#ex-spy

Eleazar Figg be upon ye! He is from a Detective AU story I've been making using my lovely friend's characters. @eldest-daughter-syndrome

He has an ex-spy bestie (Perhaps more wink wink) he solves crimes with too :3

Flattery will get you everywhere -- and that’s more true when dealing with an insecure narcissist like Donald Trump than it is of most people. The KGB knew this and laid it on fast and thick.

[I]n 1987, Trump and Ivana visited Moscow and St Petersburg for the first time. Shvets said he was fed KGB talking points and flattered by KGB operatives who floated the idea that he should go into politics.

The ex-major recalled: “For the KGB, it was a charm offensive. They had collected a lot of information on his personality so they knew who he was personally. The feeling was that he was extremely vulnerable intellectually, and psychologically, and he was prone to flattery.

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[A]fter he returned to the US, Trump began exploring a run for the Republican nomination for president and even held a campaign rally in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. On 1 September, he took out a full-page advert in the New York Times, Washington Post and Boston Globe headlined: “There’s nothing wrong with America’s Foreign Defense Policy that a little backbone can’t cure.”

The ad offered some highly unorthodox opinions in Ronald Reagan’s cold war America, accusing ally Japan of exploiting the US and expressing scepticism about US participation in Nato. It took the form of an open letter to the American people “on why America should stop paying to defend countries that can afford to defend themselves”.

The bizarre intervention was cause for astonishment and jubilation in Russia.

Vladimir Putin served as a lieutenant colonel in the KGB, so he was able to play Trump like a fiddle for four years. 

Russia’s entire budget for cyberwarfare is roughly equal to what the US spends on one F-35 fighter jet. Yet during the Trump administration Russia was able to hack into major US government agencies almost at will.

Russia’s hacking frenzy is a reckoning US still has no good answer for "supply chain" attacks that let Russia run wild.

Who is Nikolai Patrushev? Ex-spy chief reportedly in charge during Putin’s cancer recovery?

Who is Nikolai Patrushev? Ex-spy chief reportedly in charge during Putin’s cancer recovery? Moscow, May 03: Russian President Vladimir Putin is likely to undergo cancer surgery while temporarily handing over power to the secretary of the country’s Security Council Nikolai Patrushev, media reports claimed. Putin allegedly had a two-hour “heart-to-heart” conversation with Nikolai…

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Breaking News: North Korean ex-spy chief dines with Pompeo in NYC

North Korea’s longtime spy chief and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had dinner together in New York City on Wednesday night as the rogue nation’s shadowy official tries to salvage a potential summit between the two countries’ leaders.

Kim Yong Chol, Kim’s infamous right-hand man and a vice chairman of the ruling Workers’ Party, met with Pompeo after he arrived at JFK International Airport around 2 p.m. Wednesday.

The North Korean is the highest-ranking official from the communist nation to visit the U.S. since 2000.

Kim and Pompeo sat together for more than an hour, and planned a “day full of meetings” for Thursday, the White House said.

© Provided by Fox NewsThe secretary of state tweeted the two had a “good working dinner” that featured “Steak, corn, and cheese on the menu.”

Trump tweeted Tuesday about Kim’s impending visit, which comes ahead of a possible June 12 summit between the North and the U.S. “We have put a great team together for our talks with North Korea,” Trump wrote. “Meetings are currently taking place concerning Summit, and more.”

Kim, believed to be 72, and Pompeo’s talks will largely focus on rescheduling the summit, which Trump canceled last week following hostile rhetoric from the North.

Pompeo on Wednesday tweeted that he was “Looking forward to meeting with” Kim to discuss a possible summit, and noted the State Department is “committed to the complete, verifiable, and irreversible denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.”

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Breaking News: Ex-spy accused of selling secrets to China claims he was trying to help the United States

Kevin Mallory, a former CIA officer, admits he met with Chinese spies. He admits he planned a covert meeting with one of the operatives, that he handed over U.S. intelligence documents and that he accepted thousands of dollars.

Federal prosecutors call it espionage. But the Virginia man, who for years held a top-secret clearance, says it was no crime. He contends it was a ruse intended to out the spies to U.S. authorities.

On Tuesday, Mallory goes on trial in federal court in Alexandria, where a jury will decide which story they believe.

Mallory, 61, of Leesburg, is a fluent Mandarin Chinese speaker who spent two decades working in U.S. intelligence. Public defenders Geremy Kamens and Todd Richman say he used that experience to ensnare two Chinese intelligence operatives who approached him as staffers for a Shanghai think tank.

“He sent what he thought was worthless information to keep his Chinese contacts interested in him until the CIA would meet with him,” the defense attorneys wrote in one court filing.

Prosecutors say that, on the contrary, Mallory’s plan was to cash in on his covert knowledge to get himself out of debt. If he did not share everything he knew, they argue in court filings, it was only because he was holding out for better pay. And if he was somewhat open with old colleagues at the CIA, it was only to cover his tracks.

He “was seeking to develop a long-term, financially profitable relationship,” prosecutors John Gibbs and Jennifer Kennedy Gellie said in one motion.

Mallory is one of two former CIA officers accused in Alexandria federal court of working with Chinese intelligence. Jerry Chun Shing Lee, 53, is set to go to on trial in February on similar charges. Prosecutors say Lee, like Mallory, was co-opted by Chinese spies when his post-government career was foundering.

Mallory served in the military from 1977 to 2011, on active duty for the first decade and as a reservist after. According to his defense attorneys, he was kidnapped and seriously wounded while serving in Iraq in 2005.

He also spent years in the intelligence world, working as a covert case officer for the CIA from 1990 to 1996, for the Defense Intelligence Agency from 2007 to 2010, and at various government agencies and defense contractors in between. Since 2012 he has run his own consulting business.

Prosecutors say that business was failing though, and Mallory’s only income in 2017 was the $25,000 he was paid by the Chinese spies.

Court filings say Mallory was contacted by one of those spies through the networking site LinkedIn in February of 2017. Richard Yang presented himself as a recruiter for the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, a think tank prosecutors describe as, in part, a cover for government spies. In March, Mallory went to Shanghai and met Yang and his boss, Michael Yang.

Before that trip, according to court filings, Mallory asked Michael Yang for a mobile phone, saying he might bring some information on an SD card. Mallory told Yang to put the phone in a double-sealed envelope, and to initial around the seals before leaving it for him at his hotel. He emailed Yang three documents he had scanned at a FedEx store in Virginia that were not classified but were government documents related to intelligence.

“I will look for a person who has a newspaper under their left arm with keys in their left hand,” Mallory wrote, according to the filings. “Please find a private place that we can meet one another for a few minutes.”

The Chinese contacts paid Mallory $10,000 in cash on that trip, according to prosecutors, and for his hotel and flights. Mallory did not declare the cash to customs when he returned.

On another trip the following month, Mallory was given a Samsung phone and paid $15,000, according to the court filings. In May, he sent two more documents that have been determined to contain classified information. Prosecutors say he even lied to the Chinese and claimed the $15,000 was seized at the U.S. border, asking them to replace it. He promised to deliver more documents, prosecutors added.

“Your object is to gain information, and my object is to be paid for it,” he said in one message, according to court filings.

Yet all along, Mallory was also reaching out to former contacts at the CIA, and he told them he had been approached by Chinese intelligence.

“I’ve been over their again, and I keep getting banged on,” he wrote in one text message, according to court filings. “In the past I suspected who they are and didn’t really know but this time they were even more suspicious with me.”

In May 2017, Mallory sat down with a CIA agent, revealing he had met intelligence agents in Shanghai and he had been given a phone. He said he would meet again with the CIA and bring the phone to be examined.

The next meeting was two weeks later. Instead of CIA officers, Mallory was met by two FBI agents.

He let the agents copy the phone. But according to his indictment, Mallory was surprised when messages he had sent and received appeared, saying he thought the phone was set up to delete all previous history.

He also lied, prosecutors say, claiming he had given the Chinese only unclassified white papers on policy in exchange for the $25,000.

From jail, Mallory asked his wife and son in Chinese to look for the SD card he had bought. FBI agents had found it wrapped in foil in a shoe in his closet; eight documents containing classified information were on it, according to court papers, including the two given to the Chinese.

But Mallory said then and argues now that the documents he did hand over were to string the operatives along.

He believed the information he gave “was essentially worthless,” his attorneys argue in one filing, while he withheld his knowledge of “several highly classified and sensitive projects that would be of enormous interest and value to the People’s Republic of China.”

In one document Mallory added false classification markings, according to his attorneys, and another contained “virtually illegible handwritten notes” that were not classified.

Prosecutors say they will call witnesses from intelligence agencies who will say they disagree with Mallory’s characterization. In court filings, defense attorneys say Mallory’s own expert on classification, a 27-year veteran of the CIA named Harry P. Cooper Jr., is being intimidated. A senior attorney for the CIA Office of General Counsel called Cooper, they say, to remind him of his obligation not to reveal classified information if he testifies for the defense.

This is not the first time Mallory has been accused of handing over classified information. According to an inspector general’s report, Mallory shared details on sources with a defense contractor in 2010 while trying to launch a career outside government.

Mallory had been suspended by the Defense Intelligence Agency for “performance issues” when he started consulting without telling the government, according to the report.

Mallory denied the transgression, saying he had only “spoken in generalities” to the contractor. His security clearance was revoked and he resigned.

Mallory has been active in the Montgomery Chinese Branch of the Mormon Church. He and his wife, who was born in Taiwan, have three children.

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Allies condemn chemical attack on ex-spy

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Image caption Sergei Skripal, 66, and his daughter Yulia, 33, are in a critical condition in hospital

The leaders of France, Germany, the US and UK say there is “no plausible alternative explanation” to Russia having been behind the nerve agent attack in the UK.

They condemned the “first…