The Targeting of Special Agent Johnathan Buma

His own account

The following draws on FBI Special Agent Johnathan Buma’s own account of what happened to him since deciding to speak to Congress about the suppression of his intelligence related to Russian corruption around Rudy Giuliani.

Giuliani has been protected since probably before 9/11, after he took out the Italian mafia and went to work for the Russian-Jewish one, and subsequently pickled himself so badly he didn’t know who he worked for.

Of the three sources with codenames in Buma’s statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee, we know Genius is Charles Johnson, and Rollie is Yuri Vanetik. That leaves Dynamo as the one who is not as yet identified.

Johnson was identified first on this blog, after he decided to go public and give me first crack at it. Yuri Vanetik was identified by Mattathias Schwartz. And of course, there is Peter Thiel, codenamed Philosopher, who is not in the Senate disclosure.

One reason some of these sources are coming forward is if you’re working as an informant on Russia-related organized crime, and you get shut down without explanation, there are good reasons to assume that could be hazardous to one’s health.

According to Buma, both higher-ups at the FBI and the House Weaponization Committee were uninterested in disclosures related to Giuliani, and were only interested in things related to Hunter Biden. The problem with this is, there are ways Jim Jordan, the committee chairman, could have played it that would have been very much to his political advantage. It’s difficult to account for the reason not to other than a lack of savvy or a desire to protect Giuliani.

The draft Buma prepared for the House Weaponization Committee, dated April 20, 2023, claims his source Dynamo, and work related to Pavel Fuks, was instrumental in the sanctioning of Ihor Kolomoisky. It is a notable concession to partisan sensibilities that this version doesn’t mention Giuliani at all. You can read it here:

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It seems pretty outrageous that Jim Jordan would choose Kyle Seraphin for a nothingburger of a witness instead of Buma.

Some of Buma’s reporting from 2017 also ended up with the Muller special counsel investigation, but which parts it’s hard to say. A lot of this seems pretty poorly coordinated. One way the Kholomoisky stuff might have been done is to pass it to the Ukrainians, who introduced the death penalty for treason in 2014 and hopefully won’t be as nice to him.

There are real questions whether the suppression of Buma’s sources by the New York office of the FBI have something to do with Charles McGonigal, who was taking bribes from Oleg Deripaska. As full as New York City is of corrupt Russians and Jews, there’s no telling what that office might justify under the auspices of deconfliction.

What’s most disturbing about this is how Buma has been completely cut loose and basically un-personed since all this happened. He became a whistleblower, but not in a way that suited the political agendas of either party, even though that’s certainly to his credit. He was even given a citation by James Clapper in 2016.

As with former Missouri Representative Sarah Unsicker, whose state social services bureau was called to raise concerns about her fitness as a mother, Buma had Child Protective Services called on him three times. In addition, there was the raid carried out based on the poison pen attack of Israeli asset Everett Stern.

Buma is at work on a memoir for publication, and supposedly had a meeting scheduled with HarperCollins, the Fox imprint. In all likelihood, they will string him along and drop the whole thing, but if they don’t, they will probably make him drop the Israel-related angles to all this, because that is standard practice in the media business.

Buma is divorced from his third wife, the one he was married to during much of this. He claims at one point she called the police on him and had him led out of the family home in handcuffs. He credits her with handling the situation gracefully, but the retaliation and targeting they experienced became too much to bear, and she threw him out. He has five children, one with special needs.

Let’s go over the timeline here from July 2021. His reporting from Genius, that is to say Charles Johnson, about the January 6 riot was criticized as too good. Late that month he was ordered by the Albanian woman SSA Susana Iljazi to do his reporting from the office and reprimanded him. In November Genius was ordered closed not for cause. The curious thing about this is one suspects Charles was getting some of this stuff from Clearview, which is an actual law enforcement contractor. Over the course of 2021 is when Charles McGonigal was engaged in various corrupt behavior. All of Buma’s foreign sources were ordered closed in November 2021. In January he filed his whistleblower complaint, and one month later Dynamo was closed, the same month Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began.

At the end of 2022 the retaliation against Buma intensified, after he continued work on Pavel Fuks, the minigarch pictured with former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. He was given a downgraded performance rating and reassigned to a surveillance squad requiring him to drive two hours from his home each way—the performance rating would prevent him from transferring elsewhere. He was ordered to cease all interagency liaisons as well. He took FMLA leave from November 2022 to March 2023. The following month Nicole Parker testified to Jim Jordan’s committee, and Buma reached out as well.

In July, before being interviewed by congressional investigators, he gave his statement to the Senate, which I published the same day. In August, after the big guys tried to get me to take it down, Buma discovered two plastic rats in his cubicle. By that point he’s on everyone’s radar.

In early September, Everett Stern makes an elicitation attempt on Buma, telling him he’s been in touch with Charles McGonigal and people close to General Flynn. Stern told Buma he was never given admonishments or formally registered as a CHS, so he’s clearly an Israeli asset.

On October 15 Buma was threatened by his own squad and told he needed to leave the team, after the team leader called a meeting in a bad neighborhood of LA. They are doing daily surveillance of cartel activity at this point. On October 19, Buma was told he had been set up with a special shift, near where another agent had already been identified by cartel members, in what Buma interpreted as an attempt to set him up to be killed.

On October 25, he was diagnosed with PTSD by a doctor in Newport Beach:

Like many vets with PTSD he used MDMA to treat it.

In internal communications, the FBI is telling him in late October that he has exhausted his leave. They’re breaking this guy. He agreed to indefinite leave without pay on Halloween 2023. They were forcing him out.

In early November, apparently at the behest of Stern, who has already by this point impersonated law enforcement officers, an internal investigation was initiated on Buma. On November 13, he goes to the FBI office to return his badge and gun, and is confronted by armed agents. He’s told they already have a warrant to search his Orange County home, and by the time Buma returned there in a taxi, it had already been entered, with his 18 year old son confronted by an agent with a gun drawn in his own bedroom. Here is the list of property they seized:

All of this retaliation is occurring after he’s spoken to congressional investigators. On November 19 CPS is called. This is the sort of interagency coordination the Department of Homeland Security is supposed to take care of, but when Israel runs the Department of Homeland Security, being directly in touch with the fusion centers, if you’re a target of the Israelis it’s not going to happen. Both he and his wife’s bank accounts stop accepting automated transactions on that day, and their bank accounts have issues for months thereafter. In January child protective services are called again.

The time between then and the present is somewhat harder to obtain details on, but in Buma’s account he is still under heavy technical surveillance and placing intense stress on his family. There was a domestic disturbance in late June 2024 in which police were called leading to Buma not returning home. In Buma’s account, his wife took his gun from a safe and was sending him pictures with it, he returned home in distress trying to de-escalate the situation, and she picked up a knife, then dropped it and told him to leave. She called the police, and he packed up and left under supervision with no arrest, and went to live in his father’s cabin in the woods.

And that is where things stand. He has made contact with a number of whistleblowers and advocates, including Professor Richardson at the University of North Texas, who declined to comment to me but Buma says told him this was one of the worst cases of retaliation he’s ever seen. An attorney from the FBI Agents Association was offered to him, and he also met Fred Whitehurst, who blew the whistle on some of the corrupt practices in the FBI Crime Lab.

Buma has recognized similarities between the psychological pressure being put on him and the East German technique called zersetzung, a means of psychologically decomposing a target, making them look crazy and isolating them as a means to discredit dissidence—targeting marriages and professional work is quite common, as well as character assassination and surveillance. In one email from Richardson he agrees that it sounds similar. The whole point of it is the subtlety: small things that seem normal to everyone but the target, which cause a person to doubt themself. When these tactics persist they amount to psychological torture. The point here is these tactics, occasionally used in things like COINTELPRO, but more often by the Stasi, are being used against federal agents.