Sergei Skripal

Sergei Skripal   (spook, double agent, triple agent?)
Born	Sergei Viktorovich Skripal 1951-06-23 Kaliningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Nationality	Russian
Children	• Alexandr Skripal • Yulia Skripal
Spouse	Lyudmila Skripal
Victim of	Chemical weapon
The Russian double agent at the heart of the Skripal affair. Possibly being held at an unknown location by UK authorities

Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia Skripal were poisoned on 4 March 2018. The UK official narrative states that was with Novichok, a nerve agent, although commentators including Craig Murray find this explanation quite implausible and there is speculation that fentanyl was in fact the drug used.

Career

Sergei Skripal became a spook in the USSR. In 1999, as a senior Russian spook, he was recruited by Pablo Miller head of British intelligence in Tallinn working under the cover of first secretary of the British embassy in Estonia. He was imprisoned in Russia, but released to the UK in an exchange of prisoners.

Miller continued to work as his handler.

Skripal Affair

Full article: Skripal Affair

On 12 April 2018, editor and writer Finian Cunningham warned that the Skripals had become "hostages of the British state.”

“Far from the Skripal father and daughter being the alleged victims of a Russian assassination plot, it now seems increasingly apparent that they are being held against their will by Britain’s authorities. In short, hostages of the British state.”

Fate

Unclear.

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Orbis Business Intelligence	“The @Telegraph story claiming a link between Sergei #Skripal and Christopher Steele's company Orbis is wrong, I understand. Skripal had nothing to do with Trump dossier. Skripal had nothing to do with Trump dossier.”	Luke Harding	2018
Skripal Affair	“Austria officially confirmed this week that the British Government’s allegation that Novichok, a Russian chemical warfare agent, was used in England by GRU, the Russian military intelligence service, in March 2018, was a British invention. Investigations in Vienna by four Austrian government ministries, the BVT intelligence agency, and by Austrian prosecutors have revealed that secret OPCW reports on the blood testing of Sergei and Yulia Skripal, copies of which were transferred to the Austrian government, did not reveal a Russian-made nerve agent.”		July 2020

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:British Skripal Narrative Fails the Occam's Razor Every Step of the Way	blog post	26 September 2018	Rob Slane	Occam’s Verdict: Where is Sergei? He’s either dead, or he can’t be prevailed upon to make a statement backing up the official narrative, because he knows it isn’t true.
Document:FCO Skripal twitter sample 23.3.18	Twitter roundup	23 March 2018	Chris Hernon	A Twitter roundup from II. The contents are fairly standard fare, but which users II chose to follow is very interesting, and some are indeed "other users in our field"
Document:FCO Skripal twitter sample 24.3.18	Twitter roundup	24 March 2018	Chris Hernon	A Twitter roundup from II. The contents are fairly standard fare, but which users II chose to follow is very interesting, and some are "other users in our field".
Document:Killing Diplomacy	Article	15 March 2018	Paul Craig Roberts Dmitry Orlov	Sane people will choose politics over war, and sane – that is, competently governed – nations will choose diplomacy over belligerence and confrontation. If we look around in search of such incompetently governed nations, two examples readily present themselves: the United States and the United Kingdom.
Document:Muellergate and the Discreet Lies of the Bourgeoisie	Blog post	1 April 2019	Craig Murray	The capacity of the mainstream media repeatedly to promote the myth that Russia caused Clinton’s defeat, while never mentioning what the information was that had been so damaging to Hillary, should be alarming to anybody under the illusion that we have a working “free media”.
Document:Probable Western Responsibility for Skripal Poisoning	blog post	28 April 2018	Craig Murray Clive Ponting	Those of us who have been in the belly of the beast and have worked closely with the intelligence services, really do know what they and the British government are capable of. They are not “white knights”.
Document:Reactions to the “Skripal case” in Greek newspapers	press monitoring	28 November 2018	Paschalidis Panagiotis	Analysis of headlines in Greek media about the Skripal-affair
Document:Russia Claims US Deploys Warships For Imminent Attack On Syria, Trains Militants For False Flag Attack	blog post	17 March 2018	'Tyler Durden'	United States-led coalition to "retaliate" for another false flag chemical attack done by the White Helmets in Syria
Document:Sergei Skripal - "I wanted a life outside Russia"	Article	28 September 2018	Mark Urban	Adapted from "The Skripal Files, The Life and Near Death of a Russian Spy" by Mark Urban, to be published by Macmillan on 4 October 2018 at £20
Document:Skripal Case Italy	report	25 June 2018	Fabrizio Luciolli	Conclusion: "To counter this Italian trend it’s important to properly address the key political leaders, their new populist parties, and key editorialists, by an effective, discrete and articulated information campaign and narrative and not to be exclusively focused on trolls and fake news."
Document:Skripal Case Study Discernment IFS2018	Twitter roundup	13 December 2018	Chris Hernon	A Twitter roundup from II. The contents are fairly standard fare, but which users II chose to follow is very interesting, and some are "other users in our field".
Document:The CIA/MI6 Skripal Conspiracy Exposed?	Wikispooks Page	16 November 2024	Kit Klarenberg	A longstanding Russia hawk who cut her Agency teeth recruiting spies in the Soviet Union in the years before its collapse, Gina Haspel twice served as the CIA’s London station chief - from 2008 to 2011, and 2014 to 2017. Sergei Skripal arrived in Britain in July 2010 via a grand spy swap during her first tenure, which was negotiated by Haspel’s longtime collaborator Daniel Hoffman, then-CIA Moscow station chief.
Document:The Salisbury Festival of Russophobia Opens Today	Wikispooks Page	14 October 2024	Craig Murray	"The Public Inquiry into the death of Dawn Sturgess, like the Hutton Inquiry into the death of Dr David Kelly, is designed entirely to conceal the truth and further the official narrative."
Document:The Salisbury Poisoning One Year On - An Open Letter to the Metropolitan Police	open letter		Rob Slane
Document:The Strange Case of the Russian Spy Poisoning: Sergei Skripal	blog post	17 March 2018	Ludwig De Braeckeleer James O'Neill	In any major criminal inquiry one of the basic questions the investigation asks is: who had the means, the motive and the opportunity? Framed in that light, the Russians come a distant fourth behind the other prime suspects: the U.S. and U.K. intelligence agencies themselves, and those elements of the deep state opposed to Donald Trump.

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