Category: Intelligence services

3 articles in this category

• The Nordstream patsy — John Kiriakou's assessment of the man arrested in Italy over the Nordstream pipeline sabotage: a patsy. He says he cannot imagine otherwise, feels for whoever the man is, and thinks the authorities found somebody they could take a dump on — while maintaining that the operation itself required not just real expertise but state expertise and capability.
• The other five percent — John Kiriakou's account of Israeli intelligence operations inside the United States: that for decades Israeli officers have been spread across the country trying to penetrate American defence contractors and steal defence secrets — because, in his formulation, Washington gives Israel ninety-five per cent of what it has, and Israel wants the remaining five.
• Zaluzhny and the Nordstream prosecution — John Kiriakou's reaction to German investigators drawing a bead on the former commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian armed forces over the Nordstream sabotage: that the CIA and the Pentagon now wish the case would go away, that the truth is not supposed to come out in such an operation, that Seymour Hersh probably had the kernel but not the details, and that it was very likely a joint operation. He expects somebody to go to prison.