{"id":12247,"date":"2020-10-12T12:47:25","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T12:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/?p=12247"},"modified":"2020-10-12T12:48:29","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T12:48:29","slug":"russian-bounty-program-targeting-american-troops-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/russian-bounty-program-targeting-american-troops-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Bounty Program Targeting American Troops in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Background<\/h3>\n<p>According to Wikipedia:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><strong>The Russian bounty program is an alleged project of Russian military intelligence, specifically Unit 29155 of the GU, to pay bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing American and other allied service members in Afghanistan. Several US military personnel are alleged to have died as a result of the bounty program, which additionally targeted coalition forces from the United Kingdom.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><em>U.S. intelligence reports from 2019 suggested the existence of the bounty program.<\/em> <sup id=\"cite_ref-FirstReached_1-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-LaPortaAware_2-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>A\u00a0CIA\u00a0assessment of the intelligence concluded that members of Unit 29155 had placed bounties on United States military personnel and other coalition forces in 2019.\u00a0<i>The New York Times<\/i> reported that &#8220;Officials said there was disagreement among intelligence officials about the strength of the evidence about the suspected Russian plot.&#8221; The Pentagon&#8217;s top leaders said that report is not corroborated.<\/strong><sup id=\"cite_ref-abc-bounty_4-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Below, you will find the documents (or lack thereof) relating to the above program. This page will expand as more records come in.<\/p>\n<h3>Document Archive<\/h3>\n<h4>Central Intelligence Agency Documents<\/h4>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/images\/pdf.gif\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/documents2.theblackvault.com\/documents\/cia\/RussianTroopsTargeting-CIA.pdf\">Russian Bounty Program Targeting American Troops in Afghanistan<\/a> [2 Pages, 1MB] &#8211; The CIA issued a GLOMAR response when asked for documents on the above mentioned program.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ead-preview\"><div class=\"ead-document\" style=\"position: relative;padding-top: 90%;\"><div class=\"ead-iframe-wrapper\"><iframe src=\"\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocuments2.theblackvault.com%2Fdocuments%2Fcia%2FRussianTroopsTargeting-CIA.pdf&amp;embedded=true&amp;hl=en\" title=\"Embedded Document\" class=\"ead-iframe\" style=\"width: 100%;height: 100%;border: none;position: absolute;left: 0;top: 0;visibility: hidden;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\t\t\t<div class=\"ead-document-loading\" style=\"width:100%;height:100%;position:absolute;left:0;top:0;z-index:10;\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ead-loading-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ead-loading-main\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ead-loading\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/plugins\/embed-any-document\/images\/loading.svg\" width=\"55\" height=\"55\" alt=\"Loader\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>Loading...<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ead-loading-foot\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ead-loading-foot-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/plugins\/embed-any-document\/images\/EAD-logo.svg\" alt=\"EAD Logo\" width=\"36\" height=\"23\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>Taking too long?<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ead-document-btn ead-reload-btn\" role=\"button\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/plugins\/embed-any-document\/images\/reload.svg\" alt=\"Reload\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\"\/> Reload document\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>|<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/documents2.theblackvault.com\/documents\/cia\/RussianTroopsTargeting-CIA.pdf\" class=\"ead-document-btn\" target=\"_blank\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/plugins\/embed-any-document\/images\/open.svg\" alt=\"Open\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\"\/> Open in new tab\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><p class=\"embed_download\"><a href=\"https:\/\/documents2.theblackvault.com\/documents\/cia\/RussianTroopsTargeting-CIA.pdf\" download>Download [0.96 MB] <\/a><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background According to Wikipedia: The Russian bounty program is an alleged project of Russian military intelligence, specifically Unit 29155 of the GU, to pay bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing American and other allied service members in Afghanistan. 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