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Vladimir Putin 'to be overthrown by three rivals in hammer to head' says CIA insider. Really.R
2022-06-27
[SHAFAQ] A secret plot to oust Russian President Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
 could already be underway within his inner circle, according to a CIA insider.

Putin's cronies could already be lurking in the wings if Russia's invasion of Ukraine fails, with concerns and speculation mounting over the president's health.

Sergei Shoigu, Russian Defence Minister and a close Putin-ally, may be central to a mutiny to overthrow the president, according to ex-CIA Moscow station chief Daniel Hoffman.

He added that if anyone is going to overthrow Putin then it'll be done in secret so that he doesn't find them and kill them first.

"Nobody’s gonna ask, ’Hey Vladimir, would you like to leave?’ No. It’s a f***ing hammer to the head and he’s dead. Or it’s time to go to the sanatorium," Hoffman told The Daily Beast.

"They schwack him for it. That’s what they’ll do."
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Daniel Hoffman: 2018-05-08 Ex-CIA officer: Brennan's attacks on Trump ‘cringe-worthy,' put national security at risk
Posted by:Fred

#17  ^ Actually, you are correct.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-06-27 22:49  

#16  It doesn't matter if U.S. “intelligence” tells you wrongly that the enemy is running out of ammunition, or that their leaders have hemorrhoids or cancer, as long as U.S. “Intelligence” doesn't run out of imagination.
Posted by: Aca Joe   2022-06-27 22:41  

#15  /\ And we don't have the slightest idea in HELL how much funding the Klingons receive. Their budget data is SECRET. Nor do we have any idea how much of the DoD (grudgingly) and SOF (enthusiastically without shame) budgets go to support Klingon endeavors.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-06-27 14:10  

#14  I sincerely resent the fact that my tax dollars are used to fund the CIA.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2022-06-27 12:31  

#13  No bet, Mike. Past experience is that they will be totally blindsighted
Posted by: magpie   2022-06-27 12:12  

#12  I won't take that bet Mike because of past history with those idiots.
Posted by: DarthVader   2022-06-27 10:09  

#11  ...Will bet the house payment that when Volodya does shuffle off this mortal coil and join the Choir Invisible and/or face Mandatory Retirement, it will be a COMPLETE surprise to the national security agencies.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski   2022-06-27 09:47  

#10  Someone has been using too much of their own product

"Only users lose drugs..."
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-06-27 08:46  

#9  'He doesn't have a long life ahead of him': Putin is suffering from several 'grave' illnesses and will be dead within two years, Ukraine's spy chief claims
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-06-27 08:45  

#8  Someone has been using too much of their own product
Posted by: DarthVader   2022-06-27 08:45  

#7  Vlad is in as much danger as Hoody Doody who sits in the White House.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-06-27 08:38  

#6  Ref #4: They just fixate on the immediate goal and think, "oh this will solve all our problems."

I could be wrong, but I believe the term you are searching for is... political expediency.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-06-27 07:33  

#5  Let's be honest, the Daily Mail is more reliable a source than the CIA these days.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2022-06-27 07:16  

#4  Of course, there's no plan for who's going to take over afterwards. How many times has the CIA murdered someone only to have a worse situation emerge?

It's because they're not that smart. They don't think that far ahead. They just fixate on the immediate goal and think, "oh this will solve all our problems."
Posted by: Albemarle Snerert7268   2022-06-27 01:04  

#3  
Don’t go there.
Posted by: Pancho and Tenille3424   2022-06-27 00:30  

#2  Where's the icepick? I expect a traditional Russian whacking, thank you.
Posted by: Raj   2022-06-27 00:20  

#1  My Magic 8-Ball is more useful: palace plotters, how insightful!
Posted by: magpie   2022-06-27 00:03  

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