Putin The Fair-Haired Poster Boy and The American Psyche

Half the world hates him. It is easy to hate him. But as the saying goes, too much contempt brings familiarity :-)
Putin for U. S. President - I endorse!

Reality Check On Crimea

The West should redo its homework. Crimea has always been an integral part of Russia. It took a Ukrainian (Khrushchev) to transfer the peninsula over to the Ukraine. Since it was an act of a Soviet governmental political mechanism, it appears that after the fall of the Soviet Union, the surprisingly real-estate-like deed could be considered null and void. Moreover, Russia, the internationally recognized caretaker for all matter and obligation left over from the Soviet era, is the rightful authority on the disposition of the decisions by USSR's government. Then it makes sense that now, Russia, and Crimean Russians, have the right to decide the ultimate state of the peninsula.

It is also a double standard: the US has the right to put together a posse and invade faraway countries, but Russia cannot repossess its rightful possession with its own ethnicity. Not fair.

The poster is cute and poignant, but a reminder of fairness which Putin pointed out: during the most dangerous moments of Cold War, USSR (Russia) never used oil to blackmail the West. Unlike the Moslems with their petro-tantrums.

Area 51 on Wikimapia, A Test For Conspiracy Theories

By the way, I have stopped using my famous bots to fetch Russian intranet info. I have grown fonder of the country. I have called it as the Queen Elizabeth's imagined the Russians to be, the baptized bears, but since those times they have had Peter the Great, Tchaikovsky, and the space program. They are sssssmart and they like France! I admit, I like Putin and his sense of humor, re. beer drinking, Germany going from nuclear to burning wood, and the joke about the American surrendering to the KGB.

I wanted to check the proportion if not the number of gullible people on Wikimapia who look at the Area 51. So I signed in as a Guest and marked up two areas inside the Area 51, one that looked like a parking lot a Kukla Pen, and a hangar next to a dining area as the Moscow River project site.

Soon it got what it deserved. A Russian self-styled conspiracy expert (username FIJN) has compiled his opinions on my nebulous sites into his web project. I see from the latest visits that his comment was deleted.



I have dropped in on the Wikimapia view several times for the past 5 years, as can be seen from the comment window, and responded to the deleted comments (as Randy, Amalfic and others), some of which got deleted as well. So I decided to document my commenting, by grabbing a screen shot:









Of course the further explanation of KUKLA PEN as a CIA codename is also hogwash, but that was in response to several Russian comments indicating that the infinite subterfuge of the evil USA is capable of anything, and the world is going to witness quite a surprise of something military happening (think Matthias Rust) downtown Moscow.

These sites that were total spur of the moment decision to test the lunacy and the internet as a whole, garnered a plentiful harvest of search results which point to various opinions and sensationalism as well as conspiracy theories cooked with the most insane powers of deduction - just a sample:

Moscow River Project site - Wikimapia
wikimapia.org › World › USA › Nevada › Indian Springs‎

Revisiting Area 51 — Google Sightseeing
googlesightseeing.com/2010/05/revisiting-area-51/‎
May 24, 2010 – Kukla Pen building Moscow River building. Thanks to all of the many GSS readers who suggested visiting Area 51 again! For more information ...

Pen Kukla - WikiWorldBook
wikiworldbook.com/global-address-book/Pen-Kukla‎
Rivisitando l'Area 51. Di questo gruppo di strutture si dice che ospiti qualcosa di nomeKukla Pen project e in questi palazzi c'è il progetto Moscow River.

Boston, Israeli Flag, and Chechen Pain

Infowars-like scholars would say:
"Isn't it too coincidental that there were tons of medics and police on hand, and it all happened under the flag of Israel?"

CNN-like news agency would say:
"The fact that the Chechen brothers were involved in the Boston bombing and the killing of the MIT policeman testifies to the intolerance of the world toward the noble and freedom-loving people of Chechnya... having to suffer under the iron-fisted hegemony of the ex-KGB officer."

(Chechnya is just one of hundred or so Caucasus ethnicities fighting each other, Russia and Vlad Putin - ABC News.)

I said "I shall return", and I did.

I have been away, no doubt. I have had to travel and work throughout Europe and Far East. The most important thing I realize is that my priorities have changed. I no longer think the Russian Bear and Vladimir Putin are such an evil entities. I think Putin is cool, and the smartest political leader that has ever been on the world scene, and maybe the best Russian leader. I have built up more of data for this database, and will have to decide which of that data deserves to be posted here.

Letterheads of FSB's, Putin secret memos

The classified FSB memo with the keyworded, compartmentalized information reading list:


Quite some time ago I started getting comments of supposedly demeaning intent, caused by the truth on this blog hurting the ex-iron evil empire apparatchiks' consciousness. This post, for example, now sounds as if the rather brusque requests (if I was interested in having enough "beer money") came really from Moscow, NOT Britain. The British nowadays are mired in the permanent marshland of politically correct complacency, symbolic pomp and circumstance, and knifings by its baggy pants youth.

On November 12, 2008 I came back from a long hiatus wherein I worked hard, and provided sustenance for my palatial domicile and its dear occupants. I was also involved in tricky negotiations about Russian documents I have gotten hold of in the process.

Few posts prior was the distant July 25, when the BAE document caused upset stomach with the document's owners in Moscow.

The bottom line: I am not posting the documents in their entirety on this blog. I have sold them to a major news agency, though I can still show the letterheads on the blog. For those of you who contacted me by the comments that I never post, here are the rest of the letterheads:

The above memo is unique because it uses English in its letterhead, and yet it is internal, sent from the Lubyanka HQ January 17, 2008, faxed the next day, and its content points to interesting instructions regarding FSB-Administration-Diplomatic strategy of responding to the Litvinenko poisoning inquiries.

This memo of 16 January 2008 instructs an interesting interested party on the focus of Lugovoi-Scaramella angle of inquiries.

And the most lucrative document of them all - the one penned by V. V. Putin himself on November 26, 2008, about gas revenge politics (I thought he was the PM, and not the president already):

and I'm back by silent demand

I am back after a long hiatus which was rather fruitful. Many documents gathered, images obtained, lists formatted for blogging, and much more.

The Gazprom list is here, as the first installment. That post has been empty for quite some time, because back then I thought I had the list, but it arrived in a poor-quality hard-copy.

This time I have in my possession some more of Putin's communications, transcripts of Russia's naval operations, mysterious codeword texts, radio intercepts, documents that the Bear has pilfered, all ready for the prime time.

Any requests?

How you can never bank goodwill with bears

There is a lot of things abuzz both sides of the ditch. I don't mean the latest warmongering by Russia, or Georgia. There are reports that Selma on the Baltic is really abuzz for the forth day straight, because it is a military district and a base for naval operations. Russians afraid to leave their back door open?

Russian AGIs (SVVs) sailed westwards, as if the Britain's one-funny-cruiser navy could attack her. Or Swedish closed-cycle subs would launch heretofore unknown Swedish cruise missiles (probably and suitable named Thorstann, or Thorshammer),

My friends behind the bear's curtain assert that this no cover-your-back state of readiness. Really. the clsoest US aircraft carrier is busy dodging Iranian model paper-and-glue airplanes.

Russians, namely Putin, are exploiting hte opportunity in this turmoil, as most intelligence agencies THINK they are using their HUMINT, SIGINT and ELINT on catching whatever breadcrumbs that are falling off the bear's feeding trough. Russians are achieving their goals in Georgia, but northwards, in the Baltic, and in the Red Banner Northern Fleet's own swimming pool they are busy investing in their reaffirming their exclusive access rightn to the Arctic.

Don't forget Sweden's refusal to allow routing of the Northern Stream (Russia's northern pipeline) to feed the Europe.Besides the tit-for-tat diplo-military posturing (also keep in mind that Russia, as USSR and Czar's Empire has NEVER banked goodwill). Swedes were smart, calling Russians' intention to use the pipeline as a excuse to place SOSUS-like high-tech sensors close to Skaane shores. Russian AGIs, oceanographic ships (the academics) and, actually, the cable ships themselves have been spotted waltzing up and down the Bornholm corridor.

While Medved Prived is moving tin soldiers across the cardboard, the electromagnetic spectrum over the Karelia and the Eystrasalt (the Baltic Sea to the Scandinavians, or Vikings) is full of inteersting digital activity. I need to brush up on my FSKs and screenshot application, I means Fireshot, a great Firefox add-on. Thanks for the heads up through the post.

Secret status report

I have been really busy, more than I thought I'd be considering the summertime and the approaching vacation season. I have a lot of content for upcoming posts, the content itself not quite ready for the prime time, since it needs to be sanitized and the names of the innocent to be protected. You just never know where Putin's plutonium men will pop up next.

The visitor map is rather simple. More than have the visitors came from the US, and the rest from Russia and UK. Less than 15 percent remaining are random, or not so random hits from Germany and other European countries.

I know for sure not to post network host names that visited this blog, since it has caused some consternation that was beyond my expectations or aspirations for this blog.

Up ahead - more stuff on the BAE espionage affair, some more of Putin's personal, politically relevant correspondence, and other products of Russia's pathological megalomania.

Any requests?

Video identifies GRU generals

After a month long hiatus, I am back, posting, in the middle of a long and tedious project. What prompted me to post is an email from a distant acquaintance pointing out that several names on the list of GRU brass has appeared on this video.

See Ivanov describing what he believes is an ingenious security feature that refuses to let out a pass card that failed to lock an interior door, at 4:24 in the video.

My acquaintance says that these generals are identifiable in the video (some patronymics are not available or in question, as marked):

Васильков, Алексей Ф(?) -Vasilkov, Alexey F(?), visible at locations 3:19, 4:06,

Романенко, Леонид -Romanenko, Leonid, at 3:19, 4:06,

Гурьянов, Александр - Guryanov, Alexandr, at 5:13, 5:18, 6:14

Венгереш, Виталий С(?)- Vengeresh, Vitaly S(?), at 5:18, 6:14, 6:19,

Лыков, Роман - Lykov, Roman, at 6:14, 6:19

Гуща, Юрий Андреевич Gushcha, Yury Andreevich, at 6:14, 6:19

Головастик, Виктор Денисович - Golovastik, Victor Denisovich, at 6:14, 6:19

Долгих, А. П.(?) - Dolgikh, A. P.(?) location 6:54 in video (the lone general snacking in the background while Putin and Ivanov are picking out a cake)




Of course, your input is welcome - you can always leave comment as an anonymous.

compare with the list of FSB A-K, K-Z

Hutch's E-mail application

Associative memory brings back an episode of the Internet's nascent days, 1995-early 1996. Hutch asked me to accompany him on a electronic mail procurement mission.

We knocked on the door of a Palmer Park apartment walk-up, and were led inside a turmeric-fumigated abode. The Indian engineer, a software magician, was uneasy, since it became clear to me that he owed Hutch a big favor for an INS matter. Hutch asked in no uncertain terms if in a matter of three (3!) weeks he would have a program he could carry around on a floppy diskette (1995, remember? No sign of USB), which would allow him "to send electronic mail from any computer" connected to the internet and having a floppy drive.

And thus the Indian wrote the magic code. Hutch used it mainly at random terminals of public libraries. The peculiarity of e-mails which he sent was that the headers From: field contained a domain of a web site he had to be on to send the e-mail.
I remember seeing headers like

From: Curious George CGN @07.22.1995.politics.cnn.com

I think this was the coolest e-mail application I ever seen. It was just like my bot that has been working wonders for me, see Russian Torpedo, Putin's Letter, espionage search results, FSB Employee list, FSB secrets, and Bot writing.

Smoking Gun in the Russian Torpedo Intrigue

This letter might as well be the smoking gun that sets off all the alarms and sends out the message that Russian weapons are being traded on the grey market, to the highest bidder, which is Iran.

The most unlikely continuation of the Russian torpedo affair (originating with the VA-111 Shkval) can be followed to the most unlikely but logical location: the landlocked country of Kyrgyzstan.

Performing cursory searches after the last post, I became distracted with the tangential thought: for sure, if I launched a bot with naval keywords like torpedo, Norman Polmar, Putin, Iran, previously compiled network locations, and search algorithms for file meta data, I would surely find something more interesting. Translating the keywords into Russian, I promptly sent the bot on its way and instantly received a list of results that included this scan and a DOC file.

Discussing the finds with knowledgeable sources, I can state that the torpedo affair takes place in the landlocked country of Kyrgyzstan, where the former USSR in its infinite wisdom based a torpedo design bureau in the country that has no navigable waters, which, also coincidentally, is responsible for design and construction of high-tech centrifuges (Iran double connection!). After the breakup of the Soviet Union, the facility became a corporation ("Dastan OAO")

What is more or less clear after the in-depth analysis of the letter is that the letter writer, a whistle blower working as a software engineer describes intricacies of the torpedo software being the interest to other countries,and, due to the subcontractor politics, Kyrgyzstan's debts to the Russian Federation; and North Korea, India, and China being interested in the torpedo's control circuitry, some industrial espionage has been taking place in favor of an unexpected, high-bidder party, which is Iran.

The author of the letter seems to have alerted his country's military counterintelligence agency, which resulted in an answer (the image above) having an aloof, condescending, almost an informal, "thanks-but-no-thanks" tone. Business as usual. Back to work. Do not worry. Good man.

******

The letter to Kyrgyzstan's Military Counterintelligence Agency (use Google Translate applet in the upper right corner to translate the entire post into English):

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Я работал с октября 2006 года по октябрь 2007 года в Открытом Акционерном Обществе "ТНК "Дастан"(далее просто "Дастан") в должности инженера-программиста. "Дастан" - в советские времена назывался сначала "физприборы", затем "приборо- строительный_завод" и подчинялся минсудпрому. И в советские времена, и постсоветские времена, на "Дастане" делали в основном противолодочные торпеды, а также немного делали ширпотреб - медицинские центрифуги. Причем "Дастан" - монополист в области серийного производства противолодочных торпед(правда при советах на нем делали только системы наведения для торпед - Головные Отсеки). Сразу скажу, что за год работы на "Дастане" мне поручали делать софт реального времени(штатный) только для ширпотреба(для MCS-51), и я не имел служебного формального доступа к режимной(закрытой) информации. Но кое-что удалось тем не менее разузнать. Во второй половине 90-х, "Дастан" оказался монопольным владельцем конструкторско-технологической документации(КТД) на изделие "СЭТ-92M", название означает - Самонаводящаяся Электрическая Торпеда. Сразу отмечу, что в этой торпеде есть активный гидролокатор(входит в ГО, см. далее), а метод пеленгации цели - фазовый. Вышеуказанный комплект КТД на СЭТ-92M был продан "Дастаном" в КНР, а затем сами СЭТ-92M производились "Дастаном" и им же продавались в Индию. В торпеду СЭТ-92M устанавливали Головной Отсек(ГО) имевший идентификатор "Керамика" (такое название, видимо из-за широкого применения в нем пъезокерамических преобразователей: вибраторов-излучателей и вибраторов-приемников). "Керамика" была реализована на элементной базе, соответствующей ЭВМ третьего поколения - Интегральные_Микросхемы(ИМС) Средней_Интеграционной_Степени(СИС), то есть логика на 564(немного 533), а аналоговые куски - на 140. Такие операции, как: фильтрации(согласованные,несогласованные) , генерация , интегрирование, дифференцирование, компарирование, и т.д. делались на аналоговых схемах. Усиление делалось на транзисторных схемах. Бортовой контроллер не имел программного(микропрограммного) управления. По частично достоверной информации, "Керамика" была содрана с соответствующего Головного Отсека американской торпеды Мк43(или Мк44), то есть советы("Гидроприбор") попросту подобрали подходящую советскую элементную базу(на конец 80-х). К началу нового тысячелетия, ГО "Керамика" окончательно морально устарела. Менеджмент "Дастана" решил заполучить современную ГО, в которой и обработка гидроакустических сигналов, и все управление торпедой было бы реализовано на однокристальной микро-ЭВМ типа "TMSxxxx"(для тех кто не знает - это микропроцессоры класса "DSP"-digital_signal_proccessing). Но на "Дастане" не было специалистов в области создания софта реального времени для задач цифровой обработки гидроакустических сигналов(да что там задачи ЦОС, на "Дастана" не было даже специалиста для создания софта реального времени для систем автостабилизации - САУ центрифугой). Поэтому менеджмент "Дастана" заключил полулегальный контракт с секретной фирмой "НПП "Редан"(расположена то ли в Москве, то ли в ближнем Подмосковье) на создание вышеуказанного программного продукта.
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Исполнители от "НПП "Редан" поставили условие - штатный софт в файловом виде, созданный ими, НЕ будет ПОЛНОСТЬЮ передан на "Дастан", а всего лишь "Дастан" получает ПОЛНЫЙ штатный софт ТОЛЬКО в виде законченной прошивки памяти чипа ОКМЭВМ(в качестве ОКМЭВМ была выбрана ADSP2191 from Analog Devices corp., ОКМЭВМ - однокристальная микро ЭВМ). Причем, редановцы добились программно-аппаратными методами необходимого уровня защиты прошивки от неснкционированного ее считывания. Также, редановцы заявили(разумеется приватно), что потенциальным покупателям новой торпеды - китайцам,индийцам,вьетнамцам и т.д. абсолютно неинтересно "железо" торпеды, им не стоит труда быстро организовать массовое производство торпед конструкцию которой они могут попросту содрать. Покупателям пока проблематично создать необходимый прикладной софт, как тот, что могут гарантированно делать редановцы.

В настоящий момент, Кыргызстан имеет значительный госдолг перед РФ. В настоящий момент, блокирующий пакет акций "Дастана" принадлежит Кыргыстану-государ- ству. В течении как минимум 10 последних лет, РФ не отказалась бы от получения "Дастана" в свою собственность(до сих пор в РФ нет подобного предприятия), а в последнии два-три года эти просьбы-требования стали весьма настоятельными... В разработку ГО нового поколения(ее идентификатор - "Керамика Модернизированная"), "Дастан" вложил более миллиона $ US . Page 3

"Керамика Модернизированная", как и ее предшественница, осуществляет поиск цели, а затем наведение на цель активным методом: активного типа гидролокатор ПОСТОЯННО испускает зондирующие посылки, и ПОСТОЯННО(разумеется здесь под этим термином подразумевается в режиме разделения времени, как и у всякого импульсного радара) принимает отраженные гидроакустические сигналы, и ПОСТОЯННО производит ОБРАБОТКУ и АНАЛИЗ принятого сигнала для "выуживания" из него полезной(необходимой) инфы(спектральные функции и сигнатуры, временные функции и сигнатуры, пространственно-фазовые функции и сигнатуры). Это ОДНОЗНАЧНО дает принципиальную возможность ДИСТАНЦИОННОГО УПРАВЛЕНИЯ торпедой. ДИСТАНЦИОННОЕ УПРАВЛЕНИЕ торпедой, разумеется возможно лишь при соответствующей реализации. Можно предложить такой вариант реализации. ГО излучает периодически ТОН-сигнал(проманипулированная гармоника), и соответственно получает отраженный от цели ТОН-сигнал(кроме отражения от цели есть масса других, но помеховых отражений - реверберации, интерференций ревербераций, рефракции, дифрации, которые отфильтровываются в ГО в той или иной степени, и не изменяют сути проблемы) , если использовать манипулирующую функцию(а это дискретная ф-я) в качестве кода некой команды, то можно заложить в бортовой контроллер(в его память) некоторое множество "черных" команд, и при наличии в принятом сигнале манипулирующей функции соответ- ствующей такой команде, эта команда(из "черного" списка) будет исполняться. "Черный" список может включать например такую команду, как команда типа "меня_не_видно", или команда типа "пройти_в_стороне_от_меня" и т.д. Таким образом, чтобы пользователь торпеды был уверен в предсказуемости пове- дения торпеды, он должен проанализировать(проэмулировать) ПОЛНОСТЬЮ весь штатный софт на всем наборе входных параметров(аргументов) всех программ(подпрограмм, процедур, модулей и т.д.). В противном случае, он будет применять торпеду с "сюрпризом". Буду признателен за ПРЕДМЕТНОЕ и КОМПЕТЕНТНОЕ мнение об ошибочности/верности моих рассуждений и выводов по проблеме "сюрприза". Итак, ПРОБЛЕМА_№1 - принципиально возможен ли "сюрприз" ? Далее. Предположим, что потенциальный индийский покупатель осведомлен о принципиальной возможности "сюрпризов" в предлагаемой ему торпеде. Согласится ли он тогда покупать такую "шкатулку с сюрпризом" ? Поэтому, ПРОБЛЕМА_№2 - согласится ли некто купить серъезную партию таких торпед с "сюрпризом"(разумеется, раз употреблено слово "сюрприз", то это означает, что по крайней мере часть кодов штатного софта недоступна для покупателя). И наконец, ПРОБЛЕМА_№3 - можно ли считать, что какая-то часть менеджмента "Дастана" (или все они) являются агентами Российских спецслужб, или они всего лишь лохи(абсолютно некомпетентные в проблемах современных систем вооружений) ? Буду признателен за ПРЕДМЕТНОЕ и КОМПЕТЕНТНОЕ мнение об ошибочности/верности моих рассуждений и выводов по проблемам №1,№2,№3

I have omitted the whistleblower's computer ID and its network IP information.

Russian stealth FFG and other Naval deals

The Russians' cheap , but hardly a stealth knock-off stolen from US designs and Jane's pictures, Astrakhan has been sighted cavorting in the Azov sea.

Details of Russian military export deals are becoming ever more interesting.

For example, according to Hutch's sources, Indian Navy was so dissatisfied with the bargain-basement sale quality of Russia's Gorshkov, that the e-mail was written to that effect to a Ministry in New Delhi in English, not in a usual Indic. Russian' being their usual persnickety spooks, invested thousands of man-hours into their diplomatic attache intelligence work, to scoop up the e-mail. The e-mail, however, was subtly forwarded to Hutch's friends, who have also revealed that the Indians were markedly dissatisfied with the Kilo class SSK purchased from Russia for petrorubles from Mr. Petroruble himself, Czar Putin.

High profile names that caused Hutch to salivate was Alexey Duchovich, and Koshelev, their officer ranks unknown.

Putin's Exotic Tropo Site

This is the center for Russia's Tropospheric Radio Relay network called Sever ("North," ironically, it is truly severed from the rest of the country), near Norilsk. According to my source, besides the typical Gorizont-M and TP-120 systems , it has unique, custom produced signals processing equipment supplied by a group of military ("OOO" and "unitary") enterprises that also include the famed Tochmash of the silenced handgun fame.

The area is off-limits, though the landscape is too wintry and forbidding throughout most of he year, and its perimeter is studded with "photography prohibited" signs. The source says the military sections of the Russian radio spectrum are exceptionally active (thanks to Putin, no doubt) around the installation.

The center, despite its high security status, responds to anyone who knows how to exploit the tropospheric communications technology whenever the center's callsign "Луч" (LOOCH) is heard on its hailing frequency.

The installation and the network ares staffed by employees sent directly from the Moscow Electrotechnical Communications Institute, now MTUSI; Bonch-Bruevich Saint-Petersburg Electrotechnical Communications Institute, now SPbGUT; Minsk Radiotechnical Institute, now BGUIR; and Sverdlovsk Communications and Electronics Technical School, now UrTISI.

Che's hands still at work

We all know that Che is dead. It seems, however, that his persona is not quite ready to leave this wolrd, and I don't mean what is already found in the laudatory passages in Cuban text books and party banners. As far as we have known, Felix Rodriquez had tracked down and had Che killed in Bolivian jungle. We also know that soon thereafter he cut off Che's hands for positive identification. The hands might have been returned to Cuba and worshiped together with the rest of his body.


What I have been told by my source in Moscow (not from among the ones that provided me with great photo recce of interesting places like the KGB in Minsk , the French Embassy, a radar, and a radio surveillance center) is that they (the Ministry of Internal Affairs) have also
pilfered a supposedly US Federal document (assuming it to be FBI or CIA) claiming that various white collar crimes committed across the USA wherein the fingerprints wherever lifted were identical to Che's.

The source asked me in an e-mail (using a disposable e-mail service) how could that be.

I say it is very simple, knowing the crowd associated with Hutch and Felix Rodriquez. Hutch is notorious for having used the hands he cut off unidentified dead vagrants for high-profile break-ins, the ones that have never become Watergate Scandals.

Has anyone been able to figure out Putin's garbled letter? Since I moderate posting here, I will not publish your messages containing unsanitized information.

Russian list of US codewords, Putin's letter

In this post, new stuff that the bot fetched:

• Bits and pieces of a Russain classified letter
• Russian-compiled list of US codewords, for evryone's entertainment

The mysteriously delicious garble

I forgot about the adding to the post on the Russian Sigint station on Cuba, and sent out a bot with keywords in Russian (the list that was prepared by a good friend that speaks excellent Voronezh Russian (plus Chinese, Spanish, Tagalog, Persian, Arabic, Japanese, Hebrew [always a shadow of Mossad, isn't there?], German and Norwegian, has American citizenship, was born in a Moslem country and has a perfect Nordic look - all of which make his adventures fun and a great learning experience.

Thereupon I have opened the bot GUI, copy-pasted into the string window about 50(sic!) keywords in Russian, which equivalent to CODEWORD, SIGNATURE, PUTIN, IRAN, AGREEMENT, SECRET, GOLD, DOLLAR, RUBLE, USA, USN, etc (военно-морские силы, код, подпись, связь, валюта, соглашение, секретные)

The bot was out in the wild no more than 600 milliseconds after the 1.2 second it took to reach main(?) servers, when it returned (faster than previously, in the instances of the FSB Directory, or the first results) a harvest that included several raw TXT files, two of which contained live, classified content. First file name was IRANTRANS.DOC which, at the time, I had no patience to unbutton. I have copied unto here the only paragraph containing legible Russian material:

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the text also contained the only link next to a military unit designation ("ТЭЧ 979 иап") that pointed to this photo:

the link (http://scucin-avia.narod.ru/liotchiki/albom_kirichekvlad/albom_kirichekvladfiles/postrojenije-tech.jpg)

characters in purple are of questionable interest ("Marantz" could be intriguing, though: a modified CD recorder?)

пл.Восстания Vosstania Sq., a St. Peterssburg subway station 1
Васильеостровская Vasilieostrovskaya, a St. Petersburg subway station 2
КДПО a KGB/FSB uniut associated with border patrol
Петрополь according to my source - a bar near station 2 frequented by the SpB University's foreign language and middle east studies students
Дрезден Dresden - Putin's foreign service assignment?
КЗакПО,Ленинакан,18П.З a border guard outpost in Armenia
ГУК undetermined acronym
комитетчиком десятого...восьмого "KGB (associate from the) 10th...8th (directorate)"
10th directorate is uncertain, thought the 8th was the crypto and communications department
МГИМО the prominent Moscow State Foreign Relations Insitute
ТЭЧ a Technical Management Unit
Истихбарат Istihbarat, the Libyan Security Agency
ОАПО ПЗКПП ...o.СРЕДНИЙ a border outpost near Srednyy (no time to look up)
СпНГРУ a GRU diplomatic/intelligence/DATT unit
Дальне-Восточный,округ 55 отряд 7 п.з a border guard unit ID in the Russian Far East
105-й a KGB, then FSB or GRU unit associated with DATT service

What is this file? What kind of text is this? A garbled crypto, innocently de-garbled by the bot? Someone said that it is a garbled Cyrillic embedded into Polish. You can only guess. I will have more definite analysis of this material in later posts.

Russian-compiled list of US codewords

The second source's file name is FLOTKODOVO.doc, and it contains many of the codwords in ordiginal English.

After consulting with a friend who is in USN Reserves, I realized that the list is that of US Naval and Coast Guard codewords used by a US Joint Task Force (Four?) in the Caribbean-Atlantic. The Russians, or Russkies, as I like calling them critters on this blog, no offense intended ( it is my Southern charm background shinin' through), must have done a good homework of radio monitoring and put together this rather interesting compilation. Due to translation and formatting, it is non-alphabetical.

The Russian understanding of the meaning was very much off, for example, they could not know that BILLY BUD meant a situation where sexual crime was committed aboard a searchable vessel. A Russian listener associated it almost literally to a billy club ("битой" - with a baseball bat ?!) I s that how they opearate: when in doubt -fudge it?

Many of these were easy for the Russian to know/figure out/ distill out of Google, but there are things like BILLY BUD, where I provide the Russian interpretation and the real meaning used by the US:

RESISTOR сопротивление, resistance - no clue, actually: a non-cooperative boater
CAPACITOR конденсатор, capacitor - really: a vessel with a probable cause for search
DIODE диод, diode - really: Dead in Water, drifting vessel, no way on
COIL катушка, coild, really: suspicious
TRANSISTOR -really: passenger vessel
POWER SUPPLY - no clue, really a vessel with contraband
9-SHOT - неизвестный p. (unknown meaning, no clue) really:port turn
MONITOR неизвестный p. really US Coast Guard
OREO Russians have no clue, but it is P3 Orion
I/O no clue, but it is: INS matter
FUSE no clue, US Customs
BUMP "push", no clue, really: hail someone by a click of an non-secure radio
UTL no clue, but: unable to locate
LL no clue, land line
CAR-LEFT , no clue, - left sideband of CB, non-obvious way of communicating
SOS no clue, but, US Secreatry of State
NCIC "Mational Crime Computer System" almost right: National Crime Information Center
PCW Russian got it right, but it means more: a violation of Pemit to Carry Concealed weapons
PSTIM no clue, possession of stimulants
PDOWN no clue, possession of donwers,
UILT no clue, under influence of liquor or THC
SCARAB Russian:"designer boat", really an innocent boat running scared
CIGARETTE Russian: "designer boat", really a guilty, arrestable boat running away
POPEYE, no clue, but it is am exerienced/retired sailor/boater
BUG no clue, it is an illegal immigrant/stowaway/INS problem
RAM no clue, cargo hold
ROM no clue, radio shack, radio report
C-NOTE Russians: $100, really: 100 gallons. tons
K - Russians: 1000, almost right - 1000 tons, gallons
ANALOG -no clue, really a bulk carrier
DIGITAL - no clue, really a container ship
CYCLE - no clue, really a round trip
HIGHWAY -no clue, really a plotted course
ZIGZAG - Russians: zigzagging course. Almost there: suspicious, avoidance course
BLUE - no clue, US Coast Guard
BLACK no clue, USN
8-BALL - Russians: captured, confiscated. Not exactly: a shootable target
BEERFRAME - no clue, really a confiscation and arrests
PHONE - no clue, really a backtalking subject
CAPTOR - Russians" captive torpedo; really an ex-captain, -military, smart attitude
CAPITAL - no clue, really a captain's personal cash
XPIG -Russians, a very creative guess: an ex-policeman; really a ship's piggy bank
FLOYD no clue, Florida
GEORGE - no clue, really Georgia
SCOTT -no clue, SC
NICK -no clue, really NC
VIRGIL - no clue, really VA
DALE - no clue, really DE
MARLIN - no clue, really MD
FIL - no clue, really PA
NUGENT - no clue (funny!) really NJ
ROSIE - no clue, really: Roosevelt Roads
KAY -no clue, really Key West
MAY -Russians: Mayport Naval Base; really: Miami
MOVIE - no clue, really Hollywood, FL
ESTEE no clue, really Ft. Lauderdale (think cosmetics)
WINNIEPEG - no clue (?) West Palm Beach
CHAPPA-Q no clue (and no chance -editor) Palm Beach (think Kennedy)
VR no clue, Vero Beach
CAPE COD - Russians went for the obvious, but is is Cape Canaveral (think Kennedy)
INDY - no clue - Daytona
MAYNOT - no clue, though it is Jacksonville Mayport NAS
COKE -no clue, really: Pensacola
TSAR - no clue, though they could try: CZAR is St. Petersburg FL
GITMO -Russians git right, it's a no brainer, Guantanamo
AT&T -no clue, it is US BATF
MOUSE - no clue, it stands for a radar report
MODEM -no clue: a secure comm channel
ROTA -US NAS Rota, Spain
PHIBRON -Russians got it right: USN amphibious Squadron
DATT -Russians correct: defense attache system
SIG -Russians went literal: "signal", whereas it is USN NAS Sigonella
AISSO - Russians Googled it: Automated Informations Systems Security officer
WIZZO -no clue: weapons systems officer
TACO - no clue, though they listened to S-3, P-3 talk- it is a tactical air combat coordinator

You never know what these bots would turn up next.

Russians reactivating their SIGINT sites?- another secret list

I just played with the idea of sending out our spybot again, just for the heck of it. It came back with this wild and cool, NSA-grade material. Some of the bot returns is in a confusing encoding that would not paste here intact. I translated wherever I could, with the help of our good old military adviser. This center does not seem to be on the list, nor this radar site is associated with anything herebelow.

The bot reports of GRU units seem to be poised for activation, relocation or inventory.

The (!) GUDOK (ГУДОК), 215- or (в/ч) 34608 th regiment
309 ЦРПУ ОСНАЗ (the central radio transmitting center)
250 ОРТП ОСНАЗ ГСВГ г. Штендаль (the OSNAZ unit in the city of Stendahl)
GRU's БП630 and the 16th KGB directorate (управления КГБ). Some of our specialists says this is not ОсНаз, but a special СС service (специальная служба).
The following regiment numbers:
в/ч 51952 (in Nerastannoye, near Moscow, Chekhov region - Нерастанное, Московская обл., Чеховский р-н)
В/ч 61519 in Novosibirsk region, Новосибирск обл.
в/ч 61615 in Rustavi (Georgia?)Рустави (Гардабани)
в/ч 61330 Odessa, Ukraine г. Одесса, п.Акаржа/ Аккарже, and Ovidiopol (Овидиополь-2)
в/ч 61608 Tzaritzino, (Царицыно)

The data groups below is a result of the bot having converted a table to text, a la MS Windows.
The order of the data - the number of the communication center, the name of the communication center, the locale, military outpost/regiment/detachment number, the channels (ТЛГ/ЗАС/Титан)/frequencies, and activity notes.

215 GUDOK, Moscow reg., Klimovsk, 34608; 210,230,255,285,280 (training only), 220, 200, 205, 265, 260, 245;
210 SHIPUN, Petersburg reg., Gatchina, Tayvorovo, 41480; 215, 230,255
230 GRANULATZIA, Murmansk reg., Kildinstroy, 34630 215,255,210
255 JUMPER, Komi, Vorkuta, 34575; 215,210,285
285 TELEGA, Krasnoyarsk reg., Tiksi, 14145; 215, 255, 240, 220
280 NATRIT, Chukotka, Beringovsky, 51595; Channel for training, alternatively for the use by ZVEZDA
220 NAVESKA, Khabarovsk reg., Sergeyevka, 48260; 215, 240, 285
200 SPOLOKH, ex-NARCOTIC,Irkutsk reg., Oyek, 51870; 215, 220, 205, 240
205 GEOTHERMIA, Kazakhstan, Alma-Ata reg., Shengeldy, 48253 (86621); 215,200. 265
265 BEDRENNYY, Turkmenia, Ashkhabad reg., Geok-Tepe, 34639; 215,260,205
260 RAVNYY, Georgia, Gardebani, Kajory, 51868; 215, 265, 245,
245 PRIBORKA, Ukraine, Odessa, 42028; 215, 260, 210,
408 LAYBA, (ех LASTIC), Ryazan reg., Spassk-Ryazansky, 02565 Reserved for deployment during maneuvers at the range
240 GAZOMETR, Yakutia, 71300; 220-200-205
??? ARCHA., Kaluga reg., Tarus, 34080; Krug facility. Classified
270 BARCA, Cuba, Lourdes POBox 247, 54234;
??? SHATROVYY, Azerbayjan, Akstafa, ZVEZDA-controlled
??? TREZUBETZ, Moscow reg., Shchelkovo, 51428 The ZVEZDA center
??? ??? Petersburg reg., Pavlovsk, 86622 OSNAZ training untis
AVRORA (Аврора), Moscow, The УС ГРУ ГШ Center
OASIS, Kaluga, Echelon 2, KOMETA air defense-controlled

more of the related data de-tabulated, seems to indicate the current, pre-activation status of some of the above and other installations:

47 ОРПУ Irkutsk Оёк) в/ч 51870 - передан в "Звезду"
50-й ОРПУ (Тикси-1 Морская,) в/ч 14145 "Телега"
99-й ОРПУ (Якутск)
309-й ЦРПУ ОБКЗ (Климовск Школьная,50 в/г «Гривна») в/ч 34608 "Гудок" сф 51г (51-73гг в/ч 71513 )
789-й ОРПУ (Спасск-Рязанский Войкова,2 + п.Панино - полигон) в/ч 02565 "Ластик" сф 42г 811-й ОРПУ (Мурманск п.Кильдинстрой Разина,8) в/ч 34630
902-й ОРПУ (п.Беринговский) - передан в "Звезду"
-й ОРПУ (Дисдорф, ГДР) в/ч 33947 "Горка" - расформирован
-й ОРПУ в/ч 34635 "Грануляция"
-й ОРПУ (Гатчина п.Тайворово) в/ч 41480 -"Звезда"
-й ОРПУ (Одесса п.Верхний Дальник) в/ч 42028 "Приборка" - передан в СБУ Украины
-й ОРПУ (Торенс, Куба) в/ч 54234 "Тростник" - выведен в Гатчину, оперативно вх. в состав "Звезда"
-й ОРПУ "Охрана"
-й ОРПУ "Оазис"
-й ОРПУ (Воркута) "Джемпер"
-й ОРПУ (Ашхабад п.Геок-Тепе) - расформирован
-й ОРПУ (Алма-Ата п.Талгар) - передан КЗ
-й ОРПУ (ГДР) "Низина" -
-й ОРПУ (ГДР) "Марион" -
-й ОРПУ (Монголия) "Горизонт" - в состав "Звезда"
-й ОРПУ (Камрань, Вьетнам) "Восток" - принадлежал ВМФ,
-й ОРПУ (Рангун, Бирма) " " - "Звезда", расформирован
101-й уч.ОРТП ОсНаз (Павловск Обороны,1) в/ч 86622 расф 98г

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and this bonus is the Russkies' record of having intercepted a radio transmissions from a B-52 returning from the Max 2007 airshow:
28.08.07., 6761 кГц ,
18:36 Tuff 01 -> Quid 82 "I'm looking contact with Quid 80"
18:40 Tuff 01 -> Quid 80 "Arsp. time 17:00z, altitude 280, frequency 264,125"
11175 кГц
18:50 Tuff 01 -> Croughton "Dep.: Moscow 13:30z, ETA: Barksdale 02:30z"

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well, what do you say? I am not that impressed... because I am jaded. Putin asleep at the wheel? Would you like the bot to get his credit card numbers, or his Football briefcase combination? Does a Yankee White carry this for him? Inquiring minds want to know.

No Need to Go To The OPEC Meeting

The Queen's policy seemed to have worked, or even paid off when today's OPEC meeting turned out to concentrate on the problem of non-OPEC influences on the price of oil. Instead of the organization's mere discussion of raising or lowering production quotas, the oil demand by India and China turns out to be a more significant driving factor behind the prices.

The weakened US economy, with its chain-reaction effect on the dollar, and subsequently, the OPEC's member countries currencies pegged to the greenback does not bode well, neither the prospect of milking out an additional million or two per daily quota.

For those who remember the alleged SCS (the name is still media-defined) report that Russia's Putin was overheard discussing with Iranian and Venezuelan dictators the manipulation of world politics as a means to control the price of petroleum. Who heeded the report? The US administration is still hiding its head in the sand, or sticking to the lily-livered castles of the globalization, or its intelligence community is doing all of the above plus singing to the tune of the late CIA Chief Casey's "There are no Kremlin moles in the CIA."

The Queen was right in establishing the interim U.S. dollar as the currency for Attland, which was a prelude to the gold standard. That plan turns out to have saved us from worrying about the falling US dollar, the rising cost of petroleum and gold.

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