
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 day 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 week ago |
wsj.com | Joe Parkinson |Drew Hinshaw |Thomas Grove
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1 week 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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2 months ago |
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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2 months ago |
lopinion.fr | Drew Hinshaw |Joe Parkinson
Quelques minutes avant que Donald Trump échappe à une tentative d’assassinat à Butler, en Pennsylvanie, une dame de 95 ans était venue lui parler de son fils détenu depuis trois ans en Russie.
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Excellent and deeply unsettling reporting from @bopanc on the Department for Special Tasks; the new spy unit leading Russia’s Shadow War Against the West. https://t.co/C5zk2cQyXR

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