Archived Russia Offered Afghan Militants Bounties to Kill U.S. Troops, Intelligence Says (nytimes.com)
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Archived Russia Offered Afghan Militants Bounties to Kill U.S. Troops, Intelligence Says (nytimes.com)
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https://archive.ph/9CgFP :
'American intelligence officials say the G.R.U. was at the center of Moscow’s covert efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. '
'Western intelligence officials say the unit, which has operated for more than a decade, has been charged by the Kremlin with carrying out a campaign to destabilize the West through subversion, sabotage and assassination. '
'In the months before that election, American officials say, two G.R.U. cyberunits, known as 26165 and 74455, hacked into Democratic Party servers and then used WikiLeaks to publish embarrassing internal communications. '
'Taliban officials have traveled to Moscow for peace talks with other prominent Afghans, including the former president, Hamid Karzai. '
'Officials have also suggested that the Russians may have been trying to derail peace talks to keep the United States bogged down in Afghanistan. '
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