The Russian Mental Paradox – Aircraft Carriers & Honey Trap Hoochie Mama Spies

Admiral Kuznetsov, the only Russian Navy Aircraft Carrier

First, we have the vessel of perpetual neschast’ye (bad luck), that runs on mazut, a heavy, nasty, viscous black oil that has the Admiral Kuznetsov chugging clouds of dark, menacing exhaust wherever it goes and that is not very far.

There is always a question we get about Russia’s military that seems consistent: why doesn’t the Russian Navy have a lot of powerful aircraft carriers like other great powers like China and the United States? That is a good question. Sadly Russia has had a lot of problems building and maintaining carriers and only has one left: 

So many jokes could be made about Russia’s Navy’s flagship aircraft cruiser Admiral Flota Sovetskogo Soyuza Kuznetsov – or Admiral Kuznetsov, for short – that most comedians would run out of time before they ever ran out of material. The cursed carrier has been plagued with endless problems, and it is unclear when – or even if – the Cold War-era warship will ever return to service.

What wasn’t a laughing matter is that in late 2011, some United States Navy officials feared the carrier would sink in the Mediterranean Sea as she struggled during her only fourth deployment from her northern base to reach Russia’s naval facilities in Syria. The concern was reportedly so great that the United States Navy’s Sixth Fleet was even tasked with maintaining contact in case the carrier floundered.

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Delving further into the Russian mind, we bring you the complex story of the peripatetic, young and fetching Maria Adela Kuhfeldt Rivera aka Olga Kolobova.

She pretended to be a jewelry designer, socialite from Latin America, and nightclub owner. It was only natural to be drawn to Maria Adela Kuhfeldt Rivera’s attractive appearance. One of her fans, a NATO employee based in Naples, Italy, even claimed to having a brief love relationship with her.

But one day Maria abruptly left them all, leaving a mysterious note that seemed to indicate her cancer was the reason for her hasty departure. It turns out that was untrue.

A team of online data sleuths discovered that Maria, alias Olga Kolobova, was a Russian spy who was able to charm her way into the highest levels of NATO in Italy. Back in 2006, Maria entered the murky world of espionage.

Maria was allegedly a GRU “illegal” according to a joint investigation conducted over ten months by the Netherlands-based Bellingcat and media organizations like The Insider in Russia, La Repubblica in Italy, and Der Spiegel in Germany.

Olga was a busy girl,

Maria had used that cover to travel on a number of Russian passports, stopping in Paris, Rome, and Malta before settling in Naples, where she gained access to the highest levels of NATO’s Allied Joint Force Command. She was able to access databases, private legal documents, and images taken on NATO facilities.

All the billions of dollars spent by Western intelligence services were wasted while this woman partied and indulged in sexual dalliances with NATO and US Naval personnel to gain access to critical data for the Putin’s regime.

Remember, it was private cyber sleuths working on their own time and money who blew poor Olga’s cover.  It should be a source of concern for everyone.

According to the report, Maria’s passport blew her cover. Her passport information was close to that of two other GRU undercover spies, “Ruslan Boshirov” and “Alexander Petrov,” who were charged with the 2018 poisoning of British double spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in England.

The military intelligence service of Russia is known to provide its agents sequentially numbered passports. Investigative journalists have been able to identify the spies as a result, according to Bellingcat, by “simply tracing such batches of numbers” from “data commonly leaked onto the country’s black market.”

Sequentially numbered passports ?!!?  Really, who does something that amateurish ?  The Russians can recruit and train beautiful, diabolical women and create fantastical fake biographies for them, but they give their covert spies sequentially numbered passports ?  It’s hard to believe.  What is it with these Russians ?