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Bellingcat, the open-source intelligence outfit whose founder Elliot Higgins was interviewed recently in these pages, has hit the headlines again. The group contributed to the identification of the Russian agents of the FSB (successor to the KGB) who trailed and poisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny in August.
“Using phone and flight records, Bellingcat discovered that on more than 30 trips, Navalny was trailed by FSB agents linked to a chemical weapons research group — three of them followed him to Tomsk, Siberia, where he was ultimately poisoned,” Bellingcat said in a statement.
Noting that the investigation was based on the flourishing black market in personal records, the group said that “with impeccable timing, Russia’s State Duma has adopted the first reading of a bill which would prohibit disclosing information about the work and personal lives of law enforcement and intelligence officers.”
“I am disgusted by reports of anti-Semitic graffiti that was recently found scrawled on the side of Mesilas Bais Yaakov in Brooklyn…. Over the last nine months, New Yorkers have shown that we are both united and loving… and I am directing the New York State Police Hate Crimes Task Force to immediately offer assistance in this investigation.”
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