John Kiriakou states that the CIA was able to hack into other countries' most sensitive technological systems and leave scraps of code written in Russian or Persian Farsi to frame them.

“This claim is substantiated by the 2017 WikiLeaks release of CIA documents known as "Vault 7." Specifically, the "Marble Framework" was a tool designed to obfuscate malware code. According to documents and subsequent reporting, Marble could insert text fragments in foreign languages—including Russian, Chinese, Arabic, and Farsi—into the CIA's malware. This capability was intended to mislead forensic investigators and misattribute cyberattacks to other nations, creating a "forensic attribution double game." Another project, "UMBRAGE," involved a library of attack techniques stolen from other countries' malware to further facilitate false flag operations. Context: The claim refers to capabilities revealed in the 2017 "Vault 7" leaks by WikiLeaks, which exposed a trove of CIA hacking tools. While the claim is attributed to John Kiriakou, the existence of these CIA tools and their intended purpose of misattribution is documented independently in the leaked files themselves.”