The Washington Post claims that American intelligence received such signals as early as mid-June. But at the same time, the mutiny did not have a precise character or terms of preparation.
For the past two weeks, there has been "high concern" within the US leadership about whether Putin will remain in power "and what any instability could mean for control of Russia's nuclear arsenal."
As early as June 21, US intelligence officials informed the country's authorities about the plans of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the "Wagner" PMC, to stage a military coup against the top military leadership of the Russian Federation.
According to writes the publication The New York Times, citing sources, said on June 22 a whole series of briefings with additional information about the situation in the Russian Federation was held for high-ranking members of Congress. At the same time, the publication noted that it remains unclear when intelligence learned about Prigozhin's plans.
"But the special services were silent about Prigozhin's plans. They clearly had little interest in helping Putin avoid a serious split in his entourage," the article says.
The newspaper noted that the American special services did not disclose Prigozhin's plans because they were not interested in helping Russian President Vladimir Putin avoid a serious split in his entourage. In addition, according to experts, Putin could also accuse the United States of attempting to organize a coup d'état.
The NYT indicated that in recent months, US intelligence officials had been monitoring the growing animosity between Prigozhin and Russian defense chiefs and spending a lot of time analyzing it. The special services came to the conclusion that this was a clear sign of internal tensions caused by the war in Ukraine.
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