After Years of Coverup and Lies, the CIA Finally Admitted Knowing About the Fraud Embedded in Election Systems
In June, the CIA finally declassified a report showing that the CIA did have intelligence that electronic voting machines could manipulate elections. They had this information for years and withheld it from the public.
Here is a nice summary found at Sofia Karstens Substack entitled: “The CIA’s Own Document Contradicts the CIA“:
In June 2026, the CIA declassified a five-page summary of intelligence reporting on Venezuela’s electronic voting manipulation capabilities, spanning 2004 to 2020. The document is heavily redacted. What survived redaction is still enough to raise questions the document itself doesn’t answer: if this much was worth declassifying, what’s still being withheld? And why does the agency’s document undermine its own baseline finding?
First, a 2006 National Security Council threat assessment evaluated Smartmatic’s acquisition of the U.S. voting systems company Sequoia as a “moderate overall threat to US national security interests.” The assessment rested on two pillars: intelligence indicating Venezuelan government intent to influence U.S. politics, and documented evidence that Venezuela had manipulated its own electoral systems. That finding led directly to pressure from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, which forced Smartmatic to divest Sequoia by 2007.