larry johnson, former cia, has some thoughts about how they're operating;

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My latest episode deals with the Western intelligence war on Russia. As I mentioned in my post on Tuesday regarding the alleged Russian bombing of a children’s hospital in Kiev, the organized media response attacking and condemning Russia was, in my judgment, a fully supported CIA/MI-6 information operation aka propaganda.

The CIA envisioned by Harry Truman, i.e., an agency that would recruit human spies, produce critical intelligence that would be scrutinized by analysts, who in turn would produce the best information for the President not available from the legacy news media, is dead. The CIA has been hijacked by the operations side of the house and is devoted, in my opinion, to creating and executing covert operations that usually result in over turning a foreign government. Once covert operations takes control, the ability of analysts to do honest analysis is kaput.

I saw this firsthand during my time working in the Central American Branch (CAB). Our attempts to do objective analysis met concerted push back from the operations side of the house — the Central American Task Force to be precise. A piece published in the Presidential Daily Brief describing the failings of the Contras, for example, was met with howls of outrage from the ops folks. We were accused of “undermining” the freedom fighters.

That is exactly what is going on today, in my view. Biden’s delusional speech at the opening of the NATO summit yesterday means one of two things — either he and his speech writers are ignoring/rejecting CIA analysis or the CIA analysts are not doing an honest job. I think it is the latter............more.......