The CIA’s deputy director of intelligence made his first public appearance this week and used the opportunity to say the agency is looking to recruit Russians who are unhappy with the war in Ukraine, The Wall Street Journal Reported Tuesday.
David Marlowe, who took his post in June 2021, said that the CIA is “looking around the world” for Russians who are “disgusted” with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine. “Because we’re open for business,” he said.
Former CIA officials have said that the agency is seeking to recruit military officers and oligarchs who have had their finances impacted by Western sanctions on Russia. The agency has also made public efforts to recruit Russians inside Russia earlier in the war.
The CIA has set up a website on the dark web for potential spies to make contact using Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), which allow users to circumvent geographic internet restrictions. Back in May, the CIA released instructions in Russian on how to access the site on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and other social media sites.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine, the US has increased the funding of VPN companies in an effort aimed at people inside Russia, so they could access Voice of America, a US state-funded media outlet that Putin has banned.
The funding of the VPN companies is done through the Open Technology Fund (OTF), a non-profit funded by the US government that Washington uses to support protesters around the world by giving them tools to avoid surveillance and get around internet censorship.
Maybe Russians could look for disgusted Americans to fight in Ukraine too.
How low can the criminal CIA sink? It is a criminal outfit. There are Polish soldiers wearing Ukrainian uniforms who were killed by the Ukrainians because they refused to fight a fight just to become cannonfodder.
Has the CIA informed the Biden people of the war crime where Ukrainian soldiers killed Russian POWs? There is much more and evidence is available and not one word from President Biden or even reports in MSM about it.
The American officials including the president must know about it, that makes them war criminals. But Biden is busy writing checks for Zelensky.
Does it bother you, then, that the Russians are sending their own men to be cannon fodder?
(Also, according to Tass — which I’m sure you think is a highly trustworthy source — the Poles killed the Ukrainians, not the other way around.)
I’m not being forced to pay for whatever the Russians are doing. But the massive Ukrainian lobby in DC funded by sketchy sources via the Ukrainian money laundering schemes extract wealth from Americans. I resent that.
As far as these Ukrainian state propaganda pieces you continue to trot out? I’ve been inoculated against such things over the years.
what Lemony commented there doesn’t seem like ukrainian propaganda to me. it seems more like his comment is from a ukrainian soldier who is lamenting that his ukrainian government has lied to them.
No, she was talking about a Russian soldier.
How do we know it is true?
I didn’t say it was true. I was just correcting the last commenter’s opinion that the alpaca had been discussing a Ukrainian soldier. It’s from WaPo, it’s CIA filtered information, so I’m sure they meant it to be a Russian Soldier.
Sorry, my mistake, I too had alpaca in mind.
My thought too.
??? Where does that “comment” come from? Answer: it originates from the propaganda arm of the Ukrainian state.
Exactly. The false equivlance is breathtaking.
It literally is a do or die situation for the nation of Russia. If Russia does not prevail, the US has every intention of Balkanizing the country, and stealing resources.
Yeah, and why would anyone think that a random front line soldier’s assessment of the geopolitical situation is somehow dispositive? Is “Irina Sokolova’s husband” an expert? Assuming he even exists and assuming he really said this at all.
Even if what you print is true, you don’t think there are disgruntled soldiers on both sides? And if you read a Ukrainian saying something similar, would you consider it propaganda?
Early on there was video on Matt Taibbi’s site with soldiers on Ukraine’s side complaining.
Seriously, it has nothing to do with anything. And proves nothing. And is just argumentative BS….”does it bother you….?”
That is what has been reported about the Ukrainian side and their mercenaries and backed up with evidence. The same can not be said here, there are lots of Irina’s around. How nice, the woman could speak to her soldier husband by phone without any difficulty but had no food and water.
Are you saying the Polish soldiers in Ukrainian uniforms killed Ukrainian draftees according to Tass? That makes no sense at all.
There is also plenty of evidence of war crimes committed by Ukrainians on Russian soldiers and Ukrainian civilians.
Read the article, that’s exactly what Tass is saying.
You might have mentioned that the Post claims it is not using “Yana’s” full name “to shield her from arrest and prosecution.” Could be an entirely fictitious person. Or a plant.
Also, this is an attempt to derail. Neither the thread opener, nor the person you responded to, made any claims about how wonderful conditions were for Russian soldiers on the front. So, your bringing up their alleged hardships here would be a red herring, if it were not simply an exercise in baseless, “waddabout-ism” both siderist, bad faith, distraction.
And this is why the war needs to continue, so we can all eventually come to a consensus about which side won. Right now the signs are bad for the Russians, they are losing territory and they are facing a mountain of Western support for Ukraine, not even mentioning the attack mosquitos.
Drive by drivel.
Any succcessful intelligence does not advertise. This is childish.
Thank you. The CIA tell the world what it is doing? Hah!
Yes, it is more about propaganda than anything else.
Yeah, it’s some sort of twisted and incompetent PR/propaganda campaign. Obviously, dissidents are pretty much useless as spies; they know nothing. And the CIA may be the last to know, but most of the Russians who are unhappy with the conduct of the war in Ukraine are unhappy because they think Putin is running a kind and gentle war. They want to see shock and awe and Ukraine thoroughly crushed as quickly as possible.
I just have to talk about the war crimes the Ukrainians are committing and the silence in MSM and from the Biden/Blinken government.
Did Biden ever mention the war crimes committed by Ukainians, the neo-Nazis and soldiers commit, the part Zelinsky plays? The CIA and Biden must know about that the crimes being done in our name with our money and weapons. They are making the nation partners in crime.
The Biden officials are knowing war criminals. As a citizen and a voter I voice my outrage against the criminals in the USA/NATO allies. All of them must know, if they don’t it must be because they don want to know.
Am I the only one who is outraged about it?
I think many people would be truly enraged, if they only knew…!
That must be the reason for the white spot in MSM and from the government. But really, they don’t care, for Zelensky Ukrainian life counts for nothing, Mariupol showed it, they were not allowed to surrender including the civilians and children when there was no chance to get out living. The trauma these people suffered we really can’t imagine, not being able to protect your children alone is a trauma. And the bastards in Kiev and DC do not care as long as they are safe. As far as I know, Biden had 5 deferments, Trump 4 and Cheney 5 and Clinton 5 and Bush served in the NG and was AWOL for more than a year.
The USA is the terrorist state par excellence.
Ok, so why would you mess with it? We have been at war for something like 95% of our history. Russia I dunno 10% ? Putin has a point about the Anglo-Saxons but on the other hand it doesn’t make sense to pick a fight with them.
Putin did NOT pick a fight, the fight was provoked by the USA when they did all they could to make Ukraine a de facto NATO member starting in 2008 with Bush W. and proceeded to the Obama regime change in 2014 and continuing to arm and train Ukrainians to NATO military standards. Be honest for a change, the provoker is the guilty party, in this case the USA and the Ukrainians trusted NATO to defend Ukraine with weapons and troops. It is USA v Russia, Ukraine is the disposable proxy. The neocons in state department are the war criminals. Biden wants a regime change in Moscow and a weakened Russia, that is the goal, not Ukraine a NATO member.
https://journal-neo.org/2022/11/23/the-fear-of-fear-itself-the-gripping-truth-out-of-ukraine/
The Fear of Fear Itself: The Gripping Truth Out of Ukraine
A very worthwhile read by a author I was not familiar with. Thanks Thomas.
FSB Aims to Recruit Americans Unhappy With the War in Ukraine