"Al-Monitor" has described how in August 2016 Engdahl told a right-wing Russian think tank that “Former vice chairman of the National Intelligence Council of the CIA, Graham E. Fuller, was on Princess Island, 20 minutes from Istanbul, the entire night of the coup, monitoring developments until the coup collapsed" - when in fact Fuller was nowhere near. "Al-Monitor" describe Engdahl's intervention as part of a collaborative Russian-Turkish disinformation campaign, and call Engdahl a "pro-Russian conspiracy theorist".