{"id":710428,"date":"2026-11-04T21:37:43","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T02:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=710428"},"modified":"2026-11-04T21:37:43","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T02:37:43","slug":"aaron-mate-cia-still-runs-12-secret-border-bases-in-ukraine-even-as-trump-breaks-with-zelensky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=710428","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Mat\u00e9: CIA Still Runs 12 Secret Border Bases In Ukraine, Even As Trump Breaks With Zelensky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Journalist Aaron Mat\u00e9 told Judge Andrew Napolitano on Tuesday that the CIA is still &#8220;running, if the New York Times is to be believed, 12 secret bases inside of Ukraine,&#8221;<\/strong> and still controlling Ukrainian intelligence agencies it &#8220;effectively rebuilt from scratch after Yanukovych was overthrown in 2014.&#8221; He made the claim in an interview for Napolitano&#8217;s <em>Judging Freedom<\/em> podcast, recorded on Election Day, Nov. 3, in an episode titled &#8220;CIA and MI6 vs Trump in Ukraine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How pervasive is the CIA in Ukraine today?&#8221; Napolitano asked. To which Mat\u00e9 replied:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>&#8220;Well, it&#8217;s so pervasive that it was the one that orchestrated this drone campaign against Russian energy facilities that Trump recently started opposing. It was Trump&#8217;s CIA that came up with that and was helping Ukraine do that. And Trump was on board with it until he needed something to sell voters on ahead of the midterms, whereas war on Iran was causing such a spike in energy prices.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mat\u00e9 said Trump has since pulled back and criticized Volodymyr Zelensky, <em><strong>&#8220;the CIA, as far as I know, is continuing its operations as normal,&#8221; and that it is &#8220;still helping out with targeting&#8221; and &#8220;still providing intelligence.&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/aaron-mate-cia-still-runs-12-secret-border-bases-ukraine-even-trump-breaks-zelensky\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/aaron-mate-cia-still-runs-12-secret-border-bases-ukraine-even-trump-breaks-zelensky<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journalist Aaron Mat\u00e9 told Judge Andrew Napolitano on Tuesday that the CIA is still &#8220;running, if the New York Times is to be believed, 12 secret bases inside of Ukraine,&#8221; and still controlling Ukrainian intelligence agencies it &#8220;effectively rebuilt from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=710428\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-710428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=710428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":710429,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710428\/revisions\/710429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=710428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=710428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=710428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}