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Allegations on CIA prison near Vilnius still puzzle for Lithuanian authorities
Member of Lithuanian parliament questions allegations over CIA secret prison
Authoritative Russian military analyst worried about SVR’s subservient line
Supervisor of some Moscow casinos had close ties with Latvian secret services – Russian weekly
Ukraine says Russia's claims about Ukraine's alleged participation in Caucasus conflict is 'provocation'
Security Service of Ukraine to use EU and NATO experience to ensure safety at UEFA EURO 2012 objects
Former Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee head gave interview to Radio Azzatyk
KGB of South Ossetia: Georgian secret services are involved in bombing in Tskhinvali
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Allegations on CIA prison near Vilnius still puzzle for Lithuanian authorities
Russian TV channel for viewers abroad, Russia Today, announced it had found a possible place of a secret United States CIA prison in Lithuania. It said the detained terrorists could have been kept in a former Soviet military base Rudninkai, 40 km from the capital city of Vilnius. The TV channel did not mention the source on which the report was based.
«In a silent, light place, near the capital of Lithuania a dark secret has been kept. Just here, in the distance of 20 minutes driving from Vilnius, there is a prison in which supposedly the suspects were held and tortured», the Russia Today reported in English.
The leader of Lithuanian political party Frontas, Algirdas Paleckis, grandson of the Stalinist Communist party leader in Lithuania Justas Paleckis, interviewed by the Russian TV channel for viewers abroad, explained that the foreign policy of Lithuania carried out in last 20 years allowed to believe that such a camp of the CIA prisoners could be located in Lithuania.
Meanwhile the former President of Lithuania Valdas Adamkus declared that the report of the ABC News that Lithuania was allegedly used for a CIA prison, said it was a news for him, online paper Penki kontinentai notes. The other ex-President and Prime Minister, Algirdas Brazauskas, called the report nothing but pipe-dreams, according to the online paper, „It is the first time I hear about it. I was the Prime Minister then, however, I do not now anything about such things in Lithuania. Nothing but pipe-dreams.”
Member of Lithuanian parliament questions allegations over CIA secret prison
The head of Lithuanian parliamentary committee on international relations Audronis Azubalis today, on August 26, has officially distributed a statement in which he denies rumours about a possibly found in the territory of Lithuania "a confidential prison of CIA". According to news agency Regnum, the politician approves that at the parliamentary committee on international relations there is no information about ostensibly operated "secret CIA prisons" in Lithuania.
According to the parliament member, in 2006 a check was already spent and in the parliament then it was precisely established that similar facts have not taken place in Lithuania. He also noted that the committee has all tools for carrying out of the parliamentary control, but it will create a new commission for own investigation, only if there will be new, documentary testified facts.
"We are ready to begin check, it is not complex, but what for we should do it if thee were no new facts on the case. Give us serious facts, we at once shall start to check them. Currently it is nothing but "one old woman has told" and we at once should leave everything and start to investigate it. It is not serious. It is impossible to investigate everything that is written and spoken about Lithuania in the world,” Azubalis told the news agency.
Authoritative Russian military analyst worried about SVR’s subservient line
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Aleksandr Golts, deputy editor of Yezhednevny zhurnal, published an article on the contribution of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) to the country’s president’s recently declared “ struggle against the falsification of history” .
AIA already wrote that the SVR had issued a collection of declassified documents on the period before the WWII and was going to shorlty publish a collection of archival documents about policy of Poland, entitled, Secrets of Polish Foreign Policy, 1935–45. Russian intelligence has rushed to find evidence confirming the correctness of the opinion of the country’s top leadership, the analyst marks.
Golts emphasizes that serious conclusions can only be made on the basis of an objective analysis carried out by authoritative historians with access to all the documentation. “Unfortunately, the only research of this type attempted so far was undertaken in 1998, with the publication of the two-volume study, 1941, edited by Aleksandr Yakovlev. That collection included more than 600 documents from the archives of the President of the Russian Federation, military intelligence, the Defense Ministry, the Federal Security Service, and - of course - the SVR” .
The new book is not the SVR’s only attempt to play at politics. In 1995 it published a report called The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty: Problems With Its Extension, in which Russian spies hinted strongly that all the problems with proliferation stem from the position taken by the United States, according to Golts.
The SVR analysts’ recent conclusion that North Korea would not be able to create a nuclear explosive ready for testing and the development of a practical nuclear weapon is unlikely showed that they were just acting in accordance with a certain political line, Golts marks.
He emphasizes that by producing intelligence information that confirms the Kremlin’s political line “they are destroying the already minimal confidence that exists between the intelligence community and the political leadership of the country”.
“It appears the entire SVR is happy to do whatever it thinks the bosses want. This means that our country’s leaders are utterly without objective information about what is happening in the world,” the analyst points out with concern.
Supervisor of some Moscow casinos had close ties with Latvian secret services – Russian weekly
Still in the beginning of the 1990s, the secret services created in independent Republic of Latvia, working with the Latvian diaspora in Russia’s capital city of Moscow, employed the "checked up" Latvian natives in casinos and thus adjusted gathering of information on the Russian citizens who were interesting for the Latvian intelligence, Moscow-based federal weekly Rossiiskiye Vesti reports today.
At support of Englishmen the most prestigious casinos of Moscow, at hotels Metropol, Balchug and in New Arbat area, went under management of a citizen of Latvia Una Tomsone who began her career in one of the largest operators of casinos in Moscow, Storm International.
According to the weekly newspaper, Una Tomsone maintained close relations with a number of employees of the major Latvian secret service, the Constitution Protection Bureau (SAB). She was the person through which the SAB adjusted gathering of compromising information on representatives of the Russian elite among whom influential state officials also came across.
Ukraine says Russia's claims about Ukraine's alleged participation in Caucasus conflict is 'provocation'
Ukraine’s Ambassador to Russia Kostantin Hryshchenko said that Russia's accusations that Ukrainian military servicemen and members of the UNA-UNSO nationalist organization could have been involved in last year's conflict in the Caucasus are groundless, news agency Ukrinform reports.
“The prosecutor's office should resort to facts, but the facts point to quite the opposite. If there are such facts, we should be informed about them,” he said live on the Fifth TV channel, while commenting on a statement by the Investigative Committee of the Russian Prosecutor's Office.
According to Ukrinform, Hryshchenko said that he had several meetings dealing with this problem with high-ranking officials at the Russian Foreign Ministry, during which he clearly explained that any accusations should be based on facts, especially when Ukraine is being accused of its involvement in the Russian-Georgian conflict without any evidence of this.
Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) Chief Valentin Nalyvaychenko said yesterday that Ukrainians had not participated in a military conflict in South Ossetia last year.
The Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office received a respective request from the Investigative Committee of the Russian Prosecutor's Office and submitted the document for consideration by the SBU. The SBU press centre said that an official response would be made, and added that the response would “be based on the results of the checks that have recently been conducted - Ukrainians were not involved in a military conflict in South Ossetia last year.”
The Investigative Committee of the Russian Prosecutor's Office said earlier that it determined that Ukrainian servicemen and at least 200 members of the Ukrainian UNA-UNSO nationalistic organization were involved in the conflict.
First Deputy Secretary of the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council Stepan Havrysh described claims by Russia as “provocation.” "It looks like the Investigative Committee's statement was a quite expectable step in a chain of provocations addressed to and aimed against Ukraine,” Ukrinform is quoting him as saying.
Security Service of Ukraine to use EU and NATO experience to ensure safety at UEFA EURO 2012 objects
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) will use the experience of the European Union and NATO to provide security at UEFA EURO 2012 objects, the National Radio Company of Ukraine reports, referring to the SBU Chairman Valentin Nalyvaychenko statement at a meeting with UEFA delegates, representatives of the EURO 2012 Ukraine organizing committee and the coordinating bureau for EURO 2012 preparations in Ukraine.
The SBU will thoroughly study the activity of law enforcement agencies from leading countries in ensuring safety during the organization of mass events, receiving, assessing and analyzing information on possible terrorist threats, and introducing new safety standards at airports, the radio cites Nalyvaychenko. The SBU chief also said that respective measures had been taken during the UEFA European Under-19 Championship in Donetsk and Mariupol.
KGB of South Ossetia: Georgian secret services are involved in bombing in Tskhinvali
The State Security Committee (KGB) of Georgia’s breakaway republic of South Ossetia confirmed the fact of a bomb explosion in the centre of Tskhinvali, news agency Regnum reports.
The bombing occurred at midday in the central part of the city, news agency expands, referring to the local KGB press service.
Insignificant material damage was caused to the equipment of a mini-boiler-house located in the court yard of children's musical school, there are no injured or killed, the KGB says.
Secret services of Georgia are involved in the explosion, according to chairman of the South Ossetian KGB Boris Attoyev. He told Regnum that the explosion was "continuation of terrorist activity of the Georgian secret services in territory of South Ossetia". "We have informed that acts of terrorism have been prepared in the territory of South Ossetia.
The explosion took place near to musical school in central Tskhinval. „We consider that it is realization of plans of the Georgian secret services on carrying out of subversive and terrorist activity in territory of South Ossetia on which we already informed", declared Attoyev.
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Former Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee head gave interview to Radio Azzatyk
The former chairman of the Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee (KNB) Alnur Musayev, sentenced in Kazakhstan to 35 years of imprisonment, gave an interview to radio Azattyk. He said he had carried out his own investigation of disappearance of two managers of Nurbank and had come to new conclusions.
AIA wrote yesterday about a report by the Kazakhstan’s news agency KazTAG which referred to an interview allegedly given by Musayev to the Austrian daily Krone Zeitung.
The paper reported a version that it is the former KNB deputy head Rakhat Aliyev who had been behind attempts of kidnapping and assassination of Musayev in Vienna, instead of the Kazakhstan’s secret services. Musayev marked talking to radio Azzatyk that he had not pronounced such words in a newspaper interview. Musayev denied charges that he allegedly had bargained with the Kazakhstan’s authorities against Rakhat Aliyev. “I do not side with anybody”.
Musayev noted that he was interested in an unbiased investigation of abduction of two former top-managers of Kazakhstan’s Nurbank. In this connection he had directed a letter describing his vision of the case to Almaty city court of Kazakhstan in early July, with the request to repeatedly and objectively consider this case. According to Musayev, he had presented the corresponding documents and certificates proving that he had no relation to abduction of the two bankers.
Musayev marked that in the materials of the Kazakhstan court’s investigation there were strong evidence that Rakhat Aliev had been concected with abduction of Nurbank managers.
The former KNB chief stated that he did not know the whereabouts of the two managers and whether they were alive or not. In the previous interview to radio Azzatyk Musayev declared that the last who had seen the two bankers was the KNB chairman Amangeldy Shabdarbayev and the then head of the presidential administration, current Minister of Defence Adilbek Dzhaksybekov.
A few months ago Kazakhstan’s TV channels advertised and showed a documentary, Rakhat Aliyev: Destroyed Plot, where Musayev was also charged with the responsibility for the heavy crimes. It was also alleged in the film that Musayev got his higher KNB post thanks to authority of Rakhat Aliyev. Musayev named the documentary nothing but a part of propaganda campaign.
Musayev added that he understood from the documentary that there was an attempt to find a scapegoat instead of unbiased attempt of trial.
Musayev once again stressed that he was not an ideologist of revolution or abduction of Nurbank managers and he would try to prove this all. The former KNB head added that President Nazarbaev closely watched the power balance developing in the country and was afraid of strengthening of security forces’ activity. “Today it is unequivocally visible, that this balance is sharply broken and the security forces, first of all the KNB, have absolutely stepped out of the legal field and have been operating by use of power methods solving national security issues,” Musayev said.
Rakhat Aliyev, after several years of work at supervising posts in the bodies of Kazakhstan’s tax police, in September, 1999, became the head of the KNB directorate in Almaty and Almaty area. Since June, 2000, he simultaneously was a vice chairman of the KNB. Between May and November, 2001, Aliyev was the first vice chairman of the KNB. Then since November, 2001, he as the deputy chief of the Presidential Protection Service which since May, 2001, was headed by Musayev.
Alnur Musayev was heading the KNB between May, 1997, and September, 1998, and then, having served some time as the first deputy head of the KNB, between August, 1999, and May, 2001, became the chairman of the KNB.
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