"It's time to recruit spies": the CIA Head spoke of a rebellion in the Russian Federation
According to Burns, the dissatisfaction of the Russians with a long war in Ukraine creates a rare opportunity for recruiting spies. About it reports Reuters. Burns lecture for the British Non-Commercial Foundation of the Ditchley Foundation, which was dedicated to US-British relations.
Commenting on the "sadness" of Prigogine, Burns noted that the head of PEC "Wagner" before speaking to Moscow, he offended the above military leadership of Russia for several months, to which Vladimir Putin did not respond at all. According to the CIA, "the impact of these words and these actions will be affected for some time as a vivid reminder of the destructive influence of the Putin war on his own society and his own regime.
" Burns, who from 2005 to 2008 was the US Ambassador to Russia and was appointed director of the CIA in 2021, called Prigogine's "armed challenge of the Russian state". Burns stressed that Prigogine's rebellion was a "internal business of Russia, in which the United States did not participate or participate.
" But Burns said that the war with Ukraine has already become a strategic failure for Russia, exposing its military weakness and harming the Russian economy for many years, while NATO's military Alliance is getting bigger and more stronger. He also noted that the dissatisfaction of ordinary Russians in the war in Ukraine creates a rare opportunity for recruiting spies, and the CIA will not miss it.
"The dissatisfaction with the war will continue to undermine the Russian leadership under the constant auspices of state propaganda and repression practiced. This dissatisfaction creates for us in the CIA, which falls once by generation - in fact, it is a reconnaissance service. We will not allow it to disappear gift. " Burns.
In May, the Kremlin stated that his agencies were tracking the activities of Western spies after the CIA published a video calling on the Russians to come into contact through a protected online channel. A short video in Russian was accompanied by a text that stated that the agency wanted to hear the military, intelligence experts, diplomats, scientists and people who have information about Russia's economy and its management.