Claim

Operation Manul ASSOCIATED_WITH Kazakhstan

The researchers believed the people targeting Respublika and Irina were likely acting on behalf of Kazakhstan, but described the evidence as circumstantial.

Episode
EP 38 — Dark Caracal
Origin
Uncertain
Confidence
88% (extractor score, not a fact score)
Speaker
Cooper Quinton
Attributed source
—

Transcript evidence

“were likely doing this on behalf of the government of Kazakhstan”

Cooper Quinton · offsets 12127–12191

“we have a pretty good link to Kazakhstan although no – it’s all circumstantial evidence.”

Cooper Quinton · offsets 14900–14988

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Extraction provenance

Model gpt-5.6-luna · prompt 1.5.19 · schema 1.5.19 · 2026-09-13T05:51:44.084801+00:00

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