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Ukrayinska Pravda
CIA maintains 12 secret bases in Ukraine, CIA head was in Kyiv last week– NYT
Ukrainska Pravda
Sun, February 25, 2024 at 4:22 PM EST
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William Burns. Stock photo: Getty Images
The US’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) maintains 12 secret bases in Ukraine along the border with Russia, and last Thursday CIA chief William Burns made his 10th secret visit to Ukraine since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion.
Source: The New York Times, based on more than 200 interviews with current and former officials in Ukraine, the United States and Europe
Details: The NYT reports that before the full-scale war, the Ukrainians proved themselves to the Americans by collecting intercepted data that helped prove Russian involvement in the downing of the Malaysia Airlines jetliner in 2014. Ukrainians also helped Americans prosecute the Russian agents who interfered in the 2016 US presidential election.
Around 2016, the CIA began training an elite Ukrainian special forces unit known as Unit 2245, which captured Russian drones and communications equipment so that CIA technicians could reverse-engineer them and crack Moscow's encryption systems. According to the NYT, one of the officers in this unit was the current head of Defence Intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov.
The CIA also helped train a new generation of Ukrainian spies who worked in Russia, throughout Europe, and in Cuba and other places where Russians have a significant presence.
According to The New York Times, the details of the partnership between the Ukrainian and American intelligence agencies have been a closely guarded secret for a decade.
Quote: "Now these intelligence networks are more important than ever, as Russia is on the offensive and Ukraine is more dependent on sabotage and long-range missile strikes that require spies far behind enemy lines. And they are increasingly at risk. If Republicans in Congress end military funding to Kyiv, the CIA may have to scale back.
To try to reassure Ukrainian leaders, William J. Burns, the CIA director, made a secret visit to Ukraine last Thursday, his 10th visit since the invasion."
More details: The NYT reports that the partnership between the CIA and Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU) began in late February 2014, when former president Viktor Yanukovych fled to Russia. This cooperation was proposed by Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, who became the head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU).
US rules prohibited intelligence agencies from providing Ukraine with any support that could be "reasonably expected" to have lethal consequences. However, the red lines were never precisely clear, creating constant tension in the partnership.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/cia-maintains-12-secret-bases-212250351.html
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All Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests. Agitators will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on on the crime, arrested. NO MASKS! Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Pro-Palestinian protesters at Barnard College force entry into campus hall and injure an employee, school says
A small group of masked demonstrators “forcibly entered Milbank Hall” and “physically assaulted a Barnard employee, sending them to the hospital,” a Barnard official said.
Feb. 27, 2025, 9:16 AM EST
By Marlene Lenthang
A Pro-Palestinian protest unfolded Wednesday at Barnard College in New York City, where a small group“forcibly entered” a campus hall and are alleged to have physically assaulted a school employee, college officials said.
A sit-in demonstration was organized Wednesday at Barnard's Office of the Deans to protest the expulsion of two Barnard students last week over allegations of “disrupting” a Columbia University class on Israeli history a month earlier, according to the protest group Columbia University Apartheid Divest. Barnard College is an independent women’s college affiliated with Columbia in which students can take courses at both schools.
During the protest, a small group of masked demonstrators “forcibly entered Milbank Hall” and “physically assaulted a Barnard employee, sending them to the hospital,” Robin Levine, Barnard’s vice president for strategic communications, said in a statement Wednesday evening.
New York police said they responded to the vicinity of West 120 Street and Broadway around 4 p.m. Wednesday and found a 41-year-old man who said he was “shoved by numerous individuals and complained of pain about the body.” He was taken to Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital, where he was stable. Police said no one was arrested.
“They encouraged others to enter campus without identification, showing blatant disregard for the safety of our community,” Levine said. “Violence and intimidation have no place here.”
The group Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine had posted on X: “We do not need outside support for the sit-in.” Instead, anyone who wanted to support was asked to head to a rally in Bay Ridge.
Levine said protesters had until 9:30 p.m. to leave the building or else the college would "be forced to consider additional, necessary measures to protect our campus.”
Barnard President Laura Rosenbury said in a statement later Wednesday night that the protesters had vacated Milbank Hall.
“Tonight, a small group of masked protesters attempted to undermine Barnard’s core values of respect, inclusion, and academic excellence," Rosenbury said. “Thanks to the efforts of our staff and faculty, the protesters have now left Milbank Hall without further incident. But let us be clear: their disregard for the safety of our community remains completely unacceptable.”
The student group Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine shared videos of the protest's progress on X.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/palestinian-protesters-barnard-college-force-entry-rcna193972
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