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The DC Ukraine Mafia 4.0

Running for Congress? Short on cash or donations? No need to worry. Now, you too can finance your campaign through a Ukrainian arms producer/exporter. Igor, for example, can host the fundraising events in his $million Washington DC brownstone. He will even throw in the Ukrainian Hors d’Oeuvres, Vodka, and Cigars.


Image 1: Igor Pasternak’s luxury home in DC where in 2013 Adam Schiff used him to host a fundraiser for his congressional run

And the best part is that you never have to worry about paying him back for any of these favors, because it’s all free, no strings attached. After all, everyone knows that Ukrainian arms producers/exporters float the election campaign of congressional candidates like Adam Schiff, and Loretta Sanchez and socially and politically hub nob with Nancy Pelosi because they are just so cuddly.

If you don’t buy any of this, then the following Adam Schiff, Nancy Pelosi, and Alexandra Chalupa linkage agrees with you.


Image 2: Hedging his bats at President Trump’s inauguration?


Image 3
: How Pasternak floated Adam Schiff’s 2013 election to Congress and his linkage to Nancy Pelosi and the Ukrainian influence network in the US


Image 4: NADATS a division of Igor Pasternak’s AEROS corporation offering armed blips and surveillance towers with ITAR controlled thermal cameras and personnel tracking radar packages. A 2016 visit by Lindsey Graham, John McCain, and Amy Klobuchar to the Ukrainian ATM machine


Image 5: Notes from the desk of Yaroslav Brisiuck’s the Ukrainain Chargé d’affaires in Washington DC suggest that Alexandra Chalupa could be a long term Ukrainian intelligence asset


Image 6: Alexandra Chalupa, Melanne Verveer, and Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur’s Ukraine linkages. Chalupa held multiple intelligence briefing and debriefing sessions regarding president Trump with her handler Okana Shulyar and other Ukrainian embassy diplomats like Andriy Telizhenko


Image 7
: Alexandra Chalupe with a small sampling of friends like Michael Avantti, Linda Sarsour, Andrew McCabe, and their on-going activity to impeach president Trump

 
Image 8: Pasternak with President Victor Yanukovich and President Obama

What Likely Paid for the Free Hors d’Oeuvres, Vodka, and Cigars

1

10-2013

The roof of Pasternak manufacturing hangar collapses after he got $35M from the DoD and NASA. “The accident is a blow to the hopeful collaboration between the Department of Defense and NASA.”

2

03-2014

Pasternak receives a “Certificate of Honor” from the Ukrainian embassy in the US. The press release cites Pasternak’s “significant contributions to bilateral cooperation.”

3

03-2015

The House Intelligence Committee ranking member Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) joins House Speaker John Boehner in a letter to the White House pushing for arms sales to Ukraine.

4

03-2015

The US announces it is stepping up non-lethal military assistance to Ukraine with a $75 million package that includes armored Humvees and surveillance technology.

5

09-2015

Pasternak’s company, Aeroscraft Corporation, AKA Aeros, issues a press release, announcing a cooperative partnership between Aeros and the Government of Ukraine. “The partnership with Ukraine, Aeros, and UkrOboronProm, first announced in Kiev earlier this month, will see the Ukraine-Russian border protected by a series of Aeros-made Elevated Early Warning Systems (EEWS).”

6

09-2015

Government of Ukraine buys Pasternak’s blips using US taxpayers’ money.

7

02-2016

In addition to the $50 million grant Pasternak receives from the Pentagon to develop prototypes for delivering US military cargo, he also benefits from the $75 million aid package to Ukraine for providing weaponized airships to monitor Ukraine’s borders.

8

10-2017

Pasternak’s Aeroscraft, the American firm partnering with the Ukrainian Weapons manufacturer UkrOboronServis to produce M16s.



Sourcing
Identifying Igor Pasternak as Ukrainian and as an arms producer/exporter is based on multiple sources including official ATF documents and press interviews with Igor Pasternak. For example, an article titled ‘New Ukrainian M4-WAC47 rifle ‘a strong political message to Russia’ written by Illia Ponomarenko, published January 28, 2018 (using Pasternak as the source) states:

UkrOboronProm’s (One of Ukraine’s largest arms producers)…signing a memorandum of cooperation with the Aeroscraft (Pasternak’s company), a major aviation and weapons producer founded and directed by Ukrainian immigrant Igor Pasternak.

In another publication, on July 8, 2016, the KievPost reported:

“Pasternak found himself walking on Kyiv’s central square, Maidan Nezalezhnosti, where the central protest camp was based. “(At that moment) I understood that I am a Ukrainian,” Pasternak said during an interview on Ukrainian television’s Espreso TV shown on April 2015. Before seeing the EuroMaidan protests, he identified as an American. Pasternak then started to visit Ukraine every month or two. In January, he signed a contract for Aeros to supply Ukraine’s State Border Service with a surveillance system to monitor the Sea of Azov.”

References
Please Join Igor Pasternak: Adam Schiff Fundraising Invitation RSVP
Schiff’s staffer travel to Ukraine: Travel cost was covered by the Atlantic Council
Aeroscraft a major weapons producer founded and directed by Ukrainian Igor Pasternak
CEO to Watch: Pasternak identifying himself as a Ukrainian
Producing Ukraine’s New AK-M16 Mashup Rifle: Pasternak’s involvement in an arms deal
Providing surveillance equipment sale to Ukraine: Pasternak’s Ukrainian contracts
Ukraine to Buy 7.62 x 39 mm M16s… from Blimp Impresario?
FEC Complaint: DNC-Chalupa accepting assistance from Ukrainian embassy officials in
Andriy Telizhenko Interview: Ukrainian diplomat confirms working with Chalupa in official capacity
The Mechanics of Deception: The Network, Actors, and the Genesis of the Steele Dossier


Image 9
: A sampling of Igor Pasternak’s US real estate


Image 10: The Chalupa family ‘political consulting business’


Image 11
: The Pelosi Voronovych (Woronowycz) linkage part-1


Image 12: The Pelosi Voronovych (Woronowycz) linkage part-2


Image 13: The Atlantic Council Ukraine linkage showing that Schiff is engaging in intelligence collection and political patronage in Ukraine and his collaborator Geysha Gonzalez (who paid for Schiff’s aid trip), an expert on disinformation, misinformation, and false information, and the Deputy Director of the Eurasia Center at the Atlantic Council

https://www.yaacovapelbaum.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/geysha-gonzalez-fake-news.mp3?_=1

Geysha Gonzalez the Deputy Director of the Eurasia Center at the Atlantic Council discussing issues related to Russian information warfare during the 2016 elections


Image 14
: The Pelosi Jihadi linkage. A profile of one Ukrainian jihadi NGO which is a front for the Turkish intelligence services


Image 15: The Gigapixel mosaic was one of the image sources used in the Pasternak face match searches. Source: CNN Trump Inauguration


Image 16
: Multi-classifier verification for Nancy Pelosi’s identity using face recognition, hair parting style, body features such as hand geometry and age spots (on right hand), and the ‘tight lips’ facial expression

*** Update 10/17/2019 ***

Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes – Who will Fact Check the Fact Checkers?
Shortly after uploading this post, I was contact by Saranac Spencer Hale, an an investigative reporter with Factcheck.org. Saranac asked me via email to verify that the images in the post were authentic. She also inquired about the face recognition and AI based analytics and wanted to know how the technology worked.  I provided her with the details and even demonstrated the Sentinel AI capabilities by running it against one node of her social network (using her email address as the entry point).

After providing her this information, she never responded to my emails or gave me an opportunity to comment about what she was going to publish. Several days ago, she posted a misleading report that falsely claims that I’ve misidentified Randy Credico as Igor Pasternak (the man Nancy Pelosi is shanking hands with in the middle of Image 16).

Credico wasn’t event tagged or identified in the composite because he was irrelevant to the linkage. The reason why this image was used is because it contained several of Pelosi’s features that the AI classifier used to verify her identity. These included her face recognition, hair parting style, body features such as hand geometry, the age spots (on her right hand), and the ‘tight lips’ facial expression.

It is clear from the content of Saranac Spencer Hale’s misleading post and its deliberate mischaracterization of the facts that it was a contract hit job designed to attack the Ukrainian linkage between Igor Pasternak, Adam Schiff, and Nancy Pelosi, and to down play Pasternak’s role. It is also noteworthy that Snoops.com came up with an identical article shortly afterwards and recycled all of the arguments made by Factcheck.org. This suggests a close collaboration between these two platform and is a good illustration of the MO of internet facts checkers who in reality are little more than progressive political damage control tools and information warfare units that whitewash inconvenient facts.

For the sake of transparency and to allow others who may want to get a first hand view into how the Internet fact checking industry works, I am posting the email thread with Saranac Spencer Hale below:

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Sara,

I have read your fact check and would like to reference this comment:

Apelbaum told us through email that his company used facial recognition technology to identify Pasternak — although incorrectly in Credico’s case.”

Your statement of me misidentifying Credico as Pasternack is both dishonest and deceitful. I have never claimed to identify Randy Credico as Igor Pasternack or labeled him as an arms dealer.  None of my images show Credico with Pasternack’s name.

The image that you are referencing as being a misidentification was used to confirm the identity of Nancy Pelosi.  The relevance of the image with Credico is that it contained the following Pelosi reference objects:

These and other features were then used to confirm Pelosi’s identity in the image with Mr. Pasternak.

I was transparent with you about how our technology works and even went the extra mile to demonstrate the process on a person in your network. I expected that you would have had the decency and give me the courtesy to respond to your false claim before you published your article.

But I guess, that is not how professional fact checkers with an agenda operate.

Best regards,

Yaacov

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From: xxx@xrvision.com

Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2019 4:51 AM

To: ‘Spencer, Saranac Hale’ <saranac.spencer@factcheck.org>

Subject: RE: Reporter from FactCheck.org

Hi Sara,

I wanted to follow-up on my last email. Will you be publishing the confirmation of the FR search you inquired about?

Also, find attached a sample run of the Sentinel AI against one person you know. The search used FR, object classifier, and GIS engine, and text analytics.  We constrained the parameters to a 60 seconds search, a single relationship node, and the detection of deepfake content. We also striped the search linkage and removed adult content, drugs, and firearm related matches found.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Yaacov

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From: xxx@xrvision.com

Sent: Monday, September 30, 2019 3:55 PM

To: ‘Spencer, Saranac Hale’ <saranac.spencer@factcheck.org>

Subject: RE: Reporter from FactCheck.org

Hi Sara,

The high level overview of the FR process is:

I hope this helps,

Yaacov

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From: Spencer, Saranac Hale <saranac.spencer@factcheck.org>

Sent: Monday, September 30, 2019 2:29 PM

To: xxx@xrvision.com

Subject: RE: Reporter from FactCheck.org

Great – could you tell me how this technology works?  Do you use standard news video footage?  Also, were you able to confirm the identity of Igor Pasternak in the photo where he is shaking Nancy Pelosi’s hand?

Thanks, again,

Sara

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From: xxx@xrvision.com

Sent: Monday, September 30, 2019 2:24 PM

To: Spencer, Saranac Hale <saranac.spencer@factcheck.org>

Subject: RE: Reporter from FactCheck.org

Hi Sara,

Thanks for reaching out.  Yes, we did utilize our Sentinel AI face recognition and video analytics platform on the Gigapixel mosaic and confirmed the identify of Igor Pasternak.

Yaacov

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From: Spencer, Saranac Hale <saranac.spencer@factcheck.org>

Sent: Monday, September 30, 2019 2:14 PM

To: Information@XRVision.com

Subject: Reporter from FactCheck.org

Hello –

I’m a reporter at FactCheck.org, a U.S. fact checking organization.  A recent claim has been circulating online based, in part, on graphics with your logo on them.  Here’s a link to the story that began circulating the claim and the graphics: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/09/breaking-update-speaker-pelosi-and-adam-schiff-connected-to-prominent-ukrainian-arms-dealer-photos/

I’m wondering if your company did, in fact, use facial recognition technology to identify the people indicated in the graphics. I’m particularly interested in whether or not you contributed to the image that’s attached.

You can also reach me by phone at 215-573-9195

Many thanks,

Sara

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