Washington Post talks about the 'Russian House' inside the CIA
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) houses a department that is informally called the “Russian House”, but is formally called the Center for Europe and Eurasia.
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Writes about this in The washingotn post author Greg Miller, whose book, titled The Apprentice: Trump, Russia, and the Subversion of American Democracy, will be released on October 2.
According to the author, this division of the CIA - “a department within a department” - was actively fighting the KGB during the Cold War.
In the months leading up to the 2016 US presidential election, senior Russian House officials held a series of meetings to discuss reports that Moscow was organizing a covert operation to interfere in the US presidential race.
By early August 2016, concerns had become so serious that CIA chief John Brennan called then-White House chief of staff Denis McDonough and said with unnatural urgency in his voice: “I need to come in to see the president (at that time the head of the United States was Barack Obama) "
The author notes that the book, which is based on interviews with people from Trump's inner circle, describes "the narrative history of Russian interference in the 2016 election" and also outlines its consequences. Most of the sources spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the information.
Subsequently, the hostility between Trump and Brennan only increased, and Brennan himself became more outspoken in his statements about Trump, whom he considered a threat to the United States. However, Trump responded to him in 2018, depriving the CIA's ex-head, John Brennan, of access to secret data.
Russia denies interference in the US electoral process.
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