Former CIA officer John Kiriakou says on his podcast that the agency is quietly placing pro-Flávio Bolsonaro stories in Brazilian and international media ahead of the election.
He is careful about the limits of what he knows — the claim came from a former colleague and he offers no evidence — but argues it fits a long CIA record of shaping media narratives around foreign elections.
Originally published by The Real News Network.
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