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Read our latest crazy story on the spy who was so successful at pretending he's someone else that the GRU "killed off" his real persona and stranded him with the fake one. From a fake environmental expert to a purveyor of fake news:
theins.press/en/inv/286477
theins.press/en/inv/286477
A champion like no other: The curious life of a Unit 29155 operative
Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia’s military Intelligence, the GRU, has dramatically stepped up its activities across Europe — from assassinations and acts of sabotage...
theins.press
November 4, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Read our latest crazy story on the spy who was so successful at pretending he's someone else that the GRU "killed off" his real persona and stranded him with the fake one. From a fake environmental expert to a purveyor of fake news:
theins.press/en/inv/286477
theins.press/en/inv/286477
More than a year's worth of investigation into the very Russian life of ex-Wirecard COO, and wannabe Russian super-spy Jan Marsalek: in English: theins.ru/en/inv/284980
September 16, 2025 at 2:37 PM
More than a year's worth of investigation into the very Russian life of ex-Wirecard COO, and wannabe Russian super-spy Jan Marsalek: in English: theins.ru/en/inv/284980
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❗A dozen knives in the back of the Islamic revolution: Secret FSB documents confirm Iran and Russia are waging a spy war against each other
A new investigation by @christogrozev.bsky.social and
@dobrokhotov.bsky.social.
A new investigation by @christogrozev.bsky.social and
@dobrokhotov.bsky.social.
A dozen knives in the back of the Islamic revolution: Secret FSB documents confirm Iran and Russia are waging a spy war against each other
The strikes on Iran by Israel and the U.S. provoked a critical but very restrained response from the Kremlin. On June 23, Vladimir Putin said the attack was “unjustifiable and inexcusable,” but his cr...
theins.press
June 25, 2025 at 11:35 AM
❗A dozen knives in the back of the Islamic revolution: Secret FSB documents confirm Iran and Russia are waging a spy war against each other
A new investigation by @christogrozev.bsky.social and
@dobrokhotov.bsky.social.
A new investigation by @christogrozev.bsky.social and
@dobrokhotov.bsky.social.
Only part of this is true. Please be careful to not spread false (while well-intentioned) information as it hurts real investigations in the future. The Russian with the "same password" is a totally random person who happened to use a very similar Gmail username. That password is unrelated to Gor.
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And why Rubio, Vance, Trump, Matt Gaetz and Rand Paul have all hired him for key roles and defended him whilst knowing he can’t pass the background check!
And why Rubio, Vance, Trump, Matt Gaetz and Rand Paul have all hired him for key roles and defended him whilst knowing he can’t pass the background check!
June 20, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Only part of this is true. Please be careful to not spread false (while well-intentioned) information as it hurts real investigations in the future. The Russian with the "same password" is a totally random person who happened to use a very similar Gmail username. That password is unrelated to Gor.
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The Plot to Kidnap and Assassinate Me
YouTube video by The Christo Files
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June 17, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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JETZT gehts los! Werde Gründungsmitglied von JETZT – dem neuen, unabhängigen Onlinemedium mit Haltung, Tiefgang und Respekt vor seinem Publikum. Wir brauchen 5.000 Mitglieder bis 12. Juni. Bist du dabei? 🚀
JETZT beginnt mit dir: www.jetzt.at
JETZT beginnt mit dir: www.jetzt.at
May 20, 2025 at 4:11 AM
JETZT gehts los! Werde Gründungsmitglied von JETZT – dem neuen, unabhängigen Onlinemedium mit Haltung, Tiefgang und Respekt vor seinem Publikum. Wir brauchen 5.000 Mitglieder bis 12. Juni. Bist du dabei? 🚀
JETZT beginnt mit dir: www.jetzt.at
JETZT beginnt mit dir: www.jetzt.at
How the GRU's Unit 29155 hacking department obsessed over @bellingcat.com, created the biolabs conspiracy and left their targeting server unprotected....among other crazy findings in this latest investigation: theins.press/en/inv/281731
Hidden Bear: The GRU hackers of Russia’s most notorious kill squad
Russian GRU Unit 29155 is best known for its long list of murder and sabotage ops, which include the Salisbury poisonings in England, arms depot explosions in Czechia, and an attempted coup d’etat in ...
theins.press
June 1, 2025 at 6:49 AM
How the GRU's Unit 29155 hacking department obsessed over @bellingcat.com, created the biolabs conspiracy and left their targeting server unprotected....among other crazy findings in this latest investigation: theins.press/en/inv/281731
NBC reports that, shockingly, during his latest Moscow pilgrimage Witkoff met with Putin and his two negotiators alone and without his own interpreter, relying - in breach of protocol - on a locally present one www.nbcnews.com/world/russia.... However, this seems half the problem (1/n)
Trump envoy relied on Kremlin interpreter in meetings with Putin to end war in Ukraine
Using the Kremlin’s interpreter was “a very bad idea” that put Witkoff “at a real disadvantage,” Michael McFaul, a former U.S. ambassador to Russia, told NBC News.
www.nbcnews.com
May 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
NBC reports that, shockingly, during his latest Moscow pilgrimage Witkoff met with Putin and his two negotiators alone and without his own interpreter, relying - in breach of protocol - on a locally present one www.nbcnews.com/world/russia.... However, this seems half the problem (1/n)
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Exclusive: Bellingcat in partnership with @tjekdet.dk , @politiken.dk and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) can reveal the identity of a key administrator behind MrDeepFakes, one of the world’s largest providers of non-consensual deepfake pornography. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/05...
Unmasking MrDeepFakes: Canadian Pharmacist Linked to World’s Most Notorious Deepfake Porn Site - bellingcat
Double life: open source investigation reveals Canadian hospital pharmacist's links to MrDeepFakes, the most notorious deepfake porn website in the world.
www.bellingcat.com
May 7, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Exclusive: Bellingcat in partnership with @tjekdet.dk , @politiken.dk and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) can reveal the identity of a key administrator behind MrDeepFakes, one of the world’s largest providers of non-consensual deepfake pornography. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/05...
Check out Episode 2 of TheChristoFiles series on GRU's black ops unit 29155.
"Arugula with a side of Novichok" - the poisoning of Emilian Gebrev. Just out.
youtu.be/Kix20ABpJQw?...
"Arugula with a side of Novichok" - the poisoning of Emilian Gebrev. Just out.
youtu.be/Kix20ABpJQw?...
Unit 29155 | Episode 2: Uncovering the Poisoning of Emilian Gebrev
YouTube video by The Christo Files
youtu.be
May 2, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Check out Episode 2 of TheChristoFiles series on GRU's black ops unit 29155.
"Arugula with a side of Novichok" - the poisoning of Emilian Gebrev. Just out.
youtu.be/Kix20ABpJQw?...
"Arugula with a side of Novichok" - the poisoning of Emilian Gebrev. Just out.
youtu.be/Kix20ABpJQw?...
How we discovered the GRU team behind the Novichok poisonings in Salisbury. A peek under the hood in the latest episode from TheChristoFiles youtu.be/z55R5PODC60?...
Unit 29155 | Episode 1: The Salisbury Poisonings - Part 1
YouTube video by The Christo Files
youtu.be
April 9, 2025 at 11:14 PM
How we discovered the GRU team behind the Novichok poisonings in Salisbury. A peek under the hood in the latest episode from TheChristoFiles youtu.be/z55R5PODC60?...
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Trump tried to extort Zelenskyy and was impeached – now he may succeed
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump tried to extort Zelenskyy and was impeached – now he may succeed
The Ukrainian president is expected at the White House on Friday to sign a multimillion-dollar minerals deal with echoes of a notorious 2019 phone call
www.theguardian.com
February 28, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Trump tried to extort Zelenskyy and was impeached – now he may succeed
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Just spoke at the USC inaugural Open Source Journalism Conference about the investigation into the Berlin bicycle assassin - and now there's a whole video that explains how the investigation was done. Check it out: youtu.be/Kl9aaCDSOzs
February 7, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Just spoke at the USC inaugural Open Source Journalism Conference about the investigation into the Berlin bicycle assassin - and now there's a whole video that explains how the investigation was done. Check it out: youtu.be/Kl9aaCDSOzs
I never thought that Pierre Louvrier, about whose deep connections to Russian oligarchs with GRU links I wrote 10 years ago (and who bluffed he would sue me), would one day pop up in US confirmation hearings. cgrozev.wordpress.com/2015/03/26/m...
Malofeev’s JV Partner Acquring Strategic Bulgarian Assets: A Risk Analysis
The following is an excerpt from a risk report relating to the intended acquisition by Pierre Michel Louvrier of key Bulgarian’s strategic telecommunications and defense industry assets. Ris…
cgrozev.wordpress.com
February 4, 2025 at 9:45 AM
I never thought that Pierre Louvrier, about whose deep connections to Russian oligarchs with GRU links I wrote 10 years ago (and who bluffed he would sue me), would one day pop up in US confirmation hearings. cgrozev.wordpress.com/2015/03/26/m...
Saw the world premiere of The Stringer - a beautiful and disturbing film investigating - and proving beyond reasonable doubt using #OSINT - that the iconic Napalm Girl photo was not taken by AP's Pulitzer winning photographer Nick Ut, but by a Vietnamese stringer (2nd from right)
January 26, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Saw the world premiere of The Stringer - a beautiful and disturbing film investigating - and proving beyond reasonable doubt using #OSINT - that the iconic Napalm Girl photo was not taken by AP's Pulitzer winning photographer Nick Ut, but by a Vietnamese stringer (2nd from right)
Here's a deep dive into the GRU bounty program that paid tens of millions of $ to the Taliban to kill US and allied soldiers in Afghanistan. youtu.be/FKgCr0Sj83Y?...
Russia Exposed for Paying the Taliban to Attack US Soldiers in Afghanistan
YouTube video by The Christo Files
youtu.be
January 22, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Here's a deep dive into the GRU bounty program that paid tens of millions of $ to the Taliban to kill US and allied soldiers in Afghanistan. youtu.be/FKgCr0Sj83Y?...
BREAKING: the House sub-committee on intelligence says "now convinced that foreign adversary behind AHI (Havana syndrome) incidents", "Intelligence community has hindered the subcommittee's efforts" to get to the truth.
December 5, 2024 at 8:44 PM
BREAKING: the House sub-committee on intelligence says "now convinced that foreign adversary behind AHI (Havana syndrome) incidents", "Intelligence community has hindered the subcommittee's efforts" to get to the truth.
And here's the text version of our investigation theins.ru/en/politics/...
Free Pablo and Fancy Bear: GRU illegal Pavel Rubtsov got a warm welcome home in Moscow by a hacker on the FBI Most Wanted List
In August 2024, the world witnessed an unprecedented prisoner swap between the West and the Kremlin: Russia agreed to release 16 individuals, including political prisoners Vladimir Kara-Murza and Ilya...
theins.ru
November 29, 2024 at 8:48 PM
And here's the text version of our investigation theins.ru/en/politics/...
Remember Pablo Gonzalez, the "Spanish" "journalist" whom so many believed to be an innocent victim of Western spymania? Well, the nail is on the coffin - or should we say the "fancy-bear hug" - proving he was a GRU illegal. Video here: youtu.be/Q-FUsXwCFF8?...
November 29, 2024 at 8:37 PM
Remember Pablo Gonzalez, the "Spanish" "journalist" whom so many believed to be an innocent victim of Western spymania? Well, the nail is on the coffin - or should we say the "fancy-bear hug" - proving he was a GRU illegal. Video here: youtu.be/Q-FUsXwCFF8?...
Tomorrow's Friday again and time for another "sloppy spy" story.
Make sure you've seen the previous two episodes before the new one drops.
Make sure you've seen the previous two episodes before the new one drops.
Get your Friday 🍿 and settle down for another episode in "The Big Swap" - The Spy Who Confessed: youtu.be/jFbjQswxch0?...
The Big Swap: The Spy Who Confessed
YouTube video by M4 Studio
youtu.be
November 28, 2024 at 1:04 PM
Tomorrow's Friday again and time for another "sloppy spy" story.
Make sure you've seen the previous two episodes before the new one drops.
Make sure you've seen the previous two episodes before the new one drops.
Get your Friday 🍿 and settle down for another episode in "The Big Swap" - The Spy Who Confessed: youtu.be/jFbjQswxch0?...
The Big Swap: The Spy Who Confessed
YouTube video by M4 Studio
youtu.be
November 22, 2024 at 4:36 PM
Get your Friday 🍿 and settle down for another episode in "The Big Swap" - The Spy Who Confessed: youtu.be/jFbjQswxch0?...
In a new "can't make this shit up" . moment, Maria Zakharova gets a call during her live presser today, and you can hear a male voice tell her to not comment the IBCM launch.
Is this another Moscow4 moment, or is it a staged poker bluff meant for the West?
Is this another Moscow4 moment, or is it a staged poker bluff meant for the West?
November 21, 2024 at 12:36 PM
In a new "can't make this shit up" . moment, Maria Zakharova gets a call during her live presser today, and you can hear a male voice tell her to not comment the IBCM launch.
Is this another Moscow4 moment, or is it a staged poker bluff meant for the West?
Is this another Moscow4 moment, or is it a staged poker bluff meant for the West?
Excited my kids convinced me to launch M4Studio - a YouTube channel to share the behind the scenes of some of my team's most insane investigations over the years - how we burned hundreds of spies, exposed implausible government plots and conspiracies, and leveraged new open-source methods to do it.
November 18, 2024 at 4:34 PM
Excited my kids convinced me to launch M4Studio - a YouTube channel to share the behind the scenes of some of my team's most insane investigations over the years - how we burned hundreds of spies, exposed implausible government plots and conspiracies, and leveraged new open-source methods to do it.