Marc Polymeropoulos

“They wanted us to take the same kind of tactics and spirit we used in the global war on terror to the Russians,”

Marc Polymeropoulos · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-10

Polymeropoulos described the CIA's 2017 push to apply counter-terror tactics against Russian intelligence activity.

“I had vertigo and a splitting headache. I thought it was food poisoning at first, I thought I was going to puke and crap my brains out, and I remember being like, holy shit, the room is spinning and my ears are ringing,”

Marc Polymeropoulos · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-10

Polymeropoulos described waking up suddenly with vertigo and a splitting headache in his Moscow hotel room.

“Obviously, we didn’t have permission to run lethal operations against the Russians, but we could do things we hadn’t done as much previously, such as enlist the help of multiple friendly services and expose the Russians for what they were doing,”

Marc Polymeropoulos · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-10

Polymeropoulos described the kinds of non-lethal operations the CIA could run against the Russians.