Posted on 06/02/2022 12:32:45 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
Russian President Vladimir Putin underwent treatment for advanced cancer in April, according to a report quoting three high-ranking US intelligence officials.
Newsweek published the report Thursday, citing information the three intelligence officials – who represent three different US intelligence agencies – shared from a recent White House assessment of the Russian leader’s health status.
In late May, US intelligence officials put together their fourth comprehensive assessment of Putin’s medical condition.
The three officials, from the office of the Director of National Intelligence, a retired senior Air Force officer, and a Defense Intelligence Agency official, said that Putin appears to have undergone treatment for cancer in April, and that his declining health has impacted his ability to function as president.
"Putin's grip is strong but no longer absolute," one of the officials said.
But all three emphasized that Putin’s isolation following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has cut Western intelligence agencies off from key sources of inside information.
Some observers have seized on Putin’s behavior at public appearances as evidence of a general physical decline, using even his posture or the position of his hands to suggest the 69-year-old leader is suffering from specific maladies, such as Parkinson’s.
Aside from Putin’s medical status, the officials cited by Thursday’s report said last month’s White House assessment confirmed that an attempted had been made in March to assassinate Putin.
Last month, Kyrylo Budanov, the chief of Ukraine’s military intelligence, told Pravda that "there was an attempt to assassinate Putin" in March. Budanov suggested the attempt was not orchestrated by Ukraine, hinting that the plot originated in the Caucasus ...
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Is it disinformation?
For the next six months.
50 former high ranking intelligence officials thought it was highly likely Hunter’s computer was Russian disinformation. So if three draw a conclusion, does it mean anything?
I'd have a little more confidence in this report if I knew that these three intelligence officials were not among the 51 intelligence officials that claimed Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation. Or if I knew they were not part of the 17 intelligence agencies that claimed that Trump was colluding with Russia.
See what happens when institutions are undermined for political purposes? They lose all credibility.
Blatant propaganda.
They said that. But they knew it was real. If it was actually fake no one would have spent more than a second worrying about it.
Putin cannot die too soon. Tomorrow would be good. Next week is also good.
Propaganda? Certainly.
Of course nobody says propaganda has to be false.
Piled higher and deeper IMHO.
This is the kind of stuff that Israel does with Iran claiming that Iranian leaders and generals and so on are in poor health or dead or haven’t been seen lately.
I think British intelligence leads the Russian disinformation campaign.
No proof. Fake news.
Him and Zelensky falling off a cliff in an eternal embrace would be awesome.
A pair of Gollums tumbling together into the crack of doom.
“They lose all credibility.”
They are so woke and politically corrupt their eyes are crossed.
Even I doubted Ukraine could know this stuff, but apparently we had shared intelligence with them.
You have no rational reason for your hatred of Zelensky.
How do you know it’s not true? Because you worship the murdering thug in Russia?
He’s dying and may they kill him sooner.
Is obvious the Ukraine war is an immoral disaster, building an empire he will never live to see.
These boys and girls in the intelligence agencies should hold their heads high, that work in Afghanistan was one for the books
Sometimes the Iranian officials are dead because Israel kills them.
As M Ali said it ain’t bragging if you can do it.
Certainly sounds like Putin is known to have cancer, and there was an assassination plot.
Do you really think there’s a benign reason for him to sit at the end of a 100 foot table?
“This is the kind of stuff that Israel does with Iran claiming that Iranian leaders and generals and so on are in poor health or dead or haven’t been seen lately.”
Except Putin actually had a doctor who is a cancer specialist accompanying him in nearly every public appearance that he made for the last year or so. The US intelligence community might be capable of a lot, but they aren’t capable of forcing Putin to do that.
Well the Russian Bear turns out to be a shell of its former self, all bark and no bit.
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