Presidential Office: "Yoon CIA Meeting Rumor Absurd"... Lee Raekyung Now Faces 'FBI Contact Rumor'

In response to Lee Rae-gyeong, Honorary Chairman of Other Hundred Years, claiming that "President Yoon Seok-yeol contacted the US CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) during his tenure as Prosecutor General," the presidential office dismissed the claim as "absurd." Meanwhile, Lee introduced a theory that the US FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) also contacted President Yoon during his time as Prosecutor General in 2019.

On the morning of the 8th, Lee shared an entire column article via his social media service (SNS), urging people to "read the following column article from Uri News with interest."

The column claims that on September 24, 2019, the day after the Korea-US summit, Christopher Wray, Director of the FBI, secretly visited South Korea and met with Yoon, who was then Prosecutor General, and encouraged him to run for president. It states that Yoon, who had promised former President Moon Jae-in to carry out prosecutorial reforms, drastically changed direction after meeting with the intelligence chief and took a confrontational stance against the Moon administration. The gist of the column is that Korean politics is being manipulated by the United States.

Although Lee did not write the column himself, his introduction of it is interpreted as agreeing with its intent. In a statement sent to the media the previous day, Lee also claimed, "Shortly after Yoon Seok-yeol was appointed Prosecutor General in 2019, Gina Haspel, head of the US CIA, secretly visited South Korea and met with Prosecutor General Yoon," adding, "Since then, Yoon has shown an arrogant attitude, ignoring even the president."

The presidential office responded to Lee’s CIA contact theory by calling it "absurd." According to Yonhap News Agency, a presidential office official said of his claim, "Such assertions are completely untrue, and there was no meeting at all," adding, "This is a highly inappropriate act to avoid internal party strife."

Lee was appointed as the Innovation Committee Chairman of the Democratic Party of Korea on the 5th but resigned after nine hours amid controversies such as the 'Cheonan ship self-destruction theory' and the 'US COVID-19 origin theory.'

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