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Dances With Bears » A BLACK VALENTINE FROM GRU TO MOSSAD
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Yevgeny Krutikov, a former Russian military intelligence (GRU) officer and now a security analyst for Vzglyad, has just published an assessment of the Hofman appointment; he reveals not so much what the Russian intelligence services are expecting, but what they want Hofman and Netanyahu to know they think. Krutikov’s conclusion is that the move is a “result of Benjamin Netanyahu’s political games, which does not correspond well with the real tasks of the country’s intelligence community. As a result, we will see a temporary reduction in so-called ‘offensive’ operations, and we can even predict a decline in the effectiveness of the Mossad, maybe even high-visibility failures.”
Krutikov doesn’t mention that Hofman was sent to Moscow by Netanyahu in September 2024 “to promote the [Gaza] hostage deal”. It isn’t clear what language Hofman used, since he reportedly cannot speak English and left his Russian-speaking home in Belarus as a boy of thirteen. Subsequent Israeli reporting from March of this year indicates that Hofman has returned to Moscow for negotiations on “strengthening cooperation between Israel and Russia in the interests of Israel’s security…also [the] Russian role in Syria.”
remarking “to know they think” in my view ought to be “to believe they think” My bold.
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December 8, 2025
Appointment of a native of the USSR predicts difficult times for Mossad
By Yevgeny KrutikovIsrael’s Foreign intelligence Service (Mossad) will receive a new head, Roman Hofman [Роман Гофман], a native of the Belarus Soviet Socialist Republic. Why is he considered a hero in Israel, what role does the Israeli political leadership assign to the new head of intelligence, and why does this appointment itself bring little good to the Mossad?
Helmer recalls spy v spy… “Black Valentine” is a term I do not know, but which seems to suggest the idea of a message to someone that’s is no longer loved…
