Talk:Pavel Felgenhauer

Notability
I had just read about P Felgehauer in Economist .... He is perceived as person how predicted the 2008 Ossetian war. As such he is enough person of interests of others (I immediatelly set up the google search). --147.231.138.59 (talk) 05:00, 8 May 2009 (UTC) (Reo On)
 * I confirm my signature  R eo  ON   |   + + +  05:01, 8 May 2009 (UTC)


 * I have checked his scientific ISI records. 8 publications; 36 times cited. Not a highly notable as a biologist. He is mostly known as a military analyst.Biophys (talk) 14:56, 23 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Yeppers he is. And I'm going to have to post his "brilliant" military prediction about the war, should an edit-war erupt in this article, you know, the one with the Modernized Georgian Army triumphing over the Obsolete Russian Forces. Or some of his "stellar" articles on the Iraq War. HistoricWarrior007 (talk) 04:15, 2 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Just thought I'd share more of Felgenhauer's "inspiring" articles:


 * http://www.cdi.org/russia/244-4.cfm - "In 1991, after a military victory and the liberation of Kuwait, allied forces stopped short of Baghdad. A ceasefire was signed that left Hussein in power. It's easy to envisage a similar scenario in 1944: After the liberation of France and Belgium, the war could have stopped at the borders of Hitler's Reich. A ceasefire could have been signed (the Germans were at the time actively trying to start negotiations to organize such a ceasefire). A UN inspection team could have been deployed to destroy Hitler's ballistic missiles and other weapons of mass destruction. Hitler and his party would have continued to rule in Berlin and would surely have played games with UN arms inspectors, using underground factories and so on."


 * http://nvo.ng.ru/concepts/2008-07-25/13_georgia.html "Потому трудной будет для наших недеформированных ВС задача эффективно воевать на чужой территории, за непроходимым зимой и труднопроходимым летом Кавказским хребтом." - "It will be a tough battle for the Russian, unreformed forces, to effectively fight on foreign soil, under the unpassable during winter, and tough to pass during summer, Kavkaz." In other words, it will be tough for the Russian Army to defeat the Georgian Army. The Russians did it in 5-8 days, and lost under 70 men. HistoricWarrior007 (talk) 04:31, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Interesting  R eo  ON   |   + + +  16:52, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

Controversy
So, according to article in Guardian (ref by Igny),

Over the following weeks, says Tomlinson, F received 12,000 dollars, but resisted all efforts to lure him to London and provided no secrets.

Tomlinson writes: "In the end we decided that F was simply playing with us, possibly with the participation of the Russian secret service."

Pavel Felgenhauer, a prominent Moscow journalist and military analyst, confirmed the existence of Truefax yesterday but cast doubt on Tomlinson's version of events as it applied to him. He told The Guardian he was commissioned to write an article on Russian biological warfare strategy in 1992. He says he received £400 from Truefax for two articles. He never had a telephone number for the agency but operated by fax.

Mr Felgenhauer said: "I was very closely acquainted with Grachev at that time. Truefax contacted me and I wrote one article about biological warfare. I still have it in my computer. They paid me £400. They didn't pay me 12,000 dollars. Maybe they stole it. I wrote my piece and then they disappeared. I was not connected to Russian intelligence."

If anyone wants to describe this, please do, but do not cite single phrase out of context.Biophys (talk) 02:44, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

sic
Why remove the sic? "wholes" makes no sense at all and clearly is a typo in the original source. --Xeeron (talk) 13:03, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

Genealogy
even though being a big taboo in WP, I wish to know more about his family, Felgenhauer is either German or jewish? In the first place, his father was one of the volunteers for a communist realm etc, or how is it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.112.177.58 (talk) 01:29, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
 * It's not a taboo. You could ask this question at the [{WP:Reference desk]]. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 11:52, 31 January 2015 (UTC).