Sorry for the wonky title, this one will need a 24hr flair, unsure if directly relatable to pizzagate, need time to look deeper and would love to hear the thoughts of others.
New Q
Stanislav Lunev.
The BRIDGE.
Payback for today.
Q
Stanislav Lunev
Stanislav Lunev (Russian: Станислав Лунев; born 1946 in Leningrad) is a former Soviet military officer, the highest-ranking GRU officer to defect from Russia to the United States.
Main Intelligence Directorate
Main Intelligence Directorate (Russian: Гла́вное разве́дывательное управле́ние, tr. Glavnoye razvedyvatel'noye upravleniye, IPA: [ˈɡlavnəjə rɐzˈvʲɛdɨvətʲɪlʲnəjə ʊprɐˈvlʲenʲɪjə]), abbreviated GRU (Russian: ГРУ, IPA: [ɡeeˈru]), is the foreign military intelligence agency of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (formerly the Soviet Army General Staff of the Soviet Union). Since 2010, the agency′s official full name is the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces (Russian: Гла́вное управле́ние Генера́льного шта́ба Вооружённых Сил Росси́йской Федера́ции).
The GRU is Russia's largest foreign intelligence agency.[1] In 1997 it deployed six times as many agents in foreign countries as the SVR, the successor of the KGB's foreign operations directorate (PGU KGB). It also commanded 25,000 Spetsnaz troops in 1997.[2]
Compromise
In 2002, Bill Powell, former Moscow bureau chief at Newsweek, wrote Treason, an account of the experiences of former GRU colonel Vyacheslav Baranov, who had betrayed GRU for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and agreed to spy for it. He was exposed to the Russians by a mole in either the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) or the CIA and spent five years in prison before he was released. The identity of the mole remains unknown to this day, but speculation has mounted that it could have been Robert Hanssen.[43]
Robert Philip Hanssen (born April 18, 1944) is a former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent who spied for Soviet and Russian intelligence services against the United States for 22 years from 1979 to 2001. He is currently serving 15 consecutive life sentences at ADX Florence, a federal supermax prison near Florence, Colorado.
Hanssen was arrested on February 18, 2001, at Foxstone Park[2] near his home in Vienna, Virginia, and was charged with selling U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and subsequently the Russian Federation for more than US$1.4 million in cash and diamonds over a 22-year period.[3]
On July 6, 2001, in order to avoid the death penalty, he pleaded guilty to 15 counts of espionage in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.[4][5] He was sentenced to 15 life terms without the possibility of parole. His activities have been described by the Department of Justice's Commission for the Review of FBI Security Programs as "possibly the worst intelligence disaster in U.S. history."[6]
FBI counterintelligence unit, further espionage activities (1985–1991)
"Ellis" dead drop site in Foxstone Park used by Hanssen, including on the day of his arrest
^ "The BRIDGE"?
In the media
The story is mentioned in Ronald Kessler's book The Secrets of the FBI, both in Chapter 15, "Catching Hanssen," and Chapter 16, "Breach."[citation needed]
Eric O'Neill's role in the capture of Robert Hanssen was dramatized in the 2007 film Breach, in which Chris Cooper played the role of Hanssen and Ryan Phillippe played O'Neill.[66]
The 2007 documentary Superspy: The Man Who Betrayed the West describes the hunt to trap Robert Hanssen. Hanssen also was the subject of a 2002 made-for-television movie, Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story, with the teleplay by Norman Mailer and starring William Hurt as Hanssen. Robert Hanssen's jailers allowed him to watch this movie but Hanssen was so angered by the film that he turned it off.[67]
Hanssen is mentioned in chapter 5 of Dan Brown's book The Da Vinci Code as the most noted Opus Dei member to non-members. Because of his sexual deviancy and espionage conviction, the organization's reputation was badly hurt.[68]
Hanssen's story is reviewed on season 2, episode 4 of Mysteries at the Museum. Actual footage of his arrest by FBI agents is included. His story is the last segment of four included in this episode.
The American Court TV (now TruTV) television series Mugshots released an episode on the Robert Hanssen case titled Robert Hanssen - Hanssen and the KGB'.[69]
I don't know exactly what I'm looking at, never heard of this Robert Hanssen... anyone else want to weigh in and see if it's pg-related?
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argosciv ago
Opus Dei and politics
Ruth Kelly
Pizzagate relevance: Hanssen | Opus Dei | Ruth Kelly | Paul Reeve
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24hr flair no longer needed?
Vindicator ago
@argosciv, what's still missing here is a concise statement of your "Pizzagate premise" tying these names together. This is very scattershot and hard to make sense of. Is your premise that Q is saying the Russian spy guy is connected to international child trafficking? To remove the flair, we'd need something along those lines.
argosciv ago
Condensed main post a bit, added the following:
Pizzagate crumbs: Lunev | GRU | Hanssen/CIA/FBI | Opus Dei | Ruth Kelly | Abstract(see comments): Clintons | John Podesta | 9/11
Pizzagate premise/theory: Q seems to be pointing out Stanislav Lunev and "The BRIDGE" as a reference to Robert Hanssen and the place of his arrest, which is likely due to curiosities surrounding Hanssen and other pizzagate-related persons/elements. My theory is that Robert Hanssen's activities as a spy, may have also included some form of connection to institutionalized child abuse and/or the cover-up thereof, facilitated by Opus Dei, at the behest of Podesta/Clinton et al.
The history & founding of Opus Dei is also mired in controversy, including accusations of support for Nazis/Hitler - incidentally, Opus Dei is also known for being opposed to Hitler per their support for Communism. This kind of schismatic support/opposition indicates an underlying agenda to "play both sides", to myself; Links between Opus Dei and Robert Hanssen, seem very deeply rooted in WW2 and Cold War espionage - coupling this with the sex-abusers in schools controversy which has surrounded Opus Dei member & UK politician, Ruth Kelly - it seems even more apparent that ties between Opus Dei & politics touch on corruption, espionage and child abuse.
Curiosities pertaining to John Podesta's suspiciously angry article which opens with 9/11 signalling, Foxstone Park and the surrounding area(nearby Westwood Country Club) and 9/11-related incidents/elements also indicate 9/11 as peripheral to Hanssen/CIA/FBI...
Vindicator ago
Okay...but how does that connect to the guy Q mentioned? Also, I am not seeing the evidence supporting the Hanssen connection to institutionalized child abuse/cover up. This post is making my head spin.
Maybe what you should do is try doing a post on a smaller part of this info -- making sure you can plausibly link it to child sex trafficking. If you broke the whole thing down into parts, each of which is supported, then you could link to each individual post as you built your case for the larger picture. Sorry...having a rough time following the trail of crumbs here.
argosciv ago
You and me both, I assure you. I'll try to boil it down a bit here.
Alrighty, so from Q: "Stanislav Lunev. The BRIDGE."
Stanislav Lunev was "the highest-ranking GRU officer to defect from Russia to the United States", while reading about the GRU, I came across the story of Vyacheslav Baranov, "who had betrayed GRU for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and agreed to spy for it." and who was "exposed to the Russians by a mole in either the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) or the CIA" - "The identity of the mole remains unknown to this day, but speculation has mounted that it could have been Robert Hanssen."
Stanislav | GRU | CIA/FBI | Hanssen
Yes, it jumps rather abruptly away from the person Q mentioned, but, looking into Hanssen:
I'm suggesting at this point, that the "Ellis" dead drop site, is the bridge(or one of possibly a few) that Q is referring to, due to running themes of bridges and espionage (per also the 'bridge of spies', which someone else has raised on twitter).
Further examination of Hanssen points in a few directions, not least of all, Opus Dei - wherein politics, religion, war, corruption, cult-like behavior, etc, seem to merge - incidentally the topics of WWII, Nazis/Hitler, Communism/Russians/Cold-War are all brought up yet again, including Ruth Kelly, a UK politician surrounded by controversy involving registered sex offenders being allowed to teach in schools, under her watch(so to speak).
Cursory searches for anything relating to Hanssen/Clinton/Opus Dei, gave interesting results: The nytimes article and the podesta article, wherein we learn that for some reason or another, Hanssen was making regular searches of FBI databases for anything Clinton - Podesta chucking a hissy fit 4 years after Hanssen is arrested, 9/11 signalling in the process...
The odd behavior by Podesta and Hanssen(including Hanssen taping his own wife without her consent), along with other curiosities regarding Hanssen's arrest in 2001 and 9/11, etc, all strongly indicate to me that the Clinton/Podesta(et al) group that are strongly pg-relevant, are involved with what Hanssen was doing.
So, while the person that Q mentioned doesn't seem directly relevant to what I'm looking at just yet, I feel that the peripheral subjects have common ground in this whole issue of Russian/CIA/FBI espionage/corruption. Many links between "the elite" and the CIA/FBI have already been well established here, also.
The reason I haven't seen anything directly relevant to Stanislav Lunev, is because I am yet to look into him in more detail, as my attention was caught by this whole Hanssen thing...
Vindicator ago
Thank you for explaining that. So many tantalizing tidbits, but so far, no direct link to child sexual abuse that I can see. Make sure you ping all of us if you come up with a direct connection.