There's lots of people working for NATO and federal agencies in Europe that have been assassinated by the luckystrike branch of the FSB. The name comes from the Telegram account with underscores in between, and they're essentially recruiting kids or former inmates for GTA style missions.

Starts with simple stuff like package rerouting, then goes on to gathering intel about places, people, putting in USB flash drives to their laptops, theft, death threats, arsony, and actual murder. Each step of the way the kids get deeper into trouble because they have to prove that they have done it for the payout, making photos of themselves... which gives the other end increasingly more doxxing material on them.

It's a real problem, and they use the luckystrike branch also to go after witnesses in big lawsuit cases, which then fall off due to all witnesses accidentally dying under seemingly random causes.

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Loquebantur 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

What gets overlooked here is the US IC itself being a probable cause: the habit of "housecleaning" by killing individuals suspected to be possible (even only prospective) leaks of information is very real.

The recent cluster of weird deaths and disappearances of scientists linked to secret military research has a similar pattern to it: a statistically highly unlikely density of "suicides, accidents & mishaps".

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strictnein an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> "is very real"

Except it's not.

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quickthrowman 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> The recent cluster of weird deaths and disappearances of scientists linked to secret military research has a similar pattern to it

The pattern being that the deaths and disappearances among people with top secret clearances is lower than the national average would suggest.

> According to science writer Mick West, more than 700,000 people work in top-secret-cleared positions in the U.S. aerospace and nuclear sectors. When viewed against existing mortality rates and causes, this would suggest around 250 persons in the industry would normally succumb to homicides and suicides over the time-period during which the 10 or 11 alleged "missing scientists" had died or disappeared, with thousands more dying of natural causes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_scientists_conspiracy_...

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SubiculumCode 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If so, then the family members of the president are in danger!

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XorNot 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You have absolutely no information on whether this is probable or likely, and the recent news on scientists was a conspiracy theory powered as usual by a cherry picking facts and exaggerating biographies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_scientists_conspiracy_...

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wbl 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The US doesn't even kill foreign leaders. Our intelligence service doesn't have the skills or appetite, let alone citizens. The resulting scandal would make the Church commission look like nothing, not to mention the impact on recruitment.

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TheMayorOfDunce an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Surely you've reached the conclusion by now that "resulting scandal" no longer steers policy, or even any noteworthy degree of public outrage.

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a2800276 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes, they only kill random fishermen in the Caribbean, foreign leaders get kidnapped and tried in kangaroo courts. Except Iranian leaders, those do get killed. But that's just the last 6 months.

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wbl an hour ago | parent [-]

Those were military not CIA. The distinction really matters!

	▲	krapp 17 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		>The distinction really matters! to whom?

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breppp an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Haven't found a lot about it online, other than https://www.polskieradio.pl/395/7786/artykul/3438674,russian...

Do you have any references about it?

This is very reminiscent of Iranian intelligence modus operandi in Israel and world wide lately, currently with not a lot to show for

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/06/how-iran-sough...

	▲	cookiengineer 40 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> Do you have any references about it? Before someone from the US claims some leftist bullshit about this (as this is what Russian bots typically do), here's a mix of newspapers including more right/conservative ones: - https://www.blick.ch/schweiz/polizei-warnt-eltern-teenies-we... - https://www.mdr.de/ratgeber/finanzen/telegram-gruppe-jobange... - https://www.sicher-im-netz.de/europol-warnt-kriminelle-rekru... - https://www.fr.ch/de/sjsd/pol/news/die-kantonspolizei-freibu... - https://www.bild.de/politik/ausland-und-internationales/euro... - https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/euro... - https://www.dutchnews.nl/2026/04/teenagers-being-recruited-b... - https://nltimes.nl/2026/04/29/europol-children-recruited-vio... Also check netzpolitik and other CCC-related media outlets, there's been extensive research about this topic from us. (Didn't want to post articles where I've personally been involved, but you can find them easily with similar search keywords.)