Trump Talks Peace While The CIA Is Fueling The War In Ukraine

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Trump Talks Peace While The CIA Is Fueling The War In Ukraine Authored by Larry C. Johnson via Sonar21, I spent enough years at the Central Intelligence Agency that I learned how to read the press stories that the agency's friends place for it. Shane Harris's new profile of CIA Director John Ratcliffe in The Atlantic, published October 23, is one of those stories. It is written to make Ratcliffe look like the sober professional in a chaotic administration. But read it carefully and it confirms something Washington has spent four years denying: the United States is not merely supplying Ukraine. Through the CIA, it is fighting Russia. "The CIA is in the lead"Harris does not bury the lede. Armed with information the CIA provides, Ukraine's military has been launching strikes deep inside Russia. American spy satellites give Ukraine early warning of incoming Russian missiles and drones. Among U.S. personnel on the ground in Ukraine, a retired senior officer who travels there frequently told him, "the CIA is in the lead." It gets better. A Baltic intelligence officer who works closely with the Americans told Harris that, whatever Donald Trump says in public, the CIA's ope