DISINFO: Navalny works with the CIA and receives instructions from this Agency
SUMMARY
Navalny works with the CIA and receives instructions from this Agency.
RESPONSE
Conspiracy theory. No evidence is provided to support the article’s claims. This message is part of the pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign about the poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. It seeks to discredit Navalny by suggesting that he is an asset of the CIA and is controlled by this Agency. Pro-Kremlin disinformation often targets Russian opposition figures accusing them of being agents of Western intelligence services. A prominent Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny fell ill during a flight from Siberia to Moscow on the 20th of August. Initially hospitalized in Omsk, at the request of his family he was transferred to Charité hospital in Berlin. At the request of the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, a specialist Bundeswehr laboratory carried out toxicological tests on samples from Alexei Navalny. The results of these tests have revealed unequivocal proof of the presence of a chemical nerve agent from the Novichok group. The European Union has condemned what seems to have been an attempt at Alexei Navalny's life. The test results from the Charité – Universitätsmedizin hospital in Berlin, where he was treated, indicate that the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned during his stay in Siberia. See a similar case that the West will falsely accuse Russia of poisoning Navalny, as with Skripal and Litvinenko and that information on Navalny’s case is promoted by the CIA in the style of the Skripal case.