Neo-Nazi group with US links may be backed by Russian intelligence
Read More »Suspicions of Russian influence have persisted since the group’s founding in 2018 due to the fact that Nazzaro, a former FBI intelligence analyst and onetime U.S. civilian analyst supporting military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, now lives in St. Petersburg.
Two weeks ago, masked men attacked Major Andriy Korynevych, a recruitment officer from the Azov Brigade in the National Guard of Ukraine (NGU), and beat him in broad daylight near his home in Ivano-Frankivsk, western Ukraine. About ten days later, he dropped a bombshell: police identified his attackers and their accomplices, all of them from the Azov movement’s 3rd Assault Brigade (AB3). Furthermore, Korynevych suggested that the assault took place on the orders of Andriy Biletsky, the leader of the Azov movement, who he said is “closely connected” to the attackers. NGU Azovites are evidently furious—their unit published a statement denouncing the alleged assailants—and many AB3 Azovites are no less enraged at their counterparts’ betrayal, for going to the police and airing their dirty laundry.
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A new investigation reveals the extent of the CIA’s involvement in the war in Ukraine, where the agency operates clandestinely in what, under a formal declaration of war, would be the domain of the military. We’re joined on the show by the author of the investigation, William Arkin, a national security reporter and senior editor at Newsweek, who says that the CIA has “got its hand in a little bit of everything” in Ukraine. According to various sources, the CIA is shuttling weapons into Ukraine using a “gray fleet” of commercial aircraft that crisscrosses Central and Eastern Europe, sending personnel into Ukraine on secret missions and assisting Ukrainians with new weapons and systems, all while using Poland as its clandestine hub to coordinate its operations inside the country. At the same time, the U.S.’s
William Arkin: CIA Is Playing “Outsize Role” in Ukraine Despite Biden Pledge Not to Send U.S. Forcesnonalignedstatus appears to place a limit on its intelligence, keeping it in the dark on both Zelensky and Putin’s next moves.
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My takeaways:
The CIA has backed Ukrainian insurgents before. Let’s learn from those mistakes (Archived)
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CIA Intervention in Ukraine Has Been Taking Place for Decades (Archived)
As the conflict continues on it’s fourth day, the disinformation campaign is out in full swing. With left wing pundits advocating for a full scale US intervention, and the corporate hacks of the political right rejecting such an idea. This has led to an onslaught of misinformation and even, outright propaganda over all viral media as well as television. But underneath the surface of rancid, media obfuscation lies an even far more nefarious history. The Central Intelligence Agency’s history with Ukraine spans decades, where one covert program (Operation Aerodynamic) saw to exploit the anti-Soviet Ukrainian resistance groups that were late found to have conducted war crime atrocities. The primary contact in the operation involved, Mykola Lebed, a Ukrainian nationalist who was alleged to have been collaborating with Nazi Germany after he was freed from prison, in 1939 as Germany invaded Poland, for the murder of Polish Interior Minister Bronislaw Pieracki in 1934. Lebed worked for the CIA in American where he gathered intelligence on the Soviet Union as late as into the late 1960s.
Fast forward to the current period, and the CIA activities involving far right neo nazi groups, such as the Azov Battalion, have been a large covert operation meant to combat Russian military in the disputed territories of Luhansk and Donetsk. The program, which started in 2015, is based at an undisclosed facility in the Southern U.S., according to some of those officials. By 2014, the CIA’s Ground Division began training Ukrainian guerillas after Russia annexed Crimea, the program began to expand under the Trump administration, and currently the program augmented under the current Biden administration. In this video i expand on the CIA influence which span decades with the government of Ukraine.
YouTube: The CIA-Ukraine Nexus (Operation Aerodynamic) (Odysee) by Adam Fitzgerald
Sources:
Here’s What the CIA Director Was Really Doing in Kiev
Hitler’s Shadows: Nazi War Criminals, US Intelligence & The Cold War (PDF)
CIA-trained Ukrainian paramilitaries may take central role if Russia invades
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