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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Paul Whelan case is not as straight forward as the press and right makes it out to be. I do not think he was a US spy but might have been doing some corporate spying. If you look into his back ground lots of flags pop up.

Canadian-born former United States Marine(reserves). Court martialed for attempted larceny, three specifications of dereliction of duty, making a false official statement, wrongfully using another’s social security number, and ten specifications of making and uttering checks without having sufficient funds in his account for payment. Was sentenced to 60 days restriction, reduction to pay grade E-4, and a bad conduct discharge, dishonorably discharged. He has U.S., British, and Irish citizenship.

He said he worked in law enforcement by the places he said he worked have no records of his employment. Whelan said in a deposition in 2013 that he holds a bachelor's degree in criminal justice and an MBA degree. He took courses at Northern Michigan University from fall 1988 to fall 1990 without earning a degree.

[quote]On December 28, 2018, Whelan was arrested in the Moscow area by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), which later confirmed his arrest.[15][16][17] Whelan's twin brother David said Whelan arrived in Moscow on December 22 to attend the wedding of a former fellow Marine at the Hotel Metropol Moscow and to assist the groom's family members on their first visit to Russia, a country he had visited many times. He said his brother planned to return to Michigan on January 6, 2019, via Saint Petersburg.[18]

Per MBK News, an outlet run by Putin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Whelan had $80,000 in cash "temporarily confiscated" during a customs inspection at Domodedovo Airport.[19] [b]According to the New York Times, Whelan had acted as a local guide for the wedding guests, but had decided to spend the day of the wedding to meet a friend,[/b] per the account of other attendees.[20] David said his brother entered Russia using his U.S. passport.[4] He said his brother had not been in contact with his family. He was formally charged on January 3, 2019.[21]

According to the Russian news agency Rosbalt [ru], Whelan was apprehended in his hotel room at the Metropol while concluding a long outing with a Russian citizen, [b]who handed him a USB drive containing "a list of all the employees at a classified security agency". The independent Latvian-based publication Meduza reported that the wedding attendees all banded close together for the duration of the holiday, and were taken aback by Whelan's decision to spend the day alone.[/b][22]

The [b]BBC cited family members of Whelan, who said Whelan previously bragged about knowing an agent of the FSB, [/b]and was privy to an unusual cache of personal details about his friend, including which intelligence training school he attended (biographical information typically reserved for a very close circle).[23]

As [b]Whelan said about the arrest, his long-time friend had appeared suddenly in the hotel, followed by authorities[/b], who later arrested him.[24]

According to the lawyers, they could not provide the name of the Russian long-time friend due to Russian secrecy rules, but Whelan's family identified the person as [b]Ilya Yatsenko, whom the Russian newspaper Kommersant described as a major in the FSB's Department "K", which monitors Russian economic crimes.[[/b]25][/quote]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Whelan_(security_director)

Seems he was either entrapped, being recruited or open to doing something shady. He was not working for the US government with his military record. [/quote]

Why is everyone acting like Whelan is some noble US citizen? He was most definitely involved in some shady doings and was discarded from the military for bad conduct. He was no military hero who was taken as a POW. [/quote]

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