Alleged Russian military program of paid assassinations
The Russian bounty program was an alleged project of Russian military intelligence to pay bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing American and other allied service members during the war in Afghanistan. The existence of the alleged program was reported in the media in 2020 and became an issue in the 2020 presidential election campaign.
In June 2020, The Washington Post reported that intelligence suggesting the existence of a bounty operation dated to as early as 2018.[1] Both the Washington Post and Associated Press reported that Trump administration officials were informed of the intelligence reports in early 2019.[2] In June 2020, The New York Times reported that U.S. intelligence agencies had assessed, several months earlier, that Unit 29155 of the Russian military intelligence agency GRU had secretly offered Taliban-associated militants bounties to kill U.S. troops and other coalition personnel in Afghanistan, including during peace talks with the Taliban.[3]The New York Times reported that "Officials said there was disagreement among intelligence officials about the strength of the evidence about the suspected Russian plot."[4]
Defense Department officials then reported that U.S. military intelligence was unable to corroborate the reported program.[5] In April 2021, the U.S. government reported that the U.S. intelligence community only had "low to moderate confidence" in the bounty program allegations.[6][7]
^DeYoung, Karen; Harris, Shane; Nakashima, Ellen; Demirjian, Karoun (June 30, 2020). "Intelligence reports on Russian bounty operation first reached White House in early 2019". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on August 21, 2021. Retrieved July 15, 2020.
^LaPorta, James (June 30, 2020). "AP sources: White House aware of Russian bounties in 2019". Associated Press. Archived from the original on June 30, 2020. Retrieved June 30, 2020.
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^Rawnsley, Adam; Ackerman, Spencer (April 15, 2021). "U.S. Intel Walks Back Claim Russians Put Bounties on American Troops". The Daily Beast. Archived from the original on September 23, 2021. Retrieved April 15, 2021.
^Ken Dilanian and Mike Memoli (April 15, 2021). "Remember those Russian bounties for dead U.S. troops? Biden admin says the CIA intel is not conclusive". NBC News. Archived from the original on June 5, 2021. Retrieved April 16, 2021.
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