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Central Intelligence Agency (view source)
Revision as of 07:09, October 26, 2023
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{{See also|Maidan regime}}
{{See also|Maidan regime}}
Since the 2014 Maidan coup, the CIA spent tens of millions of dollars to transform Ukraine’s Soviet-formed services into allies against Moscow. The agency provided Ukraine with advanced surveillance systems, trained recruits at sites in Ukraine and the United States, built new headquarters for departments in Ukraine’s military intelligence agency. Given concerns that Ukraine’s services were still heavily penetrated by the [[FSB]] — the Russian agency that is the main successor to the [[KGB]], the CIA worked with the [[SBU]] to create an entirely new directorate that would focus on so-called “active measures” operations against Russia and be insulated from other SBU departments. The new unit was dubbed the “Fifth Directorate” to distinguish it from the four long-standing units of the SBU. A sixth directorate has since been added to work with the [[UK]]'s [[MI6]] spy agency.
Since the 2014 Maidan coup, the CIA spent tens of millions of dollars to transform Ukraine’s Soviet-formed services into allies against Moscow. The agency provided Ukraine with advanced surveillance systems, trained recruits at sites in Ukraine and the United States, built new headquarters for departments in Ukraine’s military intelligence agency. Given concerns that Ukraine’s services were still heavily penetrated by the [[FSB]] — the Russian agency that is the main successor to the [[KGB]], the CIA worked with the [[SBU]] to create an entirely new directorate that would focus on so-called “active measures” operations against Russia and be insulated from other SBU departments. The new unit was dubbed the “Fifth Directorate” to distinguish it from the four long-standing units of the SBU. A sixth directorate has since been added to work with the [[UK]]'s [[MI6]] spy agency.
The SBU and its military counterpart, the GUR, have carried out dozens of assassinations against Russian officials, alleged Ukrainian collaborators, military officers behind the front lines and civilians inside Russia. Training sites were located outside Kyiv where handpicked recruits were instructed by CIA personnel to form units capable of operating as covert groups. The SBU began mounting sabotage operations and missions to capture separatist leaders and collaborators, some of whom were taken to secret detention sites. Over a three-year period, at least half a dozen Russian operatives, high-ranking separatist commanders or collaborators were killed in violence that was often attributed to internal disputes but in reality was the work of the SBU. Among those killed was Yevgeny Zhilin who was gunned down in 2016 in a [[Moscow]] restaurant. In 2017 a rebel commander known as ‘Givi’ was killed in [[Donetsk]]. A former Russian submarine commander jogging in a park was killed in the southern Russian city of [[Krasnodar]] and a famous war correspondent and blogger at a cafe in [[St. Petersburg]].
===="Peacemaker" kill list====
===="Peacemaker" kill list====