Is it true that a star appeared on the memorial to dead CIA employees in honor of the victim of Russian shelling?

According to the news, the Russian -speaking segment of the network in late May - early June 2023, a new mark on a commemorative board in the United States may be associated with the death of an employee of the American special services in Ukraine. We checked whether this is so.

Shortly after the appearance in late May unconfirmed information on the Russian missile strike on the headquarters of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine (GUR) in Kyiv and death There, an unidentified number of NATO officers on the Internet diverged a photograph of a memorial wall with an American flag. It was reported that this is a board of honor of the dead employees of the CIA, to which the new star was just added, 140th in a row. Some Russian -speaking resources suggested (and others - even confidence) that it is dedicated to a certain American who died as a result of a Russian blow. It was often emphasized that the name of the person noted in this way is not officially called, and this only increased suspicion.

About the new star, the appearance of which can indirectly confirm reports of the destruction of the military from NATO countries in Ukraine, told such information resources as NTV, "Tsargrad","NIA-Krasnoyarsk" Pravda.ru, "Power block","Notebook","Military Review" And forpost.sevastopol.ru. Among the Telegram channels that have spread information can be distinguished "Alexander Semchenko" (93,000 views at the time of writing this analysis), "Military business"(92 000),"Militarist"(83,000)"Petya the first"(72 000) and Rogandar News (54,000).

At the end of May, Russian media Reportedthat on the morning of the 29th by the blow of the hypersonic missile complex "Dagger»The underground shelter of the GUR on Rybalsky island in Kyiv was struck. In the construction there were supposedly up to a hundred officers, including those representing NATO countries. On May 30, the fact of an attack on the headquarters of Ukrainian intelligence was confirmed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, however, Having saidthat this happened "two or three days ago." The rumors denied the rumors, Name their "fakes of war criminals and old seniles." The American side did not confirm the death or wound of its citizens in Kyiv. At the same time, Washington is far from all messages from the war zone comment on in this way - for example, on May 16, sources of several media in US intelligence Recognizedthat the Patriot air defense system in the Ukrainian capital was damaged as a result of the blow of the same “dagger”.

As the official one reports website The US Central Intelligence Directorate, the memorial in question, is located on the northern wall of the lobby of the first building of the headquarters of the organization in Langley, Virginia. Each star engraved on it is a tribute to the employee who died in the execution of debt abroad or in the United States. At the same time, it emphasizes that “death should be inspiring or heroic in nature, to occur as a result of a terrorist act or intentional act of violence directed against an employee and motivated exclusively to the ownership of this employee to the CIA, when serving in areas of military operations or other especially dangerous conditions.” The procedure for approving the candidacy has its own characteristics: it is nominated by the Council for Merit awards, and approves the Director of the CIA. Further placing a star on the wall is the protocol service of the department.

As of June 8, 2023 on the page of the memorial on the CIA website really reported About 140 stars, while on the version of the version on May 30 It was About 139. However, new marks on the wall at the CIA headquarters do not appear quickly after the death of the employee-they are opened once a year during the ceremony, which traditionally takes place in the second half of May. So it was in 2021 year, when the department perpetuated the memory of four employees and thereby brought the number of stars to 137, and in 2022 The year, when there were already 139.

The last at the moment is the honor of the deceased employee of the CIA took place May 23, 2023. Contrary to the information that was widespread in Russian-speaking media, this time the name of the employee to whom the star was dedicated was known and mentioned in a press release. The CIA was immortalized by the memory of the doctor John Evans, who died in a plane crash in Southeast Asia back in 1969.

Note in the newspaper Standard-Speaker (Pennsylvania) of January 7, 1969 about the death of Evans

Thus, the 140th star on the CIA memorial wall has nothing to do with events in Ukraine and is dedicated to a person who died more than half a century ago. In addition, she appeared earlier than the alleged blow to the bunker in Kyiv. The total number of stars, mentioned on the page on the wall on the CIA website, was updated with some delay, although the press release of the department of May 23 directly says that it increased to 140. It is noteworthy that the conspiracy thes, in the words, so carefully monitored the number of stars, did not bother to calculate it in the same photographs: we see the old ones in the nation. Pictures from 137 And 139 stars. Moreover: even on the CIA website as of June 8 for now hung Photo with 139 stars, although on the official page of the agency on Facebook new photo Hang As early as May 24.

Photo on the cover: social networks

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