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Bellingcat: ?Third Man? in Skripal Attack Was Link to > Moscow, (Louis Proyect) > 2. AP News: US duty free owners give millions to Israeli > settlements (Red Arnie) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2019 11:55:02 -0400 > From: Louis Proyect <l...@panix.com> > To: Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition > <marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> > Subject: [Marxism] Bellingcat: ?Third Man? in Skripal Attack Was Link > to Moscow, > Message-ID: <e01a9b1c-6b14-685b-c452-a030e0972...@panix.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed > > NY Times, July 1, 2019 > ?Third Man? in Skripal Attack Was Link to Moscow, Investigative Group Says > By Ellen Barry > > A senior Russian military intelligence officer coordinated the > nerve-agent attack on Sergei V. Skripal, a former spy, from a hotel in > the heart of London, making repeated phone calls to an unregistered, > prepaid Russian number, the investigative group Bellingcat says. > > The report sheds more light on a third figure in an attack that threw > British and Russian relations into a tailspin ? each expelled diplomats > from the other country ? and led to the fatal poisoning of a British > woman after the discarded Novichok nerve agent was found in a perfume > bottle in the trash. > > Bellingcat said it had traced phone calls made by the officer, who was > identified as Denis Sergeyev but who traveled under the name Sergei > Fedotov. It obtained his metadata from an employee of a Russian mobile > operator, who says that the leak did not breach privacy laws because > Sergei Fedotov, the individual to whom the number is registered, does > not exist. > > Moscow has long denied any involvement in the attack on Mr. Skripal, who > was living in the English city of Salisbury after being released from a > Russian prison in a spy swap. He and his daughter, Yulia Skripal, > survived the poisoning attempt, and now remain in an undisclosed location. > > President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia insisted in an interview published > on Friday by The Financial Times that Russia had not tried to poison Mr. > Skripal, arguing that he had already served a sentence in a Russian > prison for assisting British intelligence. He did, however, speak with > open contempt for traitors in general. > > ?Treason is the gravest crime possible, and traitors must be punished,? > he said, adding, ?I am not saying that the Salisbury incident is the way > to do it. Not at all. But traitors must be punished.? > > British officials identified Mr. Skripal?s attackers as colonels in > Russia?s military intelligence service, the G.R.U., who were caught > numerous times on video surveillance footage near Mr. Skripal?s home, > where traces of the nerve agent was found and which sickened a local > police officer. > > Bellingcat later revealed their true names as Anatoly V. Chepiga and > Aleksandr E. Mishkin. But until now, few details about the ?third man? > believed to accompanied the team to London have been reported. > > The group?s findings suggest that the mission was put together hurriedly. > > Mr. Sergeyev, it said, received confirmation that he would have to fly > to London at 6 p.m. on March 1, just three days before the poisoning, > and then called travel agencies, searching for last-minute flights from > Moscow to London. He received a booking confirmation just after 8 p.m., > Bellingcat reports, and then searched to see whether he would need a new > data plan. > > He arrived at Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow at 6 a.m. the following > day, and while he waited for his flight to depart ? it was delayed by > two hours ? he downloaded several large data files and sent messages > over the messaging applications Telegram, WhatsApp, Viber and Facebook > Messenger. Before the flight left, he spoke twice to a Russian phone > number belonging to a prepaid SIM card with no registered owner. > > During the next three days, he would speak 11 times to someone over the > unregistered Russian number, and no one else, Bellingcat reported. > > Arriving in London, he checked into a hotel near Paddington Station and > spent the next two days there, communicating via encrypted messaging > apps and using 3G and 4G connections, Bellingcat said. He left only > once, on March 3, during which, phone records reveal, he was near the > Thames embankment ? a short walk from the railway station where Mr. > Skripal?s two attackers, Mr. Chepiga and Mr. Mishkin, would leave about > 50 minutes later. > > On the day of the poisoning, Mr. Sergeyev received a call from the > unregistered Russian number around 9 a.m., and then sent a large data > file ? possibly a photo ? an hour later, just as Mr. Chepiga and Mr. > Mishkin headed to Salisbury. He then began his journey home to Moscow. > > Bellingcat noted that Mr. Sergeyev?s phone signals in Moscow typically > showed him leaving his home for one of two G.R.U. campuses, its > headquarters and its training academy. > > The patterns of use during the Skripal operation, it said, also suggest > a methodology used in such operations, in which a senior coordinating > officer communicates with Moscow, while agents on the ground ? in this > case, Mr. Chepiga and Mr. Mishkin ? receive no instructions. > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2019 12:39:41 -0400 > From: Red Arnie <redar...@gmail.com> > To: Marx Mail <marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> > Subject: [Marxism] AP News: US duty free owners give millions to > Israeli settlements > Message-ID: <0432d4ca-ebc9-469a-94dc-acf7de192...@gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > Boycott > US duty free owners give millions to Israeli settlements > > HEBRON, West Bank (AP) ? When travelers shop at dozens of duty free stores > at airports worldwide, they may be paying for m... > > Read the full story > > In Solidarity, > Red Arnie > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > To change your settings: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu//listinfo/marxism > > ------------------------------ > > End of Marxism Digest, Vol 189, Issue 2 > *************************************** > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
