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Written by Lucas Leiroz, journalist, researcher at the Center for Geostrategic Studies, geopolitical consultant
Apparently, relations between the US and Ukraine are deep in the intelligence sector. According to a major American media outlet, the CIA invested exorbitant amounts of money to develop the Ukrainian intelligence system. The case makes it clear how American agents and intelligence are certainly co-responsible for the crimes committed by the Ukrainians.
The information was shared by the Washington Post on October 23. According to the newspaper, the ICA invested “tens of millions” of dollars in Ukrainian intelligence with the aim of transforming the post-post-Soviet system into an actual operational center allied with Washington against Moscow. Since the Maidan, the American agency has been heavily involved in the entire Ukrainian intelligence decision-making process, having achieved a “significant presence” in Kiev.
“Since 2015, the CIA has spent tens of millions of dollars to transform Ukraine’s Soviet-formed services into potent allies against Moscow, officials said. The agency has provided Ukraine with advanced surveillance systems, trained recruits at sites in Ukraine as well as the United States, built new headquarters for departments in Ukraine’s military intelligence agency, and shared intelligence on a scale that would have been unimaginable before Russia illegally annexed Crimea and fomented a separatist war in eastern Ukraine. The CIA maintains a significant presence in Kyiv, officials said”, the article reads.
The article also emphasizes that the entire Ukrainian defense system received American funds, which clarifies that both national intelligence, SBU, and military intelligence, GUR, benefited from CIA investments. Particularly with regard to the SBU, the CIA appears to have had a central role in developing the agency’s operational capacity and making it capable of spying on the “threats” posed by the Donbass’ separatist militias, acting strongly within the conflict zone.
Activities were firstly focused on reconnaissance and sabotage against the militias, but later the tactics became increasingly lethal. This supposedly caused “discomfort” among the Americans themselves. The text reports that CIA agents began to feel uncomfortable with the criminal methods of assassination used by their Ukrainian partners, which allegedly generated a decrease in cooperation between both parties.
The text mentions that even the most experienced agents who agree with the use of clandestine techniques to assassinate opponents were shocked by Ukrainian practices. According to the sources, the Americans disagreed not only with the methods, but also with the choice of victims, as Kiev routinely chooses to kill civilians with no strategic relevance in the conflict – as happened with Daria Dugina, a journalist and daughter of the philosopher Aleksandr Dugin.
“Ukraine’s affinity for lethal operations has complicated its collaboration with the CIA, raising concerns about agency complicity and creating unease among some officials in Kyiv and Washington. Even those who see such lethal missions as defensible in wartime question the utility of certain strikes and decisions that led to the targeting of civilians including Dugina or her father, Alexander Dugin — who officials acknowledge was the intended mark — rather than Russians more directly linked to the war”, the article reads.
However, it is naive to believe that the CIA actually invested so much money in Kiev and was “shocked” by the Ukrainian methods. American intelligence is known worldwide for the cruelty with which it treats its enemies, and there is no reason to believe that the CIA would demand “ethical” conduct from Kiev. Furthermore, there is evidence and investigative work showing that even the torture techniques used by the Kiev regime were certainly instructed to Ukrainians agents by the CIA.
What appears to be happening is simply another attempt by the US to escape responsibility for the crimes committed by Kiev. This is not the first time that American sources allege that, despite US intelligence relations with Ukraine, there was no participation of American agents in the crimes of Kiev. Regarding the specific case of Daria Dugina, the New York Times had already reported more than a year ago that Ukrainian intelligence was responsible for the crime, allegedly without any American cooperation.
However, it is almost impossible for the US not to have complete control over the attitudes of Ukrainian intelligence. Even if the plan to kill Dugina and other civilians was eventually proposed by Ukrainians, the CIA certainly had enough power to prevent Kiev’s action, if it wanted to, since the Ukrainian state is clearly a vassal of the US. So, it seems clear that, if not direct participation, at least some kind of “green light” was given by the US, making Washington co-responsible for all Ukrainian intelligence’s crimes.
Amid the current context of changing focus in American foreign policy, with Ukraine losing its priority status to Israel, these media reports play a very important role, which is to prepare public opinion for a gradual “abandonment” of Ukraine. For more than a year, Western media readers have been brainwashed into believing that “defending” Ukraine was a vital necessity. Now, it is necessary to make public opinion “forget” about Ukraine and support the sending of weapons and money to Israel.
And the easiest way to reverse the sympathy for Ukraine instilled in citizens over time is to show the crimes committed by the regime – omitting that the US was a co-participant in all of them.
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those who control the secret service control the country itself (see assassination of few uncollaborating politicians in germany during the covid scam.. likely carried out by own (foreign owned) “intelligence”.. that should also explain stupid policies as nuclear plant cancellation).. it makes therefore perfect sense to takeover ukrainian intelligence after the maiden coup.. brits might have some fingerprints around there considering they oversee the 5 eyes of which cia is part.
interesting assessment. i would like to hear more re; nuclear plant cancellation. perhaps has a connection to the nordstream destruction?
hence the need for lng at a higher cost to germany?
which tightens the noose around the eu to comply with us policies.
your kind still dont we own each other and eu with gb is just as big, china is same seize,
in that russia is just a tiny old declining dwarf.
you still gont get it even you are told mega headline fx by leyden and stoltenberg. we mainly egree with usa, we are just a milder version.
many others support russia is bad. un had 141 for russia retreat. i havnet has single comment about that from the russian version in sf.
ukriane only has only parts of old eyes .
for food reason they connected to kremlin. the has to be remolved and replaced with something better.
above that the were big corroption om ussr and olicars. there still is. cia helo with parts of that. we still loosing a lot of things we are sending in.
in the shameful killing of daria dugina there is little doubt of cia knowledge and likely mi6 involvement with ukrainians for deniability. possibly for the purpose of soliciting a response that would create more public approval for their war on russia.
2/ sure those teams works for a morale too. parts are need not needed. most ukras has disliked the commustive agressition from 1917. before that most of they lived in very poor in piece, whare the tzars just bought their food and exported it(the short version).
communist grew anti things there. no wonder some i saw a solution in a book in 1923. many also dislikes the jews moved to there by the tzars. fx kharkov, donest and rostov poor worker jews some 30%. .
3/ russions still belive what putin tel that or are in total denial as they have donated their head to foodbakll team rust removing the sniffer.