By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Life is complicated. In 2009, when Robert S. Mueller III ran the FBI, the bureau asked Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska to spend millions of his own dollars funding an FBI-supervised operation to rescue a retired FBI agent, Robert Levinson, captured in Iran while working for the CIA in 2007. John Solomon writes in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com With a new election approaching, the FBI is concerned. The FBI’s “foreign influence” task force plans to alert U.S. companies and the public about efforts by Russia or other nations to use disinformation and social media manipulation to interfere in upcoming elections, Bloomberg News reports. At the same time, the feds…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s no secret that Russia has tried to influence elections around the world for many years. But 2016 appeared to be banner year for the Russians when it came to the U.S. election. FBI Director Christopher Wray, addressing a crowd of about 150 people at the National September 11 Memorial and…
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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Mark Stephen Jimerson, a retired FBI supervisory special agent, died last Thursday at his home in Mitchellville, Md., from a brain-related cancer. He was was 59. In February 1985, Jimerson was assigned to the FBI’s Tampa office, his first posting in the agency. While in Florida, he studied intensive Russian, according…
Jeff Stein By Jeff Stein Spy Talk WASHINGTON — Two longtime veterans of the intelligence wars between Russia and the West say it’s inconceivable that the spies deported to Moscow Friday didn’t detect FBI surveillance years ago. And that, they say, could explain why the FBI never produced evidence in court that the “illegals” had…
