Russian Agents Under Fire: Thorbjorn Jagland Demands Accountability
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It’s time for another Russian agent to answer. Meet Thorbjørn Jagland, the Council of Europe general secretary from 2009 to 2019 and, according to correspondence in US Department of Justice files dating back to at least 2011, a longtime associate of billionaire Jeffrey Epstein.
In 2014, he traveled to Epstein’s infamous island, and in 2018, he introduced him to Putin. It later emerged that Jagland’s relationship with Epstein went beyond mere business connections—only a trusted person could offer to introduce the Russian dictator to someone who possessed information on the US president before their meeting.
Beginning in 2016, Jagland intensified his attempts to return the Russian delegation to PACE, which had been suspended after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Until 2019, the Ukrainian delegation I led successfully opposed this return, thwarting Jagland’s plans and those of other Russian agents, including the then-PACE president, Pedro Agramunt.
The Russians were only able to return to PACE after Zelensky became president of Ukraine because he opted not to resist the Russian lobby’s influence in the Council of Europe.
What it costs the deputies from Ukraine to oppose this colossus of FSB agents is a separate story. Each of us can tell about our price. I paid with my health. But now the whole insides of the Russian agents recruited through Epstein’s island are coming out. And I am very happy that Jagland will get what he deserves.
I hope the Council of Europe will establish a dedicated body to conduct a thorough investigation into the network of Russian intelligence operatives that has been operating within the organization for years.
Recall that in the published array of about 3 million pages of documents related to financier Jeffrey Epstein, the name of US President Donald Trump appears in over 5,300 articles, with more than 38,000 mentions. At the same time, the materials do not contain data on possible violations on his part.
By the way, the fifth President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, is mentioned in the so-called “Epstein files” 25 times. In the vast majority of cases, these mentions appear in news articles and analytical materials that were collected as part of information monitoring.
In the documents, Epstein’s interlocutor noted that “Russians hate Poroshenko” and suggested that changing the Ukrainian president could help resolve the conflict. At the same time, the diplomat expressed doubts about whether the newly elected President Volodymyr Zelensky could govern the country effectively.
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