Russian agents made an attempt to assassinate a former Russian agent turned CIA informant on American soil in 2020, according to multiple sources.

  • @[email protected]
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    52 years ago

    Ah yes, let’s believe the very reliable CIA and their informants about threats against the CIA. They’ve proven themselves so trustworthy in the past.

    • @AbouBenAdhem
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      32 years ago

      While the ultimate source is probably the CIA, this is the Jerusalem Post reporting about an upcoming book by an academic historian—so it’s presumably been vetted by a few other parties.

      • @[email protected]
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        82 years ago

        The term “vetted” is doing a lot of heavy work there. “Laundered” would be far more accurate in this context of imperialist invention of reality or consent manufacturing.

      • Krause [he/him]
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        22 years ago

        this is the Jerusalem Post reporting

        it’s presumably been vetted

        Vetted it probably has been, as for it being vetted for truthfulness…

        • @AbouBenAdhem
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          12 years ago

          All we can say for certain is that a Jerusalem Post reporter and a Harvard historian want us to believe the article’s content. We may believe, independently, that the CIA also want us to believe it—but if the CIA wanted the opposite, we’d still be reading the same article. So the trustworthiness of the article’s content depends on the trustworthiness of the reporter and the historian, not the CIA.

    • @[email protected]
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      -12 years ago

      Russia literally attempted to assassinate a man and his daughter in Salisbury, UK.

      This is their MO, just like the song “It’s raining men!” Isn’t a celebration in Moscow, it’s a warning to take cover.