The corporate media is reporting a dubious story about Russia paying bounties to the Taliban to kill US soldiers in Afghanistan. It was sourced to anonymous US intelligence officials. Former CIA operations director John Stockwell explains how the Agency works the US media. Note the timing of the Russia-Taliban story. Some known instances of CIA misinformation. https://truthout.org/articles/intel-chiefs-use-global-threat-report-to-uphold-us-war-machine/