FOIA: CIA Confirms Nigeria’s Sitting President Tinubu as its Active Asset
Mayowa DurosinmiNovember 12, 20242 Mins read7.3k 
The Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, on Monday confirmed that Nigeria’s sitting President, Bola Tinubu, is its active asset.
This was revealed at the United States District Court for the District of Columbia as the CIA, FBI, and DEA filed a memorandum opposing a civil lawsuit requesting summary judgment and redactions in the Freedom of Information (FOIA) disclosure case about President Tinubu’s drug trafficking investigation records.
As contained in the filing, the intelligence agency [CIA] effectively confirmed President Tinubu as its active asset.
Human sources can be expected to furnish information to the CIA only when they are confident the CIA can and will do everything in its power to prevent the public disclosure of their cooperation,” the statement reads, adding, ‘In the case of a person who has been cooperating with the CIA, official confirmation of that cooperation could cause the targets to take retaliatory action against that person or against their family or friends.’
“It also places in jeopardy every individual with whom the cooperating individual has had contact. Thus, the indiscretion of one source in a chain of intelligence sources can damage an entire spectrum of sources,” the statement added.
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As such, confirming or denying the existence of records on a particular foreign national, like Tinubu, reasonably could be expected to cause damage to U.S. national security by indicating whether or not the CIA maintained any human intelligence sources related to Tinubu and identifying any access or lack of access any such sources had to intelligence concerning him, the CIA noted.
The FOIA case was initiated in 2022/2023 by West Africa Weekly‘s Editor-in-Chief, David Hundeyin, in collaboration with PlainSite Founder Aaron Greenspan, who is seeking to have the redactions from the previously and partially released files.
With the CIA playing its card on the “We can neither confirm nor deny” tactics to protect President Tinubu, which it considered its asset, it opposed the redactions request, citing the exemption of privacy rights under the FOIA.
The DEA, an agency party to the suit, also included a paragraph in the filing indicating opposition to the redactions requested by the plaintiffs – Hundeyin and Greenspan.
We oppose full, unredacted disclosure of the DEA’s Bola Tinubu heroin trafficking investigation records because we believe that while Nigerians have a right to be informed about what their government is up to, they do not have a right to know what their president is up to,” the statement reads.
As a now-confirmed CIA asset, President Tinubu poses as an asset that can be used to influence the political, social, or economic outcomes of Nigeria, a country once ranked West Africa’s biggest economy until recently ranked fourth in April 2024.
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CIA is a criminal organization. It’s about time Africa stop trusting them. They connive with criminals and perpetrate all manner of evil in Africa to steal African resources.
This is shocking for a country that pride itself on justice,truth and fairness. I am ashamed of the CIA
No wonder!
I am ashame of America No wonder President elect wants to turn the CIA upside down and give it a new look
David had told time and again that Tinubu is an asset to the CIA
Only a brainless person will read this and conclude that “Tinubu is a CIA asset”
Everything there is standard response.
This is why this man is ready to kpai Nigerians with his stupid reforms that’s k1lling our economy but always favouring the international community
It’s a pity the masses allow this to be
‘Behind every massive wealth, there is a crime”, says Balzak. Show me that super wealthy person(whether political or corporate) who has their hands clean? “The end” says Machiavelli, “justifies the means.” Show that person with immense wealth who has no sin. It’s just the way of the world.