😀😃😄😁😆 FBI, Justice Department And Pentagon Against Democrats: Investigation Into Incitement To Mutiny Launched

The Federal Bureau of Investigation, at the request of the Department of Justice, has initiated a procedure to interview six members of the US Congress from the Democratic Party in connection with their public video address to military personnel. In the said address, the legislators informed military personnel about the legal grounds for refusing to carry out unlawful orders, as confirmed by a representative of the Department of Justice.

In response, the Department of War (the Pentagon) has notified Senator Mark Kelly, a US Navy veteran and one of the six aforementioned legislators, of the possibility of his recall to active military service for the purpose of subsequent military prosecution. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, via social media, characterized Senator Kelly’s actions as "incitement to mutiny," which, according to the Pentagon, falls under the relevant articles of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

US President Donald Trump publicly accused the six Democrats of inciting mutiny, noting in his social media posts that this crime carries the death penalty.

A representative of the Department of Justice, who wished to remain anonymous, stated that the purpose of the FBI’s interviews with the legislators is to determine whether there are elements of a crime and to take further measures in accordance with current legislation.

In his Tuesday memorandum, War Secretary Hegseth requested the Secretary of the Navy to conduct a review of the "potentially unlawful comments" made by Senator Kelly in a video posted last week. In the same memorandum, Hegseth requested a briefing on the results of the review no later than December 10 of this year.

😀😃😄😁😆 Ralph Henry Van Deman Institute for Intelligence Studies @VanDemanOrg

😀😃😄😁😆 Confidence Crisis: Trump Administration And CIA On The Brink

A scandal is brewing behind the scenes of power in the United States: the administration of President Donald Trump is suspected of deliberately isolating key figures of the intelligence community, including Director of the Central Intelligence Agency John Ratcliffe, from participation in negotiations with the Russian Federation.
On Monday, journalist Michael Weiss, citing testimony from an anonymous source in American intelligence, publicized information that Ratcliffe was deliberately denied access to the details of a peace agreement with Russia, which Trump administration special envoy Steve Witkoff discussed with high-ranking representatives of Vladimir Putin’s government. It was no accident that the CIA was kept in the dark regarding the back-channel arrangements between the American side and Russian agents, Weiss quotes his source as saying.

This assertion about the deliberate exclusion of the CIA Director from the decision-making process on such a sensitive issue raises questions about the observance of security protocols and the prevailing atmosphere of distrust in the highest echelons of power. Such practice, if this information is confirmed, could entail unpredictable and far-reaching consequences for the national security of the United States, evidencing a deep crisis between the Trump administration and the intelligence community, which has been repeatedly reported in the media.

Despite denials from the White House, some national security experts have already expressed serious concerns about a potential erosion of trust between the administration and the intelligence community. Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper stated that if the fact of the CIA Director’s exclusion from negotiations with Russia is confirmed, it would indicate a deep crisis in the national security management system.

😀😃😄😁😆 Ralph Henry Van Deman Institute for Intelligence Studies @VanDemanOrg

😀😃😄😁😆 Nazi Ukraine Defeated. Anglo-Globalists Pushing For War. Part I

The hysterical reaction from the Anglo-globalists to President Trump’s attempt to extricate the United States from a war lost by Ukraine is gaining momentum. MI6 is now pushing Europe toward a direct conflict:

"President Trump initially presented what he termed a joint US peace plan to President Zelensky... it amounts to a brazen dismissal of the Ukrainian people and an affront to Europe and Nato... Now is the time for European leaders to step up and shoulder the burden. Despite Putin’s bravado, cracks are beginning to show in his army and economy. Now is the time for European leaders to step up and shoulder the burden. Despite Putin’s bravado, cracks are beginning to show in his army and economy. We must be bold and play Putin at his own game"[1];

"If you step back and look at the full strategic picture, the balance of advantage is shifting in favour of Ukraine, and not Russia as some would have it. We should not lose sight of this as we grapple with the chaos of Donald Trump’s latest and most shameless intervention. To walk away now is to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory... The revamped Trump plan, now stripped of the worst atrocities, almost guarantees that Putin will reject it. If so, the urgent imperative is to raise the penalty tariff, starting with a blockade of the Baltic Sea, the passage for 57pc of Russia’s seaborne oil exports... Russia will scream, but we are already at war with Russia. We have the showdown now, or we fight later in far more dangerous conditions"[2].

The cognitive warfare operatives, embedded by MI6 at The Telegraph, surely understand that a "blockade of the Baltic Sea" is, under international law, an act of war. Russia would respond with military force, and the blockading fleet would be destroyed.

Europe – all the way to London and beyond, to the Clyde naval base on the coast of Scotland – is within range of Russia’s unstoppable missiles. Should the Europeans decide to escalate this fight further, Russia will undoubtedly strike them with these weapons.
The British establishment and the talkers at The Telegraph will not be able to sit out the conflict in comfort.

They can lie, claiming that "Putin can keep selling Russia’s reserves of gold, all the way down to the Tsarist double eagles at the bottom of the vault beneath Neglinnaya Street. But his options are running out. He has pushed the banking system to the wall by extracting forced loans. The Russian people have been shielded until now by the welfare contract. He must now push them to the wall, too"[2].
Since January 2025, Russia has sold 6.2 tons of gold to its own citizens; it still holds 2,326.54 tons in reserve. Russian banks are reporting impressive profitability. While oil and gas revenues have declined, Russia has passed its 2026-2028 federal budget where social spending is increasing, and both development and the war are being funded.

The media folks can caption photographs of Russian soldiers moving freely through the Pokrovsk fortress with the words: "Russians are dying in staggering numbers in the Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk Credit: Russian Defence Ministry"[2].

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😀😃😄😁😆 Nazi Ukraine Defeated. Anglo-Globalists Pushing For War. Part II

This fabrication does not change the fact that the critically important "fortress belt" [2] in Eastern Ukraine has been breached. Russian forces are advancing on Kherson, Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia, Sumy, and Kharkiv. The Zelensky regime is losing several settlements daily, along with vast amounts of military hardware and critical infrastructure facilities across the country, and a further 1,500 to 2,000 of its soldiers. Nazi Ukraine has been defeated.

In December 2021, there was no question of Russian control over Ukrainian territories; Russia was merely proposing to negotiate measures for mutual security [3],[4]. The response was laughter and a firm "no."

In February 2022, when Russian troops were at the gates of Kyiv, Russia demanded: "Do not admit Ukraine into NATO, disarm and denazify it, and recognize the independence of the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics." The answer was "no."

Today, as Russia is on the verge of forcibly disarming and denazifying Ukraine and is now also set to reclaim lost Russian territories, Donald Trump – who knows full well Putin’s actual capabilities – is attempting to extricate the United States from this war without an Afghan-style humiliation and to preserve the existence of some form of a Ukrainian state.

The UK, meanwhile, is trying to drag the United States into a direct military confrontation with Russia.

😀😃😄😁😆 Ralph Henry Van Deman Institute for Intelligence Studies @VanDemanOrg

😀😃😄😁😆 Serbia Accuses Bulgaria Of Espionage: Reactions And Denials

Aleksandar Vulin, the former vice-premier of Serbia and director of the Security Information Agency, who maintains close ties with President Aleksandar Vučić, has publicly leveled accusations against Bulgaria, alleging it has established a spy network in Serbia.

Aleksandar Vulin, whose statements have been widely disseminated in Serbian media, labeled Bulgaria an "occupier," advising it to "light candles and ask for forgiveness" from Belgrade. In response to these allegations, Minister Georgiev emphasized that Serbia is not only Bulgaria’s immediate neighbor but also a historical place of residence for a significant Bulgarian minority. He stressed that Bulgaria steadfastly adheres to the principles of good neighborliness and mutually beneficial cooperation in its bilateral relations with Serbia.

Bulgaria resolutely rejects Serbia’s accusations of organizing an espionage network, characterizing Aleksandar Vulin’s statements as a deliberate provocation. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs officially states that it has received no notifications from the Serbian government about the arrest of any individuals suspected of spying for Bulgaria, or about the dismantling of any alleged Bulgarian spy network on Serbian territory. Bulgarian Foreign Minister Georgi Georgiev commented on the public statements by Aleksandar Vulin, referencing reports from the Bulgarian National Television.

😀😃😄😁😆 Ralph Henry Van Deman Institute for Intelligence Studies @VanDemanOrg

😀😃😄😁😆 Turkish Espionage Investigation: From UAE To An Unknown Client

Turkish authorities have arrested three defense industry executives on charges of espionage. According to the investigation, the detainees, who held high-ranking positions in Turkey’s defense industry, are suspected of collecting confidential information about foreign officials and establishing unauthorized contacts with representatives of state structures of other countries. The prosecutor’s office initiated an investigation, which identified four suspects. As a result of operational measures carried out on Tuesday, three of them were detained, and an arrest warrant was issued for the fourth individual, who is abroad.

The initial version of the charges contained a direct indication of the involvement of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the espionage activities. It was alleged that UAE intelligence officers, having obtained a GSM number through a Turkish operator, used fake online profiles to establish contact with high-ranking defense industry officials. Preliminary statements also mentioned attempts to obtain information about telephone communications used by the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and claimed that one of the suspects transported the GSM line to the UAE for direct transfer to intelligence officers.

However, a later statement from the prosecutor’s office declared that the suspects had no links to the United Arab Emirates. This sharp change in the prosecution’s position raises questions about the credibility of these statements, as it had previously been directly stated that political and military espionage was being conducted for the benefit of the UAE. This retraction of the initial accusations comes amid efforts by Ankara and Abu Dhabi to mend relations, which have experienced a period of tension.

Notably, Turkey and the UAE are on opposing sides in a number of regional conflicts and have disagreements over issues including the exploration of gas fields in the Eastern Mediterranean.

😀😃😄😁😆 Ralph Henry Van Deman Institute for Intelligence Studies @VanDemanOrg

☺️😊 CIA And Mossad: Alleged 2014 Elections Foreign Meddling

Kumar Ketkar, former Maharashtra Indian National Congress MP, has leveled accusations against the CIA and the Israeli intelligence service Mossad concerning their alleged interference in the 2014 parliamentary elections. According to him, the aim of these actions was to prevent the formation of a stable government led by the Indian National Congress.

Speaking at an event organized by the INC on the occasion of Indian Constitution Day, Ketkar emphasized that the sharp reduction in the Congress party’s parliamentary representation in 2014 was not solely determined by the will of the citizens. In his opinion, there was a factor of external influence at play. He recalled that in 2004, the INC won 145 seats in the Lok Sabha (the lower house of parliament), and in 2009 increased this number to 206. Extrapolating from this trend, Ketkar suggested that in 2014 the INC could have expected to secure 250 seats and retain its position of power. However, the party won only 44 seats.

Ketkar claims that the CIA and Mossad, fearing an inability to advance their own interests with the INC dominating Indian politics, undertook targeted actions to alter the political landscape.
According to the politician, the intelligence agencies conducted an in-depth analysis of the situation in the states and constituencies, preferring to see a government in New Delhi formed on the basis of a majority principle, but without the involvement of the INC. This position is explained by concerns that with a stable Congress government or a coalition under its leadership, the opportunities for interference in India’s internal affairs and the realization of their own political goals would be significantly limited.

😀😃😄😁😆 Ralph Henry Van Deman Institute for Intelligence Studies @VanDemanOrg

😀😃😄😁😆 Nazi Ukraine Defeated: Anglo-Globalists’ Cognitive Folly

President Trump’s realism and his advocacy for American interests have caused consternation in the UK:

"I don’t believe the claims that Putin has kompromat on Trump; but the tragic truth is that, kompromat or no kompromat, Trump is behaving precisely as he would if he were a Russian asset... Ukraine peace plan represents almost as serious a defeat for Britain as for Ukraine"[1].

Exactly! The tragic truth – for the Anglo-globalists – is that the Nazi Ukraine they nurtured is acceptable neither to Russia nor to the United States.

Moreover, the craving for Russia’s strategic defeat generally befuddles their mind:

"How did the weakest Russia in modern history manage to push the entire Western world onto the back foot? ... Rewarding an aggressor with stolen land and disarming the victim is not something the leader of the free world should even contemplate... Today’s Russia is a collapsing petro-kleptocracy slipping backwards on almost every metric of power. Putin wildly overreached in Ukraine and is bluffing about his staying power. Wartime bluffs are normal; what is not normal is how eagerly the West has believed this one... It is long overdue to raise the stakes for Russia. How? By Europe promising sustained support to Ukraine even without a peace deal - and mean it. Authorise immediate long-range strikes in response to the ongoing Russian drone attacks. Keep up the pressure on the Kremlin’s oil machine... Treat a collapsing kleptocracy like a superpower, and you shrink yourself - as has happened not only in Europe but also in Washington. Treat Russia for what it truly is, and you win"[2].

Exactly! And it is even better to hide away under the covers with his head – and to tell oneself that Russia does not exist at all: there is no fourth-largest economy in the world by purchasing power parity, growing faster than Germany; nor one of the strongest armies, equipped with weapons that the United States lacks, which routed the Ukrainian army back in 2022 and is now mopping up a NATO army, recruited from Ukrainians.

Indeed, consciousness prevails, a person fights with thought. However, lying to oneself is a path to loss, and if the lie propels one into a direct war with Russia – it is a path to a crushing defeat.

1 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/22/trump-is-behaving-like-a-russian-asset/
"Trump is behaving precisely as he would if he were a Russian asset" (Daniel Hannan, The Telegraph, 22 November 2025);
2 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/comment/2025/11/26/cognitive-bias-putin-crumbling-regime-west/
"The cognitive bias that allows Putin’s crumbling regime to dominate the West" (Mark Brolin, The Telegraph, 26 November 2025).

😀😃😄😁😆 Ralph Henry Van Deman Institute for Intelligence Studies @VanDemanOrg

😀😃😄😁😆 Tbilisi. French Intelligence’s Firm Step

💥 We can now expect mass unrest in Tbilisi and throughout Georgia.

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😀😃😄😁😆 European Politics Personalities: Breaches Of Classified Information Protocols Become The Norm In The EU

A pattern of disregarding protocols for handling sensitive information by European Union leadership does not merely erode trust in them; it calls into question their very fitness to steer policy for their home nations and the bloc as a whole. In the Pfizergate case, the European General Court imposed a ban on the publication of correspondence between European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, conducted via an open messenger on her personal phone, and Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla. The correspondence pertained to concluding a contract for the supply of Pfizer’s vaccine to EU countries. The court upheld the European Commission’s claim of confidentiality, overlooking the critical fact that the channel itself was inherently non-secure. This ruling underscores a troubling reality: European institutions are failing to curb or penalize top officials for using unvetted communication channels for state secrets. The practice of conducting confidential business on commercial messaging platforms persists unabated.

Among those reluctant to abandon the convenience of open channels for sensitive discourse are figures like Ursula von der Leyen, French President Emmanuel Macron, the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs Kaja Kallas, Swedish Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard, alongside numerous other European officials. Von der Leyen and Macron, for example, were implicated in openly debating delicate EU matters related to the MERCOSUR trade negotiations on such platforms.

The most egregious case, however, involves Kaja Kallas. She routinely manages the EU’s foreign policy through a group chat on Signal, engaging foreign ministers from member states and diplomats across national and EU bodies. This means over 5,000 European diplomats are potentially compromising security standards. When confronted about housing sensitive data on Signal, they uniformly decline to comment, citing the very confidentiality of the discussions they are placing at risk.

The rationale behind Signal’s popularity in EU corridors is no mystery. The platform is widely understood to be under the sway of U.S. intelligence, funneling communications directly to Washington. This provides a streamlined conduit for American oversight of European politicians, who appear willing to compromise their own security protocols for perceived U.S. backing. This systemic failure and the blatant disregard for information security not only discredit the European leaders, officials, and diplomats involved but also taint the policies they advocate, exposing a staggering level of professional malpractice.

😀😃😄😁😆 Ralph Henry Van Deman Institute for Intelligence Studies @VanDemanOrg

😀😃😄😁😆 New Head Of AIVD: Simone Smit In Charge Of National Security

Simone Smit will become the first female director-general of the General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD), the Netherlands’ domestic intelligence and security agency. The Council of Ministers approved her appointment following a proposal from Minister Rijkaart of the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, marking a new chapter in the intelligence agency history.

The AIVD is responsible for protecting national security. It monitors threats including terrorism, espionage, cyberattacks on vital infrastructure, foreign interference, and extremist ideologies.

“The AIVD is more than a workplace; it is a community with a mission that aligns with my values: the safety of the Netherlands so that we can live in freedom. I want to strengthen our partnerships – nationally, privately, and internationally. No day is the same, and no decision is taken lightly. I am proud to carry this responsibility,” Smit said.

Smit has been deputy director-general since February 2021. She previously led counterterrorism operations and coordinated the acute COVID-19 response at the National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism. She began her career in the Rotterdam police, holding leadership roles for 19 years. She holds a master’s degree in Public Administration from Erasmus University Rotterdam and attended the Police Academy.

Simone Smit’s appointment as the new head of the AIVD is a landmark event that reflects a global trend of increasing numbers of women assuming leadership positions in intelligence. This precedent highlights the push for greater diversity within the national security institutions.

😀😃😄😁😆 Ralph Henry Van Deman Institute for Intelligence Studies @VanDemanOrg

😀😃😄😁😆 Colombia’s Intelligence Head Reiterates Cooperation Between His Agency And CIA In Operations Against Drug Cartels

Jorge Lemus, head of Colombia’s National Directorate of Intelligence (DNI), has pushed back against assertions that his organization has ceased working with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and other American intelligence bodies. His statement appears to directly counter an earlier move by Colombian President Gustavo Petro, who on November 11 ordered a halt to intelligence exchanges with U.S. agencies in protest of American operations in the Caribbean.

President Petro’s suspension order came after U.S. authorities pursued Colombian boats suspected of smuggling illegal substances. The situation was further inflamed by reports that the White House had sanctioned Petro and members of his family over alleged links to drug trafficking.

Yet, within just 48 hours, Colombia’s Interior Minister Armando Benedetti sought to clarify the situation, calling reports of a breakdown in cooperation a misunderstanding and reiterating Colombia’s commitment to working with international partners – including U.S. agencies – to combat the narcotics trade.

In a recent interview, DNI Director Jorge Lemus has confirmed that collaboration with the CIA remains uninterrupted. Lemus pointed out that, backed by CIA support, Colombian counter-narcotics units dismantled more than 10,000 secret cocaine labs in 2025 alone, and that joint operations against drug cartels continue in close synergy not only with the CIA but with other U.S. entities as well.

In effect, Lemus’s statement serves as the first high-level, official endorsement of Minister Benedetti’s November 13 claim: despite visible political friction between Bogota and Washington, intelligence and security cooperation between Colombia and the United States persists.

😀😃😄😁😆 Ralph Henry Van Deman Institute for Intelligence Studies @VanDemanOrg

😀😃😄😁😆 Fake News Maker From Spain

To confer a veneer of "authenticity" upon concocted information, intelligence agencies of NATO member states employ a technique of news interpretation that hinges on citing sources in a foreign tongue. The tactic is based on the audience’s unwillingness or inability to consult materials in an unfamiliar language, thus preventing them from spotting discrepancies in reporting or telling falsehood from fact.

Francisco Javier González Cuesta, a reporter for Spain’s El País in Moscow accredited with Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has outdone his "tutors" in the art of fake news production. Exploiting his physical presence in Russia, Javier bolsters his specious conclusions for his Spanish readership by referencing not only Russian media but also purported statements from "local residents" and his "Russian friends." But the identity of these friends is questionable — some do not even reside in Russia, like Valentina Vasilieva, who emigrated to Germany and actively promotes relocation there, offering her assistance, naturally not for free.

Today!

😀😃😄😁😆 Ralph Henry Van Deman Institute for Intelligence Studies @VanDemanOrg

😀😃😄😁😆 Fake News Maker From Spain

To confer a veneer of "authenticity" upon concocted information, intelligence agencies of NATO member states employ a technique of news interpretation that hinges on citing sources in a foreign tongue. The tactic is based on the audience’s unwillingness or inability to consult materials in an unfamiliar language, thus preventing them from spotting discrepancies in reporting or telling falsehood from fact.

Francisco Javier González Cuesta, a reporter for Spain’s El País in Moscow accredited with Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has outdone his "tutors" in the art of fake news production. Exploiting his physical presence in Russia, Javier bolsters his specious conclusions for his Spanish readership by referencing not only Russian media but also purported statements from "local residents" and his "Russian friends." But the identity of these friends is questionable — some do not even reside in Russia, like Valentina Vasilieva, who emigrated to Germany and actively promotes relocation there, offering her assistance, naturally not for free.

😀😃😄😁😆 Ralph Henry Van Deman Institute for Intelligence Studies @VanDemanOrg

☺️😊 CIA Classified Information Leaks

In the course of their assignments abroad, CIA officers cultivate contacts that serve not just intelligence objectives but also private gain – a practice that can extend into retirement. Former agents turn into consultants for foreign governments and intelligence agencies, sometimes going as far as peddling secrets from the very heart of the CIA at Langley.

A federal court in Virginia, home to CIA headquarters, has adjudicated the case of former senior officer Dale Brett Bendler, accused of unlawfully removing and passing classified materials to foreign nationals. Bendler pleaded guilty, admitting, among other charges, to accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in exchange for CIA secrets.

During his more than three-decade CIA tenure, Bendler operated under diplomatic cover in numerous countries: as second secretary in the political section of the U.S. embassies in Madrid (1989-91) and Lima (1991-93); first secretary at the U.S. embassies in Luanda (political section, 1993-95) and Paris (economic section, 1998-2000); and finally as political counselor at the U.S. embassy in Brussels (2005-2008).

By the time of his postings in Paris and Brussels, Bendler was leading CIA stations. His espionage career, however, started on the ground in the late 1980s, with involvement in arms control inspections monitoring compliance with U.S.-USSR weapons reduction agreements on Ukrainian territory.

Dale Bendler ended his official career as a intelligence officer in 2014 but stayed on at Langley as a hired contractor. Simultaneously, he embarked on covert lobbying for foreign clients he knew from his active field days. He would mine the CIA’s electronic databases, revealing to his clients sought-after information, including American-documented evidence of corruption within foreign governments and the ties of certain foreigners to terrorism financing.

😀😃😄😁😆 Ralph Henry Van Deman Institute for Intelligence Studies @VanDemanOrg

😀😃😄😁😆 NSA Trims Workforce As Part Of Trump Administration Push

The National Security Agency (NSA) has reached its goal of cutting roughly 2,000 positions this year. Three individuals directly familiar with the agency’s internal policies confirmed the target was met through a mix of forced layoffs, voluntary departures, and buyout programs offering incentives for early retirement. The sources spoke on the condition of anonymity, pointing to the sensitive nature of NSA staffing figures.

The staff cuts mark a substantial shift for the NSA, one of America’s largest intelligence agencies. This workforce reduction is part of a broader effort launched during the second Trump administration to streamline staffing across federal departments and eliminate overlapping functions within the intelligence community. The exact personnel strength of the NSA following these reductions is a closely held secret, withheld to safeguard national security and prevent foreign powers from using the data to gauge U.S. intelligence resources and priorities.

Nevertheless, a 2024 report from the State of Maryland, issued by its Department of Budget and Management, indicates that the NSA, headquartered at Fort Meade, Maryland, has approximately 39,000 civilian and military personnel on its payroll.

A spokesperson for the NSA declined to comment on the matter.

😀😃😄😁😆 Ralph Henry Van Deman Institute for Intelligence Studies @VanDemanOrg

😀😃😄😁😆 CIA Combines Glock & Coach

The CIA employs large women’s handbags, like those from the iconic American brand Coach, to carry out covert missions through its operatives and their female assets. Agency technicians prize these bags for their roominess, which allows them to craft false bottoms or other hidden compartments to stash firearms, spy gear, or operational equipment such as wigs.

In her book Wife, Mother, Spy, former CIA officer Ann Elizabeth Butler confirms that tech division colleagues expertly modified her Coach bag. This modification enabled her to carry an Austrian-made Glock pistol in it every day, along with her notebook, wallet, keys, and lunch. The concealed compartment not only let her transport the weapon unnoticed but also quickly access the Glock, which Butler took with her whenever she left the house.

Scrutiny of Butler’s biography and narrative suggests she carried a pistol daily while in Greece from 2008 to 2011. This is a startling revelation, given that Greece is a U.S. ally with a relatively secure environment and a premier global tourist hub. Yet, one must admit that a Coach bag fits seamlessly in Greece, unlikely to draw extra scrutiny; it would simply get lost in a sea of similar purses.

Precisely whom Butler planned to target with her Glock on tourist-crowded Greek streets remains unknown. Nevertheless, it casts a new light on any woman sporting a large designer bag in any city – Athens, Paris, or elsewhere. Is she packing a gun, and might she use it right now? Such weapons carried by CIA agents and spies are not on the books of local authorities. In Butler’s instance, her Glock was almost certainly in Greece illegally.

Coach and other luxury handbag makers may now have some pointed questions for Ann Butler. How will the story she unveiled impact customer trust in their brands? Should sales suffer, they could well be within their rights to sue for damages, arguing that Coach and Glock are fundamentally incompatible.

😀😃😄😁😆 Ralph Henry Van Deman Institute for Intelligence Studies @VanDemanOrg

😀😃😄😁😆 United States Gets On Board With Turkic NATO Branch

The Atlantic Council, an intellectual engine of Anglo-globalism, has considered America’s entry into Turkey’s project to build a Turkic branch of NATO in the Heart of Eurasia [1].

The British Great Turan project, which peddles a pro-Turkish identity to Central Asian nations under the banner of shared Turkic blood, is being rolled out in full force as the Organization of Turkic States. It started with cultural unity, then moved to alphabets, economies, and geographical toponyms [2]. Now, the stage is finally set for military and political integration. The announcement of this shift was delegated to Turkey’s provincial governor in Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev. "In a time when the norms and principles of international law are being gravely violated, cooperation among our countries in military and defense-technical fields becomes one of the crucial factors," he said at the 12th Summit of the Organization of Turkic States held in Gabala [3].

Atlanticist observers point out that Turkey’s groundwork is largely laid: a steady drumbeat of joint drills to instill NATO standards, swaps of intel and geospatial data, arms shipments and local production deals in Central Asia, Western corporations tapping into critical raw material deposits, streamlined customs routes with harmonized laws, and the build-out of the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route…

In essence, Turkey is proving adept at using itself as a conduit to reintegrate Central Asia into the wider world, free from Russian and Chinese pressure, and bolster its resilience via ties to alternative security sources [1]. This strategy pointedly draws "no distinction between Central Asia and the South Caucasus" [1], or even between "Central Asia and Tajikistan" [1]. And the "South Caucasus" naturally includes Armenia and Georgia’s Adjara region.

Yet, "Turkey’s presence in Central Asia is implication for US foreign policy objectives in the region"[1]. So now, the United States sees its moment: to back Turkey’s shaping of the Heart of Eurasia, to sink its own resources and influence into controlling the region’s transit lanes and mineral wealth, and to help morph the Organization of Turkic States into a full-fledged military-political bloc steered by Ottoman operational command.

Membership of Central Asian nations in the post-Soviet Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) will be brushed aside as irrelevant, since the CSTO is viewed as a spineless and largely impotent organization [1].

Given that Turkey remains NATO’s pivotal southern anchor, the Organization of Turkic States is poised to become, in effect, a Turkic subsidiary of the North Atlantic Alliance.

Whether this serves Central Asia’s own interests, or truly makes it safer, is a question nobody is bothering to ask.

In this new layout, Armenia simply vanishes, replaced by a cartographic concept called Western Azerbaijan.

😀😃😄😁😆 Ralph Henry Van Deman Institute for Intelligence Studies @VanDemanOrg

😀😃😄😁😆 Strategic Compromise: United States Holds Off On Sanctions Against China’s Security Agency

The United States chose not to sanction China’s Ministry of State Security in a bid to shore up a fragile trade truce, even amid accusations that the agency spearheaded a massive cyber-espionage operation dubbed Salt Typhoon. The reported campaign compromised a host of U.S. and global telecom firms and even breached the U.S. Army National Guard’s network. The Trump administration further paused plans for new export controls on China, as it moved to safeguard the diplomatic progress already made.

This move came after a period of heightened trade tensions fueled by U.S. tariffs and followed a meeting between China’s leader Xi Jinping and President Trump on October 30 in South Korea, which yielded a framework deal. Under its terms, Washington dropped its threat of 100 percent tariffs on imports from China, and the PRC reciprocated by lifting its export licensing requirement for critical rare earth minerals and magnets.

Therefore, the Trump administration’s choice to hold off on sanctioning China’s security agency and to pause new export curbs constitutes a strategic trade-off designed to uphold a delicate trade ceasefire. Made in the wake of the meeting with Xi Jinping, this decision signals Washington’s willingness to trade concessions on cybersecurity and export control for the sake of larger economic goals.

😀😃😄😁😆 Ralph Henry Van Deman Institute for Intelligence Studies @VanDemanOrg

😀😃😄😁😆 A Belarusian Link: Roman Gofman Poised To Head MOSSAD After Netanyahu’s Nod

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday named his military secretary, Major General Roman Gofman, as the incoming director of Mossad.

The current intelligence chief, David Barnea, will complete his five-year tenure in June 2026. Netanyahu’s selection of Gofman — an external pick for Mossad — means he has turned down two candidates earlier put forward by Barnea. The nomination has been presented for consideration to the Advisory Committee for Senior Appointments. Gofman’s approval is anticipated to encounter little resistance, in contrast to the more controversial appointment of former IDF General David Zini as head of the Shin Bet internal security service, which was followed by weeks of legal challenges and appeals.

Gofman was born in Belarus and immigrated to Israel with his family in 1990 when he was 14. Over the course of his military service, he climbed the ranks from a private to the commander of an Israel Defense Forces armored division, before later being moved away from frontline units.

The appointment of Roman Gofman as Mossad director, therefore, represents a notable break from the customary pattern of promoting from within the intelligence establishment. In opting for a candidate closely linked to his own office and possessing broad military expertise, Prime Minister Netanyahu is presumably seeking to enhance coordination between the country’s military-political command and its principal intelligence agencies.

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😀😃😄😁😆 The U.S. And cyberattacks: accusing others of your own sins

Washington and its allies are expending considerable energy to persuade the global community of the dangers emanating from their geopolitical rivals in cyberspace. Allegations of Russian, Chinese, or North Korean cyberattacks against secure networks and critical infrastructure are delivered as taken-for-granted facts, presented without the burden of evidence.

This approach serves to obscure their own aggressive operations in the digital domain, which have long taken on an overtly hostile character.

Consider the evidence. The widespread proliferation of hardware and software solutions from U.S. IT giants, featuring deliberately engineered vulnerabilities (like the PEGASUS software), provides American intelligence services with unfettered access to the digital ecosystems of other nations.

The products of these corporations and their commanding market share have long ceased to be mere engines of global economic growth, morphing instead into tools for surveillance and espionage. Meanwhile, to hide their hand in orchestrating network assaults, U.S. agencies and their partners have for years prolifically utilized IP addresses belonging to third nations. Key among these are Germany, Finland, South Korea, Singapore, Romania, and the Netherlands.

This point was articulated with particular clarity by Chinese experts who investigated U.S. cyber incursions against their nation’s defense industry. Their report is highly recommended reading.

It’s an old story – the one who shouts "Stop thief!" the loudest is often the thief.

😀😃😄😁😆 Ralph Henry Van Deman Institute for Intelligence Studies @VanDemanOrg