# Incident I00090: Fake: US Intelligence Officer Says Poland Contributes to Ukraine’s Armed Forces Destruction * **Summary:** <I>“Russian media and social media channels have been promoting Scott Ritter as an American intelligence officer to promote their narratives about Ukraine. Ritter is a former U.S. intelligence officer and UN weapons inspector in Iraq, He was jailed for 3 years in the United States and has not been an intelligence officer.”</I> * **incident type**: * **Year started:** * **Countries:** , * **Found via:** * **Date added:** | Reference | Pub Date | Authors | Org | Archive | | --------- | -------- | ------- | --- | ------- | | [https://www.stopfake.org/en/fake-us-intelligence-officer-says-poland-contributes-to-ukraine-s-armed-forces-destruction/](https://www.stopfake.org/en/fake-us-intelligence-officer-says-poland-contributes-to-ukraine-s-armed-forces-destruction/) | 2023/03/20 | - | StopFake | [https://web.archive.org/web/20230531103430/https://www.stopfake.org/en/fake-us-intelligence-officer-says-poland-contributes-to-ukraine-s-armed-forces-destruction/](https://web.archive.org/web/20230531103430/https://www.stopfake.org/en/fake-us-intelligence-officer-says-poland-contributes-to-ukraine-s-armed-forces-destruction/) | | Technique | Description given for this incident | | --------- | ------------------------- | DO NOT EDIT ABOVE THIS LINE - PLEASE ADD NOTES BELOW