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Trump White House officials were first informed in early 2019 of intelligence reports regarding a Russian bounty program. [1] [2]Reports from Afghanistan-based U.S. Special Operations forces and intelligence officers that militants had been paid bounties in 2019 for their targeting of U.S. military personnel were raised in 2019 and 2020.
In 2020, a CIA assessment reported that Unit 29155 operated a Russian bounty program that offered cash rewards to Taliban-linked militants to kill U.S. and other coalition soldiers in Afghanistan. [22] [23] The assessment said several US military personnel died as a result of a bounty program. [24]
U.S. intelligence reports suggesting Russia offered bounty payments to the Taliban to kill American troops have sparked outrage in Washington and questions about how the White House handled the ...
As early as 2016, U.S. intelligence officials were receiving credible reports that the Russian government was funding the Taliban. Now those reports have taken on new relevance.
President Trump said he never questioned Vladimir Putin about U.S. intelligence reports that Moscow paid the Taliban to kill American troops in Afghanistan.
In June 2020, US intelligence officials assessed with medium confidence that the Russian GRU military-intelligence agency had offered bounties to the Taliban militants to kill coalition forces in Afghanistan. [105] [106] The Pentagon's top leaders said that Russian bounty program has not been corroborated. [107]
Nancy Pelosi said Trump "wants to ignore any allegation against Russia" as he denies being briefed about intelligence that Russia offered to pay bounties. Pelosi, Democrats take aim at Trump over ...
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