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Mme. Defarge

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Sun Feb 25, 2024, 05:35 PM Feb 2024

Another WTF headline in the NYT

The Spy War: How the C.I.A. Secretly Helps Ukraine Fight Putin
For more than a decade, the United States has nurtured a secret intelligence partnership with Ukraine that is now critical for both countries in countering Russia.

Feb. 25, 2024Updated 8:39 a.m. ET

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/25/world/europe/the-spy-war-how-the-cia-secretly-helps-ukraine-fight-putin.html

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Another WTF headline in the NYT (Original Post) Mme. Defarge Feb 2024 OP
*The underground bunker, built to replace the destroyed command center elleng Feb 2024 #1
Who is surprised by this? The reason the story was given to the Times BootinUp Feb 2024 #2

elleng

(137,888 posts)
1. *The underground bunker, built to replace the destroyed command center
Sun Feb 25, 2024, 05:44 PM
Feb 2024

in the months after Russia’s invasion, is a secret nerve center of Ukraine’s military.

There is also one more secret: The base is almost fully financed, and partly equipped, by the C.I.A.

“One hundred and ten percent,” Gen. Serhii Dvoretskiy, a top intelligence commander, said in an interview at the base.

Now entering the third year of a war that has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, the intelligence partnership between Washington and Kyiv is a linchpin of Ukraine’s ability to defend itself. The C.I.A. and other American intelligence agencies provide intelligence for targeted missile strikes, track Russian troop movements and help support spy networks.

But the partnership is no wartime creation, nor is Ukraine the only beneficiary.

It took root a decade ago, coming together in fits and starts under three very different U.S. presidents, pushed forward by key individuals who often took daring risks. It has transformed Ukraine, whose intelligence agencies were long seen as thoroughly compromised by Russia, into one of Washington’s most important intelligence partners against the Kremlin today.

The listening post in the Ukrainian forest is part of a C.I.A.-supported network of spy bases constructed in the past eight years that includes 12 secret locations along the Russian border.'>>>

BootinUp

(49,291 posts)
2. Who is surprised by this? The reason the story was given to the Times
Sun Feb 25, 2024, 05:47 PM
Feb 2024

is to drive more support for the Aid package. I posted a gift link in the National Security forum.

I think most folks assumed the CIA was working closely with Ukraine. There are few surprises if any in the article for me.

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