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| 'CIA is behind spate of explosions in Russia': US Army Special Ops veteran claims intelligence agency and NATO ally are conducting sabotage missions | |
| 2022-12-26 | |
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Loose lips sink ships. Unless he is deliberately sowing fear, uncertainty, and doubt... ignoring the possibility of triggering a hot war between Russia and America.
The clandestine campaign is behind many unexplained explosions and fires that have hit strategic or prominent facilities in recent months, says US expert Jack Murphy, an eight-year Army Special Operations veteran. Separately other European intelligence services have allegedly been 'running operatives into Russia to create chaos without CIA help', as has Ukraine. His claims follow as a new fire struck a shopping mall in Krasnodar region, in southern Russia, the latest in dozens of such incidents. It comes as Putin issued another chilling warning to the West on Christmas day. In Ukraine today, air raid sirens have been going off around the country as some decide to move their Christmas day to avoid celebrating on the same day as Russia. Oil and gas facilities, railways, fuel depots, power plants and shopping malls have been hit across Russia by mysterious explosions, with rumours of sabotage. 'The campaign involves long standing sleeper cells that the allied spy service has activated to hinder Moscow's invasion of Ukraine by waging a secret war behind Russian lines,' said Murphy in a post. 'The campaign is responsible for many of the unexplained explosions and other mishaps that have befallen the Russian military industrial complex since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February.' He cited anonymous US sources including three former intelligence and two military officials, and a sixth source 'who has been briefed on the campaign'. "I talk to a lot of people" The CIA has denied the allegations. The CIA's Publication Review Board (PRB) has evidently, approved the author's release of the story to the media. The former officials declined to identify specific targets for the CIA-directed campaign, but railway bridges, fuel depots and power plants in Russia have all been damaged in unexplained incidents since the Kremlin launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February,' wrote Murphy on his website. No US officials were involved on the ground, he said, but the strikes had used an 'allied intelligence service' and were approved by US president Joe Biden, he asserted. 'While command and control over the sabotage program resides with the CIA for legal reasons, the NATO ally has a strong say in which operations go forward since it is their people taking the risks.'
He claimed European intelligence services have activated long-dormant resistance networks, who in have been 'running operatives into Russia to create chaos without CIA help'. Mick Mulroy, a former CIA paramilitary officer, reportedly said the value of these attacks is 'substantial' and serves multiple purposes. He cited problems for Russia in keeping up with logistical supply lines and supplying its soldiers. They also serve to sow doubt in Kremlin minds, because they show that Russian President Vladimir Putin 'does not have control over what is happening in his own country,' Mulroy said. 'Is it a covert program, is it disgruntled Russians sabotaging their own plant, or is it pure incompetence of the workers? I don't know, and perhaps the Kremlin doesn't either. This matters to paranoid autocrats.' | |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #11 Clausewitz: "War is the realm of uncertainty; three quarters of the factors on which action in war is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty." Wilderness of Mirrors as every player has info ops underway in the public square. The Vizzini Iocaine Powder reasoning film clip comes to mind! |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2022-12-26 12:45 |
| #10 This eventuality must have Lindsey Graham more excited than when he watches the Men’s Olympic Diving competition. He seems to have a more thorough enthusiasm for causing chaos, death and conflagration than Ahmadinejad or Jack Nicholson’s version of the joker. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2022-12-26 12:03 |
| #9 No real need to highlight or advertise the agencies enhanced deep penetration capabilities. The Omnibus budget has already been passed. Once again, follow the money. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-12-26 11:55 |
| #8 The fact that its being accomplished so effectively and quietly leaves out the CIA. This. |
| Posted by: Angstrom 2022-12-26 11:04 |
| #7 More likely decades of poor maintenance and the sudden loss of trained personnel to the "war mobilization" plus a frosting of Murphy's Laws bakes this cake. Blaming the CIA for the milk souring in my refrigerator, forsooth... |
| Posted by: magpie 2022-12-26 10:08 |
| #6 Trying to improve the credibility of the CIA and deflect suspicion from someone else, (and damage Putin’s image and standing? Be careful what you wish for, and remember a cornered rabid dog is most dangerous.) |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2022-12-26 09:35 |
| #5 Agree with Besoeker. I am seeing a number of credibility flags. If a person thinks Hillary cleans up leaks and dirt. Then this guy either has a death wish, or is actually part of the mind game being played in Intel circles. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2022-12-26 08:27 |
| #4 The fact that its being accomplished so effectively and quietly leaves out the CIA. Anyone acquainted with the repetitive and expansive exposure of American humint operatives knows how unlikely this is. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-12-26 08:21 |
| #3 As you wish... Disinformation, Censorship, And Information Warfare In The 21st Century |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2022-12-26 05:57 |
#2  Without further evidence, I remain skeptical on this one. A bit more on the Twitter, Linked, Google, and FB 'Other Government Agency (OGA)' embeds here at home please. Former employees current status, security clearance, compensation and benefits origination (pay stub), taxes, travel, contacts, email, lengths of assignment, rotations, that sort of thing. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-12-26 03:17 |
| #1 No US officials were involved on the ground, he said, but the strikes had used an 'allied intelligence service' and were approved by US president Joe Biden, he asserted. If Joe really is the one who is calling the shots without Baraq or Brennan whispering in his ear, that is about the scariest thing I've ever heard. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2022-12-26 01:38 |