Ex-CIA Chief: Inside Putin’s Mafia State
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Mon, 14 September 2026
1 report- Kyiv Post (Ukraine)21:00first to report
Former CIA Chief of Station Sean Wiswesser tells Kyiv Post’s Jason Jay Smart that Russia’s FSB, SVR and GRU are far from the polished spy services of myth – they’re corrupt, often sloppy, yet still lethal abroad. From Skripal’s poisoning to assassin Vadim Krasikov’s triumphant return home, Wiswesser traces a system that rewards aggression and rarely punishes failure, blending mafia-style extortion, cybercrime and disposable Telegram-recruited operatives into a genuinely dangerous hybrid.