Coded nonsense. How Russian intelligence factorys “secret messages” from its “agents” from Europe
The latest issue of “Intelligencemen” contains news from the SWR agents “Diaza”, “John”, “Stone”, “Marata” and “Frank”. “Diaz”, stationed in the capital of Syria, Damascus, warns Moscow that:
According to the latest reports of Mi6 and the CIA, after overthrowing President Bashar Al-Assad, they recommended ISIS commanders to be inspected to conduct a series of attacks on Russian military bases. Terrorists were delivered to terrorists to perform this dirty task.
From Brussels, “John” warns Moscow about the NATO campaign aimed at weakening the position of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelanski:
They plan to publish information that Zelanski and his team personally confused $ 1.5 billion intended for the purchase of ammunition.
In Kiev, “Marat” warns against possible terrorist attacks of Ukraine in Europe, and “Frank” from Tbilisi informs about increasing subversive activities in Georgia. None of these “agents” presents any verifiable evidence to support their claims.
The “SWR column is authorized to announce …” appeared in “Scouts” a year and a half ago. Stylized as telegrams of the Soviet intelligence from the 1940s, the so -called Secret messages are provided with all the typical markings: “SWR Russia”, “Secret”, »Copy No. 1″, “prohibited copying”, also have dates, operational cryptoons, “declassified” seal and references to “Comrade Sergeyev” – the alleged recipient of the message. All this aims to convince readers about the authenticity of the intelligence information presented.
In addition to the above -mentioned agents, among the permanent “collaborators” of the column were “Alex”, “Nora”, “Jacques”, “Felix”, “Alain” and “Ben”. Their messages often repeat Russian state propaganda – and with impressive speed. In February 2024, shortly after Vladimir Putin told the former presenter of Fox News Tucker Carlson that NATO exaggerates the “Russian threat”, “John” immediately sent the following message to the SWR headquarters:
The latest information shows that the US Department of State is actively preparing a large -scale propaganda campaign to arouse fear in Europe against “Russian military threat”. To this end, it is planned to spread in popular European social media and messengers of a series of posts and films adapted to various recipients, aimed at emphasizing the “serious nature of the territorial ambitions of Moscow.”
After the assassination of the Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico in May 2024, the Slovak police arrested a 71-year-old writer Jurai Cintula, who as a motive for firing five shots towards Fico gave political differences with the government. However, according to “Nora”, the alleged SWR agent in Slovakia, the vile Western powers stood behind the coup:
The attempt to assassination at the Slovak Prime Minister R. Fico, aimed at intimidating the “dissidents” in Europe and outside, shows that Washington and Brussels are ready to resort to open political terror towards their opponents.
“Felix” from Paris seems equally well -oriented in new products. He writes:
In French military circles, anxiety is growing in connection with the growing number of French citizens killed at the Ukrainian theater of warfare. It is noted that dozens of French citizens were killed during a Russian attack on a temporary foreign base near Kharkov on January 17 this year.
In fact, this attack hit a private clinic, killing one person and hurting 17.
At least five fictitious SWR agents – “Stone”, “John”, “Marat”, “Felix” and “Nora” – is designed to monitor Zelanski. “Scout” regularly prints headers such as “On the US supported by the US,” Western plans to replace Zelanski “and” about the weakening support for Zelanski among the American elites “.
Of course, “messages” state that Zelanski did not meet the expectations of his superiors in Washington and London, and that he was threatened with dismissal month after month. Many pro -region media and many pro -regime bloggers supporting war quotes these magazine publications, as if they were real intelligence information obtained by Russian foreign services.
Unmasking “resident agents”
In an interview with The Insider, the former SWR officer explains why these telegrams cannot be true: – First of all, if it was an authentic report from a resident agent, he should not contain any data. And here we see the telegram number, the time of its receipt at the headquarters and reference to a certain companion Sergey. All this is strictly prohibited. Where did the time marker come from when the cipher in “forest” came from [jak nazywana jest kwatera główna SWR w moskiewskiej dzielnicy Jasieniewo] did he receive and decrypted the telegram?
– Secondly, our special messages are rarely signed with foreign names, such as “John”, “Frank” or “Stone” – says our interlocutor. – It just introduces confusion. Operational nicknames such as “Iwanow”, “Petrow” or “Sidorow” are usually used. Only in the report itself can you use the phrase “according to a reliable source named John”.
– Our residents never use phrases such as “Anglo -Saxons” or “Dirty Game”. Correct reports contain hard facts, numbers, concise summary of events, forecasts and assessments. What we see here is more like an editorial article from the Soviet newspaper “Truth” – says the officer. – The document also does not contain the date of return or place for comments or approval by superiors, and both of these things are crucial. I have read all these texts in stock and to be honest, it seems to me that each of these telegrams was written by the same person.
Another source of The Insider website – a former employee of the secretary of the Russian Security Agency, who knows how he actually cares with secret documents – also calls into question the authenticity of secret telegrams published by “Scout”:
– I processed thousands of such telegrams. Believe me, I have never seen intelligence information provided to such documents. Strict instructions and templates apply in this respect. If these telegrams were true, their declassification would only occur for at least 10 to 15 years, they directly reveal the locations of intelligence sources. This means that these publications are subject to the Act on state secrecy. So they should not be taken seriously.
The Insider has accessed to authentic secret encrypted telegrams, printed on official forms with appropriate markings. The documents contain a report of the GRU, Russian military intelligence, addressed to Nikolai Patruszew, when he was the head of the secret police of the FSB, along with a list of people sought after by FSB.
Secret Gru report for Nikolai Patruszew
The magazine “Znotowiec” was created in 2022 on the initiative of the director of SWR Sergei Naryszkin. In the preface to the first issue he wrote:
In today's exceptional conditions – when our country is basically a large -scale hybrid aggression, and western centers of information and psychological war flood you with lies every day, often cleverly masked under the indication taking place.
The editor -in -chief of the warehouse is the retired KGB general Mikhail Pogudinwho worked for 10 years as an interview with the KGB in Ankara, and then served as an advisor at the Russian embassy at Belarus. Currently manages the charity organization consent, which is based at the same address as the SWR press office. He also heads the SWR Veterans Council.
This is how a different intelligence veteran described Pogudin: – During his stay in Turkey, Mikhail Witalijewicz did not perform too many field tasks, he mainly collected party contributions at the embassy and organized political briefings. A typical political officer who knew how to satisfy his superiors.
Mikhail Pogudin
Sergei Guszkow (in the middle)
Until November last year “Scout” was supervised by the former head of the SWR press office Sergei Ivanovwhich once spied in the US under the cover of “Journalist” Gazeta “Komsomolska Truth” and “Trybuna”. He was replaced by a political intelligence general Sergei Guszkówwho last year, together with his deputy Jewgienij Dołguszin, wrote a book entitled “Operation ENOROZ” about Soviet activities aimed at stealing nuclear secrets from the USA.
Although the book is not selling well – it is currently highly discounted in Russian bookstores and online stores – Guszkow and Dołguszin received the SWR award for it at the beginning of this year.
