U.S. Intercepted Moscow’s Calls To Its Spies In Ukraine

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (Reuters / Jim Bourg)

Kerry: U.S. Taped Moscow’s Calls To Its Ukraine Spies -- Josh Rogin, Daily Beast

The secretary of state claimed in a private meeting that the U.S. intelligence community has recordings of pro-Russian forces being managed by government handlers in Moscow.

The United States has proof that the Russian government in Moscow is running a network of spies inside eastern Ukraine because the U.S. government has recordings of their conversations, Secretary of State John Kerry said in a closed-door meeting Friday.

“Intel is producing taped conversations of intelligence operatives taking their orders from Moscow and everybody can tell the difference in the accents, in the idioms, in the language. We know exactly who’s giving those orders, we know where they are coming from,” Kerry said at a private meeting of the Trilateral Commission in Washington. A recording of Kerry’s remarks was obtained by The Daily Beast.

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Update: Report: Kerry says US taped Moscow's calls to spies in Ukraine -- The Hill

My Comment: So Russia has spies that are active in Ukraine .... and I should be surprised? Spies aside .... the rest of Josh Rogin's post is a must read .... it gives more of an insight into what John Kerry and the White House are thinking than on what Putin is thinking.