Anonymous ID: 774628 June 26, 2020, 7:43 p.m. No.9762103   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>2112

I got it https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/us/politics/russia-afghanistan-bounties.html

 

WASHINGTON — American intelligence officials have concluded that a Russian military intelligence unit secretly offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing coalition forces in Afghanistan — including targeting American troops — amid the peace talks to end the long-running war there, according to officials briefed on the matter.

 

The United States concluded months ago that the Russian unit, which has been linked to assassination attempts and other covert operations in Europe intended to destabilize the West or take revenge on turncoats, had covertly offered rewards for successful attacks last year.

 

Islamist militants, or armed criminal elements closely associated with them, are believed to have collected some bounty money, the officials said. Twenty Americans were killed in combat in Afghanistan in 2019, but it was not clear which killings were under suspicion.

 

The intelligence finding was briefed to President Trump, and the White House’s National Security Council discussed the problem at an interagency meeting in late March, the officials said. Officials developed a menu of potential options — starting with making a diplomatic complaint to Moscow and a demand that it stop, along with an escalating series of sanctions and other possible responses, but the White House has yet to authorize any step, the officials said.

 

An operation to incentivize the killing of American and other NATO troops would be a significant and provocative escalation of what American and Afghan officials have said is Russian support for the Taliban, and it would be the first time the Russian spy unit was known to have orchestrated attacks on Western troops.

 

Any involvement with the Taliban that resulted in the deaths of American troops would also be a huge escalation of Russia’s so-called hybrid war against the United States, a strategy of destabilizing adversaries through a combination of such tactics as cyberattacks, the spread of fake news and covert and deniable military operations.

 

The Kremlin had not been made aware of the accusations, said Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. “If someone makes them, we’ll respond,” Mr. Peskov said. A Taliban spokesman did not respond to messages seeking comment.

 

Spokespeople at the National Security Council, the Pentagon, the State Department and the C.I.A. declined to comment.

 

The officials familiar with the intelligence did not explain the White House delay in deciding how to respond to the intelligence about Russia.

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Anonymous ID: 774628 June 26, 2020, 7:43 p.m. No.9762112   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>2117

>>9762103

 

While some of his closest advisers, like Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, have counseled more hawkish policies toward Russia, Mr. Trump has adopted an accommodating stance toward Moscow.

 

At a summit in 2018 in Helsinki, Finland, Mr. Trump strongly suggested that he believed Mr. Putin’s denial that the Kremlin interfered in the 2016 presidential election, despite broad agreement within the American intelligence establishment that it did. Mr. Trump criticized a bill imposing sanctions on Russia when he signed it into law after Congress passed it by veto-proof majorities. And he has repeatedly made statements that undermined the NATO alliance as a bulwark against Russian aggression in Europe.

 

The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the delicate intelligence and internal deliberations. They said the intelligence had been treated as a closely held secret, but the administration expanded briefings about it this week — including sharing information about it with the British government, whose forces are among those said to have been targeted.

ImagePresident Trump has suggested he believed a denial by President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia of Kremlin interference in the 2016 election.

President Trump has suggested he believed a denial by President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia of Kremlin interference in the 2016 election.Credit…Kirill Kallinikov/Host Photo Agency, via Getty Images

 

The intelligence assessment is said to be based at least in part on interrogations of captured Afghan militants and criminals. The officials did not describe the mechanics of the Russian operation, such as how targets were picked or how money changed hands. It is also not clear whether Russian operatives had deployed inside Afghanistan or met with their Taliban counterparts elsewhere.

 

The revelations came into focus inside the Trump administration at a delicate and distracted time. Although officials collected the intelligence earlier in the year, the interagency meeting at the White House took place as the coronavirus pandemic was becoming a crisis and parts of the country were shutting down.

 

Moreover, as Mr. Trump seeks re-election in November, he wants to strike a peace deal with the Taliban to end the Afghanistan war.

 

Both American and Afghan officials have previously accused Russia of providing small arms and other support to the Taliban that amounts to destabilizing activity, although Russian government officials have dismissed such claims as “idle gossip” and baseless.

 

“We share some interests with Russia in Afghanistan, and clearly they’re acting to undermine our interests as well,” Gen. John W. Nicholson Jr., the commander of American forces in Afghanistan at the time, said in a 2018 interview with the BBC.

 

Though coalition troops suffered a spate of combat casualties last summer and early fall, only a few have since been killed. Four Americans were killed in combat in early 2020, but the Taliban have not attacked American positions since a February agreement.

 

American troops have also sharply reduced their movement outside military bases because of the coronavirus, reducing their exposure to attack.

 

While officials were said to be confident about the intelligence that Russian operatives offered and paid bounties to Afghan militants for killing Americans, they have greater uncertainty about how high in the Russian government the covert operation was authorized and what its aim may be.

Anonymous ID: 774628 June 26, 2020, 7:43 p.m. No.9762117   🗄️.is đź”—kun

>>9762112

 

Some officials have theorized that the Russians may be seeking revenge on NATO forces for a 2018 battle in Syria in which the American military killed several hundred pro-Syrian forces, including numerous Russian mercenaries, as they advanced on an American outpost. Officials have also suggested that the Russians may have been trying to derail peace talks to keep the United States bogged down in Afghanistan. But the motivation remains murky.

 

The officials briefed on the matter said the government had assessed the operation to be the handiwork of Unit 29155, an arm of Russia’s military intelligence agency, known widely as the G.R.U. The unit is linked to the March 2018 nerve agent poisoning in Salisbury, England, of Sergei Skripal, a former G.R.U. officer who had worked for British intelligence and then defected, and his daughter.

 

Western intelligence officials say the unit, which has operated for more than a decade, has been charged by the Kremlin with carrying out a campaign to destabilize the West through subversion, sabotage and assassination. In addition to the 2018 poisoning, the unit was behind an attempted coup in Montenegro in 2016 and the poisoning of an arms manufacturer in Bulgaria a year earlier.

 

American intelligence officials say the G.R.U. was at the center of Moscow’s covert efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. In the months before that election, American officials say, two G.R.U. cyberunits, known as 26165 and 74455, hacked into Democratic Party servers and then used WikiLeaks to publish embarrassing internal communications.

 

In part because those efforts were aimed at helping tilt the election in Mr. Trump’s favor, his handling of issues related to Russia and Mr. Putin has come under particular scrutiny. The special counsel investigation found that the Trump campaign welcomed Russia’s intervention and expected to benefit from it, but found insufficient evidence to establish that his associates had engaged in any criminal conspiracy with Moscow.

 

Operations involving Unit 29155 tend to be much more violent than those involving the cyberunits. Its officers are often decorated military veterans with years of service, in some cases dating to the Soviet Union’s failed war in Afghanistan in the 1980s. Never before has the unit been accused of orchestrating attacks on Western soldiers, but officials briefed on its operations say it has been active in Afghanistan for many years.

 

Though Russia declared the Taliban a terrorist organization in 2003, relations between them have been warming in recent years. Taliban officials have traveled to Moscow for peace talks with other prominent Afghans, including the former president, Hamid Karzai. The talks have excluded representatives from the current Afghan government as well as anyone from the United States, and at times they have seemed to work at crosscurrents with American efforts to bring an end to the conflict.

 

The disclosure comes at a time when Mr. Trump has said he would invite Mr. Putin to an expanded meeting of the Group of 7 nations, but tensions between American and Russian militaries are running high.

 

In several recent episodes, in international territory and airspace from off the coast of Alaska to the Black and Mediterranean Seas, combat planes from each country have scrambled to intercept military aircraft from the other.

 

Mujib Mashal contributed reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan.

 

Charlie Savage is a Washington-based national security and legal policy correspondent. A recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, he previously worked at The Boston Globe and The Miami Herald. His most recent book is “Power Wars: The Relentless Rise of Presidential Authority and Secrecy.” @charlie_savage • Facebook

 

Eric Schmitt is a senior writer who has traveled the world covering terrorism and national security. He was also the Pentagon correspondent. A member of the Times staff since 1983, he has shared three Pulitzer Prizes. @EricSchmittNYT

 

Michael Schwirtz is an investigative reporter based at the United Nations. Previously he covered the countries of the former Soviet Union from the Moscow bureau and reported for the Metro Desk on policing and brutality and corruption in the prison system.

Anonymous ID: 774628 June 26, 2020, 8:46 p.m. No.9762789   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>2803

>>9762494

 

Diggs on Cuomo's Mom Mentoring USA group notable

 

>>9758534

 

Served 5000 children, nationally and internationally.

 

 

Instagram

 

https://www.instagram.com/challenge/?next=/mentoringusa/

 

Linkedin

 

I Dont have one, get it anon

 

Twatter

 

https://twitter.com/mentoringusa

 

 

Andrew Cuomo and Family have been buddies with the Clintons for quite some time

 

https://edition.cnn.com/2015/01/02/politics/cuomo-clinton-relationship-remembered/

 

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/05/22/hillary-clinton-snubs-women-cuomo-endorsement/

 

https://www.timesunion.com/tuplus-local/article/Matilda-Cuomo-thrilled-by-National-Women-s-Hall-10926137.php

 

Possible Clintons helped him get elected to "control" NY? Is that why Andy acts the way he does?

 

 

 

 

 

 

They do backround checks on propective "mentors".

 

These mentors work with "at-risk youth" fosters homes, dropouts, etc.

 

http://www.mentoringusa.org/our-programs/program-descriptions/

 

Advice on 'building trust"

 

http://www.mentoringusa.org/be-a-mentor/faqs/

 

Supported by Fashion mogul

 

https://nymag.com/listings/stores/reaction_kenneth_cole/

 

Partnered with United Way

 

https://www.unitedway.org/

 

 

 

 

 

Partners with HELPUSA, Cuomos pet project, Keith Haring image (proven pedophile whiterabbit sicko, check archive4plebs.org in /pol/)

 

https://www.helpusa.org/

 

Board of Directors for HelpUSA

 

Board of Directors

 

Maria Cuomo Cole, Chairman

Anthony Williams, Esq., Vice Chairman

Khaliah Ali

Marc Altheim

Nick Brown

Jean Brownhill

Gail Cannold

Charles Grodin

Jessica Guff

Anne Keating

 

Peter Hochfelder

Joanne Leonhardt Cassullo

Arthur Mirante

Ponchitta Pierce

Avis Richards

Thomas Ridges

Jeffrey A. Sachs

Henry Schleiff

Nancy Seaman

Richard Sirota

 

Executive Staff

 

Tom Hameline, PhD, President and CEO

Karen Ford, Chief Operating Officer

David Cleghorn, Chief Housing Officer

Missy Flower, Chief Administrative Officer

 

John Emmert, Chief Financial Officer

Stephen Mott, Chief of Staff

Ronnie Silverman, Chief Program Development Officer

Lawrence Cann, Chief Development Officer

 

Susan Cahill, VP of Grants Management and Contract Compliance

Daniel Farrell, SVP of Prevention, Assessment, and Research

Michael Gagliardi, VP for Safety and Security

Fred Goodhartz, VP of Materials Management

 

Adam Huron, VP of Family Transitional and Daycare Services

Jody Lirette, VP of Human Resources

Serena Miller, VP of Property Management

Gina Quijada, VP of Information Technology

Antonia Wosu, VP of Single Adult Shelters

Anonymous ID: 774628 June 26, 2020, 8:52 p.m. No.9762830   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>2874

>>9762803

 

thanks.

 

I think its worth looking into. Doesnt seem to be anything nefarious Ive found except the Keith Haring image he designed for them.

 

The Clinton/Cuomo family connection seems juicier to me and may be worth more time to diggers.