On Aug. 13 the FBI raided the 132 acre estate called “Patria,” the home of Dimitri Simes located in rural Virginia about 4.5 miles north of the town of Flint Hill and about 65 miles west of Washington, D.C. According to the Rappahannock News, the FBI and other law enforcement have been using trucks and trailers to haul contents from the home. The FBI has maintained a presence at the farm since the raid and have blocked the driveway with yellow police crime scene tape. “The FBI conducted court-authorized law enforcement activity. We have no further comment as this is an ongoing matter,” Federal Bureau of Investigation spokesperson Samantha Shero emailed the Rappahannock News on Aug. 14. There are rumors of possible Ukrainians (maybe CCD personnel) accompanying the FBI during the raid—but this is not confirmed.
Dimitri Simes, 76, has been a fixture in the diplomatic world in Washington since at least the Nixon years. He emigrated to the U.S. in the early 1970s. His father was the human rights activist, Konstantin Simes, author of U.S.S.R.: The Corrupt Society. He accompanied Nixon at the Moscow Summit in May 1972, and more recently he has been an advisor to the Trump White House and the current Trump presidential campaign. For decades Simes was president of the Center for the National Interest, a think tank founded by Nixon, but retired from that position in 2022 and has been living in Moscow since then.
