The director of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) William Burns stated the continued dissatisfaction with Russia’s warfare in Ukraine offers a uncommon alternative to recruit spies.
“Disaffection with the war will continue to gnaw away at the Russian leadership beneath the steady diet of state propaganda and practiced repression,” Burns, a former U.S. ambassador to Moscow, stated in a lecture to Britain’s Ditchley Foundation in Oxfordshire, England on Saturday.
“That disaffection creates a once-in-a-generation opportunity for us at CIA, at our core a human intelligence service. We’re not letting it go to waste.”
Burns solid the latest mutiny by the Wagner Group as an “armed challenge to the Russian state.”
He stated the mutiny was an “internal Russian affair in which the United States has had and will have no part.”
Since a deal was struck every week in the past to finish the mutiny, the Kremlin has sought to mission calm, with the 70-year-old Putin discussing tourism improvement, assembly crowds in Dagestan, and discussing concepts for financial improvement.
Russia will emerge stronger after the failed mutiny so the West needn’t fear about stability on the planet’s greatest nuclear energy, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated Friday.
Source: www.dailysabah.com
