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Russia Coup: Pop Goes the Weasel

Did US intelligence see Yevgeny Prigozhin's revolt coming? A tale of pizza boxes tells the story.

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Jun 24, 2023
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What links the CIA and pizzas?  A big time foreign crisis, former senior CIA officer Marc Polymeropoulos notes, when the lights stay on late on several floors, when spy agency officials and worker bees start calling family and friends to cancel parties, golf dates, travel plans.  And order pizzas by the van-load. 

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