{"id":61542,"date":"2022-01-18T15:48:44","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T20:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61542"},"modified":"2022-01-18T15:48:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T20:48:44","slug":"russian-false-flag-in-ukraine-story-emerged-after-cia-director-secretly-visited-kiev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61542","title":{"rendered":"Russian &#8216;False Flag&#8217; In Ukraine Story Emerged After CIA Director Secretly Visited Kiev"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"ArticleFull_header__11o5_\">\n<h3 class=\"ArticleFull_title__2cUI6\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/russian-false-flag-ukraine-story-emerged-after-cia-director-secretly-visited-kiev\">Russian &#8216;False Flag&#8217; In Ukraine Story Emerged After CIA Director Secretly Visited Kiev<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"NodeContent_mainContent__38L44\">\n<div class=\"NodeContent_body__2clki NodeBody_container__1M6aJ\">\n<p>On Monday it came to light that last week&#8217;s whole\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/russia-prepping-false-flag-sabotage-operations-justify-ukraine-invasion-biden-admin\">false flag story<\/a>\u00a0which involved the US alleging that Russia is planning some kind of deceptive attack on its own forces or proxies in order to justify an incursion into Ukraine was\u00a0<strong>fed straight to the CIA from Kiev intelligence officials<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>CNN has now disclosed that the sensational charge against Moscow that it&#8217;s prepping &#8220;potential sabotage operations against their own forces&#8221; &#8211; as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-01-14\/u-s-says-russia-preparing-operations-to-justify-ukraine-attack?sref=yYYRek8e\"><em>Bloomberg<\/em><\/a>\u00a0described it last\u00a0Friday &#8211; was likely made known to CIA Director\u00a0William Burns during a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cgtn.com\/news\/2022-01-18\/CIA-director-secretly-visited-Ukraine-media-16VuSWGDU64\/index.html\">secretive January 12 visit<\/a>\u00a0to Kiev where he met with\u00a0President Volodymyr Zelensky and top officials.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1483224458919882753&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fgeopolitical%2Frussian-false-flag-ukraine-story-emerged-after-cia-director-secretly-visited-kiev&amp;sessionId=cbe75724909be3309b4996b2b1a7ee23c247ca80&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=86e9194f%3A1641882287124&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1483224458919882753\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"AdvertisingSlot_desktop__1kLtW AdvertisingSlot_tablet__2K3QE AdvertisingSlot_mobile__1_gOm AdvertisingSlot_placement__1gQtj AdvertisingSlot_align__32LUS\">\n<aside id=\"in-content-video\" class=\"AdvertisingSlot_verticallySpaced__39vIl\" data-google-query-id=\"CNKYzJOVvPUCFRLHhwodp0IA_w\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/21841313772,21778456762\/zerohedge\/in_content_video_0__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>As we\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/russia-prepping-false-flag-sabotage-operations-justify-ukraine-invasion-biden-admin\">described<\/a>\u00a0days ago, the allegation was dubious from the start as it was based on the usual &#8220;anonymous&#8221; and &#8220;unnamed&#8221; US intelligence officials.<\/p>\n<p>During Burns&#8217; now officially acknowledged\u00a0trip, he and Ukraine&#8217;s intelligence leaders discussed &#8220;current assessments of risk to Ukraine&#8221; &#8211; and according to CNN&#8217;s Natasha Bertrand, and then\u00a0US officials\u00a0<strong>&#8220;disclosed the alleged Russian false flag plot soon after.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, on Monday\u00a0Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov again blasted the US claims (and we might add,\u00a0<strong>what appear to be the evidence-free allegations spun in Kiev<\/strong>), telling the US it&#8217;s peddling\u00a0<strong>&#8220;total disinformation&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>with the false flag narrative.<\/p>\n<p>Further,\u00a0Lavrov reiterated &#8220;that Russia expects a written response this week from the U.S. and its allies to Moscow\u2019s request for binding guarantees that NATO will not embrace Ukraine or any other ex-Soviet nations, or station its forces and weapons there,&#8221; the AP writes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-1&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1482003431091060744&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fgeopolitical%2Frussian-false-flag-ukraine-story-emerged-after-cia-director-secretly-visited-kiev&amp;sessionId=cbe75724909be3309b4996b2b1a7ee23c247ca80&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=86e9194f%3A1641882287124&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1482003431091060744\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Reviewing the slew of reports and claims that have come out in just the last days, journalist\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2022\/01\/17\/total-disinformation-russia-denies-us-claims-of-false-flag\/\">Dave DeCamp writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian &#8216;False Flag&#8217; In Ukraine Story Emerged After CIA Director Secretly Visited Kiev On Monday it came to light that last week&#8217;s whole\u00a0false flag story\u00a0which involved the US alleging that Russia is planning some kind of deceptive attack on its own forces or proxies in order to justify an incursion into Ukraine was\u00a0fed straight to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[135,199,296,553,655,694,821,827,28835,4318],"class_list":["post-61542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-cia","tag-deep-state","tag-false-flag","tag-nato","tag-propaganda","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-us-central-intelligence-agency","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61543,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61542\/revisions\/61543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}