The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is linked throughout the Biden-Ukraine entanglements, from Trump’s first impeachment to Hunter Biden’s business dealings.
Back in 2019, the then-National Intelligence Council analyst Eric Ciaramella anonymously accused Trump of demanding an investigation into Biden’s alleged corruption in Ukraine in exchange for military aid, according to Real Clear Investigations.
Ciaramella was an adviser to then-Vice President Joe Biden’s office when Biden threatened to stop aid to Ukraine unless it fired Viktor Shokin, Real Clear stated. Shokin was the prosecutor investigating the Ukrainian gas company, Burisma Holdings. Hunter joined the board of Burisma in 2014 where he was making $80,000 a month, according to bank records.
While Ciaramella was accusing Trump of using a “quid pro quo,” Hunter’s payments were not as scrutinized in 2019. A transcript of Trump’s call eventually revealed that he did not make a promise to Zelenskyy or threaten to withhold aid to Ukraine. (RELATED: Here Are Times Biden, KJP Promised President Wouldn’t Pardon Hunter Before Breaking His Word)
A slide is projected as Fiona Hill, the former top Russia expert on the National Security Council, and David Holmes, a State Department official stationed at the US Embassy in Ukraine arrive to testify during the House Intelligence Committee hearing as part of the impeachment inquiry into US President Donald Trump on Capitol Hill in Washington,DC on November 21, 2019. (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)
Ciaramella had conversations with key Biden aides and Ukrainian prosecutors, White House emails and photos released from the National Archives demonstrated.
In one email, Ciaramella wrote “Yikes” in response to Biden’s decision to withhold aid from Ukraine, Real Clear noted. He was also involved in discussions concerning the aid package that Biden made dependent on Shokin’s removal, according to Real Clear.
Ciaramella previously worked for CIA Director John Brennan, according to the investigation. He also worked with diplomats at the Obama and Biden administrations on Ukraine, including top State Department official Victoria Nuland. Additionally, Real Clear reported he was on CIA detail while at the Biden White House.
BREAKING: According to deposition transcript, Biden’s Ukraine coup architect Victoria Nuland confirmed Eric Ciaramella was “in charge of Ukraine policy” under Biden & cleared her into WH meetings on Ukraine, where they discussed Prosecutor Shokin & Burismahttps://t.co/g02aj0UmcY
— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) April 25, 2024
A report recently revealed that a group whose reporting was cited in the whistleblower letter that resulted in Trump’s impeachment received funding from the U.S. government.
The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) was funded by the U.S. State Department and USAID, according to a report by Drop Site News.
OCCRP’s reporting on Rudy Giuliani’s political activity in Ukraine was referenced four times in a whistleblower letter that resulted in Trump’s impeachment, according to Drop Site. The largest donor for OCCRP is the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). (RELATED: Here Is What The Biden Family Has Been Up To Since 2014)
USAID has been accused by foreign countries of being a CIA front, Foreign Police reported. USAID’s public safety program coordinated with the CIA to provide training for foreign police forces, according to the outlet. However, the program was shut down at the direction of Congress in 1973.
According to this @DropSiteNews story, a media group roughly half-funded by CIA front USAID published reporting on Giuliani and Ukraine that was cited in the whistleblower complaint used as a predicate to impeach Trump https://t.co/o6gkZmqPLH pic.twitter.com/UEx5TXOBVE
— Emily Jashinsky (@emilyjashinsky) December 2, 2024
The CIA also blocked an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) team’s investigation into Hunter Biden from using his benefactor, Kevin Morris, as a witness, according to IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley.
Shapley was directing a probe into Biden in August 2021 when Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) for Delaware – Lesley Wolf – told him she was going to the CIA’s headquarters, according to Shapley’s testimony.
Wolf allegedly appeared there alongside Department of Justice (DOJ) tax attorney Jack Morgan. The CIA, Morgan and Wolf discussed Morris, Shapley stated in the affidavit.
Wolf seemed to have prevented the whistleblowers from using Morris as a witness, IRS whistleblowers told Congress. She did not share any information about why she made that decision, according to Shapley.
The intelligence community’s most open involvement in attempting to cover up for Hunter Biden’s alleged corruption was when officials labeled the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story as “Russian disinformation.”
In October 2020, 51 former intelligence officials including former CIA Director John Brennan signed the letter.
Former Deputy Director of the CIA Michael Morell told the House Judiciary Committee that he was contacted by then-Biden adviser Antony Blinken. The call from Blinken resulted in the letter’s creation, Morell admitted.
Former CIA Chief of Staff Jeremy Bash also signed the letter and connected Morell with former Biden Campaign Chairman Steve Ricchetti, according to Morell’s testimony. Bash later served on the president’s Intelligence Advisory Board in 2022. (RELATED: Second Biden-Appointed Prosecutor Confirms He Refused To Cooperate On Hunter Biden Case)
“The Senate Intelligence Committee could simply get a Gang of 8 and look at all CIA files that have the word Burisma in it,” former state department official Mike Benz stated in an interview.
He pointed to an agreement between the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)-aligned Atlantic Council and Burisma Holdings.
“Burisma was being built up as an alternative to Russian gas,” Benz said.
“The Senate Intelligence Committee could simply get a Gang of 8 and look at all CIA files that have the word Burisma in it. And I guarantee you if they did that, every single one of them would walk out white in the face at the sheer scale of what Burisma was being used for…” pic.twitter.com/Qh0f1wETAm
— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) December 3, 2024
In 2017, the Atlantic Council and Burisma signed a cooperative agreement on Jan. 19, 2017, according to the Kyiv Post. The Atlantic Council ignored warnings by a Ukrainian anti-corruption activist against partnering with Burisma. Former CIA directors Gen. David Petraeus and R. James Woolsey are listed on the Council’s Board of Directors.
“What were we doing between 2014 and 2020?” Benz said. “Why was there billions of dollars in military assistance going to Ukraine, to recapture Ukraine where Burisma held all of its mining rights, and to recapture Crimea, where Burisma held the offshore gas mining rights.”
An Atlantic Council spokesman told the Daily Caller News Foundation the funding allowed the think tank to combat Russian disinformation, focus on energy independence in Ukraine and improve “business cooperation” between the U.S. and Ukraine.
Benz also pointed out how Joseph Cofer Black – former Director of the CIA’s Counterterrorist Center – joined Burisma’s board in 2017. Black was awarded the CIA Distinguished Intelligence Medal, the agency’s highest achievement recognition.
“We were sending billions of dollars of U.S. taxpayer money to effectively improve the corporate revenue structure of a company that the previous vice president’s son was on and the then-incoming president would orient his entire foreign policy around,” Benz said. (RELATED: Judge Declines To Dismiss Hunter Biden’s Tax Case Over Special Counsel Challenge)
Ryan Wesley Routh, Trump’s second attempted assassin, was a staunch supporter of Ukraine and visited the country in 2022.
Kyiev denied any relation and claimed Routh’s ideas were “delusional,” according to The New York Times.
