{"id":374865,"date":"2018-08-25T19:18:20","date_gmt":"2018-08-25T18:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-cias-kremlin-spies-suddenly-go-dark\/"},"modified":"2018-08-25T19:18:20","modified_gmt":"2018-08-25T18:18:20","slug":"prison-planet-com-cias-kremlin-spies-suddenly-go-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-cias-kremlin-spies-suddenly-go-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb CIA\u2019s Kremlin Spies Suddenly Go Dark"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Zero Hedge<\/strong><\/a>
August 25, 2018<\/p>\n

CIA spies\u00a0operating within the Kremlin have suddenly \u201cgone to ground\u201d according to the\u00a0New York\u00a0Times<\/em><\/a>, citing American officials clearly abusing their security clearances.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The officials do not think their sources have been compromised or killed \u2013 rather, they\u2019ve been spooked into silence amid \u201cmore aggressive counterintelligence by Moscow, including efforts to kill spies,\u201d according to the\u00a0Times, <\/em>pointing to the still-unsolved March poisoning of former Russian double-agent Sergei Skripal in the UK.<\/p>\n

Curiously, the\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0immediately suggests that the lack of intelligence is \u201cleaving the CIA and other spy agencies in the dark about precisely what Mr. Putin\u2019s intentions are for November\u2019s midterm elections.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n

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But American intelligence agencies have not been able to say precisely what are Mr. Putin\u2019s intentions<\/strong>: He could be trying to tilt the midterm elections, simply sow chaos or generally undermine trust in the democratic process<\/strong>. \u2013NYT<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

There it is. Of course, buried towards the end of the article is this admission:<\/p>\n

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But officials said there has been no concrete intelligence pointing to Mr. Putin ordering his own intelligence units to wade into the election to push for a certain outcome<\/strong>, beyond a broad chaos campaign to undermine faith in American democracy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Meanwhile, \u201ccurrent and former officials\u201d tell the\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0that the outing of FBI spy Stefan Halper, who infiltrated the Trump campaign, had a \u201cchilling effect on intelligence collection<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In other words; the\u00a0Daily Caller<\/a>\u2018s March report and subsequent confirmations by the New York Times<\/a><\/em> and the Washington Post<\/a><\/em> of the FBI\u2019s so-called mole within the Trump campaign were harmful to national security, according to the\u00a0Times \u2013\u00a0<\/em>offering zero evidence of this except mysterious finger-wagging government sources.<\/p>\n