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Ex-CIA officer faces arrest over alleged Montenegro coup plot
« on: August 13, 2018, 02:05:43 pm »
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Ex-CIA officer faces arrest over alleged Montenegro coup plot
Shaun Walker

Prosecutors in Montenegro have called for the arrest of a former CIA officer, accusing him of involvement in an alleged Russian-backed coup attempt in 2016.

The former CIA operative, Joseph Assad, has rejected the charges, saying he had been in Montenegro to provide personal security advice to a western political consultant, and calling on the US to reject any extradition request.

“This is a deception campaign against a loyal American who had no role in any crimes or coup in Montenegro,” Assad said in a statement issued on Saturday through his lawyer.

Read more at: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/12/ex-cia-officer-faces-arrest-over-alleged-montenegro-coup-plot

Sounds fairly innocent,  the article also talks of an operation in 2015 to save Christians in Iraq by this man, read the article.
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