The Orwellian Disinformation Governance Board, also called the Biden administration’s “Ministry of Truth,” is just the latest in a list of eight times that government has wielded tech to target Americans invasively.
october 1972, i became a widow. after that, i needed to work. i thought about it and i had spoken foreign languages. i had lived overseas and i had a masters degree. so, i decided to apply for cia. it wasn t that easy, though. they wanted to make me into a secretary. but i said, no, i really wanted to be a case officer. i really wanted to do covert operations. and eventually, i became a cia officers during the cold war.
so they ve also been on a higher state of alert, particularly increased in the last few dailies for certain units. following this intelligence coming from the united states, that and very much as the ukrainians here would have predicted, there is a belief in the united states that a false flag operation will be conducted by covert operators. this is a statement coming from the pentagon in public, no less, not a leak from an intelligence source, but a public statement from the pentagon, covert operations, planning to attack themselves. their own side, and blame the ukrainians, of course, for war. the ukrainians have got other intelligence of their own suggesting a similar situation that might likely be blamed on them, if being maybe conducted against russian troops in moldova. and then the cyber attack that scientists believe they don t have the evidence to point back to russia and the pressure on them and the international community over this issue of whether or not nato going
military forces from russia, known as the little green men quite often, cyberattacks, lots of covert operations, large scale deniable operations conducted by the russians in that original seizure of crimea in support of russian-speaking rebels in that part of the world. so he s talking in terms of the first phase. he s saying that he expects to see cyberattacks, efforts made to undermine the political process here. perhaps fifth columnists participating in political protests here basically threatening the stability of the government. perhaps then providing an excuse for some kind of an intervention, jake. sam kiley in kyiv, ukraine, nic robertson in moscow, russia, thanks to both of you. coming up, we ll talk to the biden voters living there in allentown. was the restlessness handed down? some tell cnn it s getting very hard to stay biden cheerleaders. stay with us.
no-fly zone. what easy occurring in the world of support? will that be enough? is there an inevitability to this one way or another? western nations and nato countries will continue to push supplies and weaponry into ukraine. they can certainly use air support, but that has been ruled out. i think sensibly so. one thing that general keane has mentioned, which i think is potentially very important, is the possibility of u.s. covert operations. we ve been doing these operations and training for the many years now. many experts say we ve gotten quite good at it. it can be done with deniability such that we can obviously there is risk, but that could make a difference. particularly in certain parts of ukraine. we won t know about that, and till later. if ever appear that s probably a good thing. it is something to be aware of. thousand right, dagen, there s certainly no shortage of support conceptually by the