💥Trump aide Rick Gates requested three proposals from Israeli intelligence firm Psy-Group to create fake online identities, to use social media manipulation & to gather intelligence, "Project Rome" used code names:
Trump: Lion
Clinton: Forest
Cruz: Bear
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Trump: Lion
Clinton: Forest
Cruz: Bear
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Gates heard about Psy-Group’s work at a March 2016 mtg w/George Birnbaum a Republican consultant with close ties to Israeli govt officials - Birnbaum was a protégé of Republican operative Arthur Finkelstein - In 1996 they worked on Netanyahu’s campaign
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While the article says Zamel denies presenting the proposals or that they were pursued, there's still the matter of $2 million George Nader - who Erik Prince introduced to Don Jr. in 2016 - reportedly paid Psy-Group after the election
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More on Psy-Group run by Joel Zamel who also ran Wikistrat and was linked to another company called White Knight in the Philippines, that Nader used to evaluate impact of social media on Trump's victory
Psy-Group went into liquidation and this summer the liquidation manager had attempted to erase all of its computers
After the election Psy-Group formed a venture with Cambridge Analytica
Meanwhile in a Canadian lawsuit, Psy-Group worked alongside another Israeli intelligence firm - Black Cube - and both used shady methods to discredit one of the parties in a years long legal battle
Here's a chart I created in June (already slightly outdated) of social media and influence companies connected to the Trump campaign and administration
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