26 EYE SPY INTELLIGENCE MAGAZINE 115 2018

13 April 2018. A USAF B1B Lancer is

readied for attacks against known

Syria WMD sites

SPY GAMES, RHETORIC

AND PROPAGANDA

WMD SYRIA

Vassily Nebenzia, Permanent Representative

of the Russian Federation to the United

Nations, addresses the Security Council

meeting on the situation in the Syria

US Defense Secretary James Mattis delivers a news conference at the

Pentagon following the US, French and British attack

INTEL EYES FOCUS ON DELIVERY MERCHANTS OF DEADLY CHEMICALS ON CIVILIAN LOCATIONS

yrian regime helicopters were

accused of launching a gas attack

on 7 April on the rebel held town

of Douma. Western estimates put

the death toll around 75, including

Schildren. In response, US

President Trump, backed by Prime Minister

Theresa May and French premier Emmanuel

Macron, authorised a military response which

resulted in a 103 missile blitz on three

chemical weapons sites in Syria on 14 April.

Asked by the press corps in Washington to

explain the near-immediate response, White

House Homeland Security adviser Tom

Bossert said: “This is one of those issues on

which every nation, all peoples, have all

agreed, and have agreed since WWII, is an

unacceptable practice. I wouldn’t take [further

military action] off the table.”

Both the Syrian and Russian governments

denied any involvement in the chemical attack

and have gone as far as claiming it never

happened or was staged by “dark forces in

British Intelligence” in a bid to bring the West

into the Syrian Civil War. Syrian Deputy