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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUkraine crisis: CIA, not Pentagon, forecast Russian move -sources
http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/03/06/ukraine-crisis-intelligence-idINDEEA2500J20140306(Reuters) - Until recently, collecting intelligence on Ukraine was a low priority for U.S. spy agencies, and as a result their reporting on recent developments was patchy, several current and former U.S. security officials said this week.
The Central Intelligence Agency says it was following events closely enough to have outlined scenarios in which upheaval in Ukraine would become so intense that Russia would take military action.
Two national security sources said the CIA had specifically warned policymakers, shortly before the Russian military moved into the Crimean peninsula, that such a move could be imminent.
The Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency, however, predicted such a move was unlikely, said the sources, who requested anonymity to discuss intelligence matters.
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)from the article:
Something ain't right about the info in the article, anonymous sources don't help much but, it reads like two intelligence agencies and a few agents with axes to grind are battling. I don't know, just my opinion.
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)things.
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CIA/National%20EndowmentDemo.html
The Pentagon sends two ships because of "Sochi security" and one of them even runs aground.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2014/02/us-navy-ship-on-olympics-duty-ran-aground/
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)and advise the President accordingly. And I would bet the military knew what was up, they always do--even if Congress didn't. Why leak this, though? Someone has an agenda.
okaawhatever
(9,479 posts)in history. The falling of the Berlin Wall, the Arab Spring, Breakup of the Soviet Union, etc. It was titled "If only we had an agency to predict these things".
I don't know if that could be the reason, it also could be someone throwing the Presidency and/or the Pentagon under the bus.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)is supposed to move out of the CIA and into the Pentagon, eventually, but Dianne Feinstein (coincidence!) doesn't want that to happen because she says the CIA is more accurate. John McCain is one who wants it at the Pentagon. Wonder if this is related?
okaawhatever
(9,479 posts)Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)Thomas Jefferson
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