Welcome to The Wilderness of Mirrors

This article is full of lies.

Why am I sharing it with readers? Because it’s important to understand how the CIA and New York Times lie machine actually works.

The article purports to be based on new intelligence that says the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines were sabotaged by Ukrainian special forces, who somehow were not directly connected to the Ukrainian government but were an independent attack team.

The article says, “U.S. officials said there was much they did not know about the perpetrators and their affiliations.” The intelligence behind the sketchy allegations comes from “new intelligence reviewed by U.S. officials.”

In fact, the best intelligence (provided in a recent article by veteran journalist Sy Hersh) shows that the U.S. was behind the attack. Earlier intelligence (an intercepted text message from UK Prime Minister Liz Truss) suggested some UK involvement, although the Truss message could simply be a confirmation of “mission accomplished” by the U.S.-led team.

With evidence clearly pointing to the U.S. as the perpetrator and no evidence suggesting Russia did it (in addition to the fact that it would be ridiculous for Russia to do it because they could turn off the gas at will), why is the intelligence community suddenly promoting a theory about Ukrainian operatives?

It’s important to understand that the intel community and the CIA in particular are consummate liars. It’s what they do. The CIA is practiced in the arts of denial and deception. Spreading lies is all in a day’s work for the CIA. I know; I worked there for ten years.

The New York Times is an accomplice in spreading the lie once the CIA cooks up a story. Why did we not hear about this earlier? Because the Sy Hersh story was just published two weeks ago.

The CIA was happy to remain silent, but once the Sy Hersh story got traction, they had to make up a counternarrative so the talking heads on MSNBC would have a ready-made rebuttal. Why implicate the Ukrainians? Because they’re U.S. vassals and won’t push back.

If the CIA said Russia did it, Russia would push back with exposes of their own. By blaming Ukrainians, there’s no way to investigate independently and no risk of contradiction. It gets lost in the fog of war.

Why suggest that the Ukrainian operatives were independent of the government? That gives Zelensky plausible deniability; he can say it wasn’t done by him or his government, but the story still hangs out there.

There are lots of other lies in this New York Times story based on an invented CIA narrative. But you get the point. When confronted with the truth by Sy Hersh (which the CIA already knew), the CIA rushes out an invented version to give the legacy media some talking points to dilute the impact of the Hersh reporting.

It’s classic CIA disinformation and the New York Times played its part as the obedient megaphone. When you see how the intelligence community and media work together to spread lies, you can understand why intelligence work is referred to as a “Wilderness of Mirrors.”

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