BOMBSHELL: RETIRED FBI COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE EXEC LINKED TO GAZPROM SCHEME

Exclusive: Retired FBI counterintelligence executive and the current subject of twin indictments Charles McGonigal was part of a Kremlin scheme to replace US operators of Albanian oil fields with affiliates of Russia’s sanctioned behemoth Gazprom.

On March 15, 2023, Narativ broadcast Zev Shalev’s interview with Mark Crawford, honorary chairman of the Albanian American Chamber of Commerce. Crawford was an eyewitness to some of the Albanian dealings of Charles McGonigal, retired special agent in charge of counterintelligence, at the FBI’s New York Field Office, who is currently under indictment for his transactions with Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama and EN+ the sanctioned firm of Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. This interview exposed the former FBI counterintelligence executive’s alleged role in bringing Russia’s energy giant Gazprom into the Albanian market and pushing out US interests already operating in the country. The whole episode and the corresponding Narativ feature article …