TREASON UK
Guardian Cherkasov story lifts lid on UK Cop-Putin complicity
HOW RUSSIAN CYBER-MOB COLLUSION WITH UK SECURITY POLICE LED DIRECTLY TO COOPERATION WITH KREMLIN
CRISIS FOR THE COALITION AS BRITISH CYBER-COPS REVEALED TO BE NOT JUST DEFENCELESS BUT COMPROMISED
Almost exactly a year ago, The Slog revealed – I think for the first time in a UK blog, although I can’t be certain – the existence of three blag-and-recruit commercial and market spies working in a secure Chelsea House. I know the names of these people, and I know the identity of the man who employs them. So too do sports fans both here and in the US. The source of the story remains so frightened of discovery, all my attempts to obtain further details have since failed….although I remain in contact with this person.
Shortly afterwards, I made the acquaintance of a professional anti-cyber consultant who, for the first time, briefed me on just how small-time the Hackgate story was. It might get much bigger, he added, but celeb message hacking was little more than a nice distraction. He in turn introduced me to two others: and as it happens, a close friend I’ve known for twenty years was also at one time heavily involved in this area.
The area I refer to is cyber-spying and agent recruitment in London – both of which are designed to unearth market, commercial, R&D and military secrets. On June 13th last year, I wrote a Slog special based on this research. In that I quoted a source as follows:
‘“There are two reasons why the police are just about the last thing these people need to worry about. First of all, they’re spying on people who are almost certainly breaking the law themselves. So the police don’t get involved. And secondly, the police can be bribed”.
The bribery is often a two-way street, as the police need information as much as the hackers and blaggers need protection from the Law – and GCHQ. My source went on to make a prescient observation:
‘“From there, it can balloon very quickly into full-scale cooperation between the blaggers and the police.”
When it comes to the Russians, this has massive ramifications: because a large number of operatives engaged in cyber-spying are either former KGB officers, or still working for the Medvedev/Putin oligarchy.
Some months later, William Haig publicly more or less acknowledged the accuracy of The Slog’s allegations, and Britain’s pathetic defencelessness in the face of cyber attacks in all areas of public, political, commercial, and secret life. In that same month, I posted again about figures showing that ‘Russian stock trading in London has outpaced volumes in Moscow for 13 straight months, with the gap reaching a three-year high of 50%…’. I explained, again, the real reason why this is happening.
Last night, the Guardian’s website posted a lead story about London police leaks to the Russian security services. Precisely what I feared would happen has come to pass: as the piece asserts, ‘Now a senior employee of Hermitage [British-based investment fund, Hermitage Capital Management] who has already received a number of death threats from Russia – claims his family has been placed in danger by the apparent collusion between UK police and Russian interior ministry officials.’
The man, Hermitage executive Ivan Cherkasov, had his London address leaked to the Russian authorities – despite repeated and strenuous official assurances to the contrary. One document obtained by Guardian Group says: “Based on the information from the National Central Bureau of the UK [part of Soca – the UK’s Serious Organised Crime Agency], the above stated individual [Cherkasov] is residing at his home address [details enclosed].”
Effectively, the Guardian – it’ll probably be in today’s Observer print edition, I haven’t looked yet – is suggesting that senior echelons of the UK security police membership are no longer just complicit with Russian market blaggers: their lotech incompetence and desperate need for information has led, ultimately, to their recruitment by elements within the Russian Secret Service.
This is a disaster of huge enormity for Britain on both commercial and security levels – and a nightmare for Theresa May. For the Home Secretary who last week botched a grubby attempt to pass more snooping powers through Parliament is now revealed as not just in charge of anti-cyber police using bows and arrows against Scud missiles: there is clear evidence here that Russian recruitment and UK cop complicity in their assassination programmes have reached a level that dwarfs the Philby-Burgess-Maclean-Blunt spy ring of the 1950s.
Above all, a simple question is raised here: as a UK citizen opposed to Russian, Chinese or US cyber-penetration, is it really arguable any longer that such information is safe in the hands of the police, the Home Office, or GCHQ?
The First Duty of every Government is to protect the citizens’ State from foreign attack. There is no other way to express this: senior UK police officers – and by association, the Home Secretary and the Government – today stand accused of treason.
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