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calamity

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This is interesting, assuming, of course, that the reporting is solid.

A two-year investigation by BuzzFeed News has now uncovered explosive evidence pointing to Russia that the police overlooked. A massive trove of documents, phone records, and secret recordings shows Young was part of a circle of nine men, including the exiled oligarch Boris Berezovsky, who all died suspiciously on British soil after making powerful enemies in Russia.

...British police declared the deaths of all nine men in Berezovsky’s circle non-suspicious, but BuzzFeed News can now reveal that MI6, Britain’s secret intelligence service, asked its US counterparts for information about each one of them “in the context of assassinations”.

Earlier this week, we revealed that US spy agencies had handed the British government high-grade intelligence that the Russian whistleblower Alexander Perepilichnyy, who died in Surrey in 2012, was likely assassinated on the direct orders of the Kremlin – but the authorities sidelined that and other evidence pointing to murder, instead declaring that he had died of natural causes. Today, we can reveal that US intelligence officials suspect a further 13 people – including Berezovsky and eight members of his circle – have been assassinated on British soil by Russia’s security services or mafia groups, two forces that sometimes work in tandem.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/heidiblake...n-british-soil?utm_term=.bbQ7QZQYV#.avQKyXy39
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calamity said:
This is interesting, assuming, of course, that the reporting is solid.
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I have been given to understand by people who were in a position to know that, back during the Cold War, one of our solves for this was a sort of retaliation squad run out of our CI departments. If you roughed up an American in Moscow, one of your people here might find themselves dangling over a bridge, so as to focus their attention on your explanation of the need for good manners in international affairs.
 
Crovax said:
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If you didn't read the article, the joke is on you because it is a well written piece, and quite detailed.
 
All very believable.

But BuzzFeed - Argh!
 
Chomsky said:
All very believable.

But BuzzFeed - Argh!
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That was my first thought too when I saw the name of the outlet. But, the quality of the piece surprised me. It sure seems to be telling a true tale.
 
calamity said:
That was my first thought too when I saw the name of the outlet. But, the quality of the piece surprised me. It sure seems to be telling a true tale.
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"Maybe"
 
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