Posted on 01/02/2023 8:46:47 AM PST by SoConPubbie
According to a report by investigative journalist Jack Murphy that was released Sunday, the CIA has been using the intelligence services of a European NATO country to conduct sabotage attacks in Russian territory since Russia invaded Ukraine in February. The report cites multiple unnamed former US intelligence and military officials.
While the report states that no US personnel are on the ground in Russia, it does confirm that the operations are being directed by the CIA with the use of an ally’s intelligence which adds a second layer of plausible deniability. That added layer of deniability is a large part of why President Biden approved the operations, according to a former US special operations official.
Murphy did not name the NATO ally whose intelligence services the US is working with in the report because “doing so might endanger the operational security of cells that are still operational inside of Russia.”
According to Murphy’s report, the covert operation in Russia took years to plan. Two former military officials confirmed that the NATO ally’s intelligence service had hidden a cache of explosives and other gear in Russia over a decade ago and that some of it have been used recently.
A former US special operations official said that the CIA did not get involved in Russia until 2014. The first sleeper cells directed by both the CIA and the NATO ally’s intelligence service were in 2016. More sleeper cells that are directed by both agencies have entered Russia since.
The NATO country’s spy service provided the operatives and gave them cover stories to explain why they were in Russia along with the necessary documentation to support the stories. The NATO ally activated the sleeper cells around the time that Putin invaded Ukraine on February 24 and the cells were immediately ready to take orders regarding targets to strike.
While it is unclear how many attacks the sleeper cells have carried out thus far, there have been numerous unexplained explosions at Russian railroads, military installations, and powerplants since the invasion of Ukraine. Murphy’s report indicated that the cells could have been behind a fire at the research institute of Russia’s Aerospace Defense Forces in April, which killed more than 20 people.
The kind of sabotage operations that the CIA is directing cannot be executed without a presidential finding. Former President Barack Obama signed a finding in 2016 allowing covert operations against Russia due to unproven allegations that Russia interfered in the 2016 election.
The finding Obama signed allows for cyberweapons to be planted in Russia’s infrastructure, which is the digital equivalent of a bomb that could be detonated if things escalated between the US and Russia in the future.
There is some debate about what Obama’s finding permitted, with one former CIA official saying that the finding allowed for sabotage operations against Russia while different former officials have said that the current operations would require either a new finding or an amendment to Obama’s finding.
While a spokesperson for the CIA denied the report’s allegations, it should be noted that the CIA legally has the authority to deny the existence of its covert operations.
While Ukraine’s recent strikes inside Russian territory could lead to a nuclear escalation between NATO and Russia, the CIA directing acts of sabotage in Russia could easily escalate the situation to the same level.
According to Murphy, his report “went through a vigorous fact-checking process and was deemed newsworthy,” adding that he published the report to inform the public, saying, “Indeed, the Russian government knows perfectly well who is sponsoring these sabotage strikes. Moreover, the intelligence community wants them to know. The only party left in the dark is the public at large, left unaware of the shadow war taking place behind the scenes.”
Murphy published the report on his personal website. He offered the following explanation as to why it was not published by a media outlet. “While working with editors at mainstream publications, I was asked to do things that were illegal and unethical in one instance, and in another instance, I felt that a senior CIA official was able to edit my article by making off-the-record statements before he leaked a story to The New York Times to undermine this piece,” Murphy wrote at the end of the report.
Good luck. The CIA exists to serve the purposes of elites since ~1960 or so. It serves men like Soros, it doesn’t whack them.
In years past I wouldn’t believe that...
What the CIA’s motto is: “The Work of a Nation. The Center of Intelligence.”
What the CIA’s motto should be: “Avoid foreign entanglements.”
Nobody is surprised. The CIA does the same thing right here in the US.
“According to a report by investigative journalist Jack Murphy that was released Sunday, the CIA has been using the intelligence services of a European NATO country to conduct sabotage attacks in Russian territory since Russia invaded Ukraine in February.”
It’s about time! Russia has been conducting a cyberwar against the US ever since Putin seized power. People have died because of this cyberwarfare against the US and the numerous ‘computer failures’ of US airlines are also being attributed to Russia by the cybersecurity community.
“Don’t poke the bear.”
That’s sound advice because when you’re dealing with a bear it’s best to just shoot him in the head and be done with it.
That works for real bears, not countries.
I call BS.
So the CIA is conducting MILITARY actions in Russia... thot that was The responsibility of the arm forces special services branches.
Un-freaking real
No doubt the CIA will initiate the false flag attack
With Poland. And Poles were eyeballs deep in the Nordstream attack. This is pretty much a Brit/US/Polack war.
The CIA might want to remember one name when planning operations in Russia.... Francis Gary Powers ... You know that guy who used to sing with U2.
>> That added layer of deniability is a large part of why President Biden approved the operations
Oh please. Resident Jiao Beiden can’t change his own diaper, let alone understand and approve an “intelligence” operation.
THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: I wonder what would be the American sentiment if (say) China developed strong ties with Mexico, and instituted a Greater China World Influence military pact that was obviously aimed at containing and defeating America, and then actively courted Mexico as a member of the military pact — thus provoking war with America. China continued to supply vast amounts of military aid to Mexico, without which Mexico simply could not withstand the USA in combat.
AND THEN China was discovered using its intelligence agencies through foreign proxies to kill Americans and damage and subvert American infrastructure.
Having been tempted all along to use its nuclear prowess against the Mexicans and the Chinese, America had up to this point shown restraint... but now, in the face of an undeniable act of war...
Like I said, just a thought experiment.
Gee, there is nothing here in America that the Russians could blow up in retaliation. /sarc
These clowns are going to get everyone killed in nuclear fire.
Boy howdy! That is certainly the way to stop a war.
They must not be to good at it nothing has changed.
Gee Moe I wonder why 50% of the money for the effort keeps going missing?.
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