MOSCOW (Sputnik), Anastasia Levchenko — On Sunday, Russian President Vladmir Putin, in a made-for-TV documentary entitled “The President,” said that US intelligence services had direct links with militants active in Russia's North Caucasus, something that was uncovered by the Russian intelligence services.
Former Pentagon and intelligence official Karen Kwiatkowski told Sputnik:
"I believe that widespread publicity of known US intelligence activities, including possible acts of war against countries with whom we are not at war, will help."
Public scrutiny will not only empower non-intervention movements in countries targeted by US spies, but will also help to increase awareness in the United States, Kwiatkowski said.
Also, "it will embarrass other country's leadership in cases where those governments are serving as US lackeys contrary to the wishes of their own populations, and constrain their activities somewhat," the former US official said.
In the recently released documentary, Putin said that following the discovery of US links with North Caucasian militants, he notified the then-US president. Ten days later, Russia's Federal Security Service received a letter from their US colleagues stating that they intended to continue their relations with "all of Russia's opposition forces."
The North Caucasus region is a turbulent part of Russia, with several militant groups operating there.
US intelligence services are also suspected of being behind the so-called color revolutions in a number of post-Soviet states.
