Kremlin Sources Go Quiet, Leaving C.I.A. in the Dark About Putin's Plans for Midterms
Source: New York Times
In 2016, American intelligence agencies delivered urgent and explicit warnings about Russias intentions to try to tip the American presidential election and a detailed assessment of the operation afterward thanks in large part to informants close to President Vladimir V. Putin and in the Kremlin who provided crucial details.
But two years later, the vital Kremlin informants have largely gone silent, leaving the C.I.A. and other spy agencies in the dark about precisely what Mr. Putins intentions are for Novembers midterm elections, according to American officials familiar with the intelligence.
The officials do not believe the sources have been compromised or killed. Instead, they have concluded they have gone to ground amid more aggressive counterintelligence by Moscow, including efforts to kill spies, like the poisoning in March in Britain of a former Russian intelligence officer that utilized a rare Russian-made nerve agent.
Current and former officials also said the expulsion of American intelligence officers from Moscow has hurt collection efforts. And officials also raised the possibility that the outing of an F.B.I. informant under scrutiny by the House intelligence committee an examination encouraged by President Trump has had a chilling effect on intelligence collection.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/24/us/politics/cia-russia-midterm-elections.html
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)as part of their campaign to undermine and weaken America.
* aka republican Draft-dodger-in-chief
dalton99a
(81,488 posts)cstanleytech
(26,291 posts)ffr
(22,670 posts)Scary times.
eppur_se_muova
(36,263 posts)... or whatever spies happen to visit the WH, why should they risk spying for the US ?
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Except money, of course.
Sorry, but I'm not remembering what "UC-1" is. ?
0rganism
(23,954 posts)which is much easier to say than spell
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)UC-1. Rather clean sounding for depraved scum, but nicely to the point.
gay texan
(2,448 posts)Revealed the names to putin....
dalton99a
(81,488 posts)haele
(12,654 posts)They've got the resources. Even with Drumpf lackeys in charge of their organizations.
Haele
fleur-de-lisa
(14,624 posts)Secondly, former USIC members are saying this is either bullshit, or whoever leaked this to the NYT, if the info is true, is in serious trouble with the FBI.
lapfog_1
(29,204 posts)would YOU seriously inform the CIA? The CIA that works for the Russian operative at the very top of the US government?
Not if you valued your life or the lives of your family.