After drone was lost, CIA tried a head fake

[jakeXT]

In sports they call it a head fake, leaning in one direction to throw a defender off-balance before heading in another.

The CIA and Pentagon appear to have employed a variation of that move on Sunday, obscuring the agency’s role in operating a stealth drone that was downed in Iran.

Hours after Iranian news outlets reported that the country had recovered a sophisticated American surveillance plane, U.S. officials responded with an apparently deliberate media misdirect.

CIA press officials declined to comment on the downed drone and reporters were directed toward a statement from the military.

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