CIA Hand-Selected NY Times ‘Journalists’ to Publish Highly Classified Intel

‘The CIA disclosed highly classified intelligence to hand-picked journos in order to fight a PR war against Republicans in Congress who want to scale back Ukraine war funding.

The CIA is literally unleashed on Republicans in Congress.”

Legacy media reporting:

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has supported a network of a dozen bases in Ukraine that are “increasingly at risk” if Republicans continue to block $61 billion in funding for Kyiv, the New York Times (NYT) reported on Feb. 25.

The network of bases is the result of a decade of relationship-building between the CIA and Ukraine, according to the NYT, which conducted 200 interviews with current and former intelligence officials in Ukraine, Europe, and the U.S. for the article.

The bases allow the Ukrainian military “to track Russian spy satellites and eavesdrop on conversations between Russian commanders,” the NYT said.

I hope everyone appreciates what this means. The CIA disclosed highly classified intelligence to hand-picked journos in order to fight a PR war against Republicans in Congress who want to scale back Ukraine war funding.

The CIA is literally unleashed on Republicans in Congress. https://t.co/bt9DzmajQA

— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) February 28, 2024

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Three Key Points:

1. “The CIA invited the New York Times in.” They specifically say in the NYT article that many of the NYT’s 200-some interviews were done inside the physical building of one the 12 secret CIA bases in Eastern Ukraine — which means this wasn’t a scoop, it was an invitation & base tour from the CIA invited them in for the express purpose of getting that piece published.

2. “This is a dirty trick by our Central Intelligence Agency to use the New York Times as its own personal mouthpiece, to protect its own personal piggy bank.” This is the selective leaking of intelligence just to get short-term funding. The key paragraph in the NYT piece gives away the game that the bases are all praying for more funding. The whole article is about how important these CIA bases have become and what catastrophe will befall them if Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson vetoes the hotly contested new Ukraine funding bill.

3. The NYT article reveals those CIA bases are not just defensive — they are for offensive scouting of targets to hit within Russia proper. That’s not defending Americans or even Ukrainians: long range missiles are for killing Russians. Beyond such offensive operations not being mission critical, they’re a provocation to war. And they were set up **years before** 2022.

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