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2022-12-26 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

'CIA is behind spate of explosions in Russia': US Army Special Ops veteran claims intelligence agency and NATO ally are conducting sabotage missions

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-12-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top

#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|| 2022-12-26 01:38|| Front Page Top

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|| 2022-12-26 03:17|| Front Page Top

#3 As you wish...

Disinformation, Censorship, And Information Warfare In The 21st Century

Posted by Skidmark 2022-12-26 05:57|| 2022-12-26 05:57|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-12-26 08:21|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-12-26 08:27|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-12-26 09:35|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-12-26 10:08|| Front Page Top

#8 The fact that its being accomplished so effectively and quietly leaves out the CIA.

This.

Posted by Angstrom 2022-12-26 11:04|| 2022-12-26 11:04|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-12-26 11:55|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-12-26 12:03|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2022-12-26 12:45|| Front Page Top

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