Niger Coup — A Contrived Crisis Or A Major CIA Goof? (Larry Johnson’s Interview On A Russian Morning Show)

Screen shot of CIA Factbook page on NIGER at 8:59 pm EDT on 8 August 2023

Let me start with my interview with Vladimir, host of a popular Russian morning radio show. I stayed up till 1am edt to do the interview live. We had a great, entertaining conversation:

Let me clarify the intent behind the provocative question in the title of this article. If you are the typical superficial consumer of news reporting from mainstream media sources, you (like me) probably believed that the coup in Niger took place the last week of July. But that is not what the CIA is reporting. According to the CIA Factbook the coup took place on April 23, 2023.

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