"WP: Ukrainian drones that attacked the Crimean bridge were
created with the participation of the CIA
Ukrainian intelligence services owe their success to close
cooperation with the American CIA. This is stated in an extensive publication
by The Washington Post, for which more than 20 sources in intelligence services
(Ukraine, the USA and other Western countries) were allegedly interviewed. The
publication states that the CIA also took part in the operation to blow up the
Crimean bridge.
The Ukrainian drones that attacked the Crimean Bridge were
created with the participation of the CIA, the Washington Post reports.
“The SBU carried out a second strike on the bridge nine
months later [after the first strike in 2022”], using naval
drones that were developed as part of a secret operation with the participation
of the CIA and other Western intelligence services,” the publication’s source
said.
Ukrainians have been cooperating with the United States for
almost a decade, since the events of 2014. During this time, the CIA spent
millions of dollars on its Ukrainian colleagues. Operatives are trained both in
Ukraine and in the United States; intelligence services are supplied with
intelligence data and the latest equipment, in volumes that were difficult to
imagine previously. The CIA even built offices for the Ukrainian intelligence
services. American agents maintain a presence in Kyiv.
The Washington Post writes that the extent of the CIA's
involvement in the work of the Ukrainian security services has not previously
been disclosed. US intelligence officials claimed that they had nothing to do
with Ukrainian security operations and that their work was focused only on
intelligence gathering.
The Americans provided everything necessary
The CIA's cooperation with Ukraine began with the creation
of a separate department, since the Americans feared that there were Russian
spies in the Ukrainian intelligence services (which are the successor to the
KGB).
“The new unit was prosaically called the Fifth Directorate
to distinguish it from the four existing units of the SBU,” the newspaper
writes.
Training grounds were equipped in the suburbs of Kyiv, where
selected recruits were trained. The plan was to form units “capable of
operating behind the front lines in secret groups,” said a Ukrainian official
involved in the effort.
The Americans provided secure communications equipment,
listening devices, and even disguises and uniforms for the Donbass militia. The
first missions focused on the recruitment of informants, cyber and electronic
espionage measures. The SBU also began conducting sabotage operations and
missions to capture military leaders of the DPR and LPR.
GUR was our little child
At the same time, the CIA began a more ambitious project -
reforming the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of Ukraine.
“We calculated that GUR was a smaller, more nimble
organization where we could have more influence,” a former U.S. intelligence
official who worked in Ukraine told The Washington Post. — GUR was our little
child. We equipped them with all new equipment and trained them.”
According to the source, the GUR officers “were young guys,
not Soviet-era KGB generals.” GUR operatives were trained in a variety of skills,
ranging from covert maneuvers behind enemy lines to planting explosive devices.
The CIA helped the GUR acquire the most modern surveillance
and electronic espionage systems. It included mobile equipment that could be
placed along Russia-controlled borders in eastern Ukraine, as well as software
used to wiretap phones.
“In one day, we could intercept from 250,000 to 300,000
messages from the Russian military and FSB units. There was so much information
there that we couldn’t handle it ourselves,” a senior GUR official told The
Washington Post.
Intelligence agencies transferred data sets to Washington,
where they were carefully studied by CIA and NSA analysts.
It was for the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine that
the CIA paid for the construction of new buildings. They housed special forces
and the department responsible for electronic espionage.
Asked about the scale of the CIA's investment, a Ukrainian
official said, "It was millions of dollars."
The CIA objected to some operations
The publication also states that cooperation with the CIA
has been complicated by Ukraine's penchant for conducting operations in which
people killed who are not related to military operations. CIA employees
expressed objections to some operations (including the attacks on the Crimean
Bridge), but did not refuse to support them.
“If Ukraine's operations become even more brazen—for
example, if the Russians come under attack in third countries—that could create
friction with partners and seriously conflict with Ukraine's broader strategic
goals,” the source told The Washington Post.
Zelensky is aware
From the publication of The Washington Post it follows that
the Ukrainian special services are behind the organization of many high-profile
murders: journalist Daria Dugina, blogger Vladlen Tatarsky, commander of the
Somalia battalion Mikhail Tolstykh (Givi), former commander of the submarine
"Krasnodar" and "Alrosa", deputy head of the department for
mobilization work of Krasnodar Stanislav Rzhitsky.
The material contains some details that shed light on the
preparation of terrorist attacks.
For example, the explosion of the car of journalist Daria
Dugina was carried out using a bomb brought into Russian territory in the
secret compartment of a cat carrier that was in the car of Ukrainian citizen
Natalya Vovk. The border guards did not pay due attention to her cluttered car
upon entering Russia. As many assumed, the SBU’s initial target in this
operation was Daria’s father, philosopher Alexander Dugin. He was expected to
travel with his daughter in the same car.
Immediately after the murder, Kyiv denied the involvement of
the special services in the explosion. However, in an interview with The
Washington Post, sources said those denials were false.
A girl SBU agent participated in the murder of the commander
of the Donetsk battalion “Somalia” Mikhail Tolstykh, known under the call sign
Givi. She planted a bomb in Givi’s office (this, however, was reported
earlier).
“Representatives of the security service stated that not a
single major operation of the SBU or GUR is carried out without the permission
- tacit or otherwise - of (Ukrainian President) Zelensky,” the authors of the
material also write.”
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