larry johnson says that the cia is polishing its image;

You know the end is nearing in Ukraine when the CIA — i.e., the Director and unnamed US government officials — start dishing on what we did in Ukraine that was so great. The CIA storyline is simple, this was not our fault. It would be hilarious if this was just a bungled coup where no one died. But that is not the case. There are more than a million dead, mostly Ukrainian, as a result of CIA activities, starting with the Maidan of February 2014.

These are the two articles I want to draw to your attention:

How ‘Mild Bill’ Burns led a covert CIA campaign in Ukraine

How the CIA and Ukrainian intelligence secretly forged a deep partnership

Let’s start with Bill Burns. Here are five salient quotes from this Ignatius puff piece:

No one would ever refer to CIA Director William J. Burns as “Wild Bill,” the nickname of William J. Donovan, who led the OSS, the agency’s swashbuckling predecessor, during World War II. But the self-effacing Burns has bravely commanded a CIA force in Ukraine since Russia’s invasion nearly three years ago. . . ........more.........