01 May 1992:The European reports that an Russian SVR report, sent to CIA, details the disappearance of two nuclear warheads from the Semipalatinsk Test Site (“STS” or “Semipalatinsk-21”) in Kazakhstan; report speculates that Reza Amrollahi, chief of the Iranian Organization for Atomic Energy, may have purchased them from Kazakhstan President Nazarbayev; Nazarbayev incredulously attempts to cover his tracks by claiming that Atomic Research Institute of Kazakhstan scientists may have stolen them; a third warhead is mentioned as missing but its destination is presumed to be in “the Middle East”
XX December 1994: Kazakh Official Retains Jim Giffin and his Company, Mercator Corp, to “assist in, among other things, the sale of a portion of Kazakhstan’s interest in the Tengiz oil field.”
06 November 1995: Jim Giffin, Chairman of Mercator Corp., Transfers First Tranche of Millions of Dollars from Mobil Oil for Kazakhstan “Oilfield Deal” to Swiss Bank Accounts Secretly Controlled by Kazakh Officials
25 August 2005: Bloomberg reports on Jim Giffin Kazakhgate case w/ headline “KAZAKHSTAN: Mobil, CIA secrets may come out,” implicating major oil companies and then-Kazakh Communist Party leader Nursultan Nazarbayev
06 September 2005: Canadian mining financier Frank Guistra, CEO of UrAsia Energy, Ltd., and former-President Bill Clinton land in Almaty, Kazakhstan and are greeted by a midnight banquet with President Nursultan Nazarbayev; within three days, Guistra had signed a deal with Moukhtar Dzhakishev, president of Kazatomprom (Kazakhstan’s state-owned nuclear energy corporation), to buy stakes in three Kazakh uranium projects, at least two of which were stakes acquired from a Kazakh investment group headed by ex-Energy Minister Moukhtar Ablyazov
19 June 2006: “KAZAKHSTAN: ADVOCACY: KAZMUNAIGAZ DELAYS ’N BLOCK’ DECISION” State Department Cable ((CONF//NOFORN)) details multiple bits of information regarding ConocoPhillips attempts to negotiate a deal with the Government of Kazakhstan, including intelligence indicating high-level involvement from both US and Kazakhstani officials
09 March 2007: Former FBI agent Robert Levinson is detained by suspected Iranian security agents in the lobby of his hotel on Kish Island, Iran, a Persian Gulf resort area and free-trade zone for which no Iranian visa is required.
29 March 2007: An email is forwarded to Amos Hochstein, Joe Biden’s future energy advisor, addressed to Uranium One whistleblow Douglas Campbell. The email references plans to “neutralize” US Enrichment Corp. (USEC), which future Deputy Secretary of Energy Daniel Poneman successfully does. https://twitter.com/seamusbruner/status/1308488117368782849/photo/1
03 April 2007: “KAZAKHSTAN: EXXONMOBIL PURSUING ONSHORE PARTNERSHIP WITH KAZMUNAIGAZ SUBSIDIARY” State Department Cable ((CONF/NOFORN)) Recounting Conversation from Rick Vierbuchen, Vice President of ExxonMobil Exploration Company, to Ambassador John Ordway
18 November 2007: John Brennan Pens Document Detailing Recommendations to the next President (assuming office in Jan. 2009) on how to play the figures on the U.S.-Iranian Chessboard, saying that the US and Iran have “no choice but to find a way to coexist.”
15 January 2009: World Nuclear News reports that Kazakhstan has increased uranium production by 28% in 2008 (to 8521 tonnes, compared with 6637 tonnes in 2007), noting that production figures are some 1080 tonnes less than planned, but not why. Might Iran’s Gachin, Saghand, and Ardakan mines have been producing insufficient amounts of uranium to keep pace with Iran’s illicit needs, leading them to seek uranium from Kazatomprom?
21 May 2009: Deputy Secretary of Energy Daniel B. Poneman is granted a special waiver by the Department of Energy requiring that he not divest from his investments with Hogan & Hartson (now Hogan Lovells) where he was previously a partner. Before Hogan & Hartson, Poneman was with the firm of Covington & Burling. (From 2001 to 2009, future-Attorney General Eric Holder was a partner at Covington & Burling, where he returned in 2015 after Loretta Lynch was confirmed as his successor. From 2002 to 2010, future-Attorney General Loretta Lynch was partner at Hogan & Hartson.)
25 May 2009: Kazakhstan arrests, Moukhtar Dzhakishev, head of Kazatomprom, who had previously signed the agreement with Frank Guistra during Guistra’s and Clinton’s 2005 visit
25 January 2010: “KAZAKHSTAN: MONEY AND POWER” State Department Cable ((S)) Recounts KazMunaiGaz Dinner Between US Ambassador Richard E. Hoagland & Kazakhstan First Vice President Maksat Idenov, mentioning Karim Masimov (now effectively the head of all Kazakh intelligence) who is later pictured standing next to Joe Biden with Hunter Biden and Kenes Rakishev.
15 December 2010: ARMZ Uranium Holding to Acquire 100% of Australian Public Company Mantra Resources for $1.197B USD; Uranium One Gets the Right to Acquire the Asset from ARMZ Uranium Holding
31 May 2012: The NYTimes reports that “the bodies of 12 border guards and a local gamekeeper were found Wednesday near the post by Kazakh border troops, said the official, Turganbek Stambekov, a deputy to the director of the country’s border guard service, in a statement.”
11 August 2012: Acting Director of Kazakhstan’s Border Guard Service, Col. Turganbek Stambekov, and U.S. Ambassador Kenneth Fairfax cut the ribbon commemorating the opening of the regional canine training center at the Border Guard Academy in Almaty, Kazakhstan,
25 December 2012: An Antonov An-72 military transport aircraft operated by the Kazakh Armed Forces crashed about 20 kilometres (12 mi) from the city of Shymkent, Kazakhstan, where the aircraft was preparing to land. All 27 people on board died in the crash. The flight was traveling from Astana to Shymkent and was carrying seven crew and twenty members of the Kazakh border patrol, including its leader, the acting Director of the Kazakhstan Border Guard Service, Colonel Turganbek Stambekov.
29 January 2013: SCAT Airlines Flight 760 (Kokshetau, Kazakhstan to Almaty, Kazakhstan) crashes after the bombardier CRJ-200 Twinjet makes a sudden pitch-down maneuver in “thick fog”, killing 16 ticketed passengers, 5 crew, 1 un-ticketed child; cause never determined. SCAT is a contraction of “Special Cargo Air Transport.”
23 February 2013: Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy R. Sherman departs for Almaty, Kazakhstan on Saturday, February 23, 2013 to lead the United States’ delegation to P5+1 talks over Iran’s nuclear program with Iran beginning February 26.
26 February 2013: Iran and the P5+1 resume negotiations in Almaty, Kazakhstan over Iran’s nuclear program. The P5+1 offers Iran an updated proposal based largely on the 2012 package.
5-6 April 2013: Iran and the P5+1 meet again in Almaty for a second round of talks. At the end of the meetings, negotiators announce that no further meetings are scheduled and the sides remain far apart.
07 May 2013: Hunter Biden Commissioned as Ensign in US Navy; Allegedly Assigned to Navy Public Affairs Support Element East in Norfolk, VA, a Reserve Unit
XX October 2013: Hunter Biden’s business partner, Devon Archer, arranges a conference call between Kenes Rakishev and John Kerry’s eldest daughter, Alex Forbes Kerry, who is seeking “investment” for her “film company.”
13 December 2013: NYTimes reports on Bob Levinson case with headline “A Disappearing Spy, and a Scandal at the C.I.A.” mentioning the “llicit Finance Group,” Anne Jablonski (wife of State Dept. official Robert Otto), describing both Levinson and Jablonski as specialists in Russian organized crime, and also mentioning Oleg Deripaska (the Russian oligarch with ties to Russian intelligence and organized crime who later funded the discredited Christopher Steele dossiers) and his two secret visits to the United States under a special FBI program. Mueller was then-head of the FBI and was later appointed to “investigate” the RussiaGate fabrications re: Donald Trump.
XX January 2014: John Kerry’s daughter, Alex Forbes Kerry, and Kenes Rakishev finalize a deal by which Kenes “invests” $1M in Forbes Kerry’s start-up film production company, “Fictional Pictures,” whose now-defunct website said (as of 2012) that was “in development with The Problem with Other People for Madstone Media, Just a Pretty Face with Full Picture, and The Highline” and that “her award-winning short The Last Full Measure premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.” The co-founder of Fictional Pictures was James Oakley, director of The Devil You Know (2013) and The Con Is On (2018).
14 May 2014: Vice President Joe Biden’s son joins Ukraine gas company Burisma; Devon Archer, a former senior advisor to current Secretary of State John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign and a college roommate of Kerry’s stepson HJ Heinz, joined the board the month prior
2-19 July 2014: Iran and the P5+1 continue talks in Vienna on a comprehensive nuclear agreement. Early on June 19, the parties announce that they will extend the talks through November 24 and keep the measures agreed to in the interim agreement in place. The parties also announce additional actions that Iran will take, namely converting 25 kg of uranium powder enriched to 20 percent into fuel plates and downblending about 3 tons of uranium enriched to less than 2 percent. The P5+1 agrees to repatriate $2.8 billion in funds. The parties agree to resume talks in August.
14 July 2014: Mashable reports that Iranian Diplomat Seyed Abbas Araghchi Snapped an photo of Secretary of State John Kerry during nuclear meeting and uploaded it to Instagram
31 October 2014: Then-United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein announces that Vadim Mikerin, Director General of TENAM, Boris Rubizhevsky, President of NEXGEN Security, others are being charged in a kickback scheme (Then-ADIC Andy McCabe of the FBI-WFO makes an appearance).
21 January 2015: In testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Jan. 21, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken says: “We assess that we still have a credible chance of reaching a deal that is in the best interest of America’s security, as well as the security of our allies.”
27 March 2015: Nurlan Kapparov, Kazatomprom’s Wealthy CEO, Dies Suddenly at 44 of “Heart Attack” in China (He had previously been President of KazTransOil, Kazakhstan’s national pipeline operator, a subsidiary of KazMunaiGas/KazMunayGas, which months earlier entered into agreement with Burisma/Burisma Kazakhstan)
21 April 2015: Project on Government oversight publishes report entitled, “The Revolving Door Goes Nuclear,” focused on former Deputy Secretary of Energy (and COO of the Department) Daniel Poneman
14 July 2015: Obama gives speech standing next to Joe Biden announcing that a deal has been reached with Iran; NYTimes reports “Deal Reached on Iran Nuclear Program; Limits on Fuel Would Lessen With Time;” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says deal is a “historic mistake for the world”
24 July 2015: Kazatomprom CEO Askar Zhumagaliyev visits Russia, meets with General Director of Rosatom Sergey Kiriyenko, discussing Kazakhstani supply of uranium to Russia and joint ventures Karatau LLP, JV Akbastau JSC and JV Zarechnoye JSC; also met with heads of TVEL JSC and Techsnabexport JSC, both Rosatom subsidiaries
12 November 2015: E&E News reports that “DOE Deputy Secretary Daniel Poneman “Negotiated” for Several Outside Jobs,” filing 9 different notifications with the Department on his “job search” before landing at the now-reorganized company he helped bankrupt, Centrus Energy, successor to US Enrichment Corp. (USEC)
28 December 2015: Iran announces that it shipped 8.5 tonnes of low-enriched uranium, including the 20 percent enriched material in scrap and waste, out of the country to Russia. In return, Iran receives 140 tonnes of uranium yellowcake
04 April 2016: Hunter Biden is pictured meeting President Obama in the Oval Office roughly one month before his business partner, Devon Archer is charged in a municipal bond fraud scheme
11 May 2016: Hunter Biden’s business partner, Devon Archer, and six others are charged in 3/2014-4/2016 Oglala Sioux MuniBond Fraud (including John “Yanni” Galanis, a convicted racketeer whom Giuliani sent to prison for 27 years in 1988, but who was allowed to “walk away” from his work release program in 2001, some allege to work with the US government on issues related to the Gambino crime family and the European narcotics trade, which his sons were caught up in; the precise destination of the pilfered profits isn’t clear, although Archer joined Burisma in 4/2014 and Biden in 5/2015
26 January 2016: Behrouz Kamalvandi, spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, says that Iran and China had signed a basic agreement to formalize China’s assistance in redesigning the Arak reactor during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Iran the previous week.
4 October 2016: NAC Kazatomprom JSC and Uranium One Inc. (now a part of Rosatom’s) Sign MOU on Karatau Joint Venture (Enrichment Per NAC Kazatomrpom Contract w/ Uranium Enrichment Centre JSC)
13 December 2016: President Rouhani announces Iran will respond to Washington’s extension of the Iran Sanctions Act by researching and developing nuclear propulsion for marine vessels
15 December 2016: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry reissues sanctions waivers early, on the same day that the ISA renewal comes into effect, to demonstrate the U.S. commitment to the JCPOA
09 January 2017: China’s CEFC agrees with Kazakh state oil unit on stake transfer; $680 million for 51 percent of KMG International, a fully-owned unit of Kazakh state oil and gas firm KazMunayGaz/KazMunaiGaz that owns a key refinery in Romania on the Black Sea Port of Constanta, a fertilizer plant, and nearly 1,000 petrol stations in Europe
23 August 2018: Biden business associate Kenes Rakishev attempts to link former BTA Bank head Mukhtar Ablyazov to Trump in Newsweek via son-in-law/ex-Almaty Mayor Khrapunov’s purchase of units in Trump SoHo via Felix Sater (Google: “OIA Waiver”); the Khraphunov case in London hinges on testimony of Ukrainian lawyer Olena Tyschenko who *claims* she was detained by Russia in 2013 for laundering money allegedly on behalf of Rakishev foe Ablyazov. Some might speculate that Rakishev has essentially stolen Ablyazov’s company w/ the backing of Russian, Kazakh, UK, US, and Ukrainian authorities and legitimized said theft via claims of fraud, embezzlement, corruption against his predecessor. Ablyazov is conveniently the only viable political opponent of Kazakhstan’s regime and one of the masterminds behind recent anti-“Chinese Expansion” protests which have swept Kazakhstan.
25 March 2019: In the Southern District of New York, a $440M complaint: “CITY OF ALMATY, KAZAKHSTAN and BTA BANK JSC, vs FELIX SATER, DANIEL RIDLOFF, BAYROCK GROUP INC., GLOBAL HABITAT SOLUTIONS, INC., RRMI-DR LLC, FERRARI HOLDINGS LLC, and MEM ENERGY PARTNERS LLC”
18 August 2020: Senate Select Committee on Intelligence releases the misleading and selectively-redacted Part 5 of their report on Russiagate. Part 5 details the part of the Counterintelligence frame job that they want you to see; “Kazakhstan” is mentioned 13 times in the unreacted reporter, while “Deripaska” is mentioned 340 times, “Sater” is mentioned 479 times.
16 September 2020: Journalist John Solomon reveals that the US Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) turned over Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) which flagged several foreign transactions to Hunter Biden-connected businesses as “suspicious.”
15 October 2020: FinCEN Files reveal $100M in “suspicious transactions” by former Trump associate Felix Sater (again, previously described as a US intelligence asset who is now likely being squeezed due to his proximity to Trump and his being offsides with Biden/Rakishev crime family), as well as transactions by Sater’s and his wife’s company, and transactions BTA Bank founder Ablyazov’s family. Curiously, transactions related to the Biden family aren’t revealed.
（左から）ケネス・ラキシェフ（BTA銀行の会長）、ハンター・バイデン、ジョー・バイデン、カリム・マシノフ（カザフスタンのスパイ長官）(Photo via www.olbert.us)
