Was Navalny an intelligence asset of MI6 or CIA or both?
Both. Navalny was a political operative. He was groomed by the CIA during a Yale internship. He was supported in Moscow by a network of non-governmental organizations and other entities who received money covertly from British intelligence agents. He participated in three coup attempts against Vladimir Putin.The first one was the elections of 2007, 2008, where the United States attempted to carry out a color revolution to prevent the swap that Putin and Dmitry Medvedev were making, where Putin basically had served two terms, was going to switch over to prime minister. Medvedev would become president and then at the end they'd switch back. That was the goal.
The United States tried to disrupt this to prevent that from happening by carrying out a color revolution where Navalny played an important role. Then after that failed, Navalny got selected for this Yale program, which is really nothing more than a front for the National Resources Division of the CIA to groom, train, recruit, and then deploy him.
He got deployed back for the purpose of disrupting Vladimir Putin's attempt to return to power in 2012. We have Navalny's deputy on film with British intelligence saying, I need 10 to 12 million dollars to make this happen, meaning to disrupt Putin's return to power.
There it is. You know that's treason, that's what Navalny did and then Navalny got involved in trying to disrupt the 2021 effort as well this you know this led to well this is Navalny is the great nationalist here he's comparing people from the Caucasus to cockroaches and flies. He says that the way you deal with cockroaches and flies is with a fly swatter and slippers. But sometimes you have bigger pests. And then a Muslim comes in and he shoots them. He says the solution is the handgun.
My wife is from the Republic of Georgia. He called them rodents. Rodents! My wife is not a rodent. Her family isn't rodents. Georgians aren't rodents. Navalny is an ugly nationalist. That's the reality.
Now, we tried to put lipstick on this pig and turn him into the symbol of democracy, but he was never a Democrat. He was always a disruptive force, trained, funded, and directed by the CIA to undermine Russian government, not undermine Russian democracy. Nothing about Navalny was democratic. He never garnered more than 5% support nationally. He could never have won an election. His job was to be disruptive, purely disruptive. And in that he did a good job, but he was a traitor nonetheless.
I believe that Ritter is right about this Navalny story. The US government, through various agencies such as the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), has provided support in the form of funding, training, and other resources to civil society organizations, media outlets, and political movements in countries where colour revolutions have occurred. This support is framed as promoting democracy, human rights, and the rule of law; however, such involvement is interference in the internal affairs of sovereign nations, with the aim of shaping political outcomes favourable to US interests. Remember, the CIA also provided support to various organizations in Ukraine's Orange Revolution (2004-2005) and Georgia's Rose Revolution (2003).
Here’s Glenn Greenwald’s take:
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