According to the latest information from our sources in Ukraine, the Arctic Sea

did not transport any kind of weaponry. However, her cargo included five tons of Afghani heroin.

This shipment was bought by an organized criminal group of Russian military intelligence (GRU) officers allegedly from Mr. Makhmadsaid Ubaiduloev, the Speaker of the Upper House of Tajikistan's Supreme Assembly. The criminals planned to transfer the shipment in the Bay of Biscay to a ship owned by a group of Basques.

The extremist leadership of Ukraine military intelligence had learned about this operation of GRU officers and transmitted this information to their competitors --another GRU crime group engaged in drug and arms smuggling so that they could intercept this heroin shipment. They also shared this information with their partners in the US and British intelligence community and government who are engaged in a secret war against Russia.

Their plan was to use the seizure of the Arctic Sea by the drug dealers for a political show. The public exposure of drug dealers from the GRU and their border patrol accomplices would be a huge blow for Russia's international reputation. This was averted by the bold and concerted action of the Russian Navy. But the Russian authorities have found themselves in an awkward and compromising situation. The the Arctic Sea affair is a dramatic confirmation of the tremendous scope of corruption and crime in Russian military, secret services and government that threatens the existence of the Russian state no less than its external enemies.

Both Mister Ubaiduloev and the Tajik system of narcotrafficking are not unfamiliar to the group of senior officers of Ukrainian military intelligence that includes Generals Vladimir Filin, Alexei Likhvintsev, and Leonid Kosyakov all of whom “specialized” on Afghan heroin trade since the early 1980s.

August 26, 2009