Spy scandal with Russians in America: episode of the new “cold war”?
In the USA, eight citizens were arrested, about which the local press writes about them as “Russian spies”. However, that writes this very press - later.The US Department of Justice has published scant information about eight “spies” detained by the gallant EFB officers. The main suspect is Comrade Alexander Fischenko, a man with a Russian passport. By the way, he is the only one of those arrested who is “documentary” connected with Russia.
In addition to Fishchenko - the founder and co-owner of the Texas company Arc Electronics - the FBI delayed and employees of this company: Shavkata Abdullayeva, Lyudmila Bagdikyan, Anastasia Dyatlova, Svetalina Zagon, Victoria Klebanova, Alexander Posobilova and Sevinj Tagiyeva. Alexander Fishchenko, Alexander Obosobilov and Victoria Klebanova are naturalized citizens of the United States. Their head, Fischenko, is a native of Kazakhstan, and in front of Usubilov, he had an Azerbaijani passport. For Americans, all these comrades are Russians. And once the Russians, then the American probability that they spied on Russia, dragging down the military-industrial-electronic-traffic-light secrets of the advanced US, is close to 99,99%.
In general, the FBI expects to hold 11 people. The accusations in the "spy" case brought by the US authorities against three more people - also, of course, Russian. Sergey Klinov and Dmitry Shegurov from the Apex System company and Yury Savin from the Atrilor company appear as suspects. The hands of EFBA members did not reach out to these people simply because the named firms work in Moscow.
They are blaming "Russian spies" for illegally taking microelectronics products from the USA to Russia, which allegedly are extremely interested in: 1) dark Russian military; 2) even darker secret services; 3) are very dark engineers and electronics engineers who are increasingly drinking vodka, eating it with pickles and tomatoes, rather than developing chips, chips, processors, eavesdropping and prying devices. What can I say about the dense Russia, if even the police DVRs are there, it’s worth only a priest to look at them, are they devouring viruses?
And eight, and eleven people America was not enough. The US Department of Commerce, not only with the filing of the FBI, is going to put under control neither more nor less, and the activities of 165 people and companies. In America, they can do this, yes. With their laws, they don’t need a reason, a hint of reason is enough. Only the "Patriot Act of the USA" from 2001, which is worth. This law provides a variety of government agents to exercise the widest range of powers: watch over bad citizens and non-citizens at the same time, get access to their personal records, monitor financial transactions, block accounts, get into the files with educational, medical, and any information you like, listen to phone conversations and read emails and Skype messages (which Microsoft has bought for a long time and with giblets). Demonstrators of any kind, from pacifists to defenders of ecology and animals, can get to the terrorists according to this act. Of course, the law will not touch the advocates of the rights of the Pekingese and parrots to the extent that it can affect those unworthy people whom the government has chosen to mark as terrorists or enemies of the state. Everything is there, there is no salvation. 10-20 years in prison is at best, and the Ministry of Justice can also prescribe a half century jail. So much, even Edmon Dantès (the future graph of Monte Cristo) cannot sit out. And the abbots of Faria are not found in American prisons.
And here is another legislative document - the authorizing act on national defense. This fresher, from 2011 year. He transfers all sorts of anti-state affairs in capable hands, for example, representatives of the army or special services, and allows you to completely remove the legal procedure from the case. What does it mean? And the fact that this law allows indefinitely to keep in custody any person, including an American citizen (especially if he has a Russian name, which itself smacks of terrorism and espionage, in general, a threat to the state). To imprison a person, according to this law, all that is needed is the approval of the American government that these and those comrades are terrorists. Desirable Russians. This adjective automatically makes a person guilty. “How - innocent? He is Russian. ” And in Russian, the default 64 tooth is in the mouth, and all are ground with a file.
Now the american authorities declarethat microelectronic equipment, in export of which Fischenko and K are suspected, can be used for military needs, for example, in radar systems in surveillance systems, guidance systems and fuses.
That's what it is said in a document on the FBI website: “The prosecution claims that from October 2008 of the year until the arrest, Fischenko and his associates received the latest developments from leading American suppliers of microelectronics and illegally supplied them to Russia. Among these developments are microcontrollers, microprocessors and RAM chips. They are regularly used in military systems. Many of these parts are not produced in the domestic market of Russia. ”
True, these "latest developments", that is, adapters from analog format to digital, memory disks and microcontrollers, are sold, as they say, at every corner. But the FBI believes that there are no such “corners” in Russia.
And if such a thing, then Comrade Fischenko could face seventy-five years in prison. His firm, "Arc Electronics", supplies components for traffic lights. But efbeerovtsy and there are not blundered: they said that the company - just a sign, cover, a legend to the scout.
And the aforementioned comrade Fischenko is so good at secret export business that he contrived illegally in 10 years put to Russia high-tech equipment, which, of course, will be used in this aggressive and dark country solely for military purposes (there are no other goals) for 50 million dollars. And in order to work easier, the Moscow company Apex System was involved in the scheme. Agents claim that the site of this company even had pictures of aircraft carriers and rockets - and now they have been removed so as not to embarrass the American democratic public, which in the face of the FBI agents in each photo sees the intrigues of Moscow communist agents planning to attack the state of New York the other day , drove there on BMP transit through the city of Houston, Texas.
How did the American agents find the site of a Russian company when they figure out the wild Cyrillic? It turns out that a letter to our “spies”, not from somewhere, but directly from the headquarters of the FSB, came into their hands - from nowhere. Russian efesbeshniki complained that here in the service, they say, the technique is out of order due to unreliable American chips and need new chips.
Well, the Americans could not get past such a clue. Both the chief and employees of Arc Electronics instantly changed the status of the suspects to the accused. With American laws, this is easy.
No, you do not think that the Americans opened a case just by looking at the aircraft carrier on the Russian site. On the "Military Review" are also a lot of different pictures (maybe they will get to us?)
The FBI presented yet another proof: that the bad Russians had long tried to hide the military mission of microelectronics. To get this proof, the agents, of course, used democratic American laws, giving them the right to enter into the life of the “objects” by the very least do not play about. In the dialogue between the two defendants, Posobilova and Savina, made public by the efbeerov staff, they did not like the fact that the first one warned the second that, they say, fishing vessels passed through certificates of use of electronics, and not those that could also be part of the anti-submarine defense. As if the Americans do not know that the Russians know how to fish with submarines! Especially good bite off the coast of California.
Journalists clarifythat, according to the prosecutor's office, the letter was from the 35533 military unit and was addressed to Arsenal, but Arsenal was connected with the companies of Comrade Fishchenko. From the prosecutors this letter is not reported. Not otherwise, efbeerovtsy firmly established among our ...
Dan Schiller from the Houston Chronicle newspaper (Houston, TX) right пишет about the "Russian military procurement network." He reports that the Russians have worked hard in the field of exporting microelectronics for the benefit of their people and to the detriment of the American people from the 2008 year - until their "train" was "derailed" by the brave US federal agents who found them, handcuffed and seized both their bank accounts and company accounts.
And here are familiar Russophobic notes from a US official. The head of the FBI’s Houston department, Stephen L. Morris, who, as it turns out, has been investigating the espionage case for two years, does not consider Russia to be a friend of America. He says: "These days, the ability of foreign countries to illegally acquire sensitive and complex American technologies represents a significant threat to the economic and national security of our country." And he adds: “While some countries are going to use our technologies for economic gain, many countries hostile to the United States are seeking to strengthen their defense capabilities and modernize their weapons systems at the expense of American taxpayers.”
As a result, Dan Schiller writes further, the participants in the case were charged with conspiring to illegally export technology, money laundering, and also obstructing the administration of justice.
Fishchenko is bad because he allegedly concealed something from the US authorities. According to the American authorities, he said that he did not serve in Russia in the army, but in fact he served, and not just in the construction battalion or engineer regiment, but in Soviet military intelligence in Berlin in 1980.
A certain Mr. Carson, who is referred to in the article by a journalist and who was previously listed at the customs, with pathos said: "Profits from the sale of these types of goods should never be higher than patriotism." Frost on the skin of these words.
And on the Houston Press blog. noted another American author is Richard Connelly, who cannot be reproached for the lack of artistic skills and lack of attention to details.
"Do you feel the refreshing breeze of the cold war nostalgically blew over Houston?" Where is Hemingway ...
This guy, without further ado, crammed about high-tech equipment destined for the "Russian military spy agency."
Richard Connelly points out that, in the opinion of the “feds” (agents of the FBI. - O. Ch.), Now the traffic light pretender Fishchenko may get 20 years in prison - for conspiracy to launder money, and another ten years - for working as an unregistered agent Russian government.
And here is what the US Attorney Loretta E. Lynch claims: “According to the indictment, the defendants entangled their activities with a complex web of lies in order to evade laws that protect our national security. The defendants tried to use the free market of America to steal American technology for the Russian government. But US law enforcement found a violation of the law and put an end to the network of the accused. ”
In the NPR blog, Cory Flintoff (Moscow correspondent) приводит the words of Stephen Blanc, an expert on Russia and a professor of national security at the Military College of the US Army, who says that what is applicable at traffic lights can also be used to control missiles and radar systems. After all, these are the so-called "dual use" technology. The Russian company, with which Fischenko cooperated, according to him, does business with the Russian military and special agencies. Also, Professor Blank believes that illegal efforts to obtain chip technologies from the United States are spreading more and more, and this has been the case for the last 12 years. In his opinion, this is an integral part of the policy of Russian President Vladimir Putin related to the program for the modernization of armaments.
Fishchenko, the author of the article reports, will be in prison for about twelve years. Meanwhile, relations between the United States and Russia are deteriorating. Russia expelled USAID, withdrew a license from Radio Liberty ...
CNN reporter Carol Kratti on a blog пишетthat Fishchenko and his people, according to the prosecutor’s office, were not engaged in illegal activities from the very beginning (2002), but only from 2008.
Molly-Hennessy Fisk and Richard Serranno from the Los Angeles Times tell About Comrade Posobilov, who was the first to appear before a federal court: there he was sitting in handcuffs, and still chained at the waist and in the ankles.
Judicial honors suitable for a Chicago gangster.
Journalists who are not inclined to trust the judicial and EFBER information interviewed local witnesses.
33-year-old Lance Carter, who works in an office across the street, said, looking with disbelief that this is all an episode for the movie, not real life.
25-year-old Dan Brown, an orthopedic trader, said: “It's crazy to think that there is some kind of espionage and treason, and that this is the most connected with Russia. None of us suspected. This is unnerving. ”
In the Washington Post with reference to the Associated Press is told that Fishchenko, a man born in the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan and graduated from a technical institute in St. Petersburg before coming to America in 1994, has an American and Russian passport and has traveled abroad too often to do business. He made tens of millions of dollars on exports.
And after all, what a weighty argument Americans found: an analysis of the accounting documentation, the article says, revealed "a striking similarity between the fluctuations in the gross income of Arc and the defense expenditures of the Russian Federation over the past few years." Right and said in court documents.
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Yes, by the way, there is informationthat the “Russian spies” also tried to get data from nuclear-minded Americans about nuclear weapons, American policy towards Iran and for some reason collected information about CIA leaders and congressmen.
Eh, they didn’t dig there! .. They collected information about the CIA, and the FBI collected information about them.
The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs commented on the situation. Comrade Lavrov said: “I can say that we are trying to figure out what happened: is there really a Russian citizen among the arrested 13? The Americans told us that 10 of these 13 people are Americans, and the rest seems to be from the former Soviet Union. Information in detail, we do not have. Therefore, I do not consider it appropriate to comment on anything now. ” A Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov сказал: “As far as we know, the charges that were filed concern several citizens of the Russian Federation. These charges, according to the information that the American side transmitted to us, are criminal in nature; they do not concern any intelligence activity. ”
In parallel with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed and a representative of the MiG corporation, which installs on its anti-ship missiles and MiG-35 fighters chips and microprocessors, almost completely identical to those developed in the USA: “We don’t steal anything from the USA, no stolen products and technologies on the MiG-35 not".
Observed and translated by Oleg Chuvakin
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