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Wet work is the old intelligence community term for assassination operations. The name comes from the fact that these missions often leave behind blood; hence, the wet part. A series.
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These increasingly bold assassinations have now struck Russia's high command far from the front lines, and what most people don't realize is that all of these killings are part of
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a much larger wet work campaign on a scale that we haven't seen since World War Two, in a campaign that's designed to pressure Russian authorities into ending
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the war, according to leaked European intelligence reports, Putin has now become so fearful of these operations that he has stayed in his underground bunker for weeks on end
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to avoid these assassination attempts. So today I want to look at the unfolding assassination campaign, and we'll ask if this kind of assassination
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strategy like this even works for nearly three years. One of Russia's most senior generals lived with the kind of security most people can only imagine. He had a lead