[D66] NYT: The CIA-front in Ukraine

[René Oudeweg]

[De New York Times bevestigde gisteren nu wat al langer bekend was, dat 
de Oekraïne een CIA-front is tegen Rusland, en de oorlog uitgelokt is, 
niet alleen door eurofiele havikken tijdens Maidan maar dus ook door 
geheime CIA-programma's die Europa destabiliseren, al minimaal zeven 
jaar voor de oorlog in 2022 uitbrak./RO]




https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/25/world/europe/cia-ukraine-intelligence-russia-war.html

nytimes.com
The Spy War: How the C.I.A. Secretly Helps Ukraine Fight Putin
Adam Entous, Michael Schwirtz
35–44 minutes


For more than a decade, the United States has nurtured a secret 
intelligence partnership with Ukraine that is now critical for both 
countries in countering Russia.

A C.I.A.-supported network of spy bases has been constructed in the past 
eight years that includes 12 secret locations along the Russian 
border.Credit...Tyler Hicks/The New York Times

Adam Entous and Michael Schwirtz

Adam Entous and Michael Schwirtz conducted more than 200 interviews in 
Ukraine, several other European countries and the United States to 
report this story.

     Feb. 25, 2024

Not far away, a discreet passageway descends to a subterranean bunker 
where teams of Ukrainian soldiers track Russian spy satellites and 
eavesdrop on conversations between Russian commanders. On one screen, a 
red line followed the route of an explosive drone threading through 
Russian air defenses from a point in central Ukraine to a target in the 
Russian city of Rostov.

The underground bunker, built to replace the destroyed command center in 
the months after Russia’s invasion, is a secret nerve center of 
Ukraine’s military.

There is also one more secret: The base is almost fully financed, and 
partly equipped, by the C.I.A.

“One hundred and ten percent,” Gen. Serhii Dvoretskiy, a top 
intelligence commander, said in an interview at the base.

Now entering the third year of a war that has claimed hundreds of 
thousands of lives, the intelligence partnership between Washington and 
Kyiv is a linchpin of Ukraine’s ability to defend itself. The C.I.A. and 
other American intelligence agencies provide intelligence for targeted 
missile strikes, track Russian troop movements and help support spy 
networks.

It took root a decade ago, coming together in fits and starts under 
three very different U.S. presidents, pushed forward by key individuals 
who often took daring risks. It has transformed Ukraine, whose 
intelligence agencies were long seen as thoroughly compromised by 
Russia, into one of Washington’s most important intelligence partners 
against the Kremlin today.


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