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Dragons, Russian hired puppets and unpresentables (according to Washington)

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Dragons, Russian hired puppets and unpresentables (according to Washington)

Bits of press and TV reviews in the tweets of Michele Arnese, director of Startmag. Special US memo on Russian funds to foreign parties and Draghi's words

DRAGONS BETWEEN US MEMO AND PRICED PUPPIES

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EXCERPT FROM A REPUBLIC ARTICLE ON THE US MEMO AND RUSSIAN FUNDS TO FOREIGN PARTIES

A mother dossier drawn up at the beginning of the year, from which a second dossier was given to the chancelleries of the most important Western countries. To understand the fibrillations of the Italian electoral campaign of the last 48 hours – which began when someone from the United States wanted to blow the embers of suspicion into a fire – it is necessary to take a step back in time and go back to seven months ago, between January and February. 2022, on the eve of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It is then that the National Security Council, the National Security Council that advises and assists the tenant of the White House, delivers a substantial report (the "mother file") to the hands of President Joe Biden and the State Department, which puts together with confidential intelligence information, open sources and data collected by the various administrations of the American government, first of all the Treasury Department. It is a work that has the ambition of drawing the map of the occult influence of Putin's Russia on Western states, including Europe. A paragraph is also dedicated to Italy. The warning to the Chancelleries Seven months later, September 2022, the State Department decides to inform 200 embassies around the world of the existence of the dossier. It declassifies some parts of it, to signal Russian interference alarms to the governments exposed. In Italy, Palazzo Chigi discovers the existence of the dossier from the American press. After two days of hard work at the level of intelligence and diplomacy, following a phone call between Mario Draghi and the secretary of state, Antony Blinken, today he will provide some certain answers: first to Copasir, through the voice of Undersecretary Franco Gabrielli. And then to the press, with the premier himself. According to the information that the Americans have provided so far, the two will say, there is no evidence that Russia has directly funded any political party or leader of our country. The classified document As mentioned, it all starts seven months ago when the National Security Council draws up the long classified report. Repubblica – in an article by Paolo Mastrolilli – revealed yesterday that it is a combination of intelligence information, diplomatic cables and open source news. Facts and circumstances are retraced between 2014 and 2022: American analysts line up a series of operations carried out by Russians in various Western and European countries. And also in Italy, which is widely spoken about. Our government has asked for an account in these hours, but has received a sharp no. Draghi also asks Blinken, he learns from Italian government sources, explaining the delicacy of the pre-electoral phase, but obtaining in exchange an inevitable: it exists, but it is classified information and therefore not disclosable. At least at the moment, it's the gloss. In the evening, the State Department also let it be known that "Blinken told Draghi that the United States is looking forward to working with any government that comes out of the next election." The public document But why then, if everything is secret, does the matter become public? It happens on Tuesday, September 13, when an Associated Press launch talks about the existence of a report (the second dossier, born from the first) in the hands of the US State Department that accounts for Kremlin funding aimed at influencing Western political parties and exponents: yes cite 300 million euros, spent starting from 2014 and merged into about twenty countries, including some in Europe. It was sent by Blinken to the American embassies of at least two hundred countries. In Italy, no one from the government has been notified. Gabrielli (Authority delegated to the security of the Republic) asks US intelligence to account for what is happening. The number one of Aise, Giovanni Caravelli, moves personally. A few hours later the famous note was notified to the Farnesina. It is a generic text that alerts embassies of Russian-influenced operations. It is essentially a summary of the classified "mother file". The document refers to twenty countries in which Russian investments have certainly been made to influence domestic politics. But Italy is not there. To confirm the truthfulness, the embassy deposits the original cable at the Farnesina, confusing the Foreign Minister, Luigi di Maio. Which talks about new files coming up. But in reality it is always the same: a synthesis of the original one. The political repercussions With the phone call to Draghi, Blinken circumscribes – at least at the moment – the effect of the US campaign on the Italian balance, a few days before the elections. The premier, on the other hand, guarantees the possibility of not having to manage a dossier – the main one – which could potentially involve leaders and parties. However, there remains a huge question mark around the content and strength of the revelations of the secret text. It will be the new executive who will have to work with this sword of Damocles pendant. Certainly ending up being conditioned by it, since it could be declassified at any time.

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/draghi-i-pupazzi-prezzolati-dalla-russia-e-gli-impresentabili-secondo-washington/ on Fri, 16 Sep 2022 14:08:58 +0000.