Breaking - Dissenting CIA memo puts Russian involvement in Estonia attacks as “moderately to highly confident” - The New York Times

A dissenting group within the CIA leaked a memo to the New York Times disagreeing with the CIA’s official stance on Russian involvement in yesterday’s cyber attacks in Estonia. 

The memo in its original form reads as follows: 

“Evidence of Russian involvement in Friday the 13th cyber attacks are not fully conveyed in the official analysis. We have human intel from Narva that we suspect was employed at Petersburg IRA (Internet Research Association) and payments from a shell corporation in Cypress known to be associated with the Kremlin. The level of confidence has been moved down in the official memo, but we are moderately to highly confident in attribution.” 


The New York Times will continue to report as the situation develops. 

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