AnimeIsTrash posted:

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The work of Bellingcat, an open-source investigative outfit, has been instrumental in exposing years of nefarious Russian activity. But, perhaps more importantly, it has also enabled U.S. officials and lawmakers to discuss Moscow’s skullduggery openly without revealing the sources and methods of the U.S. intelligence agencies.

“I don’t want to be too dramatic, but we love this,” said Marc Polymeropolous, the CIA’s former deputy chief of operations for Europe and Eurasia.

When former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter were poisoned, it was Bellingcat that was first to publicly identify the two Russian military intelligence operatives that had traveled to the U.K. to spritz the door handle of the Skripals’ home with the Soviet-era nerve agent.

“Whenever we had to talk to our liaison partners about it, instead of trying to have things cleared or worry about classification issues, you could just reference their work,” said Polymeropolous, who retired from the CIA in 2019.
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“The Russians routinely deny, and say, well present us the facts,” said Daniel Hoffman, a former CIA Chief of Station. “The greatest value of Bellingcat is that we can then go to the Russians and then say, there you go.”

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In 1986, NED's President Carl Gershman said that the NED was created because "It would be terrible for democratic groups around the world to be seen as subsidized by the CIA. We saw that in the 1960's and that's why it has been discontinued".[55] Throughout the course of a 2010 investigation by ProPublica, Paul Steiger, the then editor in chief of the publication said that "those who spearheaded creation of NED have long acknowledged it was part of an effort to move from covert to overt efforts to foster democracy" and cited as evidence a 1991 interview in which then-NED president Allen Weinstein said, "A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA."

Trabisnikof posted:

sure the cia brags about how awesome they are



and sure they’re funded by a cia cutout



but when you think about it, maybe they’re just a bunch of friendly anarchists

a few DRUNK BONERS posted:

What does the name brown moses mean

Wraith of J.O.I. posted:

the CIA has not explicitly said bellingcat/higgins is one of their assets, so i guess they must not be!

a few DRUNK BONERS posted:

What does the name brown moses mean

Ytlaya posted:

To be a Russian asset, someone has to have at one point argued a point which coincides with something a person located in Russia said

Ytlaya posted:

It means he's analogous to a Moses for fash people.

Doctor Jeep posted:

why is the dutch postcode lottery financing bellendcat?

Atrocious Joe posted:

Meltdown May is only 4 days in and we are all already overwhelmed with content
https://twitter.com/TrueAnonPod/status/1389670793735331841?s=20

gently caress, they announced this specifically for Meltdown May didn't they

paul_soccer12 posted:

oops i forgot to not sign my posts and also post something

xtal posted:

I'm brown Moses

paul_soccer12 posted:

have you heard of the D S A

Raskolnikov38 posted:

tfw you’re too much of liberal bootlicks for the government to COINTELPRO you

https://twitter.com/alexeiarora/status/1388967843358773248?s=21

Josh Christ posted:

I had managed to avoid hearing the intersectional cia ad until chapo covered it and I hate it, incredible psychic damage.

Trabisnikof posted:

sure the cia brags about how awesome they are



and sure they’re funded by a cia cutout



but when you think about it, maybe they’re just a bunch of friendly anarchists

Atrocious Joe posted:

Brown Moses shared his work with the forums at least

Atrocious Joe posted:

Brown Moses shared his work with the forums at least

XMNN posted:

ah I was wondering what this was about lol

https://twitter.com/EliotHiggins/status/1389650803770732544?s=19

https://twitter.com/EliotHiggins/status/1389655149694554114?s=19

I'm sure they've stopped being a CIA front now

Atrocious Joe posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkWPj2jFVUA&t=36s

Haven't you fools realized that what happened 30 years ago has no bearing on NED today.
https://twitter.com/NEDemocracy/status/1349721741917102082?s=20
The guy who led it since 1984 is retiring soon, it's a completely different organization from back then.

XMNN posted:

that's loving amazing

I'm more convinced than ever that brown Moses isn't a CIA op, with investigative and deductive skills like these it's entirely plausible that he manages to come to all his conclusions himself

THS posted:

lol he really has rationalized to himself that because it was 30 years ago that the founder of NED said they were a CIA front, that this isn’t relevant anymore. higgins is a moron’s moron. a real tool

xtal posted:

Chapo was a Bernie front and he wanted to be the leader of the CIA

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The Trump administration proposal would allow the NED to continue issuing small grants but move funding of its core institutes to the State Department, where the IRI and NDI would have to compete with private contractors. The organizations involved argue that keeping funding decisions at arm’s length from the State Department allows the NED network to do things on the edges of the pro-democracy movement that the U.S. government can’t or won’t, such as supporting Chinese dissidents in ways that upset Beijing.

"USAID, the State Department and the endowment are a three-legged stool,” said NDI President Kenneth Wollack. “Dismantling one of those legs would undermine a fundamental pillar of U.S. foreign policy — a policy that represents a convergence of our interests and values.” The proposal initially came out of the Office of Management and Budget, even though the State Department did not formally ask for it. A senior OMB official told me the administration supports the NED’s mission but wants to consolidate the funding streams to improve oversight and accountability. But the White House didn’t provide any evidence that the current model is inefficient.