It Wasn't Just Mike Morrell , The CIA Itself Participated in the "51 Intelligence Officials" Disinformation Operation Directed Against the American People

 

The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) both solicited signatures for and eventually approved the infamous 2020 letter claiming that the Hunter Biden laptop story was a Russian disinformation plot, recent congressional testimony suggests. According to a report to be released Wednesday by the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, multiple former U.S. intelligence officials testified under oath about the CIA's involvement in the distribution of the letter, which was eventually signed by more than 50 former senior U.S. intelligence officials.

"One signer of the statement, former CIA analyst David Cariens, disclosed to the Committees that a CIA employee affiliated with the agency's Prepublication Classification Review Board ('PCRB') informed him of the existence of the statement and asked if he would sign it," the House investigative report notes. "The Committees have requested additional material from the CIA, which has ignored the request to date."

Previously it was reported that Morrell must have been lying when he told CIA officials that the psyops letter would be approved by the Prepublication Classification Review Board.

That claim now appears to have been true, based on this new reporting. The CIA Prepublication Classification Review Board endorsed that letter -- or rather, at least one person from that board actively solicited people to sign psyop letter, thereby signalling that the Board had approved it.

The Prepublication Classification Review Board (PCRB) is tasked with reviewing statements, letters, and books published by former intelligence personnel to determine whether the material contains any classified information that would need to be removed or redacted prior to publication.

In a March 5, 2023, email to congressional investigators, Cariens stated that a CIA official tasked with reviewing and approving a memoir he planned to publish told him about the Hunter Biden laptop letter and even asked him if he would like to sign it.

"When the person in charge of reviewing the book called to say it was approved with no changes, I was told about the draft letter," Cariens wrote. "The person asked me if I would be willing to sign."

So Morrell had people on the Review Board telling would-be signatories it had all been approved for publication.

GO READ THE WHOLE THING.