so clowns were behind this morass?
U.S. Suspected Prigozhin Was Preparing to Take Military Action Against Russia
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/24/world/europe/us-intel-prigozhin-warning.html
American intelligence officials briefed senior military and administration officials on Wednesday that Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the mercenary Wagner Group, was preparing to take military action against senior Russian defense officials, according to officials familiar with the matter.
U.S. spy agencies had indications days earlier that Mr. Prigozhin was planning something and worked to refine that material into a finished assessment, officials said.
For years, Mr. Prigozhin hated Sergei K. Shoigu, the minister of defense, and Gen. Valery Gerasimov, the chief of the general staff of the Russian armed forces, and the feeling was mutual, U.S. officials said. But it took the war in Ukraine, officials said earlier this year, for the animosity to spill into the open, frequently expressed by Mr. Prigozhin in ill-tempered posts on Telegram, a social media platform.
How'd that thing go, FBI leaks to the Times, CIA to WaPo? Spooks are relying on Telegram to do their assessments?