with an explanation of the espionage uses of infrasound, that is, a type of sound wave with a frequency that falls below the normal range of human hearing, typically less than 20 Hz:

The use of mechanical resonance of elastic vibrations with frequencies below 16 Hz, usually imperceptible to the ear, is quite effective in terms of its effect on a person is the use of mechanical resonance of elastic vibrations with frequencies below 16 Hz. The most dangerous interval here is considered to be from 6 to 9 Hz. Significant psychotronic effects are most pronounced at a frequency of 7 Hz, consonant with the alpha rhythm of natural brain vibrations, and any mental work in this case becomes impossible, since it seems that the head is about to explode into small pieces. Low-intensity sound causes nausea and ringing in the ears, as well as deterioration of vision and unaccountable fear. Medium-intensity sound upsets the digestive organs and the brain, causing paralysis, general weakness, and sometimes blindness. Elastic powerful infrasound can damage, and even completely stop the heart. Usually, unpleasant sensations begin with 120 dB of tension, traumatic ones - with 130 dB. Infra-frequencies of about 12 Hz with a strength of 85-110 dB induce attacks of seasickness and dizziness, and oscillations with a frequency of 15-18 Hz with the same intensity instill feelings of anxiety, uncertainty and, finally, panic and fear.

Last, the book illuminates the reader concerning what he terms “Ultra-high frequency (UHF) non-ionizing radiation”:

This electromagnetic microwave radiation affects bio-currents with a frequency of 1 to 35 Hz. As a result, there are disturbances in the perception of reality, an increase and decrease in tone, fatigue, nausea and headache; complete sterilization of the instinctive sphere is possible, as well as damage to the heart, brain and central nervous system. Waves actively modulated in the frequencies of the alpha rhythm of the brain are capable of causing irreversible “quirks” in behavior.

UHF radiation introduces information directly into the brain, and in their fields any psycho-processing of the subconscious is noticeably accelerated. Telephone and radio line wiring, sewer and heating pipes, as well as a television, telephone and fire alarm are quite usable as antenna transmitters of such waves. The working equipment, in fact, can really be made in makeshift laboratory conditions. Directed microwave radiation usually manifests itself in twitching of the legs, burning in the soles, earache, eye irritation, clicking in the “buzzing” head, blows to the nasopharynx accompanied by coughing, sneezing and runny nose, possible cardiac arrhythmia and numbness of the hands. Such symptoms usually disappear after the person leaves the radiation zone.

I’m no scientist but what “Ronin” described in 1997 tracks with disturbing precision with depictions of what an AHI attack feels like and the lasting medical harm it causes, according to many Havana Syndrome victims who have come forward with their accounts. How did “Ronin” know all this, in such detail, nearly three decades ago? He was obviously relying on highly classified KGB information here. According to intelligence sources, the KGB studied the impact of these ugly techniques on prisoners, who served as Kremlin guinea pigs before they used their secret weapon for the first time on real-live American spies in 1996 (as this newsletter revealed).


I don’t take any Chekist account at face value. Nevertheless, what “Ronin” tells us provides a telling clue about what the KGB developed during the late Cold War in its arsenal of deniable special weapons. The Biden-Harris Intelligence Community can no longer pretend that it has no idea what’s causing AHIs. The KGB already told us, right in print, back in the 1990s. Surely the IC has more detailed information in its classified holdings about this subject than what was offered in than an obscure Russian language book printed in Minsk in 1997.

Since the current IC leadership is compromised by its long-term cover-up regarding Havana Syndrome, we cannot expect them to come clean now, even when confronted by hard evidence. Again, Congress must act, because nobody else in our nation’s capital is willing to do anything to protect Americans from foreign attack, even right on our own soil. Putin has no incentive to stop his attacks so long as the White House plays along with his Chekist ruse with its silence.

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[1] Contrary to Putin’s dictum that “There are no ‘former’ Chekists” (Бывших чекистов не бывает), I’ve met a few of that breed; they are undeniably outliers, however.

[2] I have a plausible suspect for “Ronin,” but my identification is not 100 percent solid; moreover, this suspect is still alive and has become an opponent of the Putin regime, and I have no wish to place him in additional danger.