Federal DOJ prosecutors dropped a judicial sledgehammer on a former Army Green Beret, charging back stabbing traitor Peter Rafael Dzibinski Debbins with espionage dating back to 1996. While living in northern Virginia, Debbins fed secret information to his Russian handlers, and got away with it for over two decades.
He wanted to serve Russia, DOJ reveals
Peter Debbins spent more than half his life as a Russian spy and he could spend the rest of it in a cell. The 45-year-old based in Gainesville, Virginia, faces life in prison after he “periodically met Russian intelligence and in 1997 was even assigned a code name by Russian intelligence agents after signing a statement saying that he wanted to serve Russia,” DOJ prosecutors note.
According to U.S. Attorney G. Zachary Terwilliger, “when service members collude to provide classified information to our foreign adversaries, they betray the oaths they swore to their country and their fellow service members.”
Debbins was picked up on Friday but his records are sealed due to the national intelligence considerations of what they contain. The Department of Justice did explain that between 1996 and 2011, while Debbins actively served in Army Special Forces, he “transmitted” American secrets to the Kremlin “about U.S. national defenses.”
Chemical and Special Forces
CNN adds that the information he passed along to Russian agents on a regular basis included specific operational details of the “chemical and Special Forces unit he was a part of before and while serving in the US Army.” Debbins “served as an active member of the US Army from 1998 until he was honorably discharged in 2005. During that time, he was granted secret security clearance and was granted top secret security clearance with Sensitive Compartmented Information access.”
The Russkies gave him the code name “Ikar Lesnikov,” which was used by Russian intelligence agents to identify him. As related by the Federal Bureau of Instigation’s James A. Dawson, acting assistant director in charge of the FBI Washington field office, “Mr. Debbins knowingly provided information to self-proclaimed members of Russia’s Intelligence Service, the GRU.”
Alan E. Kohler, FBI assistant director of the counterintelligence division adds, “as a member of the US Armed Forces, the American people and his fellow service men and women should have been able to trust Debbins with secrets and information. Debbins allegedly fell very short of that and exploited his role in the military and his fellow service members to benefit one of our top adversaries for years.” Over at the DOJ they’re anxious to catch someone other than their own agents for a change.
If convicted, why will he spend the rest of his life in prison. I thought Spies were shot? As they should be.
CNN will actively seek his release and give him a anchor position so he can continue where he left off working for the Kremlin, just in another venue…
If you happen to be reading this and are even thinking about following in this traitors’ footsteps, never forget these 2 important games that some of the best play. In order to prevent you, or those like you, from changing your allegiance and honor the attention you pay to your new found criminality, some of those you seek to betray for money, fame and your ego, are feeding you bogus information. Secretly they are hoping you suck it all in and impart it to your handlers. Oh, and if you get too damn cocky, your treachery can be revealed to your handlers also. I’m sure you can surmise what would follow. Yes, those who live with you definitely DO NOT like your choice of vocation and are known to continue their lethal job.