A US journalist George Mapp, specializing in investigation into secret service activities and security issues, claims it was perfectly logical for the US to organize a personal visit by CIA Director John Brennan to Ukraine in the context of the unfolding geopolitical game around the country in question. Victor Yanukovych said earlier that it was after their meeting with Brennan that Ukraine’s power-wielding agency chiefs took the decision to launch a special operation in the east of the country.
A source close to Ukraine’s security agencies has told the RIA Novosti news agency that Brennan came to Kiev last Saturday and met with Ukraine’s security chiefs before the Ukrainian Interior Ministry said it was launching a special operation against those pressing for federalization in the east of Ukraine.
Mapp told RIA Novosti in a commentary that the situation around Ukraine was an extremely important and ticklish chess game, played by all the countries involved.
According to him, the US is trying to divert Russia’s attention from Syria, while Moscow may show one and all, above all the BRICS countries, that it is capable of damaging the US economy and currency in this standoff with the West. For these reasons, the way the chess game in question ends will have an enormous importance and consequences, it is therefore quite logical that the CIA Director decided to personally visit Ukraine.
Mapp says he believes that Brennan did pay a visit to Kiev, although he admits he has no direct evidence of that from his sources. According to Mapp, small wonder if the CIA was not only involved in, but also organized and controlled the protests from the outset.
According to the journalist, the Ukrainian scenario of the past few months is very much like any other CIA-planned scenario. He says the CIA has quite an experience in staging state coups, including in Ukraine, citing the Orange Revolution of 2004 as evidence.
Russia wants explanation of report CIA chief visited Kiev
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday said Moscow would like Washington to explain reports in the Russian media that CIA director John Brennan visited the Ukrainian capital at the weekend.
"We would like to understand the meaning of reports about an urgent visit of CIA director Mr Brennan to Kiev," Lavrov told reporters in Moscow. "So far we have not been given any explanations that would be reasonable."
CIA refuses to comment on Brennan's visit to Ukraine
The US Central Intelligence Agency has claimed reports that CIA Director John Brennan had influenced the Ukrainian authorities' decision to launch a special operation in eastern Ukraine,The Los Angeles Times reports with reference to a CIA official, Todd Ebitz. Ebitz chose not to comment on reports that Brennan had visited Kiev.
The report was posted on the daily’s website overnight into Sunday. The daily quotes him as saying that all statements about the Ukrainian authorities’ invitation to Brennan to come and advise on some tactical matters inside Ukraine is an outright lie, since Director Brennan strongly believes that a diplomatic solution is the only way to settle the crisis in Russia-Ukraine relations.
Victor Yanukovych, who is the legitimate President of Ukraine, said earlier that Ukraine's power-wielding agencies took the decision on a special operation in the east of Ukraine following their meeting with Brennan.
A source, close to Ukraine’s security agencies, told RIA-Novosti that Brennan came to Kiev on Saturday to meet the power agency chiefs before the Interior Ministry in Kiev announced the launching of a special operation against those pressing for federalization in the east of Ukraine.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday said Moscow would like Washington to explain reports in the Russian media that CIA director John Brennan visited the Ukrainian capital at the weekend.
"We would like to understand the meaning of reports about an urgent visit of CIA director Mr Brennan to Kiev," Lavrov told reporters in Moscow. "So far we have not been given any explanations that would be reasonable."
CIA's head has come to Ukraine to instruct power agencies - unofficial source
A source in the Ukrainian parliament has told the Russian Interfax news agency that CIA's Director John Brennan has recently visited Ukraine's capital Kiev and had several meetings with representatives of Ukraine's power-wielding agencies.
The person who said this to Interfax in a phone talk added that John Brennan came to Ukraine not under his real name.
According to some yet unconfirmed information, the decision to suppress protesters in Slavyansk, a city in Ukraine's east, with force was advised to Ukraine's authorities by Brennan.
However, Interfax does not have any confirmation from any official sources that this is really so. Read more: voiceofrussia.com/news/20...e-perfectly-logical-9386/