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Russia invents CIA plot to kill Catholics and destabilize Belarus

By Tom Rogan
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Russia invents CIA plot to kill Catholics and destabilize Belarus

The Russian intelligence services are renowned for their imaginative creation of fake news.

Evincing as much, the head of Russia’s SVR foreign intelligence service on Tuesday suggested that the CIA is attempting to create a new provocation related to Belarus. The CIA’s intent, he said, is to see fellow Catholics inflamed to take to the streets in opposition to Alexander Lukashenko’s despotic rule.

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