A long form “bombshell” article published in June of 2017 in the Washington Post opened with an intriguing source deep in Kremlin who reported directly to John Brennan, head of the CIA, about Putin’s efforts to get Trump elected.
Then in September 2019 CNN breathlessly reported on a spy deep in the Kremlin who had to be extricated due to Trump’s loose lips.
Russian media quickly identified him as Oleg Smolenkov
Turns out Oleg was happy to feed Brennan what he wanted to hear, but when the CIA suggested he be extricated from Russia before Putin discovered him, he was less than enthusiastic about leaving, and seemingly unconcerned for his safety
But leave he eventually did, faking his death while on vacation in Montenegro. And he bought a million dollar house in DC under his own name, publicly!
As bad as all this sounds for Oleg’s veracity, the NY Times put the cherry on top when they, without naming him directly, let slip, with just a little reading between the lines, that Brennan had based the Intelligence Community Assessment solely on the word of Smolenkov!
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