Did We Really Think Russia Was Going to Invade?

I think they did believe that the country was going to collapse. And I mean, this is going to be a really interesting assessment and I'll be as fascinated as anyone to read about it. The overlapping nature of the various covert action campaigns behind Russian lines has created problems for the Western spy services running these missions. Later this summer, it became clear to CIA officers that there was increasingly a need for deconfliction among their own surrogate forces in Russia. Numerous incidents took place in which rail lines or power lines were cut that unintentionally interfered with other missions.