# Jack Murphy NATO Sabotage Story

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*John Kiriakou's account of a story reported by podcaster Jack Murphy — over a year in the making, drawing on CIA and Army intelligence sources — alleging the CIA worked through a NATO partner to conduct sabotage inside Russia, including munitions-warehouse fires and rail explosions; killed before publication after the CIA deputy director denied it on a call with the editor and blamed "rogue Ukrainians."*

- **Reporter:** Jack Murphy (Team House podcast)
- **Reporting time:** Over a year
- **Alleged sabotage:** Munitions-warehouse fires, rail explosions inside Russia
- **CIA response:** Deputy director denied the story on a call with the editor, blaming "rogue Ukrainians"
- **Outcome:** Story killed by the publication; author refused to gut it and published elsewhere

The **Jack Murphy NATO sabotage story** is [John Kiriakou](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/john-kiriakou)'s account of an investigation by podcaster Jack Murphy, host of the *Team House* podcast, who spent over a year reporting a story — drawing on CIA and Army intelligence sources — alleging that the CIA worked through a NATO partner to conduct sabotage inside Russia, including munitions-warehouse fires and rail explosions.[1]

Kiriakou says that before publication, the editor of a major outlet Murphy was working with held a conference call with the CIA's deputy director, who denied the sabotage claim entirely and instead blamed "rogue Ukrainians" for the incidents. The editor then demanded the story be gutted to reflect the denial; Murphy refused, and the story was killed at that outlet before he self-published it elsewhere.[2]

## See also

- [John Kiriakou](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/john-kiriakou)
- [Special Activities Division](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/special-activities-division)

## Sources

1. CIA Spy Breaks Silence On Elon Musk's Twitter Files — John (2023-04-12), at 10:00. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmPpOps1yeI&t=600s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2023-04-12-danny-jones/
2. CIA Spy Breaks Silence On Elon Musk's Twitter Files — John (2023-04-12), at 10:31. Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmPpOps1yeI&t=631s · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2023-04-12-danny-jones/

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