According to The Washington Post, citing us officials, the scope of this activity are higher than those of the cold war. It is planned that the operations will involve underground CIA and to use the opportunity of the national security Agency (NSA) cyber-espionage, satellite systems and other means.
Tellingly, in the past these resources were invested in the fight against terrorism and in zones of military conflicts involving the United States.
“The burglary of the national Democratic Committee has raised concerns that Russia is seeking to undermine democratic institutions or even to influence the outcome of the presidential race in the USA”, – writes the edition.
With his hand on espionage Russia allocates minimal resources, however, espionage against the United States has devoted a substantial part of it, and the number of Russian spies in the United States exceeds the number of us operational staff working in Russia.
The U.S. budget for intelligence against Russia were comparable to the costs allocated to espionage against China and North Korea.In its submission, The Washington Post reports that the costs of the CIA and other agencies spying on the associated with Russia, within the last two years rose to 10% of the total budget allocated to the intelligence services.
Recall that during the cold war, American intelligence was allocated to 40% of its resources for work in the Russian direction. In this regard, it is significant that on June 14 in the computer network of the national Committee of the US Democratic party has been infiltrated by hackers. Of course, designed to help after hacking firm CrowdStrike threshold stated authoritatively: penetration allegedly committed by professional hackers from the FSB and the GRU, and, independently from each other. However, it is even refute Snowden and Assange.
According to The New York Times, computer spying became e-mail messages, correspondence and analytical data of the Committee on information on the billionaire Donald trump, which guaranteed his nomination as a candidate in US presidents from Republican party. Also NCDP stated that it did not have data about the involvement of Russian programmers to hack the system. However, the enemies are already assigned and dealing with them will involve a lot of money.
By the way, earlier, US intelligence agencies have been unable to predict the behavior of Moscow and nekompitentnoe costly all – this was stated by the head of the intelligence Committee Devin Nunes.
Also, the Pentagon has already publicly declared Russia “a tragic threat.” “Russia – adverse, tragic threat that will have to live some time”, such opinion was expressed by state Secretary of the Pentagon James Townsend in an interview with the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter.
American politician, economist and journalist Paul Craig Roberts believes that such statements indicate that the world has never been closer to a Third world war and the process must be stopped. Russia quickly declared inability to tolerate the current state of security in the world, says Roberts.
“Washington is not against terrorism. On the contrary, he deliberately cultivated it for many years. Terrorism is the weapon that Washington will use to destabilize the situation in Russia and in China and worldwide,” notes Roberts.
In addition, a former CIA officer, now Executive Director of the Council for the national interest Philip Giraldi admitted – today the White house as the US Congress is “persistent in the manifestation of the irrationality pouring out streams of anger on the rebellious and indomitable Russia.” “What is the American authorities just stop and see what catastrophic consequences for the whole world can have their policies”, he asks in the pages of The American Conservative.
During the last cold war, the CIA (and it is the Agency responsible for keeping a pretty covert opposition), did everything that depended on him to discredit the Soviet Union. In the course were all possible methods. And 20 years later, Washington is again in confrontation to Moscow.
“Of course, not without hidden, so to speak, subversive, work. Training and coaching of opposition groups to unstable areas of the former Soviet Union are often held outside these countries. Sources of funding that fuel these opposition groups are hidden from view. All this is done in order to at the right moment to raise their hands and say: and what have we? Although then still it appears that the money of American taxpayers, for example, spent on the development and preparation of the scenario that played out in Ukraine,” – said a former CIA officer.
“When Moscow says he feels a threat to its national security – it is not too far from the truth,” he says.
