DAILY STAR
A former CIA chief says he wouldn’t be surprised if Vladimir Putin “disappeared tomorrow”.
Jack Devine, 83, says the Russian president could be toppled by a ‘Black Swan’ coup. He believes Putin, who declared war on Ukraine in February of last year, has become increasingly unpredictable and dangerous, leading some of his top men to potentially turn on him imminently.
Devine, who worked for the CIA for 32 years, told The Sun: “It’ll be a surprise. There’s always what we call a ‘Black Swan’ that appears from nowhere.”
He said: “Putin could disappear tomorrow and I wouldn’t be surprised if some element in the government had decided they were going to take executive action. But failing a ‘Black Swan’ I believe his troubles begin when there’s a stalemate and that’s right now.