While Pete Buttigieg’s campaign denies online allegations that he was a CIA asset, military records reveal that Buttigieg was in a unit that worked with the Agency in Afghanistan.

After The Grayzone published an article about Pete Buttigieg’s roster of endorsements from CIA veterans and coup plotters, and another about his mysterious trip to Somaliland alongside a friend who now works for a US government regime change agency, Pete Buttigieg’s presidential campaign issued a public statement denying that he ever worked for the CIA.

“We hate to break the news to Twitter, but no, Pete was not in the CIA,” Chris Meagher, Buttigieg’s national press secretary, derisively told The Daily Beast, which directly referenced both Grayzone articles. “As for the Somaliland trip, it was not related to his work anywhere.”

The Daily Beast article appeared in response not only to factual reporting by The Grayzone, but to a wave of allegations spread online through hashtags like #CIAPete which accused Buttigieg of being a CIA asset.

Following the fiasco in Iowa, in which voting results were blocked thanks to faulty technology produced by a dark money outfit linked to Buttigieg – and Mayor Pete inexplicably took to himself the victor – the hashtag trended nationally.

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