Newsweek: Intel Report Says Putin Treated For Cancer

Newsweek reports:

Vladimir Putin’s health is a subject of intense conversation inside the Biden administration after the intelligence community produced its fourth comprehensive assessment at the end of May.

The classified U.S. report says Putin seems to have re-emerged after undergoing treatment in April for advanced cancer, three U.S. intelligence leaders who have read the reports tell Newsweek.

All three officials—one from the office of the Director of National Intelligence, one a retired Air Force senior officer, and one from the Defense Intelligence Agency—caution that the Russian leader’s isolation makes it more difficult for U.S. intelligence to precisely assess Putin’s status and health.

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Clearly usual caveats to this stuff apply, not least of which is why a supposed U.S. classified report would only be leaked to… Newsweek. But I’m more interested in how these rumors, whatever Putin’s health status, are being instrumentalized across countries as a psyop.

— Michael Weiss ????? (@michaeldweiss) June 2, 2022

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