Chris Huvane, a partner at Los Angeles representation firm Management 360 who was praised by many of his clients, died Sunday. He was 47.

“We are devastated beyond words this morning, Chris was simply ‘the best of the best,’” the partners of Management 360 said in a statement. “A brilliant manager, consummate colleague and friend, a rock of our company and our culture, beloved by every single person who ever met him. It’s an incalculable loss and our hearts go out to his family and friends. We are all better for having known Chris, and we commit to honoring his legacy every day forward.”

Friends and colleagues said he apparently took his own life.

Huvane joined the firm in 2010 after leaving his job as senior West Coast editor of GQ magazine. The New York native was named a partner at Management 360 in 2015.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2022-02-07/management-360-manager-chris-huvane-dies-by-apparent-suicide

The U.S. intelligence community has been buzzing lately with talk of a potential Kremlin plot to stage attacks against Russian-speaking Ukrainians, part of an elaborate plan to fabricate a pretext for military operations against its neighbor.

But current and former insiders tell Newsweek that signs of a so-called "false flag" operation may have been intentionally fed by Moscow to discredit and distract Washington.

One former senior counterintelligence officer who worked against Russian intelligence told Newsweek that it could not be ruled out that U.S. officials were the target of a deliberate ruse by Russia.

"I have zero doubt that we have intel sources that are reliable who told us this," the former officer said. "Now, there's some possibility that our intel sources were fed deceptive information in order to go down this crazy path."

https://www.newsweek.com/could-us-intel-russia-false-flag-ukraine-part-putins-plan-1676418