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Makes a Point of Slipping in Disinformation About Russia to Further Propaganda CampaignThe New York Times on February 25
published an explosive story of what purports to be the history of the CIA in Ukraine from the Maidan coup of 2014 to the present. The story, "
The Spy War: How the C.I.A. Secretly Helps Ukraine Fight Putin," written by Adam Entous and Michael Schwirtz,
is one of initial distrust, but a mutual fear and hatred of Russia that progresses to a relationship so close that
Ukraine is now one of the CIA's closest intelligence partners in the world.At the same time, the
Times's publication of the piece, which relied on more than 200 interviews in Ukraine, the U.S., and "several other European countries,"
raises several questions: Why did the CIA not object to the article's publication, especially coming in one of the Agency's preferred outlets? When the CIA approaches a newspaper to complain about the classified information it contains,
the piece is almost always killed or severely edited.Newspaper publishers are patriots, after all. Right? Was the article published because the CIA wanted the news out there? Perhaps more importantly,
was the point of the article to influence the congressional budget deliberations on aid to Ukraine? After all, was the article really just meant to brag about how great the CIA is? Or was it to warn congressional appropriators, "Look how much we've accomplished to confront the Russian bear.
You wouldn't really let it all go to waste, would you?"
Comment: Ah, Viktor. Scourge of the woke and perennial thorn in the EU side. Long may you wave!