Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin is among those killed in a plane crash from Moscow to St. Petersburg, Russian officials said on Wednesday. Prigozhin’s group launched what appeared to be an aborted coup against president Vladimir Putin in June. A private jet carrying Prigozhin crashed on Wednesday in Russia’s Tver …
Read More »Police Raid on Kansas Newspaper Wasn’t Meant to Uncover a Crime, Publisher Says: ‘They Wanted to Intimidate Us’
by Susan Katz Keating Police who raided a small town Kansas newspaper this month were focused more on intimidation than on investigating an alleged crime, the publisher told Soldier of Fortune. “They didn’t really look for what they said they were looking for,” said Eric Meyer, the publisher and editor …
Read More »Police Must Return Items Seized From Kansas Newspaper
A search warrant that set the stage for the controversial police raid of a Kansas newspaper last Friday was withdrawn on Wednesday and all of the items that were seized will now be returned. The withdrawal comes a few days after the Kansas Bureau of Investigation took over the investigation that led …
Read More »Iran Will Have Full Use of Hostage Funds, Tehran Says, Contradicting State Department
by Susan Katz Keating Tehran will have unrestricted control of assets that are being unfrozen as part of a deal to release five American citizens who will remain captive until all assets are released, according to the Foreign Ministry of Iran. “Iran will determine how to use these assets, and …
Read More »EXCLUSIVE: Secret Service Told Joe Biden Who Brought Cocaine Into White House, Sources Say
by Susan Katz Keating The Secret Service told President Joe Biden the name of the person who brought a packet of cocaine into the White House last month, according to three security sources with direct knowledge of the incident. All three sources independently told Soldier of Fortune the same name, …
Read More »Miami Police Give Rifles and Pistols to Ukraine
The Miami Police Department this week gave a trove of civilian rifles and pistols to Ukraine, after obtaining the weapons during a gun buy-back. The shipment comes in the wake of a move by the city of Phoenix, Arizona, to give confiscated weapons to Ukraine. READ MORE: City of Phoenix …
Read More »Bergdahl Case a ‘Pattern of Whitewash’: Lawmakers Want New Trial, Soldiers Angry After Judge Tosses Desertion Conviction
by Susan Katz Keating “I don’t understand this,” said former Army Sergeant Jon Morita, whose Infantry team was attacked while trying to find Bergdahl. “I’m trying to read all this legal shit, and it doesn’t make sense.” Five lawmakers who served in the U.S. military have urged the departments of …
Read More »US Government Surveillance Vehicles Staked Out My Locales: Key Security Source
by Susan Katz Keating A well-placed source with key information on current security events says that a U.S. government surveillance vehicle staked out his locale in Maryland on July 27. The source photographed the vehicle, which was the second time that he has logged in his locale a government scout …
Read More »Who Stashed Cocaine Inside the White House? ‘It Wasn’t Hunter’
by Susan Katz Keating The cocaine packet that was found this month inside the White House was handled by someone in the Biden family orbit – but not the First Son, sources told me. “It wasn’t Hunter,” according to a security contact with direct knowledge of the investigation. READ MORE: …
Read More »White House Cocaine Probe: Questions for the FBI
by Susan Katz Keating The investigation is closed, but questions remain. Soldier of Fortune reported last week that according to sources with direct knowledge of the investigation, officials know who touched a packet of cocaine that was found July 2 inside the White House. The Secret Service says there is …
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