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Russian Intelligence Cultivated Donald Trump for Decades, Says Former KGB Agent And the Kremlin was delighted with the results, former KGB major Yuri Shvets tells The Guardian. By Mary Papenfuss The KGB Soviet spy agency and later Russian intelligence cultivated Donald Trump as an “asset” for 40 years, a former spy told The Guardian in a bombshell interview. And the Kremlin was delighted with the results, said former KGB major Yuri Shvets. The strategy was typical: Focus on reasonably good prospects and hope one of the wooed Americans rises to a position of power or access that can be beneficial, said Shvets, who now lives in Virginia. “People were recruited when they were just students and then they rose to important positions; something like that was happening with Trump,” explained Shvets, who worked as a KGB major in the 1980s in the U.S. with a cover job as a Washington correspondent for the Russian news agency Tass. Shvets is a crucial source in the new book “American Kompromat,” written by investigative journalist and former Vanity Fair contributing editor Craig Unger, who has also penned “House of Trump, House of Putin.” The KGB — and Czechoslovakian agents — first noticed Trump in 1977 when he married his first wife, Czech Ivana Zelnickova, Shvets told The Guardian. Trump was wooed during his first visit with his wife to Moscow and St. Petersburg in 1987, as intelligence operatives flattered him, floated talking points they hoped he would push in the U.S., and urged Trump to go into politics, said Shvets. “For the KGB, it was a charm offensive,” he explained. “They had collected a lot of information on his personality so they knew who he was personally. The feeling was that he was extremely vulnerable intellectually, and psychologically — and he was prone to flattery. This is what they exploited.” They “played the game as if they were immensely impressed by his personality and believed this is the guy who should be the president of the United States one day.” The intelligence service was blown away by how eagerly Trump appeared to embrace the perspectives operatives pushed, said Shvets. Trump took out full-page ads in three major newspapers the year of his Moscow visit attacking western alliances by complaining that allies weren’t paying their fair share for defense. It was a theme he would push from the White House, chipping away at the bonds among Western nations. Trump’s links to Russia continued to strengthen when he held his Miss Universe beauty pageant in Moscow in 2013, sought a deal to build Trump Tower Moscow even as he was running for president in 2016, and developed other business links. Trump’s 2016 campaign and presidential transition team had more than 100 contacts with Russian-linked operatives between September 2015 and January 2017, according to a report by the Center for American Progress’ Moscow Project.

I wonder. How long before Dick Cheney reacts to this Trump vigilante movement to destroy his daughter politically? One would imagine Dick Cheney still has friends in the highest places and he will come to the defense of his daughter if this goes too far imo. This attack on Liz Cheney and the other Republican representatives who have decided to abandon their loyalty to Trump is a stupidity reveal of him and his rabid followers who still blindly listen to and obey their fearless leader's intimidating getting back wishes no matter how recklessly wanton they are. You'd think these Trump Yahoos who are saddling up onto this latest Trump ship jumper "go get em" posse would have some slight pause after seeing the price other Trump followers are now paying after also blindly following their master's none-too-subtle vindictive encouragement orders to march down to that Capital Building on January 6th and ... don't be weak! You might guess that these blindly riled up and obeying Trump vindictive vigilante groups will eventually target someone they ought not be messing with and I would think Dick Cheney's daughter might fit into that category? Just wondering.

All true...and not forgotten, misunderstood or disagreed upon by at least me and I am sure many others here on or regularly visiting the forum. Just disagree on Trump though. Even though I believe LBJ to be the most vile, depraved and ruthlessly vicious president we've ever had, and Nixon was as corrupted as they come and GW was one of the dumbest, most unqualified and incompetent presidents ever ... Donald J. Trump takes the cake in pathologic sociopath narcissistic delusion disorder. The man is pathologically obsessed 24/7/365 with not just increasing his personal wealth ( which his neice Mary Trump says...is never enough ) but also being the center of attention to the same "never enough" degree no matter if gained through amoral, immoral, and even illegal means. Carried on with a super aggressive willingness to take incredible risks in meeting his never enough self obsessed needs. Pushing and testing every boundary, every rule, every tradition. Bullying, threatening, inciting others to threaten and intimidate on his behalf. Hence the January 6th, Capitol Building insurrection attack. Trump's chaotic behavior emboldened by the Republicans was like giving a super spoiled and abusive child power over his own fearful parents or anyone else that dared stand up to his constant demands and tantrums. An outrageously irresponsible, dangerous and societal harming abdication as we now know. I've seen a few people ( all men) in my life who like Trump, when present in any social gathering, couldn't help themselves in trying to be the absolute center of attention by the most shameless self-aggrandizing bragging and boasting with claims and heroic achievement story telling so exaggerated, eventually some in their audience would break out in laughter. Yet, these "I'm the greatest" braggards would still continue with their tall tales despite the embarrasing chuckles all around! It was really kind of pathetic. Knowing the backgrounds of at least two of these pathological exaggerated claim and lying attention seekers I knew that driving their shameless bragging and lying were some "deep insecurities" born out of some childhood trauma humiliations. Of course I have no formal or even informal education in human psychology except what I have seen and sensed in my 69 year long working class life experience ... so maybe I'm all wrong on this take on DJT. Just expressing my opinion as uninformed as it may be.

The company you keep? Does threesome loving, Donald "Grab Em By The Pu$$Y" Trump endorsing Jerry Falwell Jr. ( and his wife?) know of Ms. Linton? Evangelicals, take heart. Your Christian value leader and his revered DT know best.

Another totally suspicious incongruity. Like 1,000 others in this case. Like JFK's unweighed, then misweighed brain ( a full 1,400 grams) during the autopsy then a "gone missing" brain after. And throw in "no brain in the skull cavity at all" per right-there-at-JFK's -head Bethesda Naval autopsy assisting Medical Tech Paul O'Conner's sworn testimony.

Anyway of photographing and posting that particular two bullet picture to this thread Denny? Or would that be a copyright issue? And what were the circumstances for and the inference of the obvious contradiction?

BINGO...BRAVO...RIGHT ON!

Trump's continuous choosing of top campaign and other appointees who were a rogues gallery of grifters so obviously and deeply corrupted that it's sickly perverse that anyone pretends this isn't what he himself is all about. Manafort doing million dollar corrupt deals with foreign leaders. Laundering money through Cyprus Island banks. Crime admitting Michael Flynn? Trump Wall charity robber Steve Bannon? Millions toward his own use? Flipping out Brad Parscale who has also been accused of financial misdoings? The TV show "American Greed" would have a years worth of exciting new episodes just with Trump's long list of corrupt con artist appointees and associates and even with the entire Trump family. It's just truly sad that 75 million Trump cult followers refuse to acknowledge the screamingly obvious truth ( that everyone including them know ) about their revered fearless leader. The truth that the man is the most corrupt president in our history with the exception of LBJ who I believe personally ordered murders to protect and enhance his business and political wealth and power.

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Always fun to see and hear the latest Wag-The-Dog/Fox News type Trump/insurrection alternate reality downplaying psyop sound bite game. Let us call and color the huge number armed and physical harm threat shouting mob attack on our second most important and sacred Democracy symbolic landmark Capital Building which resulted in actual deaths and the major traumatising of hundreds of cowering, life fearing congress members and our very own VP who were inside not "the most egregious and seriously impacting act of violent sedition and insurrection in our post civil war history and which has truly shaken our entire national democratic institution trusting psyche" but instead simply... a "breach" A breach? Ah, that doesn't sound too bad. Kind of like screaming pre-teen girls breaking through the fan barrier rope at a Beatles, Elvis or Michael Jackson appearance? Or a break in the manic pushing customer line at a Black Friday shopping event or a midnight offering of the newest hottest high tech personal use items? Or whackily over-excited sports fans jumping down onto the field to try to high-five some superstar athlete that has just broken an all time record? No. This was far more than a wag-the-dog, Fox News, right wing radio propaganda machine one word downplaying term of "breach." This was a major armed violent attack not just on our second most sacred democracy symbolizing landmark but hundreds of our own cowering and life fearing Congress and Senate members trapped inside as well. Gun fire, tear gas, bear spray, tazers, zip ties, gas masks, clubbings, fence trampling and window and other smashings, theft, confederate flag waving, war paint ... all amidst angry violent threat shouting and proclamations of ... " we're doing what our president wants us to do!" "Hang Pence!" ... "Kill Pelosi!" ... "Stop The Steal!" Security men aiming their drawn pistols and shouting frantically to our representatives...GET DOWN... GET DOWN !!! The huge Capital Building armed lynch mob attack and seige was much more than a simple "breach." It was the most violent, dangerous and impacting act of insurrection against our highest level of Federal government and institution of constitutional Democracy since the Civil War. In reality, an actual attempted coup. Sorry Nikki Haley...you don't just "move on" and forget this mind blowing serious and nation shaking act of sedition attack event just three weeks after it's Trump inspired occurrence. Especially after your fellow Republicans spent two years and tens of millions of dollars and the most outraged anger shouted hearings trying to turn the Benghazi attack into the greatest and most harmful leadership fail in American history. Next thing you know the Trump propaganda people will be framing the seige as simply a well meaning celebratory party ( like Donald Trump Jr.'s music and dance tent party at the same time ) that just got out of hand with a handful of overzealous characters simply acting out. You know, like overly aggressive young men at drinking parties? Innocent minded Brett Kavanaugh types?

Vince P. After reading more about Michael Paine I discovered how limited my research knowledge is. A too often made mistake on my part regards posting my opinions on any given subject and then realizing later on how uninformed they really are. I just edited my Michael Paine post to correct it in this regards and context. I regret the reposting by you of my earlier flawed post and wish I could change or erase it myself, but I can't. I need to step back and keep in mind how uniformed I really am in almost every area of JFK research and stop putting my foot in my mouth by posting such in this esteemed forum. I need to go back to reading more and posting less.

Wow! Great and important post VP. So much documentation to totally refute any proclamations or excuses that high building open window and roof top placement of security personnel wasn't one of the highest priority security measures during a presidential motorcade and should have been in Dallas on 11,22,1963. I recall SS agent Clint Hill ( in response to audience questions ) stating in at least two of his filmed interviews in his later days that they ( the SS ) couldn't check every open window along the Dallas parade route through high rise downtown simply because they didn't have the manpower. Next question? How about ordering every building owner or manager to make sure none of these windows are opened while JFK passed underneath? At the end of your article montage posted link Vince we see a quote from agent Gerald Blaine stating they ( the SS ) had to "beg" for more security manpower help during the downtown Dallas motorcade trip. The former Minnesota Supreme Court justice ( who once had words with John Connally) told his friend that JFK's security in Dallas was "lax." Chief Curry stated before JFK's arrival that the security plans for JFK's trip through Dallas were the most thorough in their history! Most thorough? Countless higher building open windows above the route? No one on rooftops? No one on the ground with binoculars and radios scanning the higher floor open windows as JFK was being driven underneath them? No one stationed behind the 200+foot long, perfect shooting angle and hiding place tree lined picket fence and the pergola structure right above the grassy knoll? What about the sewer entrance just passed the railroad overpass? Or covering up the sewer connected drain opening along the curb just to the right of JFK's limo on Elm street? Dallas Sheriff Roger Craig testified that his boss James Eric "Bill" Decker told his men not to participate in the motorcade security in any way. WHAT? !!! Did SS pleas for more security manpower help never reach the Dallas Sheriff? He had enough personnel to significant help the open window, high building roof top security need. And it seemed the DPD had many,many reserve officers available, who were brought in "after" JFK was killed. There could have been security on every parade route building rooftop. And who in the advance security planning of JFK's Dallas motorcade team could not notice the Texas School Book Depository building with it unbelievably obvious turkey shoot sniper location situation with all of it's dozens of upper floor windows and roof directly facing JFK's open limo as it came straight toward them down Houston, then with a limo slowing 180 degree turn right below and then a back side vulnerable turkey shoot opportunity for another 400 feet!? In the least, TXSBD super Roy Truly should have issued an order that no one should be on those upper floors during the passing of the JFK limo and FOR SURE...no open windows! It's just seems so simple and obvious to consider these most basic security measures. And Roy Truly bringing in his latest rifle or rifle acquisitions to the TXSBD to show off to his underling employee buddies just days before 11,22,1963 is just another weird thing, but maybe not in that part of the country? And never forget the TXSBD building was owned by D.H. Byrd. Texas oil magnate. JFK hater. Close friend of LBJ and responsible for setting up "and funding" the LBJ library at the University of Texas. The building that allegedly provided Oswald with the perfect and protected sniper's perch location right above a SS regulation violating hairpin turning and slowed JFK limo just happens to be owned by one the richest, most powerful and LBJ promoting, and rabid JFK hating men in the country? Ah...but the stunning and stark lack of JFK motorcade security ( in a state and city known as one of the most rabid JFK hating in the country" is all just clueless inexperienced unsophisticated good-ole-boy town negligence ... or coincidence? Just like Lee Harvey Oswald having his guts blown apart from a shot just inches away right inside the DPD building with 70 armed security all around and Oswald being handcuffed to two officers at his side...by a sleasy small time strip club owner who was driven to murderous insanity by his grief for Jackie Kennedy and his need to show that "Jews had guts." And who simply scampered past entrance security and down to within feet of Oswald, all on an incredibly lucky timed spontaneous whim! Great document linking post VP. One which exposes the too often accepted lack of JFK Dallas motorcade security excuse given to downplay the truth that it was horrendously ( and rationally suspicious!) negligent. Oh, and don't forget FBI agent James Hosty ( Assignment Oswald) case officer, blithely, perversely deciding to take his lunch break in a downtown Dallas diner right during JFK's motorcade ride through his highest JFK security primed responsibility turf? How crazily illogical was that action? And well known Russia defector and Castro promoting activity background Oswald wasn't once considered as a threat person worth watching while JFK was to pass right under his place of employment? By an agent whose job it was to check the list of such threats?

Livingstone may have been a very difficult person to personally deal with but his JFK conspiracy presentation in the first part of this video is as reasonable, rational and relevant as any today imo. In the second interview conducted by Katie Couric, where Livingstone and Posner have just a very brief back and forth, I believe Livingstone again came across as the much more informed presenter. Posner ( who in this interview looks laughably like a perfect central casting sinister Star Trek Romulan general or Count Dracula character ) will to me always be the credibility ruined writer whose steadfast "Case Closed" book claim that David Ferrie and Oswald never knew, met or interacted with each other was embarrassingly disproven by the famous photo of Oswald right there in a David Ferrie Civil Air Patrol camp cook out which was kept and outed by another young man who was in this photo as well. Livingstone is of course intensively invested in the area of an autopsy photo and Zapruder film manipulation coverup and other areas of evidence deception. Posner was falsely promoting that Livingstone thought the "entire Zapruder film" was fake when Livingstone was claiming "parts of it" were altered. Not anywhere close to the level of investigative effort of someone like Livingstone but for what it's worth, I wonder why more focus isn't placed on the wildly contradictory evidence and testimony regards JFK's brain and it's study and stated findings in the official autopsy report. Reading and listening to Bethesda navy corpsmen Paul O'Conner and James Jenkins accounts of JFK's brain throughout the autopsy ( and these two - O'Conner especially - were close to if not inches away from JFK's skull throughout most of the autopsy and with Jenkins publicly stating he was actually handed an almost 1/3rd missing JFK's brain or "someone's" brain by Humes or Boswell?) plus reading Humes own AARB testimony where he was at a complete loss to explain no weighing of JFK's brain and no weight being listed in his first report, yet with a 1400 gram "full brain" weight listed later in the final autopsy report, this ridiculously scattered and contradictory JFK brain testimony scam is a ... "no brainer!" And JFK's supposed larger than a normal brain 1400 gram weight brain goes missing soon after the autopsy? Oh Please! Just by watching the Zapruder film anyone can see the huge amount of brain matter exploding out and up from JFK's massively obliterated head and skull bone blow out. Bits of JFK's brain were found throughout the limo and even on the faces and bodies of his DPD motorcycle escorts directly behind him. Jackie also handed one of the Parkland hospital emergency treating pysicians a part of JFK's brain she had been morbidly holding in her hand according to his own video interview account. That's a lot of brain tissue. Any high powered rifle bullet entering the back of JFK's head and ripping through the entire length of JFK's brain and exiting out the right front of JFK's skull had to have caused incredible interior damage to the brain while doing so. The Navy medical tech corpsman James Jenkins stated the brain he was handed was ( according to his interview claim ) normal looking except for a missing chunk on the back side of it that was slightly less than "a third" of its over-all mass. ??? Yet, in the Zapruder film, we clearly see a huge spray emanate out and upward from the right front of JFK's bone flap exploding head and that is as much solid looking as just liquid ( imo ) and again, with solid brain matter chunks found inside the limo and on the motorcycle officers themselves. My point is that multiple accounts by those right around JFK at the time of the headshot all report seeing not just fluid blood spray, but actual physical brain matter sprayed all around or even on them. How much of JFK's brain would have to be blown out to cover all the brain matter seen areas testified to? Hume's professed memory missing account of JFK's brain weighing or when and how he removed the brain ( autopsy assisting brain removal trained medical tech O'Conner testified there were no brain removal saw marks on JFK's skull, ever ) or who he even handed it to or where it disappeared to is suspiciously incongruous and contrary to his often arrogantly cocksure and offended minded toned other autopsy recollections testimony we see in the AARP report. The Humes JFK brain refrain stays mainly in the unsustained plane ... imo. Quirky coincidence regards Livingstone. He and Mae Brussell both lived here on the Monterey Peninsula as I have all my life. I used to listen to Brussell all the time on local radio. Our local paper ( The Monterey Herald) did a decent size write up on Livingstone many years ago, highlighting his JFK conspiracy research study efforts and books. Oh, and lastly, in the beginning of the video link we see a mention and a picture of what is called "a tiny" bullet fragment found on the front floorboard of the JFK limo after the shooting. Supposedly part of the bullet which obliterated JFK's skull and brain. Is this the fragment the Warren Report decided made the indentation with lifted surrounded metal in the top middle part of the limo windshield frame? The fragment piece shown in the picture is so small and irregular shape. The indentation hole looks very round and at least fingertip deep. The bullet fragment shown clearly does not fit in size and shape the physical characteristics of the windshield hole at all.

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Sir David, this is bad news on top of bad news for me - a Bond film addict. Every new Bond film I would race to the theater at the earliest time showing ( afternoon ) which would usually mean I had a better chance at getting my perfect viewing seat location versus later "prime time" showings. I would get in the theater as early as possible to also garner an open seat next to mine and drape my coat over the back to give it the appearance of being taken. This covertly obtained open seat became my placement space for my enormous snack stash: A huge size drum of popcorn and other candy counter treats which I am also addicted to such as chocolate covered raisins, junior mints, Rollo caramels, etc. One of the most depressing aspects of the Covid monster is how it has cut me ( and my wife ) off from one of our strongest addictions. My wife went to two movies a week before the Covid. We had a 5 seperate film room indie movie theater downtown that showed foreign films and small budget films. She just loved this part of her life. Usually she went alone either because of my preference for more action type films versus her attraction to more thoughtful story ones or chick flicks as they say? Or because of my loud and distracting lip smacking and chewing and swallowing from eating my snacks throughout the film. We have been going through true physical and emotional withdrawals in this regards. Twitching, pacing back and forth, constant hand wringing, lashing out over minor issues. The movies on TV just don't measure up. And we've seen almost every film offered on the standard movie channels already. So, the other night in the middle of a meaningless withdrawal argument my wife just stopped and said ... "that's it!" We decided to pay whatever these gouging movie streaming drug dealers (Amazon Prime?" "Hula?" ) were charging to see just one new good review A-list film for once. We watched the new Tom Hanks film "News Of The World." They charged us $20 BUCKS! I had to curse at this con price. I yelled at the walls that even though movie theaters were close to or at that high price, at least they could justify it because of their overhead costs. Paid employees, equipment costs, building upkeep, utilities, theater and bathroom cleaning, etc. But I calmed down and resigned myself to this stick up as we both needed our fix like you wouldn't believe. I had my snacks but kept my chewing and swallowing muted and I sat at one of the farthest away angles to see the screen so as not to distract my wife's viewing. And we both really enjoyed the film! I think once a month we will probably pay this indulgent and unfair amount for the drug we need. I don't know how much the film studios make out of that $20 viewing fee, but if millions of Americans pay this, I think they can still make good money. I was hoping the producers of this latest Bond film would have cracked by now and allowed it to be shown via these streaming services. I would pay the $20 to see it.

If a much a higher technology advanced race of beings sent a probe through space, wouldn't it make stealth sense to have it look like a piece of rock versus a Klingon ship? And if it is an intelligent race deep space probe or ship wouldn't it also have to be designed to withstand enormous temperature, radiation and other stresses by being made with materials that could handle such? Hence an outer shell of rock hard material?

Hoping for better times under Biden.

Agree.

Never gave it much thought, but now that it's been mentioned, Michael Paine does have enough physical look similarities that from a distance I could see someone mistaking the two. Head and face shape. Open forehead, thin receding chin. Receding hair line, same color hair, shorter hair cut and similar skin tone. Same small frame body and thinness. Same non-smiling overly serious look and eye contact avoiding. Looks more like an older Oswald brother than Robert Oswald.

Typical terrible twos tantrum throwing Trump just can't help himself. Out the door on his last day in office he's dropping his drawers and mooning the American people with a final "Kiss My A$$" abuse of presidential perp pardon power performance. A disgustingly blatant cynical and amoral middle finger thrusting TAKE THAT act of pissed off pay back for him being denied his delusional demands and way. What a disturbed mind double whammy of legacy ruining conflict and chaos creating carnage the "fired" and disgrunted Trump leaves the American people in his last two weeks in office. An encouraged and promoted violent insurrection ( with deaths ) upon our own highest body level of government and sacred Democracy institutions. Coupled with a gut cringing coup de grace gaggle of gleefully granted grand injustice pardons to his most loyal perp pals no matter how egregious their crimes. What a magnificent send off display of ... well ... Trumpism. Goodbye Mr.Trump and ... "Good Riddance!" And please ( like the "Terminator" president you have been) ... please don't say that most famous line ..."I'LL BE BACK!" We've had enough of your unbelievably narcissistic, self-obsessed and mad with power constant conflict creating, nation dividing delusional nightmare. We all need a deserved rest to start recovering from all the "PTTSD." Post Traumatic Trump Stress Syndrome. IMHO.

Antagonism in the defense of libertarian debate is no vice. Or is it?

Think about this. Let's say Navy Corpsman medical tech Paul O'Conner just made up this story about Commander Humes complaining about cigar smoke while he ( Humes) is involved in the most important, emotionally intense, shocking and stressful event and assignment of his life. And O'Conner saying Humes told him to find the smoker and ask him to put this out. Which O'Conner says he did. Then, as if that JFK autopsy recollection isn't off-the-wall odd enough, O'Conner then "doubles down" risking his credibility further by adding on an even more bizarre anecdotal account of General LeMay not only ignoring O'Conner's stated Humes request but enhancing that arrogant kiss off by blowing cigar smoke in O'Conner's face! One has to consider Paul O'Conner's sense of self-respect and desire for credibility. Why risk that by making up a story like this that is so off-the-wall even O'Conner would have known it could have really hurt his credibility...if it were not true.