Adamant to win the info war it is waging against the Kremlin about the Ukraine conflict, US intelligence officials admitted outright making up some claims and having leaked information that wasn’t “rock solid,” NBC News reports.
Even President Biden and the American media were participating in the disinformation campaign when repeated warnings prepared by the US intelligence that Russia was preparing to use chemical weapons in Ukraine.
Justification? They say the US released attention-grabbing assertion to deter Russia from using the banned munitions and, as they boast, their effort was successful.
Multiple US officials acknowledge that Washington has used information as a weapon in the info war even when confidence in the accuracy of the information wasn’t high.
Even intelligence officials who came up with the chemical agents warning admit they’ve used intelligence they themselves rated as ‘low confidence’ for deterrent effect – to discourage Russia from actually using these weapons- or, other times, as part of the efforts, as an official put it, “to get inside Putin’s head.”
The involved officials NBC quoted described their misinformation mission as part of the effort to undermine Moscow’s propaganda and prevent it from defining how the world is perceiving the war.
Although some releases were accurate, like the one that Russian President Putin intends to launch an assault on Ukraine, something that the Biden administration insisted on for weeks, others were fabricated, such as the report about Putin being misled by his own advisers, or the one that he turned to Beijing for military aid.
The latter report was released – despite being unbased- to discourage China from actually sending arms to Russia, as the NBC sources said, with one European official calling it a public game to prevent China’s military support.
When it comes to the claims that Putin was being misled by his own team, one intelligence operative points out that there’s no way one can prove or disprove that stuff.
Despite the fact that the officials NBC cited in its report admitted – at the very least- to exaggerating their claims, an unnamed US official insisted in his reaction to the report that both the intelligence community as well as the National Security Council have validated the quality of everything that was released to the public.
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