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Kid Berwyn

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9. Craig Unger put the tradecraft into letters.
Wed Jul 23, 2025, 10:34 AM
Jul 23
About why Lana Pozhidaeva would “work for” Jeffrey Epstein:

She was in one of the best, most prestigious academic institutions in Russia,” said Yuri Shvets, a former major in the KGB who defected to the United States more than 30 years ago. “She could make a breathtaking career in the Foreign Office or in any foreign company working in the Moscow office. She would make a great career. But instead she goes into the so‑­ called modeling business?”

Shvets, whose work with the KGB entailed deep analysis of case files like Pozhidaeva’s, said there had to be a simple explanation. “Each intelligence officer operates under a so‑­ called legend or a cover story,” he told me. “This is like their official work history, which they show to the world. The purpose of this legend is to cover up years you spent training at the KGB or FSB.

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“Of course, we know what Epstein was doing with the ladies. But in this particular case,” Shvets told me, “Epstein takes her and introduces her to renowned American and international scientists.”

“How could someone as intelligent and well educated as Pozhidaeva become an activist for women while possibly seeking patronage from­ Jean‑ Luc Brunel and Jeffrey Epstein, who directed and participated in human trafficking and the rape of underage girls for more than two decades?”

According to Shvets, the only answer is that it all must have been part of a deliberate effort to introduce Lana to a network of scientists and to help her set up a charity that made lots of donations to companies associated with artificial intelligence. And that leads Shvets to believe that she worked as a penetration agent with the assistance of Jeffrey Epstein. “She penetrated the network in the United States related to supercomputer and artificial intelligence,” he told me.

Shvets added that you can’t understand the scope of Russian intelligence until you understand that Putin sees artificial intelligence, supercomputers, and control of advanced computer technology as Russia’s most vital national security issue. “This is, for Putin, as essential to the survival of his regime as it was for Stalin to get the A‑­bomb,” Shvets told me. “There are seventeen thousand Russian IT guys working in the United States, and a great number of them are connected with Russian ­ intelligence— bright people who’ve been working inside Apple, Microsoft, and other companies for years.

“For Russian intelligence, it would have been like a Klondike to penetrate Epstein’s network of tech people who work on artificial intelligence and supercomputers. It would have been the equivalent of penetrating the Manhattan Project in World War II.”

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https://craigunger.substack.com/p/from-russiato-jeffrey-with-love?r=d3y8v&utm_campaign=comment-list-share-cta&utm_medium=web&comments=true&commentId=137441330

Series! If Epstein operated freely in USA for decades, somebody somewhere has the goods on EVERYBODY. Barr!!!

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