NY Times Plays CIA Messenger– Turn Off The Lights, The Party Is Over

I ask forgiveness on not discussing the NY Times post by Adam Entous and Michael Schwirtz, The Spy War: How the C.I.A. Secretly Helps Ukraine Fight Putin, in the past now however my schedule did not offer me the time I required to do the subject justice. I was swamped with ask for a remark by numerous media outlets and did my finest to accommodate those in radio and television interviews.

The essential thing you require to comprehend is that this post is an intentional piece of false information that is planned to form public and policymaking viewpoint in the United States. The following opening to the post, like all propaganda, is a mix of reality and dream.

the intelligence collaboration in between Washington and Kyiv is a linchpin of Ukraine’s capability to safeguard itself. The C.I.A. and other American intelligence firms offer intelligence for targeted rocket strikes, track Russian troop motions and assist support spy networks.

But the collaboration is no wartime development, nor is Ukraine the only recipient.

It settled a years back, coming together in fits and begins under 3 extremely various U.S. presidents, pressed forward by crucial people who typically took bold dangers. It has actually changed Ukraine, whose intelligence firms were long viewed as completely jeopardized by Russia, into among Washington’s crucial intelligence partners versus the Kremlin today.

Yes, it holds true that U.S. intelligence, in addition to NATO, provided Ukraine with intelligence utilized to perform rocket strikes on Russian positions. Confessing this in the pages of the NY Times is careless and harmful. I am quite sure the Russians currently understood this however putting this on the record with U.S. intelligence sources is a casus belli for Russia. Can you think of the response if Russian intelligence validated they supplied intel to a group or nation that assaulted the U.S.? Do you believe Washington would neglect that and not look for retribution? Naturally not.

But the post begins with the huge lie by declaring that the CIA relationship with Ukraine began in February 2022 and after that stacks on with these 2 whoppers:

Before the war, the Ukrainians showed themselves to the Americans by gathering intercepts that assisted show Russia’s participation in the 2014 downing of an industrial jetliner, Malaysia Airlines Flight17 The Ukrainians likewise assisted the Americans pursue the Russian operatives who meddled in the 2016 U.S. governmental election.

The Maidan and the occurring occasions in February and March 2014 included what I think was a joint U.S./ U.K. intelligence operation to eliminate Ukraine’s President Yanukovich and set up a pro-Western federal government that would be utilized to assault Russia. The truth of the matter is that the CIA has actually been handling Ukrainian challengers of Russia because a minimum of 1947.

The propaganda function of the post is exposed by the choice of the press reporters to duplicate the specious claims that Russia shot down Malaysia Airlines flight 17 which Russia “meddled” in the 2016 U.S. Presidential election. We have had a multitude of discoveries over the last 2 months, mainly from Matt Taibbi and Michael Schellenberger, revealing that it was the Clinton project with the aid of the CIA and the FBI who meddled in the 2016 Presidential project in an unsuccessful effort to beat Donald Trump. Entous and Schwirtz place the fake claim that Ukraine fingered the Russian officer accountable for “election disturbance.”

In one joint operation, a HUR group deceived an officer from Russia’s military intelligence service into supplying details that enabled the C.I.A. to link Russia’s federal government to the so-called Fancy Bear hacking group, which had actually been connected to election disturbance efforts in a variety of nations.

No. Fancy Bear was a CIA production that utilized Vault 7 tools to develop a phony cyber path that linked Russian intelligence. I went over the CIA’s function in this operation 4 years back in my piece, DID JOHN BRENNAN’S CIA CREATE GUCCIFER 2.0 AND DCLEAKS? Here is the pertinent part of that piece:

In October 2015 John Brennan rearranged the CIA As part of that reorganization he produced a brand-new directorate– DIRECTORATE OF DIGITAL INNOVATION. Its objective was to “control digital footprints.” Simply put, this was the Directorate that did the work of producing Guccifer 2.0 and DCLeaks. Among their specializeds, developing Digital Dust.

We likewise understand, thanks to Wikileaks, that the CIA was utilizing software application particularly created to mask CIA activity and make it look like it was done by a foreign entity. Wikipedia explains the Vault 7 files:

Vault 7 is a series of files that WikiLeaks started to release on 7 March 2017, that information activities and abilities of the United States’ Central Intelligence Agency to carry out electronic monitoring and cyber warfare. The files, dated from 2013–2016, consist of information on the company’s software application abilities, such as the capability to jeopardize vehicles, wise TVs, [1] web internet browsers (consisting of Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, and Opera Software ASA), [2] [3] [4] and the os of many mobile phones (consisting of Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android), in addition to other running systems such as Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux [5] [6

One of the tools in Vault 7 brings the harmless name, MARBLE. Hackernews describes the function and function of MARBLE:

Dubbed “Marble,” the part 3 of CIA files consists of 676 source code files of a secret anti-forensic Marble Framework, which is essentially an obfuscator or a packer utilized to conceal the real source of CIA malware.
The CIA’s Marble Framework tool consists of a range of various algorithm with foreign language text deliberately placed into the malware source code to trick security experts and wrongly associate attacks to the incorrect country.

Marble is utilized to hinder [ing] forensic detectives and anti-virus business from associating infections, trojans and hacking attacks to the CIA,” states the whistleblowing website.

” … for instance by pretending that the spoken language of the malware developer was not American English, however Chinese, however then revealing efforts to hide making use of Chinese, drawing forensic detectives much more highly to the incorrect conclusion,” WikiLeaks describes.

So guess what gullible techies “found” in mid-June 2016? The meta information in the Guccifer 2.0 interactions had “Russian finger prints.”

The objective of the Entous/Schwirtz post is easy– represent the CIA as a fantastic company that did stunning operate in Ukraine however was unable to finish the objective of damaging Russia due to the fact that the Republican Congress stopped working to offer financing and the Ukrainian intelligence service was unmanageable.

Entous and Schwirtz provide a psychological account of CIA and UK spies attempting to caution Ukrainian authorities that Russia was going to get into. Hell, the Brits even sobbed. Regardless of Ukrainian recalcitrance, the CIA would not desert Ukraine:

President Zelensky and some of his leading advisors appeared unsure, even after Mr. Burns, the C.I.A. director, hurried to Kyiv in January 2022 to inform them.

As the Russian intrusion neared, C.I.A. and MI6 officers made last gos to in Kyiv with their Ukrainian peers. Among the MI6 officers wrecked in front of the Ukrainians, out of issue that the Russians would eliminate them.

At Mr. Burns’s advising, a little group of C.I.A. officers were excused from the wider U.S. evacuation and were moved to a hotel complex in western Ukraine. They didn’t wish to desert their partners.

We’re then dealt with to a list of all the amazing tricks the CIA passed to Ukraine about Russia’s strategies to murder the federal government and military leaders in Kiev. We’re likewise informed that the CIA qualified Ukie intel teams are something of a Rogue Elephant.

At the time, the future head of Ukraine’s military intelligence firm, General Budanov, was an increasing star in Unit2245 He was understood for bold operations behind firing line and had deep ties to the C.I.A. The firm had actually trained him and likewise taken the amazing action of sending him for rehab to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland after he was shot in the ideal arm throughout battling in the Donbas.

Disguised in Russian uniforms, then-Lt. Col. Budanov led task forces throughout a narrow gulf in inflatable speedboats, landing in the evening in Crimea.

But an elite Russian task force system was awaiting them. The Ukrainians resisted, eliminating a number of Russian fighters, consisting of the kid of a basic, before pulling back to the coastline, plunging into the sea and swimming for hours to Ukrainian-controlled area.

It was a catastrophe. In a public address, President Putin implicated the Ukrainians of outlining a terrorist attack and assured to avenge the deaths of the Russian fighters.

” There is no doubt that we will not let these things pass,” he stated.

In Washington, the Obama White House was livid. Joseph R. Biden Jr., then the vice president and a champ of help to Ukraine, called Ukraine’s president to madly grumble.

Got it? Budanov is a careless, out of hand spy. Message provided. Entous and Schwirtz then go back to the story of how terrific a task the CIA performed in safeguarding Ukraine from the Russians. They state how the CIA notified Zelensky that Ukraine had actually stopped the Russian intrusion cold at the end of March 2022:

When the Russian attack on Kyiv had actually stalled, the C.I.A. station chief rejoiced and informed his Ukrainian equivalents that they were “punching the Russians in the face,” according to a Ukrainian officer who was in the space.

This is not real. It is a lie. Not a word is blogged about the settlements that were underway in Turkey in between Russia and Ukraine that had actually reached an arrangement in concept up until the U.S. and the U.K. stepped in and purchased the Ukrainians to leave. Can’t have that in this story. Nope. Got to discover somebody else to blame for the unfolding fiasco. And Entous and Schwirtz require with this off-hand paragraph at the end of their piece:

The concern that some Ukrainian intelligence officers are now asking their American equivalents– as Republicans in your house weigh whether to cut off billions of dollars in help– is whether the C.I.A. will desert them. “It occurred in Afghanistan before and now it’s going to occur in Ukraine,” a senior Ukrainian officer stated.

The response to that concern is left hanging. Entous and Schwirtz did their task– they polished up the CIA turd and laid the structure of blame for the looming defeat at the hands of the Republican Congress and an out-of-control Ukrainian intel chief, Budanov. As soon as you understand this you can comprehend why Kiril Budanov has actually been on the record in journalism today rejecting the U.S. claim that Putin eliminated Russian-dissident Nalvani which Russia is utilizing Iranian and North Korean rockets. Appears like Budanov comprehends he can no longer rely on the CIA to have his back.