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Mar 30Liked by Jeff Stein

Thanks for your substack. You provide a cornucopia of information. The Psyops Army Ad even though I'm over 70, I can see it working, and hopefully smart youth join (and make careers off it).

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Mar 30Liked by Jeff Stein, Seth Hettena

Love the news. Please keep it up.

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Mar 31Liked by Jeff Stein

Re Paul Manafort, during the Reagan administration, just after Al Haig's resignation. Haig was sent to RD Congo (then Zaire) -I accompanied him- to tell Mobutu the game was over and we would not support him against the insurrection he was facing. Mobutu expressed surprise as an alleged USG envoy had assured him a week before of the contrary. My investigation showed that the "USG envoy" was none other than Paul Manafort, who exploited with his associate Jean-Yves Ollivier, a former French mercenary in Africa and friend of Jacques Chirac of France, an illegal mine in Eastern Congo under the protection of a murderous militia. My report to State had no effect.

Later J-Y Ollivier and his brother Regis, a DGSE bigwig (now retired), were involved in the illegal export of advanced French COCOM-designated advanced weaponry to Saddam Hussein's Iraq. I then wrote that Jacques Chirac had received from Saddam Hussein for the financing of his party $5 million, a fact confirmed at Chirac's death by former UK SIS chief Sir Richard Dearlove notably.

Later J-Y Ollivier went to work for the Russian Brussels-based Ricardo Baretzky network. Right now Jean-Yves Ollivier is the main intermediary for French and other European companies wishing to continue or increase business with Russia, as recognized by French magazine Le Point, and guess who's helping him? Paul Manafort of course, with their friend Konstantin K. What about a Trump campaign manager still working for Russia?

French president Macron has at long last replaced his intelligence chiefs, with the new DGSE chief, Nicolas Lerner, tasked with purging the agency from its pro-Russian elements. The GRU outfit in Annecy, France, Vostok France Solidarite Donbass, will be closed, something I have been trying to get for 10 years. I am now trying to get them crack down on Jean-Yves Ollivier and even Manafort and their associate Ziad Takieddine. Manafort ad Takieddine are also involved in the illegal financing of former president Sarkozy in 2007. The latter became Putin's main asset in France after the Russian president dropped Marine and J-M Le Pen who had robbed him blind. Sarkozy has been the victim of an FSB (not SVR) Kompromat operation while visiting his family in Hungary.

The story is far more complicated than I made it here, but I can't give the details in a Spy Talk comment.

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If you are going to take pot shots at future Trump administration appointees and strong men why be radio silent on those board seats for the children of Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry and of course Hunter Biden? Not worth noting? Would also also like to see work on those NGOs that are "helping people" get to the U.S. Southern border and their network of funding.

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Manafort is a crook. Cant say it often enough

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Hello Giles:

I will make no attempt to deny what you have written.

1. France has a history of pursuing political adversaries through the courts.

2. Regrettably, any and all political parties everywhere take dirty money (Democrats in the U.S. have always worked with organized crime not to mention IMBD).

3. Nobody does business in Russia - or Ukraine - without kissing the ring(s) of intelligence and organized crime. Ditto large real estate.

4. I am not suggesting Manafort or anybody has a clean shirt.

5. The reason my comment is not a pot shot as you implied is because Trump is being pursued for things others commit - and know about - by the paid operatives of those others.

The U.S. Republic depends upon an even handed approach to the Law. Unfortunately, it is failing because the corrupt globalists have hijacked much of our "Justice" system.

Sincerely,

Brian

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Regrettably, I seem to have signed up for a DNC echo chamber.

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Also last week, a retired former Czech counterintelligence officer that I know of old confirmed to me that former Donald Trump wife Ivana was reporting to Russian intelligence every move by the then future US president.

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