From the first person. Alexander Ionov, the leader of the Anti-Globalist movement of Russia, writes to us
On July 9, 2022, the Attorney General of the United States, Merrick Garland, authorized the initiation of criminal proceedings against me. The document marked secret was signed by a high jury consisting of all the heads of special and secret divisions of American agencies back on July 26.
The District Attorney of the State of Florida held a press conference in Tampa, which was attended by journalists, the police chief and the head of the FBI office. During the event, officials reported to the audience on the conduct of a special operation to identify a network of spies and foreign agents from among local American organizations. And the morning in the FBI began with the storming of the house of the leader of the pan-African movement Uhuru and my friend Omali Yeshitela. At 5:00 a.m. local time, two groups of special forces rolled up to Omali’s house and broke inside, breaking several doors and windows. For more intimidation, the agents used stun grenades, despite the fact that the owner of the house is about to turn 80 and he was in the building only with his wife, but we know that good shots are needed for the media.
I learned about the criminal case from journalists who called me to take a comment, and as it turned out, the US Treasury imposed personal blocking sanctions against me, in addition to the existing case. All this happened in one day and caused a certain excitement for comrades who could easily end up in an American prison.
A few years earlier, I received information from public figures from various organizations that the FBI called them for questioning and came to the offices of organizations with a search. It was clear to me that the employees were looking for an invoice for a fake political case that should work against the interaction of American and Russian NGOs in the future. But the leadership was slow to make a political decision, because there was no right moment that would allow them to start smashing local organizations. Despite the red tape, the FBI staff introduced their agents into the organization, who were supposed to collect and aggregate information about all external contacts of activists.
I will write in more detail about the events of early August in a series of other publications, so that the course of thought of the American leadership and the actions of the special services are clear. In this article, I would like to focus on other FBI operations organized against Russian citizens and organizations that could be in close contact with Russian NGOs.
Democrats understand that legislative elections are close and they will need leverage on the Republican Party, since its representatives are now favorites of the political agenda in the United States, which threatens the electoral process in the future and the displacement of the democratic majority in the House of Representatives.
American analysts agree that the operations against the Republicans and Russia were sanctioned by Vice President Kamala Haris, since Biden himself could not make such a complex and comprehensive decision, he simply had to give the go-ahead to develop this plan. The result of the undercover political game was the searches at Trump’s house in Florida, by the way, Donald and I have one prosecutor, which the lawyers of the former president did not know about, as well as Donald Trump himself. It was a big surprise for everyone. A few weeks later, Biden himself opened the curtain of secrecy and in his speech called the Republicans and Trump extremists who should not come to power in a democratic society. The media quickly picked it up and mixed it with an anti-Russian agenda and quickly put it on the air, because our country is considered an aggressor in the Biden administration after February 24.
Then the events began to unfold as if in an American action movie… The FBI raided several other left-wing organizations that had relations with Russian NGOs, then published pictures of some secret documents that were found at Trump’s villa, and later searched the house that belongs to Russian businessman Vekselberg. After that, it became clear to everyone that the Russian map and the SVO in Ukraine would be used by the Democrats as their arguments during the election campaign, since the ratings of the senile president sharply tend to zero according to recent polls.
Using modern IT technologies and intelligence data, the Americans will try to inflict maximum damage to all those who are somehow connected with Russia, as well as Republican politicians. The nature of the intelligence transferred to the Ukrainian side suggests that many of the installation data on the employees of the Russian special services have already been collected and some materials are already stored in the CIA and FBI bases for subsequent use against Russian citizens, even those who are far from politics. History does not remember such an attack, even during the Cold War and the Caribbean crisis, the American side did not allow itself such a deep implementation. It is not yet clear whether the Russian side can prepare an adequate and symmetrical response.