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Line 294: − − ==21st Century== − [[Image:CIA HQ.jpg|thumb|right|The CIA Headquarters in earlier times.]] − With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the "end of history" as it was called, some questioned why the need for an organization with a such a checkered history.<ref>http://carnegieendowment.org/2005/12/20/case-for-abolishing-cia</ref> [[Global warming]] as a strategic threat to national security became the new boogeyman to justify continued funding.<ref>https://youtu.be/tebTD6yWOX0</ref> − ===9-11=== − A major criticism is failure to forestall the [[9-11 Attack]] in 2001 because of three organizational deficiencies: the inability of multiple American intelligence agencies to work together, organizational incentives to take the wrong analytical actions, and resistance to new technologies and ideas.<ref>Amy B. Zegart, "CNN with Secrets": 9/11, the CIA, and the Organizational Roots of Failure." ''International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence'' 2007 20(1): 18-49. Issn: 0885-0607</ref> The ''9/11 Commission Report'' identifies failures in the intelligence community as a whole. One problem, for example, was the FBI failing to "connect the dots" by sharing information among its decentralized field offices. The report, however, criticizes both CIA analysis and impedance of their investigation. The CIA Inspector General in 2007 concluded that former DCI [[George Tenet]] failed to adequately prepare the agency to deal with the danger posed by [[Al Qaeda]] prior to the [[9-11 Attack]]. − − ===Afghanistan 2001=== − {{See also|Afghan war}} − In 2001, the CIA's Special Activities Division units were the first U.S. forces to enter Afghanistan. Their efforts organized the Afghan Northern Alliance for the subsequent arrival of United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) (United States Special Operations Command) forces. The plan for the invasion of Afghanistan was developed by the CIA, the first time in United States history that such a large-scale military operation was planned by the CIA.<ref name="channel.nationalgeographic.com">{{cite web|url=http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/cia-confidential/4199/Overview |title=CIA Confidential , Hunt for Bin Laden , National Geographic Channel |publisher=Channel.nationalgeographic.com |accessdate=May 19, 2011}}</ref> SAD, U.S. Army Special Forces and the Northern Alliance combined to overthrow the [[Taliban]] in Afghanistan with minimal loss of U.S. lives. They did this without the need for U.S. military conventional ground forces.<ref>{{cite book |title=First In: An insiders account of how the CIA spearheaded the War on Terror in Afghanistan |first=Gary |last=Schroen |year=2005}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al Qaeda: A personal account by the CIA's field Commander |first=Gary |last=Berntsen |coauthors=Ralph Pezzulla |publisher=Crown |isbn=978-0-307-23740-8 |year=2005}}</ref><ref>Woodward, Bob (2002) "Bush at War", Simon & Schuster, Inc.</ref> − − The ''[[Washington Post]]'' stated in an editorial by John Lehman in 2006: − − :"What made the Afghan campaign a landmark in the U.S. Military's history is that it was prosecuted by Special Operations forces from all the services, along with Navy and Air Force tactical power, operations by the Afghan Northern Alliance and the CIA were equally important and fully integrated. No large Army or Marine force was employed".<ref>Washington Post Editorial, John Lehman former Secretary of the Navy, October 2008</ref> − − In a 2008 ''[[New York Times]]'' book review of ''Horse Soldiers'', a book by Doug Stanton about the invasion of Afghanistan, Bruce Barcott wrote: − − :"The valor exhibited by Afghan and American soldiers, fighting to free Afghanistan from a horribly cruel regime, will inspire even the most jaded reader. The stunning victory of the horse soldiers—350 Special Forces soldiers, 100 C.I.A. officers and 15,000 Northern Alliance fighters routing a Taliban army 50,000 strong—deserves a hallowed place in American military history".<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/books/review/Barcott-t.html?pagewanted=2 | work=The New York Times | title=Special Forces | first=Bruce | last=Barcott | date=May 17, 2009 | accessdate=March 27, 2010}}</ref> − − ===Iraq war=== − {{See also|Iraq war}} − The mission that captured [[Saddam Hussein]] was called "Operation Red Dawn". It was planned and carried out by the JSOC (Joint Special Operations Command under USSOCOM)'s Delta Force and SAD/SOG (Special Activities Division Special Operations Group) teams (together called Task Force 121). The operation eventually included around 600 soldiers from the 1st Brigade of the 4th Infantry Division.<ref name="Iraq War 2004">'Black ops' shine in Iraq War, VFW Magazine, Feb, 2004, Tim Dyhouse.</ref><ref>"Saddam 'caught like a rat' in a hole". CNN. December 15, 2003. https://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/12/14/sprj.irq.saddam.operation/index.html?iref=newssearch.</ref> Special operations troops probably numbered around 40. Much of the publicity and credit for the capture went to the 4th Infantry Division soldiers, but CIA and JSOC were the driving force. "Task Force 121 were actually the ones who pulled Saddam out of the hole" said Robert Andrews, former deputy assistant Secretary of Defense for special operations and low-intensity conflict. "They can't be denied a role anymore."<ref name="Iraq War 2004"/> − − CIA paramilitary units continued to team up with the JSOC in Iraq and in 2007 the combination created a lethal force many credit with having a major impact in the success of "the Surge". They did this by killing or capturing many of the key al-Qaeda leaders in Iraq.<ref name='Woodward 2008'>Woodward, Bob. (2008) The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006–2008. Simon and Schuster</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=http://us.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/09/09/iraq.secret/index.html |publisher=CNN | accessdate=March 30, 2010 | title=Secret killing program is key in Iraq, Woodward says | date=September 9, 2008}}</ref> In a [[CBS]] ''[[60 Minutes]]'' interview, [[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning journalist [[Bob Woodward]] described a new special operations capability that allowed for this success. This capability was developed by the joint teams of CIA and JSOC.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns_3VpOEkzM |title=Bob Woodward "60 Minutes" Highlights |publisher=YouTube |date=September 7, 2008 |accessdate=May 19, 2011}}</ref> Several senior U.S. officials stated that the "joint efforts of JSOC and CIA paramilitary units was the most significant contributor to the defeat of al-Qaeda in Iraq".<ref name='Woodward 2008'/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104561441 |title=New U.S. Commander In Afghanistan To Be Tested |publisher=NPR |accessdate=May 19, 2011}}</ref> The CIA-assisted "Phoenix" Program played a similar role in decimating Viet Cong insurgents during the Vietnam war. − − ===Libya 2011=== − {{See also|Libyan war}} − After the so-called [[Arab Spring]] overthrow of the rulers of [[Tunisia]] and [[Egypt]], the neighbours of Libya to the west and east respectively, Libya had a major revolt beginning in February 2011.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-east/2011/02/17/live-blog-libya |title=Live Blog – Libya , Al Jazeera Blogs |publisher=Blogs.aljazeera.net |date=February 17, 2011 |accessdate=February 23, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://archive.libyafeb17.com/category/newsfeed/ |title=News ,t Libya February 17th |publisher=Libyafeb17.com |accessdate=February 23, 2011}}</ref> In response, the [[Obama administration]] sent in CIA Special Activities Division paramilitary operatives to assess the situation and gather information on the opposition forces.<ref>{{cite web|last=Allen |first=Bennett |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2011/03/cia-operatives-on-the-ground-in-libya.html |title=C.I.A. Operatives on the Ground in Libya , VF Daily |publisher=Vanity Fair |accessdate=May 19, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Levinson |first=Charles |url=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704530204576235170339510798.html?mod=googlenews_wsj |title=Ragtag Rebels Struggle in Battle |work=The Wall Street Journal |date=April 1, 2011 |accessdate=May 19, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Michael |first=Vicker |url=http://articles.businessinsider.com/2012-03-20/news/31212864_1_stratfor-provides-syrian-opposition-regime-change|title=The US Government Sent CIA / Blackwater Veteran To Fight With Rebels In Libya And Syria |publisher=Business Insider |accessdate=March 24, 2012}}</ref> − − During the early phases of the Libyan air strike offensive, paramilitary operatives assisted in the recovery of a [[United States Air Force|U.S. Air Force]] pilot who had crashed due to mechanical problems.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dailybreeze.com/latestnews/ci_17742586?source=pkg |title=UPDATED: Gates calls for limited role aiding Libyan rebels |publisher=The Daily Breeze |date=March 9, 2010 |accessdate=May 19, 2011}}</ref> There was also speculation in ''[[The Washington Post]]'' that President Obama issued a covert action finding in March 2011 that authorized the CIA to carry out a clandestine effort to provide arms and support to the Libyan opposition.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/in-libya-cia-is-gathering-intelligence-on-rebels/2011/03/30/AFLyb25B_story.html |title=In Libya, CIA is gathering intelligence on rebels |work=The Washington Post |date=March 30, 2011 |accessdate=May 19, 2011 |first=Greg |last=Jaffe}}</ref> − − [[Muammar Gaddafi]] was ultimately overthrown in the [[Libyan War]]. − − ===Drone war in Pakistan=== − Analysis by the [[RAND Corporation]] suggests that "drone strikes are associated with decreases in both the frequency and the lethality of militant attacks overall and in [[IED]] and suicide attacks specifically."<ref>Johnston, Patrick B., and Anoop Sarbahi, [http://patrickjohnston.info/materials/drones.pdf The Impact of U.S. Drone Strikes on Terrorism in Pakistan], RAND Corporation, 25 February 2012.</ref> Civilian deaths from drone strikes fell to 1-2% of the total in 2012. − − ===Amazon/Washington Post deal=== − In March 2013, the CIA awarded a $600 million contract to Amazon Web Services for a computing cloud system which would allow all 17 agencies of the US intelligence community to coordinate and share information.<ref>https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/the-details-about-the-cias-deal-with-amazon/374632/</ref> The General Accounting Office found the deal violated the open bidding process, but a federal court stood by the CIA's decision. − − In October of the same year [[Jeff Bezos]], founder of [[Amazon.com]] and the 6th richest billionaire on the planet worth $66 billion, purchased the ''[[Washington Post]]'' with proceeds of the deal.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/washington-post-closes-sale-to-amazon-founder-jeff-bezos/2013/10/01/fca3b16a-2acf-11e3-97a3-ff2758228523_story.html?utm_term=.8fea51fb3097</ref> Elements within the CIA then began using the ''Washington Post'' to promote [[Hillary Rodham Clinton]] as their preferred candidate for president in 2016.<ref>http://www.mockingbirdpaper.com/content/leaked-dnc-emails-prove-washington-post-both-fundraiser-and-attack-dog-clinton-and-national</ref> After the election but before taking office, the CIA in [[collusion]] with the [[White House]], the DNC and Clinton campaign, fraudulently claimed [[Vladimir Putin]] and Russian intelligence agencies had rigged [[Donald Trump]]'s election to the presidency. The CIA and its government and media surrogates put out the false claim that Russian intelligence agencies had delivered embarrassing emails from the Democrats and the Clinton campaign to [[Wikileaks]]. In fact, the sources of the compromised information came from disgruntled whistleblowers within the Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee.<ref>http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-15/revealed-who-gave-democratic-emails-wikileaks</ref> DNC insiders delivered information to Wikileaks.<ref>https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2016/12/cias-absence-conviction/</ref> − − ===Ukrainian Nazis=== − − ''The Postil'' reported that in 2007, the [[CIA]] put together a “conference” of various anti-Russian factions in [[Ukraine]] whose purpose was nothing other than to groom neo-Nazis and [[jihad]]ists, both groups being solidly [[anti-Russian]]. Overseeing the conference was [[Dmytro Yarosh]], who led the Trident and the [[Pravy Sektor]], both neo-Nazi organizations.<ref>https://www.thepostil.com/the-nazis-of-ukraine/</ref> − − These various neo-Nazi units, trained by [[the West]], were integrated into the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). After 2014 [[Maidan coup]], the West actively protected these neo-Nazi groups. [[Victoria Nuland]], in 2021, told [[Volodymyr Zelensky]] to appoint Dmytro Yarosh as adviser to the [[Commander-in-Chief]] of the Ukrainian army—because no one can fight Russians better than Nazis. Here are the larger units of neo-Nazis, or [[Banderite]]s which fought Russians in Ukraine: − − *Members of Svoboda (formerly the “Nation-Social Party of Ukraine,” which curiously rhymes with Hitler's “National-Socialist German Workers Party”) − *The [[AZOV Battalion]] (based in Mariupol) − *C14 of Kyiv − *The [[Aidar Battalion]] (in Luhansk) − *The Wotanjugend (who are actually Russian in origin) − *Ukraine Patriot (co-founded by Parliament Speaker [[Andriy Parubiy]]) − *The National Militia − *[[Karpatska Sich]] − *Freikorps − − There are also many other smaller units (more than 30) that have merged with the larger ones, and all have been integrated into the Armed Forces of Ukraine. And the various symbols of these organizations are common-place in Ukraine (i.e., the Sonnenrad, the Totenkopf, the Wolfsangel). After 2014, Ukraine also became the main “exporter” of Nazi ideology throughout the world. − − Fighting alongside the neo-Nazis and the Ukrainian army are a slew of jihadis and mercenaries, many of whom are from other Western neo-Nazi groups like the [[Misanthropic Division]]. These mercenaries are known as the International Legion of [[Territorial Defense]] of Ukraine. − − ====Maidan regime==== − {{See also|Maidan regime}} − In October 2023 ''[[The Washington Post]]'' revealed how the CIA had used the Ukrainian intelligence services to initiate war with Russia since 2014.<ref>[https://archive.ph/RMFzQ#selection-1881.181-1881.377 Ukrainian spies with deep ties to CIA wage shadow war against Russia], By Greg Miller and Isabelle Khurshudyan, ''Washington Post'', October 23, 2023</ref> With the US-backed [[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. − − {{Anchor|Vladlen Tatarsky}} − − 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]].<ref>[https://youtu.be/p8KJ53Ulzc0 1000's attended the DPR's Givi funeral procession in Donetsk today.] Patrick Lancaster, Feb 10, 2017. YouTube</ref> In July 2023, a former Russian submarine commander, Stanislav Rzhitsky, was killed while jogging in a park in the southern Russian city of Krasnodar. A popular war correspondent and blogger, '''Vladlen Tatarsky''', was killed in a blast in a cafe in [[St. Petersburg]]. 32 innocent bystanders were injured in the targeted assassination. − − {{Anchor|Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine}} − − While building the SBU’s new directorate, the CIA embarked on a far more ambitious project with the '''Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine'''. From 2015 on, the CIA embarked on an extensive transformation of the GUR. With fewer than 5,000 employees, the GUR was a fraction of the size of the SBU and had a narrower focus on espionage and active measures operations against Russia. It also had a younger workforce with fewer holdovers from [[Soviet]] times, while the SBU was still perceived as penetrated by Russian intelligence. Some of the GUR’s new recruits were transfers from the SBU. Among them was Vasyl Burba, who had managed SBU Fifth Directorate operations before joining the GUR and serving as agency director from 2016 to 2020. Burba became such a close ally of the CIA that the CIA provided him an armored vehicle. − − The CIA helped the GUR acquire state-of-the-art surveillance and electronic eavesdropping systems, including mobile equipment that could be placed along Russian-controlled lines in eastern Ukraine, but also software tools used to exploit the [[cellphone]]s of [[Kremlin]] officials visiting outside of Moscow. Ukrainian officers operated the systems but everything gleaned was shared with the Americans. − − Concerned that the GUR’s aging facilities were likely compromised by Russian intelligence, the CIA paid for new headquarters buildings for the GUR’s “spetsnaz” paramilitary division and a separate directorate responsible for electronic espionage. Troves of data were relayed through the new CIA-built facility back to Washington, where they were scrutinized by CIA and [[NSA]] analysts. − − The GUR had also developed networks of sources in Russia’s security apparatus. The CIA was permitted to have direct contact with agents recruited and run by Ukrainian intelligence. − − For the SBU, no target has been a higher priority than the [[Kerch Bridge]] that connects the Russian mainland to the [[Crimean Peninsula]]. The SBU hit the bridge twice during the NATO war in Ukraine, including an October 2022 bombing that killed five people and put a gaping hole in westbound traffic lanes. SBU director [[Vasyl Malyuk]] acknowledged that his service had placed a powerful explosive inside a truck hauling industrial-size rolls of cellophane. Like other SBU plots, the operation involved unwitting accomplices, including the truck driver killed in the explosion.<ref>https://archive.ph/o/RMFzQ/https://nv.ua/ukraine/events/krymskiy-most-kak-sbu-dvazhdy-vzorvalo-simvol-velichiya-putina-intervyu-s-malyukom-novosti-ukrainy-50347244.html </ref> The SBU launched a second strike on the bridge nine months later using naval drones that were developed as part of a top secret operation involving the CIA and other Western intelligence services. − − ===="Peacemaker" kill list==== − [[File:Myrotvorets.PNG|left|1000px|thumb|The Myrotovets ("Peacemaker") website, a kill list authorizing on the spot execution of journalists and anyone deemed a "Russian sympathizer", shows Langley, Virgina, home of the CIA as its headquarters.<ref>https://myrotvorets.center/</ref>]] − − [[Myrotvorets]] (Peacemaker) is an online database of what its owner declares as “enemies of Ukraine,” containing personal [[doxxing]] information and addresses. The website's mainpage lists Langley, Virginia, home of the CIA, and Warsaw, Poland as its official home. Journalists who depart from the CIA and Kyiv party line are added to the list. Anyone captured in Ukraine whose name appears in the websites online searchable database can be executed on the spot.<ref>https://youtu.be/tii5hPD1kEM</ref> The “Peacemaker" kill list has nearly 200,000 names, including Americans, threatening them with extrajudicial killings. American filmmaker [[Oliver Stone]] and [[British]] rock star [[Roger Waters]] of [[Pink Floyd]] appear on the "[[Peacemaker kill list]]". − − ====Ukrop Deathsquads==== − − The CIA reportedly operates an entire floor in the [[Security Service of Ukraine]] (SBU) headquarters at 33 Volodymyrska Street in [[Kyiv]],<ref>http://perebezhchik.ru/world/4159.html</ref> in a building originally used as the [[Bolshevik]] headquarters of [[Ukraine]], later the [[Gestapo]] during the Nazi occupation, then the [[NKVD]] of the [[USSR]], and as of 2022 serves as the [[torture]] chambers for Russian [[POW]]s and Ukrainians accused of having ties to Russia. Following the 2014 [[Maidan coup]], the security service was headed by Valentin Nalyvaichenko, who was recruited by the [[CIA]] when he was the Consul General of Ukraine in the [[United States]].<ref>https://en.topwar.ru/43842-glava-sbu-nalivaychenko-okazalsya-agentom-cru.html</ref> − [[File:Dugina on kill list.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Dr. [[Darya Dugina]] marked as "eliminated".<ref>https://youtu.be/H9cPjVTjvSg</ref> Dugina's murder in [[Moscow]] marked a significant escalation of [[terrorist]] attacks against non-combatants and civilians outside of Ukraine.]] − Vassily Prozorov, a former SBU officer who defected to Russia following the Maidan coup, detailed the post-Maidan security services’ systemic reliance on torture to crush political opposition and intimidate citizens accused of Russian sympathies.<ref>https://youtu.be/4g4V7mLi6ZA</ref> According to Prozorov, the SBU have been directly advised by the CIA since 2014. “CIA employees have been present in Kiev since 2014. They are residing in clandestine apartments and suburban houses,” he said. “However, they frequently come to the SBU’s central office for holding, for example, specific meetings or plotting secret operations.” − − ====Murder of Darya Dugina==== − − Journalist and political scientist Darya Dugina was assassinated in [[Moscow]] on August 20, 2022.<ref>https://youtu.be/nUpzbWPfcGs</ref> Dugina is the daughter of the Russian political scientist and philosopher [[Alexander Dugin]]. − − Darya's killer was identified as Natalia Pavlovna Vovk, a Ukrainian citizen and member of the [[Azov Regiment]].<ref>https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/7816264.html</ref><ref>https://myrotvorets.center/criminal/platonova-darya-aleksandrovna/</ref> The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation and the [[Federal Security Service]] (or [[counterintelligence]] service) established the SBU as responsible for the killing.<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russian-fsb-identifies-alleged-dugina-assassin</ref> − − On August 21, 2022, the day after the killing, Ukrainian Ambassador to [[Kazakhstan]] Petro Vrublevskyi explained to an interviewer "We are trying to kill as many of them [Russians] as possible. The more Russians we kill now, the fewer our children will have to kill," according to ''[[Yahoo News]]''.<ref>https://news.yahoo.com/trying-kill-many-them-possible-085433987.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall</ref> − − Dugina visited [[Azovstal]] after the siege ended in May 2022 and reported on [[social media]] on the Nazi paraphernalia and books discovered in the Azov Nazis' bunker and living quarters. She was placed on [[Western alliance|Western]] sanctions lists shortly thereafter. Dugina issued a public statement in response: − {{quotebox-float|"I am honored to be in the same boat as my father. The fact that we are under sanctions from the United States, [[Canada]], [[Australia]], and the [[United Kingdom]] is a symbol that we, the Dugins, are on the path of [[truth]] in the fight against [[globalism]]. − − For eight years in Ukraine, [[Russophobia]] was cultivated by various programmes, and history was rewritten, up to the physical massacre of Russians, in those eight terrible years for [[Donbass]], with daily shelling."<ref>https://rumble.com/v1gxheb-the-beneficiary-of-the-explosion-is-obvious-valery-korovin-on-dugina-assass.html</ref>}} − − ====Ukraine missile attack on Poland==== − [[File:AP fake news.jpg|right|400px|thumb|The Associated Press tried to ignite World War III with a [[fake news]] story sourced to a "senior U.S. intelligence official."<ref>https://scheerpost.com/2022/11/18/why-is-ap-still-protecting-the-source-behind-its-false-russia-bombed-poland-story/</ref>]] − On November 15, 2022, two Ukrainian [[S-300]] missiles, alleged to have been launched to shoot down a Russian [[cruise missile]], were fired westward and hit a Polish grain storage facility, killing two civilians. The Polish government, Ukrainian government, the ''[[Associated Press]]'',<ref>https://apnews.com/article/nato-ap-news-alert-europe-poland-government-and-politics-ba48101fd25c86e68e57dc56fe2adf80</ref> most of all Western propaganda media and so-called national security and intelligence experts called for invoking NATO Article 5.<ref>https://twitter.com/anders_aslund/status/1592616431291535360</ref> Zelensky advisor [[Mykhailo Podolyak]] declared that the strikes came from Russia. Ukrainian foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba claimed Russian denials were a [[conspiracy theory]] and that “No one should buy Russian propaganda or amplify its messages."<ref>https://twitter.com/DmytroKuleba/status/1592632386751434752?s=20&t=TtnVQsVODlidTZoknWqWpg</ref> Ukrainian dictator Volodymyr Zelensky tweeted that the “Russian attack on collective security in the Euro-Atlantic is a significant escalation” of the conflict.<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/15/world/kyiv-strikes-russia-zelensky-peace-intl/index.html</ref> − − However an AWAC radar plane and other ISR aircraft (intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance) aircraft regularly flying in the region, and ground radar, tracked the missiles' trajectory and determined the Kyiv regime had launched the missiles. That did not prevent an anonymous "senior U.S. intelligence official" from reporting to the ''Associated Press'' that Russia had fired the missiles at Poland. The [[fake news]] story was disseminated globally, as all fake news stories emanating from Kyiv, and its CIA counterparts in Kyiv, have been disseminated globally to world media for the entirety of 2022 and late 2021. − − When called out on the [[lie]]s, Ukrainian dictator Volodymyr Zelensky doubled down. Both socialist premier Joe Biden and NATO chief warlord Jens Stoltenberg blamed Ukraine for the attack. Zelensky refuted the Western leaders' statements that the missile which killed two innocent civilians in Poland was Ukrainian. "I have no doubt that it was not our missile or our missile strike." Zelensky insisted that he received reports from the corrupt Armed Forces of Ukraine command that told him the missile attacks did not come from Ukraine," he told the people in a live nationwide address on Ukrainian state-controlled media.<ref>https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/11/16/7376663/</ref> − − ===Russia=== − In a February 2024 commentary by former CIA analyst [[Larry Johnson]] entitled ''The Delusions of CIA Director [[William Burns]]'', Johnson reviewed "Burns’ January 30, 2024 article in ''[[CFR|Foreign Affairs]]'' — ''Spycraft and Statecraft: Transforming the CIA for an Age of Competition'' – is a shocking display of [[ignorance]] and [[misinformation]] about Russia, the state of the [[war in Ukraine]] and [[NATO]]'s [[military]] capabilities...Although Burn’s is an educated man and experienced diplomat, this article displays a profound arrogance seasoned with provably [[falsifiable|false]] claims...The so-called vision he presents for “transforming the CIA” is a childish fantasy and signals that the CIA is drifting towards being irrelevant as well as incompetent".<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/delusions-cia-chief-william-burns/</ref>
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Human rights observers have accused the MPLA of "genocidal atrocities," "systematic extermination," "war crimes" and "crimes against humanity."<ref>National Society for Human Rights, Press Releases, September 12, 2000, May 16, 2001.</ref> The MPLA held blatantly rigged elections in 1992, which were rejected by eight opposition parties. An official observer wrote that there was little UN supervision, that 500,000 UNITA voters were disenfranchised and that there were 100 clandestine polling stations. UNITA sent peace negotiators to the capital, where the MPLA murdered them, along with 20,000 UNITA members. Savimbi was still ready to continue the elections. The MPLA then massacred tens of thousands of UNITA and FNLA voters nationwide.<ref>National Society for Human Rights, Ending the Angolan Conflict, Windhoek, Namibia, July 3, 2000.</ref><ref>John Matthew, Letters, The Times, UK, November 6, 1992 (election observer).</ref>
Human rights observers have accused the MPLA of "genocidal atrocities," "systematic extermination," "war crimes" and "crimes against humanity."<ref>National Society for Human Rights, Press Releases, September 12, 2000, May 16, 2001.</ref> The MPLA held blatantly rigged elections in 1992, which were rejected by eight opposition parties. An official observer wrote that there was little UN supervision, that 500,000 UNITA voters were disenfranchised and that there were 100 clandestine polling stations. UNITA sent peace negotiators to the capital, where the MPLA murdered them, along with 20,000 UNITA members. Savimbi was still ready to continue the elections. The MPLA then massacred tens of thousands of UNITA and FNLA voters nationwide.<ref>National Society for Human Rights, Ending the Angolan Conflict, Windhoek, Namibia, July 3, 2000.</ref><ref>John Matthew, Letters, The Times, UK, November 6, 1992 (election observer).</ref>
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