11:49 AM 1/23/2019 - M.N.: General Michael Flynn and the New Abwehr: "They probably set him up with their agents Kian and Alptekin, which does not excuse the lack of vigilance on Flynn's part. Money and greed are the universal "soft spots" of the human nature."

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M.N.: General Michael Flynn and the New Abwehr
My current understanding is that the New Abwehr (not to be confused or completely identified with the official German Intelligence Services) did not like Mike Flynn, for a variety of reasons: he might have been too independent, even for them, and might not have fit their conservative ideas and the ideals of the military officer, or simply, they were not able to recruit him. 

But most of all, it is likely that this dislike was based on the more pragmatic grounds: broader strategic (Flynn's more objective stances on Russia and NATO), tactical (Flynn's interpretations of "Islamic terrorism" and ISIS as the products of the GRU, which I think, are correct), and operational (Flynn's ideas and policies as the DIA Director would get in a way of the New Abwehr's operational plans, specifically for the "Operation Trump), grounds. 

That might be the reasons why they got rid of him via Obama, and later found a significant role for him to play in the "Russland Affare". 

They probably set him up with their agents Kian and Alptekin, which does not excuse the lack of vigilance on Flynn's part. Money and greed are the universal "soft spots" of the human nature. 

Flynn's first (it looks like) and historical visit to the GRU headquaters in 2013, and his meeting with Gen. Sergun are not known to us in sufficient details, and these details might or might not hold some clues. Probably, as I see it, Gen. Flynn tried to resolve the emerging Syrian conflict peacefully, according to his understanding of the situation. In this case, his activity was met with alarm by the New Abwehr, who had just the opposite plans for their proxy war in Syria via their Russian, Iranian, Turkish, and other unwitting puppets. Abwehr always liked good war games and preparations, it was a part of their "military philosophy", it looks like. 

Michael Novakhov

11:49 AM 1/23/2019 


Death of the GRU Commander

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An American general remembers Russia's complex military intelligence chief, who shaped the Ukraine incursion — and worked hard to bridge the East-West gap.
In February 2014, contact ceased between U.S. and Russian military intelligence as part of an overall shutdown of defense relations in the wake of Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea. It was the right policy move at the time, but it’s time to get U.S. and Russian military leaders, including intelligence officials, talking to each other again.
One unlikely and subtle advocate of the value of personal communications was the chief of Russian military intelligence, Igor Sergun, who died suddenly on Jan. 3 of a probable heart attack. Recently promoted to Colonel General, Sergun was only 58 years old, young even for an overworked, highly stressed Russian male. An experienced special operations veteran who made his name in the restive Northern Caucasus, Sergun became GRU chief in 2011, later becoming one of the troublingly imaginative architects of Russia’s hybrid, proxy aggression in Ukraine.
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I’m frankly unsure how to feel about his death. As a career U.S. Army military intelligence officer, and our senior military attaché to Russia from 2012 to 2014, I met with General Sergun and his staff several times for extended periods. I found him soft-spoken, unassuming, complex, erudite and nuanced. And I learned that even as Sergun relentlessly directed global intelligence operations against our interests, he — paradoxically — also viewed constant confrontation with the U.S. and West as not in Russia’s best long-term interest.
Before U.S.–Russia relations collapsed, Sergun facilitated increased contact between our countries’ military intelligence leaders. During 2012-13, I watched as U.S. and Russian intelligence chiefs from strategic regional and global commands discreetly met in cities across Russia: Khabarovsk in the east, Rostov in the south, and also Sochi, just before the 2014 Winter Olympics. These meetings — which were often the first face-to-face interactions between these senior U.S. and Russian MI officers — always entailed straightforward, cordially hardnosed discussions that intelligence officers understood from a world of black and gray, and rarely white, as traditional adversaries, often foes. Clearly, both sides entered cautiously, but increasingly saw substantive talks emerge on carefully cleared topics.
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