Joe Parkinson
International Investigations Chief at The Wall Street Journal
World Investigations Chief, The Wall Street Journal. Author of BRING BACK OUR GIRLS — Overseas Press Club Best Book of 2021.
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1 week ago |
wsj.com | Drew Hinshaw |Joe Parkinson |Stacy Meichtry
The ailing pope was short of breath, sitting beneath a cherished painting of Mary, Untier of Knots, as he worked through a last-ditch plan to disentangle the finances of one of the world’s most opaque bureaucracies. For over a decade, Francis had struggled to bring some transparency to the Vatican’s shadowy balance sheet.
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3 weeks ago |
tovima.com | Joe Parkinson |Drew Hinshaw |Thomas Grove
Sergei Beseda, known to the CIA as ‘the Baron,’ also figured in one of the world’s biggest prisoner swapsThe Riyadh Ritz-Carlton was under lockdown last month and Russia-U.S. talks over the fate of Ukraine were entering their 13th hour when two wooden doors flung open to reveal the reclusive spy general helping lead the Kremlin’s negotiations. Col. Gen. Sergei Beseda marched forward until he saw cameras flashing, then shuffled awkwardly and offered a tight smile.
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1 month ago |
wsj.com | Joe Parkinson |Drew Hinshaw |Thomas Grove
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1 month ago |
wsj.com | Joe Parkinson |Drew Hinshaw |Thomas Grove
At this time last year, the career spy known to the CIA as “the Baron” was engaged in the kind of hyper-secretive business that had consumed most of his career—meeting the agency’s officials every few weeks in hotels booked under false names to negotiate the largest prisoner swap in U.S.-Russian history. That exchange, conducted Aug. 1, freed 24 prisoners including Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich.
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Feb 12, 2025 |
tovima.com | Drew Hinshaw |Joe Parkinson |Byzantine bureaucracies
His mother lobbied Trump at a campaign event in Butler, Pa., just before an assassination attempt. Now her son is back. Just minutes before President Trump escaped an assassin’s bullet at a campaign rally in Butler, Pa., he held a brief backstage meeting with a 95-year-old local woman whose son, Marc Fogel , had spent three years in a Russian jail.
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