ShadowGate: Russian-Israeli Disinfo Operation
Who's your daddy Alex? Alex Jones and Patrick Bergy never mentioned Richard Burt, Henry Kissinger, Oleg Deripaska, Nathaniel Rothschild, Tal Hanan, or Israel's Unit 8200.
General James Jones established the consulting firms Ironhand Security LLC and Jones Group International LLC. The firms have worked for foreign governments, including Saudi Arabia. After the murder of Jamal Khashoggi by the Saudi regime, Jones downplayed his firms' work with the Saudi government and said that the remaining contract with them was about to expire. However, Jones's firms subsequently expanded its partnership with the Saudi regime.
Gen. James Jones and Gen. Michael Hayden do not own Wikistrat. Paul Manafort, Rodger Stone, and Rick Gates are just mid-level political operatives doing the bidding of a foreign government, namely the UK and Israel. Alex Jones, Patrick Bergy, or Millie Weaver never mentions these companies ties to Israel’s Unit 8200, Henry Kissinger, Oleg Deripaska, or Nathiel Rothschild.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard the words “Talpiot Program” or “Unit 8200” cross the lips of Alex Jones?
Why would Alex Jones lie about who owns Wikistrat and Psy-Group?
Joel Zamel is an Australian-Israeli owner of private intelligence and political analysis agencies which offer forecasting simulations, wargaming, influence operations, social media campaigns, private investment brokering and election campaign strategy. Such firms include Wikistrat, Joel Zamel Investment Group (JZIG), White Knight, and Psy-Group, an agency specializing in social media influence operations.
In 2015, Wikistrat spent a week running scenarios called the Cyber Mercenaries project on how a U.S. election interference campaign could be made by Russian cyber actors which was reported to Donald Trump Jr in 2016. Psy-Group formed a partnership with Cambridge Analytica to jointly bid for contracts with the US after the 2016 Trump election win.
On April 5, 2019, the Senate Intelligence Committee sent a letter to Walter Soriano, USG Security Ltd. based in Britain and Israel, for his communication with Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, Psy-Group, Wikistrat, and Black Cube, Orbis Business Intelligence (co-founded by Christopher Steele).1
Maybe Alex is covering for his boss?
Cambridge Analytica researcher touted data-mining in Russia speech (cnn.com)
In March 2018 it became public by Christopher Wylie, that Cambridge Analytica's first activities were founded on a data set, which its parent company SCL bought 2014 from a company named Global Science Research founded by Aleksandr Kogan. Kogan and his team developed the app, named "This Is Your Digital Life," that allowed Cambridge Analytica to collect personal details of allegedly 80 million Facebook users.
Kogan says he couldn’t possibly be a Russian spy because Kogan’s family received death threats for being Jewish, his family immigrated to the United States when Kogan was seven. No mention if he’s an Israeli spy though, especially with Benjamin Netanyahu’s close relationship with Vladimir Putin.
Maybe we should ask journalist Richard Silverstein?
I swear Henry Kissinger is like a pimple on your ass, always popping up when you least expect it.
Richard R. Burt is an American businessman, appointed to US Ambassador to Germany by President George H. W. Bush, director of the U.S. - Russia Business Council, and served as John McCain's top national security adviser during McCain's 2000 and 2008 Presidential campaigns.
Diligence
In 2000, Burt, Lord Powell of Bayswater, Mike Baker (CIA), and Nick Day (MI5) founded the private intelligence firm Diligence that has connections to Enron.2 It is one of a growing number of organizations which sprang up to exploit the demand for private security in the wake of 9/11 and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. While Burt chaired Diligence, Nathaniel Rothschild, a close friend of Oleg Deripaska, purchased a large stake in the company.
In 2007, Richard Burt left Diligence to work with Henry Kissinger's consulting firm, Kissinger McLarty Associates and now serves as a managing partner of McLarty Associates. During the first two quarters of 2016, McLarty Associates received $365,000 to lobby for New European Pipeline AG, a firm owned by Russian oil company Gazprom.
Burt is on the Alfa Capital Partners Advisory Board in which Russia's Alfa-Bank is an investor and he was a member of the senior advisory board of Alfa Bank in Moscow until November 2016 and has a close working relationship with Russian-Israeli Mikhail Fridman who co-founded Alfa Group.
In 2014 through early 2016, Burt served as an unpaid foreign policy advisor for Rand Paul's campaign for president.
Project Butterfly, a covert operation by Psy Group that spied on and attacked Americans who supported the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement on behalf of Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs.
Private Mossad for Hire | The New Yorker
“Gadi Aviran co-founded & CEO SenseCy in 2014 and its sister company Terrogence in 2004. Aviran was one of the pioneers of the private Israeli intelligence industry and the former head of an Israeli military intelligence research team, where he supervised analysts who looked for terrorist threats, reviewed data vacuumed up from telephone communications and from the Internet. He was the first major Israeli company to demonstrate the effectiveness of avatars in counterterrorism work.
Terrogence’s success spawned imitators, and other former intelligence officers began to open their own firms, many of them less risk-averse than Terrogence. One of the boldest, Black Cube, openly advertised its ties to Israeli spy agencies, including Mossad and Unit 8200, the military’s signals-intelligence corps. Black Cube got its start with the help of Vincent Tchenguiz, an Iranian-born English real-estate tycoon who had invested in Terrogence…
In 2008, Aviran hired an Israel Defense Forces intelligence officer named Royi Burstien to be the vice-president of business development. Social networks such as Facebook—whose profiles featured photographs and other personal information—were becoming popular, and Terrogence’s avatars had become more sophisticated to avoid detection. Burstien urged Aviran to consider using the avatars in more aggressive ways, and on behalf of a wider range of commercial clients…
Psy-Group went to great lengths to disguise its activities. Employees were occasionally instructed to go to libraries or Internet cafés, where they could use so-called “white” computers, which could not be traced back to the firm. They created dummy Gmail accounts, often employed for one assignment and then discarded. For particularly sensitive operations, Psy-Group created fake front companies and avatars who purported to work there, and then hired real outside contractors who weren’t told that they were doing the bidding of Psy-Group’s clients. Psy-Group operatives sometimes paid the local contractors in cash…
[Joel Zamel] He cultivated relationships with high-profile Republicans in the U.S., including Newt Gingrich and Elliott Abrams, who served in foreign-policy positions under Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, and whom Psy-Group listed as a member of its advisory board.”
Elliott Abrams was convicted for lying to Congress about his involvement in the Iran-Contra Affair and later pardoned by President George H. W. Bush.
The Trump Campaign's Collusion With Israel | The Nation
“Roger, hello from Jerusalem,” read the message from the Israeli secret agent. Dated August 12, 2016, it was addressed to Roger Stone—at the time a key player in Donald Trump’s presidential election campaign. “Any progress? He is going to be defeated unless we intervene. We have critical intel. The key is in your hands! Back in the US next week.” Later, the agent promised, “October Surprise coming!”
While the American media and political system fixated on Russian President Vladimir Putin and his armies of cyber warriors, trolls, and bots, what was completely missed in the Russiagate investigation of 2016 was the Israeli connection. No details of it were ever revealed in the heavily redacted Mueller Report. Nor was there any mention of an Israeli plot in the similarly redacted Senate Intelligence Committee Report on collusion charges in the 2016 election, or in any of the indictments or trials stemming from the Russia charges. Nor did any mention of Israeli involvement ever leak into the press. Yet I can reveal here the details of an elaborate covert operation personally directed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that aimed to use secret intelligence to clandestinely intervene at the highest levels in the presidential election on behalf of Trump.
Although the affidavit did not specify any individual defendants, the numerous potential criminal charges laid out in the FBI documents spoke to the seriousness of the Israeli plot. They included violation of the foreign contributions ban, which prohibits foreigners from contributing money or something of value to federal, state, or local elections. Other charges included aiding and abetting, conspiracy, wire fraud, and attempted conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Still another charge, “unauthorized access to a protected computer,” indicates Israel may have conducted illegal hacking operations…
But while the Mueller investigation was never able to conclusively demonstrate any collusion with Russia, the FBI did uncover hard evidence of extensive collusion between close Trump associates and the highest levels of the Israeli government…
Archimedes [Group] is hardly alone. An Israeli government official told the Times of Israel that outsourcing fake news and voter manipulation is a growth industry in Israel because many young Israelis who serve in intelligence units in the army are trained in the use of “avatars,” or fake identities, on social media. The Israeli government appears to have made no effort to halt or even curb the activity. Such inaction may be deliberate, since a number of the groups that engage in voter manipulation have close ties to the intelligence and defense agencies, possibly providing Netanyahu an opportunity to secretly manipulate foreign elections to Israel’s benefit.
In fact, a recent multinational journalistic investigation revealed that Israel has become a world center for the export of election fraud, fake news, hacking of private e-mails, and disinformation. Connections were discovered between private intelligence firms and both Israel’s Ministry of Defense and the firm Cambridge Analytica, which illegally collected data from more than 87 million Facebook users for use in the 2016 presidential campaigns of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz…
Among the individuals unmasked was Tal Hanan, a former Israeli special forces operative and the head of a secretive organization with the code name “Team Jorge” whose specialty was weaponizing disinformation worldwide “to covertly meddle in elections without a trace,” said The Guardian.
What was not revealed in this investigation, however, was the separate and far more covert operation undertaken by Netanyahu and his secret agent to clandestinely manipulate America’s 2016 presidential election for Netanyahu’s own political purposes…
The timing implies that the Israeli agent was Stone’s most likely source of confirmed details of a Russian cyberattack on the DNC, a month before it became known to anyone outside of the Kremlin and the GRU. If that’s the case, there are two critical questions: How did the Israeli agent know, and why was he revealing the details to a close associate of Trump rather than to the Obama administration, Israel’s supposed ally?”
McCain’s Kremlin Ties | The Nation
“Yet despite [John] McCain’s tough talk, behind the scenes his top advisers have cultivated deep ties with Russia’s oligarchy—indeed, they have promoted the Kremlin’s geopolitical and economic interests, as well as some of its most unsavory business figures, through greedy cynicism and geopolitical stupor. The most notable example is the tale of how McCain and his campaign manager, Rick Davis, advanced what became a key victory for the Kremlin: gaining control over the small but strategically important country of Montenegro.”
“According to two former senior US diplomats who served in the Balkans, Davis and his lobbying firm, Davis Manafort, received several million dollars to help run Montenegro’s independence referendum campaign of 2006. The terms of the agreement were never disclosed to the public, but top Montenegrin officials told the US diplomats that Davis’s work was underwritten by powerful Russian business interests connected to the Kremlin and operating in Montenegro…”
“In mid-September The Nation’s website published a photo of McCain celebrating his seventieth birthday in Montenegro in August 2006 at a yacht party hosted by convicted Italian felon Raffaello Follieri and his movie-star girlfriend Anne Hathaway. On the same day one of the largest mega-yachts in the world, the Queen K, was moored in the same bay of Kotor. This was where the real party was. The owner of the Queen K was known as “Putin’s oligarch”: Oleg Deripaska, controlling shareholder of the Russian aluminum giant RusAl, currently listed as the ninth-richest man in the world, with a rap sheet as abundant as his wealth. By mid-2005 Deripaska had already virtually taken control of Montenegro’s economy by snapping up its aluminum plant, KAP—which accounts for up to 40 percent of the country’s GDP and some 80 percent of its export earnings—in a nontransparent privatization tender strongly criticized by NGO watchdogs, Montenegrin politicians and journalists. The Nation has learned that Deripaska told one of his closest associates that he bought the plant “because Putin encouraged him to do it.” The reason: “the Kremlin wanted an area of influence in the Mediterranean…”
Deripaska understands that success in Russia today comes from a mixture of brute force, political influence and personal connections. In 2001, about a year after Putin signed a decree granting legal immunity to [Boris] Yeltsin’s family, Deripaska married Yeltsin’s granddaughter, thereby cementing his own immunity and power. Throughout Putin’s reign, Deripaska has adhered to an unwritten understanding between Putin and the oligarchs: as long as they support the Kremlin, they can operate with impunity…
Deripaska also reached out to a Washington-based intelligence firm, Diligence, chaired by GOP foreign policy hand Richard Burt, McCain’s top foreign policy adviser in 2000 and an adviser in ’08 (Burt left Diligence in 2007 to join Henry Kissinger’s consulting firm). Deripaska’s business partner in London, Nathaniel Rothschild, an heir to the English Rothschild fortune, bought a stake in Diligence, according to the New York Times and confirmed by a Rothschild spokesman. The firm offered Deripaska many useful services: corporate intelligence gathering, visa lobbying through considerable GOP connections and, crucially, help in obtaining a $150 million World Bank/European Bank for Reconstruction and Development loan for a Deripaska subsidiary, the Komi Aluminum Project. Getting the loan was useful in providing a layer of comfort to Western investors skittish about RusAl. So Diligence, now partly owned by Rothschild, provided a “due diligence” report to the World Bank, which the Bank then used to approve its loan to Deripaska…
At key points in the campaign, Davis reached out to Deripaska’s allies for help. With the referendum too close to call, the Serbs tried to sway public opinion by threatening to revoke scholarships and other education privileges of Montenegrin students if the country should secede. This caused a panic–so to counter the Serbs, Davis turned to Deripaska emissary Nathaniel Rothschild (Rothschild has reportedly become the richest of all the Rothschilds, thanks to his privileged role as a Deripaska adviser).”
“Three weeks before the independence referendum, Davis asked Rothschild to come to Montenegro. After arriving in his private Gulfstream jet, Rothschild was trotted out before the cameras with the Montenegrin prime minister, where he pledged $1 million to support students who might be hurt by Serbia’s scholarship threat. Another Deripaska ally brought in to secure the student vote was Canadian billionaire Peter Munk, CEO of Barrick Gold, the world’s largest gold-mining corporation (it was Munk who had hosted the Davos meeting between McCain and Deripaska a few months earlier). Munk, who serves on the advisory board of RusAl, delivered pledges of support from Canadian universities…
Roughly two years later, in March of this year, Rothschild hosted a high-dollar fundraiser for McCain at London’s posh eighteenth-century Spencer House, which Rothschild donated for the occasion. Given the close relationship between Rothschild and Deripaska, some speculated that Deripaska was the hidden hand behind the event. The conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission, alleging that the fundraiser amounted to an illegal contribution by foreign nationals to McCain’s campaign.
Aside from a little campaign dough, what has McCain gotten out of all this? It’s hard to tell–either he was utterly clueless while his top advisers and political allies ran around the former Soviet domain promoting the Kremlin’s interests for cash, or he was aware of it and didn’t care. McCain was reportedly so angry about Davis Manafort’s role in stifling Ukraine’s Orange Revolution that he almost removed Davis as campaign manager. But in the case of Montenegro, he should have known what Davis & Co. were up to. After all, McCain lent a helping hand. And by the time he visited the country, the Russian takeover was plain to see.”
“Whistleblower” Brittany Kaiser couldn’t remember the name Tal Hanan
Team Jorge is the name given to an outfit of Israeli contractors specialized in the use of malign cyber activities including hacking, sabotage and bot farm-run social media disinformation campaigns to manipulate the outcomes of elections. One of the organization's primary tools is a software package called Advanced Impact Media Solutions or Aims.
Their activities were revealed following a 2022 sting operation in Tel Aviv, carried out by three undercover journalists, who posed as prospective clients and filmed their interactions with Tal Hanan — the group's leader and former Israeli special forces operative — in which he explained the inner workings of the organization. Tal Hanan used the pseudonym "Jorge" when working with the hacking and disinformation group, which inspired the Team Jorge name. In 2022 in which he explained the inner workings of the organization. In the conversations, Hanan boasted of having interfered in 33 presidential-level campaigns, 27 of which had positive results for the faction that hired them.
Hanan attended meetings involving Cambridge Analytica as early as 2014. Emails leaked to The Guardian show that Team Jorge was then in contact with Cambridge Analytica in 2015 and 2017 over political campaigns in Africa and South America.
Brittany Kaiser’s Israel Connections
Q Anon Actively Targeted the Military and Veteran Community
Why the Kremlin Targets Veterans (csis.org)
Hijacking Our Heroes (house.gov)
How Russia uses US military vets in its propaganda war against Ukraine (taskandpurpose.com)
Russian/Israeli disinformation actively targets active duty servicemembers and veterans. We have veterans sitting in prison after the January 6th riot, because of Alex Jones and the rest of his traitors, paid whores, and useful idiots lying to them. Patrick Bergy, Jack Posobiec, Steve Bannon, Scott Ritter, Douglas MacGregor and the rest of their ilk are the ultimate Blue Falcon and deserve a (hypothetical) blanket party from the rest of us veterans who never sold out our country to foreign adversaries.
Where was CNN, MSNBC, or even The View to expose Trump’s collusion with Israel? Oh, that’s right… Meghan McCain was on The View. Chis Cuomo is on Patrick Bet David’s podcast who hosted Alex Jones. Whitney Webb is hanging out with Glenn Beck. This Russian/Israeli disinformation operation could have never worked without their accomplices on the left.
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Prosecutors won’t investigate Gantz in Fifth Dimension case - JNS.org
Gantz served as chairman of Fifth Dimension and Ben-Barak as president. The affair was first exposed last June in the United States as part of an FBI investigation into former U.S. Army Gen. John Allen, who was suspected of conducting foreign lobbying work for Qatar without reporting it. Court documents revealed Allen had business ties with Fifth Dimension and helped negotiate a deal with Qatar worth $72 million.
Bertrand, Natasha. 2019. “Senate Intelligence Committee summons mysterious British security consultant.” Politico, Accessed August 15, 2023. https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/05/senate-intelligence-committee-british-security-consultant-1353675
Clarke, Jody. 2010. “Nick Day: the MI5 agent who went private.” Money Week, Acessed August 15, 2023. https://moneyweek.com/30962/profile-of-entrepreneur-nick-day-of-diligence-47634
Shared around. Thanks for doing what you do so well.
I must remember to post a link to your Substack on my websites.
I've just built a website on WEB3, which for now at least, is uncensorable. I'll put a link on there - & for Act4YourFreedom.net too.
Great textbook here for those of us trying to figure out what's going on! Especially since we don't have yachts to lure the players into our orbits.😊