EXCLUSIVE: U.S. Intelligence: Russia Tried to Con the World With Bogus Missile
Source: The Daily Beast
The Russians hyped a cruise missile launch earlier this year. But a briefing by the CIA and a second agency determined that it was essentially a hoax.
Ankit Panda
02.18.19 1:17 AM ET
On Jan. 23, Russian military officials held a press conference showing off what they said was a cruise missile at the center of a years-long arms control controversy between Washington and Moscow.
Except the presentation was essentially a hoax, according to a classified briefing prepared by U.S. intelligence. Neither the missile, nor its launch vehicle, nor the accompanying schematics were what Russia claimed them to be.
The alleged Russian misdirection came just days before the United States announced that it would withdraw from the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty—the treaty that Russia violated, in the U.S. view.
Almost nothing Russia showed off to support its claims at that press conference had anything to do with the missile the U.S. is most interested in, according to an assessment briefing put together by the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency.
Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/us-intelligence-russia-tried-to-con-the-world-with-bogus-missile?ref=home
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our Prezident is still in Putin's pocket. 
Scares the hell out a me...Just got done reading an article about skippy and its relationship with
the people that keep americuns safe...these guys
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Intelligence_Community
And folks its pretty ugly what the heads of these organizations say about cheetox...
scary...
