Is Elon Musk a Russian Asset?
According to a new report by Germany's ZDF, Russian agents have targeted Elon Musk and see his affinity for "promiscuous women" and ketamine as his key vulnerabilities.
According to a new report by ZDF, the German public television broadcaster, Jonathan Buma, a former special agent for the the FBI, says that Elon Musk and other billionaire “broligarchs” have been key targets of Russian intelligence.
Buma added that he has knowledge of direct contact between Musk and Putin, likely on multiple occasions. Buma’s assertions support reporting on the same subject by The Wall Street Journal last year.
In addition, in 2023, the Daily Beast noted that Musk’s anti-Ukrainian stance had made him a favorite on Russian state TV. It cited TV host Olga Skabeeva of Russia’s Sixty Minutes saying, “Elon Musk is magnificent, he is wonderful and perhaps he really is our agent! He published a meme about a beggar that recently became popular, using Zelensky’s face.”
Perhaps what is most striking about ZDF’s charges is that since 2022, Musk has reversed his stance regarding who he supports in the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In 2022, Musk supported Ukrainian soldiers in the war against Ukraine. However, more recently he has railed against further aid for Ukraine, and has propagated Russian talking points to the 600 million users of his social media platform, X. The ZDF report also noted that early this year, Musk interfered in Germany’s federal election campaign by supporting AfD, Germany’s far-right, right-wing populist political party.
Buma said that Musk's susceptibility to promiscuous women and drug use, particularly ketamine, were seen by Russian intelligence as vulnerabilities for their agents to exploit.
In addition to Musk, PayPal founder Peter Thiel was also said to be a target of Russian intelligence. When asked whether there was a Russian operation targeting Musk and Thiel, Buma said: "Yes."
When asked if there was evidence to support his allegations, Buma said, “I'm not allowed to discuss the details of exactly how we obtained this information. But there's a vast amount of evidence.”
It is also clear that the Trump Administrations wants to keep the evidence behind Buma’s allegations secret. According to the ZDF article, shortly before their interview with him, Buma was arrested, his passport was confiscated, and and he was “accused of trying to provide journalists with classified information about FBI counterintelligence operations.”
He has since been released on $100,000 bail. His conclusion, according to ZDF, is that “this represents the greatest failure in the history of American counterintelligence.”
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If Musk flys to Moscow and meets with Putin - he is a Russian asset. Because he is not an elected official, he does not have to report or provide information about such meetings. You do a great job getting the word out to naive Americans. Now add a note at the bottom that says: contact the International Criminal Court regarding Musk, Trump, Vance, and Noem who have all committed crimes against humanity. Take care, E
Worse, I really think he and Peter Thiel, who grew up as young friends in Apartheid South Africa, are both trying to use America’s racism to destroy our country and turn it into an Apartheid state as payback for us destroying the Apartheid they had benefited from up until their late teens and early twenties when it was abolished.