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Special Report: Inside the UAE’s secret hacking team of US mercenaries - ex US intelligence operatives worked for ‘Project Raven’ run by UAE firm Dark Matter - they spied on enemies of the regime and targeted other Americans by @Bing_Chris @joel_schectman
reuters.com/article/us-usa…
UAE used cyber super-weapon to spy on iPhones of foes, by @joel_schectman @Bing_Chris
reuters.com/investigates/s…
Here’s a good article from 2016 by @JennaMC_Laugh on UAE cyber security firm Dark Matter (I stumbled across them in my research because a co-founder of Wickr, where Erik Prince is reporter to be an investor, left Wickr to work at Dark Matter)
theintercept.com/2016/10/24/dar…
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Trump is seen in video at Dec 1995 meeting with Yuri Luzhkov, corrupt mayor of Moscow 1992-2010

Coincidentally around 2002 Luzhkov appointed Sergei Polonsky as advisor - Polonsky later founded Mirax, a co Felix Sater advised & was director w/Trump Moscow developer Andrey Rozov
This 2006 NYT story describes how Yuri Luzhkov made Sergei Polonsky an advisor when he was around 30

As Luzhkov developed Moscow City - Polonsky's firm Mirax won the bid to build Moscow’s first modern skyscraper, the Federation Tower
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Polonsky would later be charged with embezzlement and fraud and flee to Cambodia where he was arrested

But in 2006, NYT reported Polonsky enjoyed playing a parlor game Mafia "as a kind of instructive corporate bonding" and the reminder "it's just a game"
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Wendy Siegelman
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Lawyers for Trump Inaugural Committee Receive Subpoena for Docs from Manhattan US attorney's office - subpoena requests docs re: Imaad Zuberi who donated $900K to inauguration through company Avenue Ventures, doesn't mention Tom Barrack HT @brazencapital wsj.com/articles/lawye…
Michael Cohen met w/Imaad Zuberi in 2016 & 2017 to discuss potential business opportunities & per source discussed an infrastructure fund (Zuberi denied this), Zuberi also spoke w/ex-RNC finance chair Elliott Broidy about potential business opportunities
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After the story on Don Jr placing a call to Howard Lorber broke there's been a lot of reporting on Lorber's connections to Trump

Lorber also has ties to Kushner

Lorber's Vector Group has a subsidiary New Valley Realty which has a 7% stake in Jared Kushner's Maryland property
Kushner Cos was sued by tenants for charging excessive & illegal rent on MD apartments managed by Kusher's Westminster Management Co

Kushner tried to block judge from revealing other investors, but @_willparker_ identified Lorber's subsidiary has 7% stake
Here's more in this thread on the lawsuit against lawsuit against Kushner's Westminster Cos for abusive tenant practices related to their Maryland apartments
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Karol 🌿
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☎️Lorber☎️

DonJr.'s blocked phone calls ahead of the 2016 TT meeting went to longtime Trump fam friends: Brian France & Howard Lorber.

Lorber is one of Trump's BFFs, one of his top advisers, big fundraiser & a long-term partner with Trump in trying to develop a TT in Moscow.
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📌Lorber’s Vector Group made a "seven-figure" investment in Steven Calk’s bank.

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📌Of course Lorber sued Calk 💰💦

📌Calk and Lorber were both named to Trump’s economic advisory council on Aug. 5, 2016.
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🌰CyberSpies🌰

📌Rumor haz it Mueller has superseding presents for Stone; O of J meet 😎#Whitaker #Fisa

“Starbucks billionaire hires a partner from a firm that filed as foreign agents for Putin's oligarch.”

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Project Raven, a clandestine team of fmr US intel ops recruited to help the UAE surveil other gov’ts, militants & human rights activists critical of the monarchy.
#DarkMatter.

Am’ns involved used top cyber-espionage tools targeting fellow Am’ns for surveillance.
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📌Docs & emails show that surveillance techniques taught by the NSA were central to the UAE’s efforts to monitor opponents #Snowden #Karma #UAEshenanigans

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🌰The Karma Spy Tool🌰

A team of former U.S. government intelligence operatives working for the United Arab Emirates hacked into the iPhones of activists, diplomats and rival foreign leaders with the help of a sophisticated spying tool called Karma.
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The cyber tool allowed the small Gulf country to monitor hundreds of targets beginning in 2016, from the Emir of Qatar and a senior Turkish official to a Nobel Peace laureate human-rights activist in Yemen. #Karma
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📌Karma was used by an offensive cyber operations unit in Abu Dhabi comprised of Emirati security officials and former American intelligence operatives working as contractors for the UAE’s intelligence services
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1. And now I'm going to tell a story. Another false flag. This time is to force @POTUS not to take the US army out of #Syria.
They already have a lot of experience (8 years) to make chemical attacks to accuse the Syrian government.
OH, and they even have a manual.🧐😲🤨
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The Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) took responsibility for the attack that reportedly targeted the US-led coalition’s patrol.
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Steele trusted by FBI as reliable intel source despite agency's misconduct reprimand: Documents washingtontimes.com/news/2018/aug/… via @washtimes
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