
Andriy Telizhenko. Remember that name? If you do a cursory search of the internet he supposedly is a discredited conspiracy theorist. But in light of recent revelations that the FBI played an active role in accusing innocent people of being Russian puppets or lying about the Hunter Biden laptop (e.g., FBI told Facebook, per Mark Zuckerberg, that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation), the FBI was busy telling members of Congress the same lie about Andriy Telizhenko. Why was the FBI trying to discredit Mr. Telizhenko? Let me suggest it was because he was telling the truth about Hunter Biden and how the Ukrainian Government helped the DNC push the Russiagate fable. (See Gateway Pundit article from 2019).
Here is how CNN describes Telizhenko:
The US State Department revoked the visa of a former Ukrainian diplomat who has worked with Republicans to spread baseless conspiracy theories about the Biden family and foreign meddling in 2016, American and Ukrainian officials told CNN on Monday.
A US official said there are also conversations within the US government about potentially sanctioning that individual – Andrii Telizhenko – and identifying him as a Russian agent. Democrats have accused Telizhenko of intentionally spreading Russian disinformation.
Got that? Information about the Biden family’s activities in Ukraine was baseless. Just ignore the fact that Hunter Biden had a lucrative contract with Burisma and other Ukrainian firms. Just ignore the fact that Joe Biden, while Vice President, used his position to force Ukraine to ditch an investigation that would have exposed his son’s nefarious activities. Repeat after me—CONSPIRACY THEORY.
How could Democrats know Telizhenko was a Russian agent? Either they made it up or someone in the U.S. Government, such as FBI or CIA, told them. If Telizhenko really was a Russian agent he should have been targeted and investigated by FBI counter inteligence officials. Hmm, who had those duties at the FBI. Oh yeah, some guy named Peter Strzok.
So if you are Peter Strzok and you learn that this guy, Telizhenko, is a Russian agent, what should you do? How about identifying his network without tipping him off? Maybe try entrap him? Or here is a wild thought, try to recruit him, flip him and put him to work spying for the United States. That is what a professional counter intelligence agent would do. But Strzok apparently did not do any of that. The only thing we know is that the FBI told at least one member of Congress that Telizhenko could not be trusted. Why?
Well, let us take another look at the story he was telling. The following is an unpublished article written in 2020 that lays out some of the critical facts:
Shortly before Democrats began impugning his reputation and the State Department revoked his visa, an ex-Ukrainian government official dropped a bombshell revelation on Senate investigators: his government had assembled a dossier on Carter Page months before the FBI began investigating the Trump adviser’s ties to Russia in 2016.
“Page worked at the Pentagon, in particular, directly in the field of arms control, and later was a visiting researcher at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, where he specialized in research in the field of energy and economic development in the Caspian Sea region,” the May 2016 profile written by Andrii Telizhenko to a senior colleague in the Ukrainian embassy in Washington DC read.
“During his career, Page has developed his relationships with business and political leaders in Russia and the countries of the former Soviet Union. According to the politician Bloomberg: ‘Page is a reliable defender of Russia’s intentions, and holds American politicians as those whose minds are stuck during the Cold War.’”
Telizhenko, who had extensive contacts in 2014-16 with Obama-Biden administration officials, provided to Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee investigators last spring a copy of his May 2016 memo on Page and offered to provide formal testimony on how he provided the information to an Obama White House official closely tied to then-Vice President Joe Biden.
Telizhenko’s dossier on Page was sent from his personal email account to both the personal and embassy work accounts of his supervisor. Senate investigators found corroborating evidence to back up parts of Telizhenko’s story, including records confirming he had contacts with Obama administration officials on the days he claimed.
But Telizhenko’s formal interview was canceled when Democrats on the committee began a campaign attacking him as a Russian sympathizer and two Republican senators on the committee refused to back a subpoena authorizing his deposition as Chairman Ron Johnson had requested.
In an interview with (media source), Johnson said the Telizhenko interview was one of several investigative leads his investigators were precluded from following by the Democrats’ antics, which initially included the creation of a document by Democratic staff falsely claiming the FBI believed Telizhenko was tied to Russian intelligence. Johnson subsequently debunked the staff memo.
A spokeswoman for the Ukraine embassy in Washington said the officials who would have worked on the Page dossier no longer work in Washington. Natalie Solyeva said if the dossier was created it was done by workers on their private time and not in their official capacity as embassy employees. “The embassy didn’t create any dossier,” she said. “In case if Mr. Telizhenko did it on his own and sent it to someone, this is his individual responsibility and not the Embassy.”
Telizhenko said in an interview with (media source) that he was specifically instructed by his embassy superior to create the dossier, and did so by talking with Ukrainian security officials back home as well as open source contacts in both countries.
Telizhenko, a former aide to Ukrainian prosecutors in Kiev and a former political officer in his country’s embassy in America, emerged as a figure in the U.S. media in January 2017 when he was quoted in an article published by Politico alleging that the Ukrainian embassy in Washington had contacts with a Democratic National Committee operative who was seeking dirt on Trump and his ties to Russia. At the time, the FBI’s focus on Carter Page as part of the Russia collusion narrative was not yet public.
Telizhenko subsequently became a fixture in U.S. and Ukraine news media over the ensuing years, including assisting Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani’s efforts to investigate Joe and Hunter Biden’s business dealings in Ukraine. Johnson’s staff began informally interviewing him in 2019 and 2020, before Democrats angered by Telizhenko’s suggestions of Biden wrongdoing in Ukraine, turned on the former government official who had provided extensive assistance to the Obama-Biden White House.
Over the summer, the Democrats accused Telizhenko of parroting some of the same storylines as Russian friendly figures accused of trying to influence the 2020 U.S. election, including Andriy Derkach, a pro-Russian Ukrainian who was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department for spreading allegations about Joe Biden.
While Telizhenko had some limited contact with Derkach, including a late 2019 meeting with Giuliani, he was mostly considered a rival to the Ukrainian lawmaker competing for media attention on major U.S. stories like the election, the Russia collusion scandal and the Bidens. Despite his extensive assistance to the Obama administration, the State Department revoked Telizhenko’s U.S. visa in September, ending his ability to travel to America, after the Derkach sanctions.
Multiple U.S. intelligence officials told (media source) that while Derkach is assessed to have ties to Russia and its intelligence services, Telizhenko is not believed to be affiliated with Moscow or part of any Russian disinformation effort. “He has the remarkable disadvantage of simply having some of the same story lines as Derkach,” one official explained.
Long before the Derkach brouhaha, however, Telizhenko produced a copy of the Carter Page dossier he created at the instructions of his bosses in the Ukrainian embassy. He told Senate investigators he was asked by a top ranking official in the embassy to produce the dossier in March 2016 after an American official wrote the embassy’s deputy chief of mission with a list of stories criticizing the then-Trump campaign’s foreign policy team.
Telizhenko told (media source) in an interview he was first asked to focus on George Papadopolous, another Trump adviser who ended up figuring prominently in the disproven Russia collusion probe, and delivered a memo to his bosses on Papadopoulos in April 2016. He said he finished the Carter Page dossier in May and was instructed to give it to an official on the Obama White House’s National Security Council who was close to Vice President Joe Biden.
Telizshenko’s supervisor inside the Ukraine embassy “pointed on the screen of her computer to the name of George Papadopoulos and said we have to look into him and that I should prepare through my contacts in US and Ukraine a short report. Later on she told me to look into Carter Page and his Russia background,” Telizhenko said.
“At that time, I understood that there was something going on but when the outcome happened that Mr. Papadopoulos and Mr. Page were targeted in the FBI probe I could not believe that it was done also with the help of Ukrainian Embassy,” he added.
When Senate investigators first learned of Telizhenko’s account, they were dubious. But through records request from the Obama presidential archives and other witnesses, they were able to find proof that Telizhenko had met with the Obama NSC official on the days he claimed he delivered the dossiers and also located an email from an American official to the Ukraine embassy in March 2016 that forwarded the critical articles about the Trump foreign policy advisers, including Page and Papadopolous.
But Johnson’s investigators were ultimately blocked from formally interviewing Telizhenko by Democrats on the committee, ending the line of inquiry for the time being.
Telizhenko’s testimony adds to a growing body of evidence that individual Ukrainian government officials took steps in 2016 to influence the U.S. election against Trump, including Telizhenko’s former boss, Ambassador to the United States Valeriy Chaly, who wrote an OpEd in The Hill newspaper in August 2016 slamming Trump’s policies on Russia. Likewise, a Ukrainian court ruled in December 2018 that a senior law enforcement and a Parliamentary member in Ukraine wrongly took steps to influence the U.S. election by leaking evidence in summer 2016 against Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
U.S. intelligence officials told (media source) there is no evidence the Ukrainian government ordered a top-down intrusion on the 2016 election but that some individual officials who supported Hillary Clinton appeared to have taken action they hoped might impact the election, or outright criticize Trump.
Their assessment mirrors that of former National Security Council Russia expert Fiona Hill, who testified during impeachment proceedings in November 2019 that some Ukrainian officials “bet on Hillary Clinton winning the election. And so they were trying to carry favor with the Clinton campaign” but there wasn’t a top-down effort by Ukraine’s government.
“What I have seen is ill-advised Ukrainian officials, Ambassador Chaly’s been removed as being the ambassador from here, made some pretty, you know, unpleasant statements or ill-advised op-eds,” she testified.
Contacted by (media source), Page said he did not know about the Ukrainian dossier and found it “disappointing but not suprising.” He said he had interactions with Ambassador at the Republican National Convention in 2016 and found the Ukrainian diplomat to be dismissive of his expertise and Trump in general/
“We spent some time chatting. We talked a few times. I think what I explained was what a great perspective candidate Trump had in terms of U.S. relations with former Soviet republicans and countering Russia. And I could tell he was skeptical,” Page said.
To make matters more interesting, Telizhenko told a friend that he regularly met with Alexandra Chalupa, a DNC operator of Ukrainian heritage. Yaacov Apelbaum has provided an excellent visual image of Ukrainian Embassy officials mingling with Chalupa and other DC political luminaries:

Note that Okasan Shulyar is identified as the handler of Chalupa and Telizhenko reported to Shulyar. Shulyar is alleged to be an officer in Ukraine’s intelligence service.
Excellent article.
The convoluted, twisted and intertwined madness of the empire is now exposed for everyone to see. It is said city states collapse because of this very condition. The Roman Empire could no longer function because of their similar behaviour. Same, Same for Britain.
When stealing from their conquests no longer works, they start stealing from the most productive people in their own society. Ie the middle class, who are the cogs, wheels and levers of the economy.
All accompanied by the constant spying, intrigue and lies (+10% for the big guy) as your article sadly explains.
Keep your horse well fed and saddled, musket at the ready and a warm cape.
Good analytical piece here Larry. It just adds to the massive list of corruption at our highest fedgov level. What happens next? When are consequences? By who?
The kimdotcom tweets yesterday are the most concise and reality based thing I’ve read on the Ukraine thing and the USG corruption.
It is reported that the January 2016 meeting[s] at White House including Obama and Biden occurred less than two years after these men mid-wived violent overthrow of Ukraine’s democratically elected President Yanukovych — whose political party that he belonged to is called: Party of Regions.
Obama’s White House, according to news reports, foreign and domestic, appear to show that the US president wanted Ukraine officials to show the Obama team proof that the Party of Regions had made monetary payments to anyone associated with Trump, among other things.
In other words, the plan was to try and demonstrate foreign interference in his presidential campaign, via Ukraine — and not Russia!
And this is exactly what transpired in the case of Paul Manafort — though in fact it appears plausible to conclude: that claims of Party of Regions ‘bribes’ or what have you, to Manafort, were alleged, but documents [a mysterious ‘black ledger’] appeared very suspicious from the get-go.
Be that as it may, the fact of the matter is that in May 2016, this was exactly what Manafort was accused of, via leaks.
His subsequent guilty pleas had nothing to do with these allegations, however.
Despite obvious flaws as journalism, the below two articles contain information at least some anyway, worth another look.
It is key that Obama and Biden wanted to implicate Party of Regions, reports state; less than two years after their direct involvement overthrowing that party’s political leader — an act that violates every international law and UN Charter.
It may just be coincidence that Feb. 24, 2022 start of Russian SMO into Ukraine is eight year anniversary of arrest warrant issued against Yanukovych; and Feb. 21, 2022 — the day he fled the country was Feb. 21, 2014 — is eight year anniversary of Russian president recognizing independence of the two Donbas oblasts.
https://www.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics/publication-of-manafort-payments-violated-law-interfered-in-us-election-kyiv-court-rules.html
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/440730-how-the-obama-white-house-engaged-ukraine-to-give-russia-collusion/
As for the Gateway Pundit interview, we have Andriy Telizhenko right off the bat saying he was involved in the “Maidan Revolution” but the interviewer is only interested in what I consider partisan political talking points — instead of the blatant and obvious political corruption of my government overthrowing the Ukraine government. It would have been interesting for the interviewer to press Andriy Telizhenko on this matter, obviously. And this is not to say the partisan political stuff the interviewing wanted to hear is not of great important. Rather, to say that this has the effect of wasting a wonderful opportunity to discuss the origins of the Ukraine dimension of the Obama and Biden crimes. Why ignore these, pray tell.
In fact, during entire Trump Impeachment-Gate charade, none of those supposedly defending the president in congress during this Gong Show — none of them, either, made any reference to to the fact Obama overthrew the democratically elected Ukraine government.
This great crime — its consequences, now, consuming western civilization.
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“WAS FORMER UKRAINIAN DIPLOMAT ANDRIY TELIZHENKO A WHISTLEBLOWER OR A RUSSIAN SPY?”
Why be enmazed in binaries ?
It would be interesting to hear your thoughts on what is obvious Russian military failures in Kharkiv region coupled with Russia’s inability to help Syrian military stop Israel and American bombing and Muslim radical attacks on Syrian Army.
The Russian military generally is not looking so good in Ukraine and its famous air defense system can’t stop Israel and American bombings. And, its support of Syrian Army is not anywheres near bring the Syrian war to an end,
I second that
Resort to binaries facilitate obfuscation of other possibilities thereby affecting dissipation.
“Just ignore the fact that Hunter Biden had a lucrative contract with Burisma and other Ukrainian firms. Just ignore the fact that Joe Biden, while Vice President, used his position to force Ukraine to ditch an investigation that would have exposed his son’s nefarious activities. “
Some reacted to the “non-democratic” removal of “Ukrainian” officials.
Some reacted to the “corruption” of the “Biden” family.
The Russian Federation updated its nuclear doctrine to include resort to biological weapons.
The Jewish lady who forgot the salt invested in more incontinence pads.
“WAS FORMER UKRAINIAN DIPLOMAT ANDRIY TELIZHENKO A WHISTLEBLOWER OR A RUSSIAN SPY?”
Ultra vires – beside the point – another red herring joining the shoal.
What do you think of the current ukranian offensive in Charkiv region ?
European media are jubilating, saying “oh yeah, that´s the turning point”.
On the MoA message board today there is an incredibly pessimistic, downright despondent mood about this Ukis offensive.
Apparently a bunch of bloggers, who imagined themselves to be “military experts” spread around their “everything is lost” panic and the usual Uki / State Dpt trolls threw in some gasoline to the fire.
Here is a coolheaded take on the situation from today’s interview with the Head of the Chechen SpetsNaz (Special Forces) Apti Allaudinov, in summary:
– the Russians knew of the offensive preparations: “It’s kinda impossible to hide preparing an offensive with more than 30,000 troops, you know”…
– the decision was made by the Russians to deliberately pull back a lot of the forces from the most likely attack vector in order to ensure the Ukraine army does not change its mind to attack
– the plan all along was to have the Ukis leave their numerous fortified positions in and around Kharkov. Balakleya was abandoned deliberately to try to stretch the 30,000-people strong Uki force as far as possible — that way it is much easier to clobber it out of existence with the lowest possible losses of own people
– the Ukis have just realized (today) what’s been happening (they realized it was a trap all along) and stopped moving forward, but, as Apti said, they have been already stretched enough for the Russian army to effectively demilitarize these 30,000 poor souls
– yesterday Apti estimated they managed to eliminate about 5,000 and today another 2,500. So, 7,500 or 25% of the in two days. At this rate the entire 30,000 will be KIA by September 15 or abouts.
Most layman still don’t understand — the main objective that Putin has clearly stated is to completely, 100% demilitarize and denazify the Ukraine while minimizing own losses. Not to grab and hold some towns and villages. And what better way to do that other than to trade some empty land in exchange for demilitarizing 30,000 neo-Nazis in the North plus another 10,000 in the South (near Kherson) in just 10 days?!
Within about one week we’ll know how many of the 30,000+10,000 neo-Nazis avoided demilitarization & denazification.
I think this is correct.
Also, it’s a war. There are gains and setbacks. There are screw-ups. There are surprises. There are counter surprises. Both sides suffer losses. To sit there drawing conclusions about culmination points, turning points, etc. on a day to basis as each new action is learned about, is silly and amateurish.
All this shows is what everyone has suspected: ukraine is a shithole nation with corrupt parasites masquerading as leaders. The best example of the parasites that come from that nation is that fatsss vindman and his evil sidekick nuland. They are nothing but vassals looking for a host to drain. And sick to death of draining our resources for this disgusting lot. Switch from nazism to communism to technofascism without thought. Don’t care what happens in ukraine, the slave can kill each other, they should just do it without wasting American treasure. Otherwise go ahead and die under the EU, democratic party and lgbqt flag all you want.
Well said, ‘Thgef says’; I nearly fell off my chair when I saw Vindman as a mil analyst on MSM. What a fool, but what fools MSM to even pick this ass out as a pers of mil tactics-acumen and strategy. If he had any honour, he would be overseas at the pointed end of the spear.
It is interesting, though not surprising, that facts inconvenient to The Narrative are dismissed as Russian disinformation, every single time. Democrats have been playing this game since at least ’16. Yet, much of the public doesn’t bat an eye. I guess it helps to keep Russia the nefarious bogeyman that all slaver for…
Ukraine is a deep-state induced CANCER on the American body politic. Every major DC political scandal of the last 6 years has some ties to Ukraine, from the DNC server and Seth Rich, to Trump/Page/Papadopoulos fake FBI dossiers, to Biden corruption, to Trump impeachment.
the USA’s political elites realize, they may be killed if that cancer is excised by Russia.