CIA Built "12 Secret Spy Bases" In Ukraine & Waged Shadow War For Last Decade, Bombshell NYT Report Confirms

Remember how it used to be “conspiracy theory” that the CIA/US was operating Biolabs in Ukraine?

Until it wasn’t.

Remember this?

US-Funded Ukraine Biolabs: Now Confirmed TRUE!

And this?

BREAKING: THE PENTAGON ADMITS TO 46 BIOLABS IN UKRAINE!

Today another shoe drops as it's now admitted that the CIA was not only running Biolabs in Ukraine

The New York Times of all places ran this report yesterday:

The New York Times disclosed yesterday that the CIA built "12 Secret Spy Bases" in Ukraine, waging a shadow war against Russia for the past decade.

🚨The New York Times disclosed yesterday that the CIA built "12 Secret Spy Bases" in Ukraine, waging a shadow war against Russia for the past decade.

After a U.S.-supported violent coup toppled Ukraine's democratically elected government, CIA Director John Brennan visited Kyiv… pic.twitter.com/DWluhJIKUq

— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) February 26, 2024

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— zerohedge (@zerohedge) February 26, 2024

From ZeroHedge....this is stunning:

On Sunday The New York Times published an explosive and very belated full admission that US intelligence has not only been instrumental in Ukraine wartime decision-making, but has established and financed high tech command-and-control spy centers, and was doing so long prior to the Feb. 24 Russian invasion of two years ago.

Among the biggest revelations is that the program was established a decade ago and spans three different American presidents. The Times says the CIA program to modernize Ukraine's intelligence services has "transformed" the former Soviet state and its capabilities into "Washington’s most important intelligence partners against the Kremlin today."

This has included the agency having secretly trained and equipped Ukrainian intelligence officers spanning back to just after the 2014 Maidan coup events, as well constructing a network of 12 secret bases along the Russian border—work which began eight years ago. These intelligence bases, from which Russian commanders' communications can be swept up and Russian spy satellites monitored, are being used launch and track cross-border drone and missile attacks on Russian territory.

This means that with the disclosure of the longtime "closely guarded secret" the world just got a big step closer to WW3, given it means the CIA is largely responsible for the effectiveness of the recent spate of attacks which have included direct drone hits on key oil refineries and energy infrastructure.

"Without them [the CIA and elite commandoes it's trained], there would have been no way for us to resist the Russians, or to beat them," according to Ivan Bakanov, former head of the SBU, which is Ukraine’s domestic intelligence agency.

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A main source of the NYT revelations—disclosures which might come as no surprise to those never willing to so easily swallow the mainstream 'official' narrative of events—is identified as a top intelligence commander named Gen. Serhii Dvoretskiy.

Clearly, Kiev and Washington now want world to know of the deep intelligence relationship they tried to conceal for over the past decade. It is perhaps a kind of warning to Moscow at a moment Ukraine's forces are in retreat: the US is fighting hand in glove with the Ukrainians. And yet the revelations contained in the NY Times report also confirm what President Putin has precisely accused Washington of all along.

While the lengthy NYT report is full of fresh revelations and confirmation of just how deeply the CIA has always been involved in Ukraine, below are seven of the biggest contained in the story...

Description of secret spy bunker

The report contains a surprisingly detailed description of one of the 'secret' underground command centers established by the CIA near the Russian border... location undisclosed of course:

Not far away, a discreet passageway descends to a subterranean bunker where teams of Ukrainian soldiers track Russian spy satellites and eavesdrop on conversations between Russian commanders. On one screen, a red line followed the route of an explosive drone threading through Russian air defenses from a point in central Ukraine to a target in the Russian city of Rostov.

The underground bunker, built to replace the destroyed command center 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 CIA.

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Elite commando force

Within two years after the 2014 West-backed coup in Ukraine, the CIA had set up a training program for elite Ukrainian operatives:

Around 2016, the CIA began training an elite Ukrainian commando force — known as Unit 2245 — which captured Russian drones and communications gear so that CIA technicians could reverse-engineer them and crack Moscow’s encryption systems. (One officer in the unit was Kyrylo Budanov, now the general leading Ukraine’s military intelligence.)

And the CIA also helped train a new generation of Ukrainian spies who operated inside Russia, across Europe, and in Cuba and other places where the Russians have a large presence.

Ukraine transformed into an "intelligence-gathering hub"

The US intelligence network in Ukraine (which is tantamount to NATO intelligence network too) has in reality been more extensive than pretty much all prior media speculation has envisioned. Ukraine has long been a massive "intelligence gathering hub" for Washington and its partners:

In more than 200 interviews, current and former officials in Ukraine, the United States and Europe described a partnership that nearly foundered from mutual distrust before it steadily expanded, turning Ukraine into an intelligence-gathering hub that intercepted more Russian communications than the CIA station in Kyiv, Ukraine, could initially handle. Many of the officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence and matters of sensitive diplomacy.

Now these intelligence networks are more important than ever, as Russia is on the offensive and Ukraine is more dependent on sabotage and long-range missile strikes that require spies far behind enemy lines. And they are increasingly at risk: If Republicans in Congress end military funding to Kyiv, the CIA may have to scale back.

Huge NYT admission that Putin was basically right

Below is a hugely ironic excerpt from the Times report. The section begins by noting that Putin has repeatedly blamed the US-NATO for expanding its military and intelligence infrastructure into Ukraine. Not only had this precisely been going on for the past decade, as is now being admitted, but was presented by the Kremlin as a key cause of the Russian invasion of Feb.24, 2022. Putin and his officials were adamant on the eve of the invasion that NATO was militarizing Ukraine. The Times appears to now fully admit that, yes - this was actually the case:

Putin has long blamed Western intelligence agencies for manipulating Kyiv and sowing anti-Russia sentiment in Ukraine.

Toward the end of 2021, according to a senior European official, Putin was weighing whether to launch his full-scale invasion when he met with the head of one of Russia’s main spy services, who told him that the CIA, together with Britain’s MI6, were controlling Ukraine and turning it into a beachhead for operations against Moscow.

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...U.S. officials were often reluctant to fully engage, fearing that Ukrainian officials could not be trusted, and worrying about provoking the Kremlin.Yet a tight circle of Ukrainian intelligence officials assiduously courted the CIA and gradually made themselves vital to the Americans. In 2015, Gen. Valeriy Kondratiuk, then Ukraine’s head of military intelligence, arrived at a meeting with the CIA’s deputy station chief and without warning handed over a stack of top-secret files.

Here's a screenshot of one key part from the NYT report:

According to a new account in the NYT:

On the night of the Maidan coup in Ukraine ten years ago, Feb. 24th 2014, Ukraine's post-coup spy chief Valentyn Nalyvaichenko arrived at his new headquarters and made his first call to "the C.I.A. station chief and the local head of MI6."… pic.twitter.com/Dun8mPmnIR

— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) February 25, 2024

More here from Jeff Dornik:

The @nytimes recently published a bombshell report that the CIA has been playing a much more significant role in Ukraine than previously thought.

According to the report, the CIA has been instrumental in Ukraine's wartime decision-making, establishing and financing high-tech command-and-control spy centers, and waging a shadow war against Russia for the last decade.

The CIA's program to modernize Ukraine's intelligence services has been described as "transformative," turning the former Soviet state into "Washington's most important intelligence partners against the Kremlin today."

This includes training and equipping Ukrainian intelligence officers, constructing a network of 12 secret bases along the Russian border, and launching cross-border drone and missile attacks on Russian territory.

The report also details a secret underground bunker near the Russian border, where Ukrainian soldiers track Russian spy satellites and eavesdrop on conversations between Russian commanders.

The bunker, which is almost fully financed and partly equipped by the CIA, is described as a "secret nerve center" of Ukraine's military.

Additionally, the CIA has been training an elite Ukrainian commando force, known as Unit 2245, which captures Russian drones and communications gear for the CIA to reverse-engineer and crack Moscow's encryption systems.

The CIA has also helped train a new generation of Ukrainian spies who operate inside Russia, across Europe, and in other places where the Russians have a large presence.

The report also confirms that Ukraine has long been a massive "intelligence gathering hub" for Washington and its partners, intercepting more Russian communications than the CIA station in Kyiv could initially handle.

These intelligence networks are now more important than ever, as Russia is on the offensive and Ukraine is more dependent on sabotage and long-range missile strikes that require spies far behind enemy lines.

The report indirectly references the 2014 coup in Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea by Russia, which set Ukraine and Russia on a tragic collision course.

The CIA was supposed to strengthen Ukraine's intelligence agencies without provoking the Russians, but the red lines were never precisely clear, creating a persistent tension in the partnership.

The report also reveals that the CIA began sending equipment to Ukraine in 2016, after the election of President Trump, who was seen as sympathetic to Russia.

However, @RealDonaldTrump's administration often went in the other direction, with war hawks like @mikepompeo
and @AmbJohnBolton in key positions.

They visited Kyiv to underline their full support for the secret partnership, which expanded to include more specialized training programs and the building of additional secret bases.

Overall, the report paints a picture of a deep and complex intelligence relationship between the US and Ukraine, one that has been instrumental in Ukraine's resistance against Russia and our continued funding of their military.

However, it also raises questions about the potential consequences of this relationship, particularly in light of the current Russia vs Ukraine war.

The @nytimes recently published a bombshell report that the CIA has been playing a much more significant role in Ukraine than previously thought.

According to the report, the CIA has been instrumental in Ukraine's wartime decision-making, establishing and financing high-tech… pic.twitter.com/3KkKW4nOJM

— Jeff Dornik (@jeffdornik) February 26, 2024

Why do you suppose they are admitting this now?

What agenda do they have?

CIA Built “12 Secret Spy Bases” In Ukraine & Waged Shadow War For Last Decade, Bombshell NYT Report Confirms

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