Thread by @SlatsHenry

1/ GEORGE O’NEILL JR, identified as “U.S. Person 2”in FBI affidavit sworn in support of criminal complaint against MARIIA BUTINA, alleged RU agent/conspirator and NRA infiltrator, is linked through former mother-in-law to OLIVER NORTH, NRA pres-elect
justice.gov/opa/press-rele… …

2/ O'NEILL was married to and later, as a result of his serial philandering, divorced by AMY WHITTLESEY, the daughter of the late Ambassador FAITH RYAN WHITTLESEY.
vanityfair.com/news/2000/01/r…

3/ O'NEILL, an heir to the ROCKEFELLER fortune, is a GOP operative who once supported the presidential candidacy of PAT BUCHANAN. He is also a long-time member of the NRA.

4/ According to Bloomberg, O'NEILL and Rep. DANA ROHRABACHER, a close associate of ERIK PRINCE, along w/O’NEILL's former mother-in-law are tied into a circle of associates from the REAGAN White House including LT COL OLIVER NORTH, NRA president-elect.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

5/ “Rohrabacher and O’Neill are part of a circle of friends from the Reagan White House, who also included Buchanan and the late ambassador Faith Whittlesey, the mother of O’Neill’s ex-wife, according to Ken Grubbs, a Rohrabacher spokesman.”

6/ Amb WHITTLESEY was a top advisor to President REAGAN, serving in the West Wing as Assistant to the President for Public Liaison. He also appointed her as U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland. According to the Washington Times, she was close to OLIVER NORTH.
washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/…

7/ “Flexibly embracing a regime-change intervention ... she came to work closely with Marine Lieutenant Col. Oliver L. North, who played a key role on Mr. Reagan’s National Security Council in the administration’s anti-communist initiative in Central America.”

8/ Amb WHITTLESEY's close relationship w/OLIVER NORTH was also the subject of intense scrutiny by Congress regarding the alleged role she played in the Iran-Contra affair. The final House report on Iran-Contra concluded that WHITTLESEY unsuccessfully attempted to assist NORTH.

9/@NatSecGeek: “The final House report on Iran-Contra concluded that Whittlesey unsuccessfully attempted to help Oliver North obtain a U.S. passport for a fake Saudi prince who claimed to have knowledge of the locations of hostages being held in Lebanon. muckrock.com/foi/united-sta…

10/ “In 1983, she established the White House Outreach Working Group on Central America to help increase private sector understanding of Reagan's policies, including working with, among many other individuals and groups, the American Security Council Foundation ..."

11/ " ... to produce anti-Sandinista propaganda (what she would call "truth-telling") films and the Council for National Policy to produce materials that revealed the Marxist–Leninist orientation of the Sandinista movement.”

12/ Amb WHITTLESEY was also a believer in the Second Amendment as well as a staunch supporter of the NRA. According to WAYNE LAPIERRE, Chief Executive Officer, NRA, WHITTLESEY “ … always stood by the Second Amendment and the NRA when it counted.”

13/ In March, 2018, ERIK PRINCE hosted a fund raiser for his friend Rep. DANA ROHRABACHER. In attendance was NRA president-elect OLIVER NORTH, GEORGE O'NEILL's mother-in-law's colleague from the REAGAN White House.

forbes.com/return-of-erik…

/14 Alleged Russian agent/conspirator MARIIA BUTINA's efforts to infilitrate the NRA, at the behest of her handler ALEKSANDR TORSHIN, brought her into contact not only w/PAUL ERICKSON, but also GEORGE O'NEILL, a man associated w/the highest circles of the GOP going back to REAGAN

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