Analysis of Q Post 827, 834

by Dr. Jeffrey Russell, PhD

Stanislav Lunev was a Soviet GRU agent who defected to the United States in

March of 1992 after a successful career of intelligence gathering from China and

the United States. As the highest-ranking military defector to the U.S., he is in a

unique position to detail the intelligence aspect of the cold war and the

emergence of the Russian mafia as a threat t o national security. His only book to

date was published May 25, 1998.

Stanislav Lunev was the first BRIDGE. By definition, a bridge is a connec ting,

transitional, or intermediate route or phase between two adjacent elements,

activities, conditio ns, or the like. Stanislav is the bridge and he is connecting

Russia to the United State s. The element that is m oving across the bridge is

information or intelli gence. Normally on a bridge, there is two-way traffic in both

directions. Before Stanislav de fected, the intel ligence flow was back t o Russia

only. After his defectio n, the flow of intel was only f rom Russia to the U.S.

Before 1992, Stanislav worked as a TASS correspondent in Washington D.C.

This was his cover as he was actually an agent for the GRU (equivalent to CIA).

After his defection, he spent a year being debriefed by the FBI, CIA, and NSA and

he provided those agencies with a wealth of intelligence on the inner workings of

the GRU, the KGB, and the political s ituation in the Kremlin. Perhaps, one of his

biggest intel drops during the debriefings was on the Russian mafia and he

warned everyone of the dangers of these criminal syndicates moving into the

U.S., particularly in New York, Los Angeles, and Miami.

In 1993, Mr. Lunev begin wor king in the private industry as a security analyst

and later participated in a Rus sian think tank. His function as a bridge was

terminated in 1993 when his debriefings official ly ended. This corresponds to the

second line in Post 834: 187.

Now we have a new bridge called BRIDGE-2 and that bridge is given by Q to be