04-03-2017, 11:46 PM
(04-03-2017, 11:24 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(04-03-2017, 07:10 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/nat...132b2526d6
'The United Arab Emirates arranged a secret meeting in January between Blackwater founder Erik Prince and a Russian close to President Vladimir Putin as part of an apparent effort to establish a back-channel line of communication between Moscow and President-elect Donald Trump, according to U.S., European and Arab officials.'
Side note regarding Prince. His business these days appears to be arms trafficking. His base of operation is the same one Viktor Bout used prior to getting arrested. Just because Bout was arrested it does not mean his operation ceased. In fact, I suspect it did not cease, since it was a GRU front. So here we have Prince operating a similar business from the same place Bout did and Bout's op was a GRU op. Who knows, it could merely be a coincidence. In any case, Prince's business needs to be deeply investigated.
GRU???
The GRU (Glavnoye Razvedyvatel'noye Upravleniye) is the main military foreign-intelligence service of the Russian Federation.?
XY_MOD_4AD is correct here : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Intel...irectorate
The GRU is essentially the equivalent to the CIA.
Arms/drug trafficking:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_involv...rafficking
http://www.salon.com/2016/06/28/cia_and_...port_says/
Spooks of a feather , flock together.
* The Birds award for the GRU and CIA, man. They'll drive ya mad, you know.
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