Those attacking the journalist on here need to take a few deep breaths — the headline was most likely written by someone else at the WSJ.

They have now changed the headline.

@Ian_Willoughby Watch out, it is called a "cover up story". Usually it is not reported as, "CIA covert operation goes well through corrupt thugs in .cz .gov". not during the action, maybe years later

@Ian_Willoughby It's sad but not surprising. :(

@Ian_Willoughby Ježíš Mária That is... a take.

@Ian_Willoughby I'm glad that at least they used the Czech Republic and not the Czechia.

@Ian_Willoughby @bctallis Worse—he’s youngish & looks like an unqualified cronyism hire based on his Linkedin, with only one previous job & no education —OR he scrubbed all his russiphilic priors 🤷 —and he previously covered “the war in eastern Ukraine” 😒

@Ian_Willoughby I would've went with Austro-Hungarian...

@Ian_Willoughby written from a “former British colony” 🙃

@Ian_Willoughby The problem is: US readership really loves *underdog* stories .. it always works 😄

@Ian_Willoughby 9th most populous EU country doesn’t sound so impressive I guess 🤣

@Ian_Willoughby "Former British Colony Suspends Vital Ukraine Aid"

@Ian_Willoughby It means we don ´ t do anything for them if war is coming.

@Ian_Willoughby You know they say “Americans don’t travel”….

@Ian_Willoughby They should’ve used Czechoslovakia instead of the Czech republic. Would’ve been even funnier 😆

@Ian_Willoughby dafak

@Ian_Willoughby Banjo twanging simpletons!

@Ian_Willoughby they’re still comatose. don’t bother. enjoy a Guinness (or a few) today ☘️

@Ian_Willoughby This is good, they could have written Chechen 😂

@Ian_Willoughby Its very low