Ex-CIA Analyst Confident Intel Community Will Try To Interfere Against Trump In 2024 Election

Former CIA intelligence analyst John Gentry is predicting that a politicized intelligence community will attempt to interfere in the 2024 election similar to their efforts in 2020.

Gentry, a Georgetown University professor and author of the new book, “Neutering the CIA: Why US Intelligence Versus Trump Has Long-Term Consequences,” told Fox News Digital in a recent interview. He said:

My guess is that the the proverbial deep state within the intelligence community will reemerge because presumably a Republican candidate will again be seen as a threat to the internal policies that many intelligence people like.

Gentry pointed to the infamous letter wherein more than 50 former senior intelligence officials claimed in an open letter that the New York Post‘s Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation just weeks before the 2020 election.

That letter has now been debunked, and traced back to then-Biden campaign adviser Antony Blinken and former Obama acting CIA Director Mike Morell, according to congressional testimony from the latter. The CIA had approved the letter for publication in Politico.

“I think it is worth closely monitoring these people. Many have compromised their credibility by actions such as the ‘Laptop 51’ letter,” Gentry said.

He said there are already signs in recent weeks that those same former intelligence agency members will be active in 2024.

“I long have thought we are likely to again see former intelligence officers be politically active against Trump or whomever the Republican presidential candidate is next year, and I expect leaking to resume,” Gentry told Fox News Digital. “The activities of ‘formers’ have resumed already, a bit before I expected.”

Gentry also highlighted how the intelligence community got more woke over the last few decades due to the introduction of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) at major intelligence agencies, including the CIA, which he said shifted attention away from day-to-day operations.