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applegrove

(118,965 posts)
Tue Jun 26, 2018, 09:48 PM Jun 2018

Nazi Sympathizers Want to Run Europe's Spy Agencies

CHRISTOPHER DICKEY, JOSEPHINE HUETLIN, BETHANY ALLEN-EBRAHIMIAN at the Daily Beast

https://amp.thedailybeast.com/nazi-sympathizers-want-to-run-europes-spy-agencies?__twitter_impression=true

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A slow-simmering scandal in Austria has brought into public view potentially disastrous divisions among Western intelligence agencies. As far-right politicians have joined coalition governments in Austria and Italy and taken ministerial positions in charge of security and law enforcement, concerns have grown among intelligence professionals that they will ignore or even encourage the threat of violent ultra-right extremists.

The extreme right is now in charge of the interior ministries in both Vienna and Rome, putting conspicuous pressure on the intelligence services. In Austria, there have even been police raids on the homes and offices of top intelligence service staffers.

Already, at least some intelligence sharing between Germany and Austria appears to have been curtailed, and the relationship between Italy’s extreme-right-wing interior minister Matteo Salvini and other major European countries is severely, publicly strained. French President Emmanuel Macron last week likened the rise of such populists to “leprosy all across Europe.”

At the same time, these far-right politicians’ open friendliness toward Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, the KGB veteran who may have helped some of them get elected, raises grave security issues for the NATO alliance. And the fact that right-wing U.S. President Donald Trump appears to be playing a similar game—trying to discredit U.S. intelligence professionals while flirting with Putin—greatly heightens the sense of alarm.


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Nazi Sympathizers Want to Run Europe's Spy Agencies (Original Post) applegrove Jun 2018 OP
We are under attack. Dawson Leery Jun 2018 #1
I can only imagine Putin's glee RandomAccess Jun 2018 #2
Nazi punks fuck off!!! Initech Jun 2018 #3
(Koch boy) Pompeo got CIA. moondust Jun 2018 #4

moondust

(20,030 posts)
4. (Koch boy) Pompeo got CIA.
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 12:50 AM
Jun 2018

He was only there for 15 months before moving on to State. Gotta wonder what he did while he was there and to what extent intel professionals cooperated with him.

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