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The whole story of Polymeropoulos' visit to Russia is pretty odd even aside from his strange symptoms and the apparent attack. https://www.gq.com/story/cia-inve
by leoc 5y ago
The whole story of Polymeropoulos' visit to Russia is pretty odd even aside from his strange symptoms and the apparent attack. https://www.gq.com/story/cia-investigation-and-russian-microwave-attacks https://www.gq.com/story/cia-investigation-and-russian-micro... It sounds more than a bit like the farcical UK police visit to Moscow to investigate Alexander Litvinenko's poisoning https://news.sky.com/story/skripal-poisoning-police-must-be-prepared-for-obstruction-in-russia-11391520 https://news.sky.com/story/skripal-poisoning-police-must-be-... , which also saw the investigators becoming mysteriously unwell https://www.itv.com/news/2017-04-12/british-detective-i-was-poisoned-investigating-litvinenko-murder https://www.itv.com/news/2017-04-12/british-detective-i-was-... . Of course Cameron's UK government was reportedly not really that keen on having to do much about Russian espionage in the UK. You'd have to wonder if the Trump administration was likewise not really all that firmly behind the people they send to Moscow, or if the CIA's Russia experts saw trouble coming and managed to duck out of the asssignment, or perhaps both.
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