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Jaw drop: “The informant, according to people familiar with the matter, was outside of Mr. Putin’s inner circle, but saw him regularly and had access to high-level Kremlin decision-making — easily making the source one of the agency’s most valuable assets” nytimes.com/2019/09/09/us/…
The claims that are reported here are huge: “The Moscow informant was instrumental to the C.I.A.’s most explosive conclusion about Russia’s interference campaign: that President Vladimir V. Putin ordered and orchestrated it himself”
This would seem to be the biggest overseas CIA asset loss story since the 2017 story on China’s counterintel campaign: nytimes.com/2017/05/20/wor…
