Employees of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) are located on the territory of Ukraine and act as “primary negotiators.” the magazine writes about it news week With reference to representatives of American intelligence.
“At the heart of everything that happens in Ukraine is a secret war with secret rules,” a senior official from the administration of US President Joe Biden told the broadcast.
Other intelligence officials say Washington and Moscow have years of experience developing these covert rules that require the CIA to play a major role: as a master spy, negotiator, intelligence provider, logistician, participant. NATO conflict
Do not underestimate the Biden administration’s priority of keeping Americans out of danger and reassuring Russia that the situation does not need to escalate, a senior intelligence official said. “Is the CIA on Ukrainian soil?” He asks rhetorically. “Yeah, but there’s nothing wrong with that either.”
According to Newsweek, intelligence experts characterize the Ukraine conflict as unique because the United States supports Ukraine, but the two countries are not allies. They also point out that the United States is not officially at war with Russia.
“So much of what Washington does to help Ukraine is kept secret, and much of what is usually the responsibility of the US military is carried out by the agency. The material says that everything done, including work inside Ukraine, must comply with the restrictions set by Biden.
Former Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky declarationThat Ukraine did not hide anything from the CIA because of good relations.
previously in the USA questioned The rigidity of the Russian “red lines”.