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Mogilevich 👉🏼Firtash (Manafort)👉🏼Tchenguiz👉🏼Nix👉🏼Mercer👉🏼Bannon👉🏼Flynn👉🏼TrumpCampaign

HOW CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA IS A L 🔑 NEXUS POINT

INTO THE BREXIT/2016ELEX RUSSIA CONSPIRACY PROBES
Cambridge Analytica’s exploitation of private data from 87 million Facebook users is a significant piece of the conspiracy to defraud the US, UK French (?) electorates.
I haven’t seen any definitive reporting linking Brannon’s Far R The Movement & the use of CA, to help elect Le Pen, but it isn’t a stretch to imagine it was likely used to assist the right-wing effort to disaggregate the EU. 
#MacronLeaks & TeamTrump
CA harvested private info from the FB profiles of more than 87M users w/o consent.

The breach allowed CA to exploit the private SOCMED activity of a huge swath of the US electorate, developing techniques that underpinned its work on Trump’s 2016 campaign.
nytimes.com/2018/03/17/us/…
Cambridge Analytica (“CA”) was the brains of the Trump team’s digital operations, identifying targets and blanketing social media with propaganda & fake news campaign messaging.
bbc.com/news/av/magazi…
In 2014 Mercer invested $15 million into CA and wooed his political adviser, Bannon, with the promise of tools that could identify the personalities of American voters and influence their behavior down to the individual user.
nytimes.com/2018/03/17/us/…
“They (Bannon & Mercer) want to fight a culture war in America,” he added. “Cambridge Analytica was supposed to be the arsenal of weapons to fight that culture war.”
nytimes.com/2018/03/17/us/…
Trump’s digital ops played a key role “designing target audiences for digital ads & fund-raising appeals, modeling voter turnout, buying $5M in television ads, & determining where Trump should travel based on polling data to best drum up support.”
nytimes.com/2018/03/17/us/…
“We exploited Facebook to harvest millions of people’s profiles. And built models to exploit what we knew about them and target their inner demons,” said Chris Wylie, who helped launch the company.“ That was the basis the entire company (CA) was built on.”
motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
Initially, Nix & Mercer trained CA capabilities on the Cruz campaign.

📌Nix revealed how CA had turned Ted Cruz from an obscure and reviled US senator into “the only credible threat to Donald Trump.
motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
Using Cambridge’s methods, the Cruz campaign had sliced and diced Iowa caucus-goers into hyperspecific groups based on their personality traits and the issues they cared about, such as the Second Amendment or Abortion.
motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
Nix also showed how it was possible to use so-called psychographics—a fancy term for measuring attitudes and interests of individuals—to narrow the universe of Iowans from the tens of thousands down to a single persuadable voter. #MicroTargeting
motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
Reporting before and after the election frequently touted the importance of Trump’s social media operation, which several publications—and the president himself—cited as a key part of  his victory.

📌Donald Trump says Facebook and Twitter ‘helped him win’
theverge.com/2016/11/13/136…
Trump appointed Brad Parscale, a Cambridge Analytica interlocutor as head of the digital operation in 2016, to manage his 2020 re-election campaign. #Romania
cnbc.com/2018/02/27/tru…
UK Channel 4 exposed Cambridge Analytica as a dirty-tricks company willing to do anything – break laws, spread lies and disinformation, and compromise candidates – for its clients.
channel4.com/news/cambridge…
🔑An undercover investigation captured video of Nix and other CA execs explaining how they could covertly inject propaganda “into the bloodstream to the internet.”
motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
They also described how their services could include bribing a politician and recording undercover video or sending “very beautiful” Ukrainian “girls” to entrap a candidate.#BlackCube
motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
📌They bragged about doing it all anonymously: According to managing director Mark Turnbull, “It may be that we have to contract under a different name, a different entity w/ a different name, so that no record exists w/ our name attached to this at all.”

channel4.com/news/cambridge…
‼️Cambridge Analytica has major ties to Russia

When British investigators asked Alexander Nix, director of SCL Group and CEO of Cambridge Analytica, if his company had any ties to Russia, he denied it. But…
nytimes.com/2018/03/17/us/…
Before working for Trump, Cambridge Analytica met at least three times in 2014 and 2015 with Kremlin-connected executives from the Russian oil giant Lukoil, who “showed interest” in using data to target messaging to American voters. #Lukoil
nytimes.com/2018/03/17/us/…
🔑That same year, the now indicted Internet Research Agency began working on its campaign to sow discord in the American electorate by “[seizing] on controversial issues and [exploiting] racial and ideological fissures to inflame [divisions &] tensions.”
beta.washingtonpost.com/world/national…
📌In June 2014, CA enlisted RU-American academic Aleksandr Kogan (assoc prof at St. Petersburg State University) to mine private FB user data.
theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/…
📌Kogan received grants from the Russian government to research “stress, health and psychological wellbeing in social networks” and hid the fact that he was an associate professor at St. Petersburg State University.
theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/…
‼️Tchenguiz & Firtash

📌Vincent Tchenguiz, is the largest shareholder in Cambridge Analytica’s parent company SCL Group, & he has ties to the pro-Kremlin Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash — who has also ties to Paul Manafort.
tabletmag.com/jewish-news-an…
📌Former Ulster Unionist MP David Burnside has been one of the most influential PR figures in Britain for decades, a Tory donor with links to senior figures in Vladimir Putin’s inner circle.

📌Burnside also works for Vincent Tchenguiz #Brexit
opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-…
🔑Taken together, Vote Leave, the DUP and other Brexit campaigners spent millions with a data analytics company that has been linked to Cambridge Analytica and is currently under investigation #Brexit
opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-…
🔑Burnside & Tchenguiz have another, intriguing link: Dmytro Firtash.

Tchenguiz has invested in a business whose largest shareholder was Firtash.

Burnside, alongside the PR firm Bell Pottinger, advised the Firtash Foundation, which is overseen by Firtash
opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-…
📌In 2012, Burnside invited Sergey Nalobin, the senior diplomat from the RU embassy in London, to a Tory fundraising dinner.

📌Nalobin’s father was a top-ranking officer in the FSB, (fmrly Soviet KGB), was forced out of the UK by the Home Office in 2015.
opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-…
📌Of note: Firtash donated millions to Cambridge University.
#UkrainianStudies
cam.ac.uk/research/news/…
‼️Firtash’s ties to Manafort & Mogilevich

📌In 2014 Manafort & Gates were named in a racketeering lawsuit involving Firtash, which was later dismissed.
dailykos.com/story/2018/4/1…
📌The suit claimed Manafort and Gates helped Firtash launder ill-gotten gains as part of an $850 million deal to build luxury housing at the site of the Drake Hotel in New York City,  
dailykos.com/story/2018/4/1…
🔑Later that year (2014) the FBI requested a

‼️FISA Warrant for Manafort‼️

📌due to his involvement with the Ukrainian government and Putin friendly officials such as Deripaska, this warrant ultimately lapsed in early 2016.
dailykos.com/story/2018/4/1…
Savor this deliciousness:

📌MANAFORT FISA WARRANT late 2014 to early 2016!!

📌Is it any wonder the FBI’s antennae was pinged when in March 16 Trump hired Manafort as his campaign Manager?

📌This was a period when Manafort was known to talk to Trump.😎
cnn.com/2017/09/18/pol…
📌This dropped 7/22/19: Judge Says Spinoff Manafort Probes Still Active

📌A NYT journo was warned that journalistic scrutiny “could reveal the existence of law enforcement proceedings that are not officially acknowledged or publicly known.”
courthousenews.com/ruling-against…
Savor the implications!! Ok folks I digressed, back to the story:

📌Tchenguiz also bought into another company around that time that was run by Dmitry Firtash, the man who wanted for questioning on a bribery charge in the United States.
bluedotdaily.com/cambridge-anal…
🔑Tchenguiz is tied to Firtash through a complex web of business ties starting with his holding company Wheddon Ltd.

🔑Wheddon is invested in a private business in the United Kingdom that listed Firtash as the largest shareholder.
bluedotdaily.com/cambridge-anal…
In 2005, Tchenguiz invested In the company Zander Group Ltd. Zander signed a deal in 2012 to work on soil regeneration in Libya.

From 2006 to 2011, Spadi Trading Company owned about 30% of the shares in Zander Group.
bluedotdaily.com/cambridge-anal…
🔑Spadi was owned by Group DF, which is run by Dmitry Firtash and has engaged in numerous dealings with Paul Manafort.
bluedotdaily.com/cambridge-anal…
📌Vincent Tchenguiz’s ties to Russia do not just end there, as he has been linked to Russian spy Anna Chapman, who coincidently was part of a Russian Spy swap that was orchestrated a few years ago that included Gennady Vasilenko.
bluedotdaily.com/cambridge-anal…
He is the Russian ex-spy that was just implicated in the story about the Republican National Committee making payments to Hamilton Trading Group for ‘dirt’ on Clinton in May 2017
bluedotdaily.com/cambridge-anal…
RNC paid intel firm Hamilton Trading Group for Clinton dirt. That work was handled by a former KGB agent named Gennady Vasilenko, a Cold War adversary-turned-friend of Wickham’s co-founder, Jack Platt, a retired CIA officer.
politico.com/story/2017/03/…
◼️Black Cube

Vincent Tchenguiz played a prominent role in the founding stages of the controversial Israeli business intelligence company Black Cube, and provided it with vital funding, according to a 2013 Israeli lawsuit filed by lawyers for Tchenguiz.
timesofisrael.com/cambridge-anal…
📌Black Cube ran ‘Black ops’  in Romania, & Hungary, & Harvey Weinstein reportedly used their ‘black op services’.

📌Black Cube conducted a “dirty ops” campaign against former Obama adm officials involved in the Iran Nuke Deal.
timesofisrael.com/cambridge-anal…
🔑Black Cube — which calls itself a “private intelligence agency” and employs former members of Mossad and other Israeli intelligence units
timesofisrael.com/cambridge-anal…
📌Side Note: Nitsan Nuriel Israel’s former counter terrorism chief sits on Trump’s fmr AAG Matthew Whitaker’s scam company WPM’s board.

📌Bernie Sanders’ original strategist Omar Rivero (OccupyDems) also sits on the same board as does Eric M. Creizman a PapaD attorney.
🔑If Tchenguiz, SCL Group’s largest shareholder until June 2015, indeed played a such a role in Black Cube in 2011-12, this sheds new light on two mysterious companies that are alleged to have been involved in political influence campaigns worldwide.
timesofisrael.com/cambridge-anal…
📌In addition, Tchenguiz allowed the UK branch of Black Cube to operate from a London office he owned for the nominal monthly rent of one British pound, the suit states. #Brexit
timesofisrael.com/cambridge-anal…
🔑Cambridge Analytica most famously worked on the “Leave.” campaign during Brexit referendum in the United Kingdom
tabletmag.com/jewish-news-an…
📌On two promotional documents obtained by the NYT, SCL said it did business in Russia. In both docs the country is highlighted on world maps that specify the location of SCL clients
nytimes.com/2018/03/17/us/…
Christopher Wylie, who helped found Cambridge Analytica and develop the company’s voter-profiling technology, said Lukoil showed interest in how the company used data to tailor messaging to American voters.
nytimes.com/2018/03/17/us/…
“We’re sending them [Lukoil] stuff about political targeting — they then come and ask more about political targeting,” per Wylie & another source
nytimes.com/2018/03/17/us/…
📌Lukoil depends on Kremlin support, & its chief executive, Vagit Alekperov, has met with Putin on a number of occasions.

📌Lukoil & other companies received instructions from the state energy ministry on providing news stories favorable to the Kremlin.
timesofisrael.com/cambridge-anal…
📌The Russians had their own digital operation—Internet Research Agency.

📌Did they coordinate with the Trump campaign’s?

📌If so, it would likely be through CA.

🔑Both CA and the IRA had similarly unusual strategies aimed at depressing voter turnout.
themoscowproject.org/dispatch/how-c…
🔑”Congressional and DOJ investigators believe that Trump’s campaign might have helped guide Russia’s voter targeting scheme and that Flynn, who worked for Trump’s campaign and with CA, is suspected of having extensive ties with Russian operatives.”
vox.com/policy-and-pol…
Trump’s digital army
In June 2016, the Trump campaign hired Cambridge Analytica to take over its data operations.
cnn.com/2018/03/21/pol…
11/12/16: Flynn’s speech about his digital army:
"We have an army of digital soldiers" engaged in "an insurgency, irregular warfare at it's finest in politics"

Speech: YAF’s Fall College Retreat on Saturday, November 12, 2016

H/T @ushadrons
Flynn’s digital soldiers/Trolls

Note: Stand by, there is virtually nothing in MSM about this significant piece of the puzzle—much more to come. ANON, QAnon, FlynnJr, Posobiec, Vaughn, weev, MicroChip, Fairbanks, BakedAlaska, O’Keefe & ++ more.
🔑Understanding the connections between Alfa bank/TT/Spectrum H servers -> CambridgeAnalytica-> targeted social engineering propaganda/messaging👇🏼👇🏼
The Alfa Bank server ‘washed’ that data together to tell Trump where to target it, sources say. But the messages and content with which targets were served was co-ordinated with Russia by General Flynn.
patribotics.blog/2017/04/16/mik…
📌Jan Iadonisi had two under-the-radar projects underway in the fall of 2016.

📌He helped Flynn with an investigative effort for an ally of the Turkish government & did work for the Trump campaign, which focused on social media.
washingtonpost.com/politics/the-m…
💰Rick Gates, George Birnbaum & Psy Group

📌Immediately after the June 24 meeting in Scotland,Trump’s fortunes improved dramatically.
patribotics.blog/2017/08/04/sco…
Post 6/24/16 Trump immediately became flush with money, & received an assist from Brexit bots repurposed to help Trump & Putin’s other secondary allies across Europe, in activity that was coordinated by Mike Flynn’s digital Army. #Scot24
patribotics.blog/2017/08/04/sco…
If the IRA was aided by data stolen from unsuspecting FB users, it could go even further, spreading racist messages the Trump campaign didn’t want attributed to it & creating fake-grassroots pressure to convince minority voters not to turn out for HRC..

justice.gov/file/1035477/d…
What the Mueller Report Tells Us About Russian Influence Operations

The report describes in stunning detail the inner workings of the full Russian operation.
lawfareblog.com/what-mueller-r…
To date, the report is the most comprehensive account (in addition to the previously released indictment of IRA and GRU operatives) of how the RU op evolved over time, how successful it was in targeting and duping Americans, and the Kremlin’s motivation.
lawfareblog.com/what-mueller-r…
To date, the report is the most comprehensive account (in addition to the previously released indictment of IRA and GRU operatives) of how the RU op evolved over time, how successful it was in targeting and duping Americans, and the Kremlin’s motivation.
lawfareblog.com/what-mueller-r…
By the end of the 2016 election, the IRA “had the ability to reach millions of U.S. persons through their social media accounts” on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and Tumblr, according to the report (see page 26).
lawfareblog.com/what-mueller-r…
🔑Facebook later estimated that IRA-controlled accounts reached as many as 126 million people, and an additional 1.4 million were reached through Twitter.

📌Take a moment & read this whole article.
lawfareblog.com/what-mueller-r…
Investigators are probing whether such a partnership existed.

🔑The contested swing states that Trump narrowly—and surprisingly—won, such as MI & WI were also places where both the Trump campaign & Russia’s Internet Research Agency focused their efforts.
newyorker.com/news/news-desk…
🔑Herein lies at least one answer to the question of why Russia would want the Trump campaign’s polling data: it potentially offered demographic targets for Russia’s bots and propaganda.
newyorker.com/news/news-desk…
Why Would Paul Manafort Share Polling Data with Russia?

Manafort left the campaign shortly after CA was hired. Mueller/FBI have long had their sights on Manafort.

We know that the investigation Manafort involves far more than financial crimes.
newyorker.com/news/news-desk…
The IRA exploited Americans’ xenophobia and prejudices, tendencies that had been lurking close to the surface of U.S. politics long before Trump came along. But knowing where to direct their Facebook ads and Instagram posts would have been quite useful.
NEXUS: Did the Russian’s digital campaign via the Internet Research Agency benefit immensely from partnering with an organization with known political expertise such as an organization like Cambridge Analytica?

We shall soon find out...
🔑Once Russian efforts to destabilize the American electorate and promote Donald Trump’s candidacy were revealed, there appeared to be a strange and inexplicable synergy between the Trump campaign and Russia’s propaganda offensive.
newyorker.com/news/news-desk…
📌In 2017 Mark Warner wondered if the Trump team’s data had been passed along to the Russians, given their uncanny ability “to target states and levels of voters that the Democrats weren’t even aware” of.
newyorker.com/news/news-desk…
🔑At the time, all eyes were on Brad Parscale, Jared Kushner, and their digital team, especially Cambridge Analytica, whose swing-state targeting was suspiciously spot-on.
newyorker.com/news/news-desk…
🔑Wray announced today (7/23/19) in his testimony before Congress that there has been a number of referrals stemming from the Mueller probe to the FBI. Start 26 min 35secs.

🔑Stay tuned folks, lots more to come outside if the Mueller Report.
c-span.org/video/?462772-…
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