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When you're just speculating or building a conspiracy theory then those "ominous" comments are worth quoting.
If you are claiming to be in contact with someone with deep knowledge of the actual operation, why even mention those? Worse still, add some extra twist where the spies have a meta comment on their cover being blown by those comments.