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