"Diligence is a CIA front company or 'spin-off', operating an industrial espionage network. Top staff include members of UK and US intelligwnce agencies, originally created by former Bush administration members to obtain private contracts from Enron."
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wikispooks.com/wiki/Diligence
"Bloomberg reported how KPMG was infiltrated by Diligence in 2005. BGR represented Alfa Group Consortium, whose archrival, IPOC, was being audited by KPMG's Bermuda office. Diligence's CEO, Nick Day, posed as an MI5 agent and got an accountant to drop off inside information."
"From the start, Diligence's goal was clear, if far from simple: Infiltrate KPMG to obtain advance information about the audit of IPOC, an investment fund based in Bermuda."
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bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
"Russian conglomerate Alfa Group Consortium hired BGR through a subsidiary, and the lobbying firm in turn hired Diligence. Alfa is dueling with IPOC for a large stake in the Russian telecom company MegaFon."
"'We have a good chance of success on this project,' Day wrote in an internal Diligence memo. 'We are doing it in a way which gives plausible deniability, and therefore virtually no chance of discovery.' Similar Diligence operations, the memo noted, had been successful before."
"One co-founder of BGR, Ed Rogers, was an early investor in Diligence."
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"A person familiar with Diligence says one of the firm's shareholders is former U.S. Ambassador to Germany, Richard Burt."
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"A person familiar with Diligence says one of the firm's shareholders is former U.S. Ambassador to Germany, Richard Burt."
"Ed Rogers helped advise Trump's transition...BGR Group fundraised for his campaign"
"Petr Aven instructed Richard Burt to make contact with the incoming Trump Administration. Burt was on the board of directors for LetterOne (L1), another company headed by Aven, and had done work for Alfa-Bank."
"It is through JNR ('Jacob and Nathaniel Rothschild'), based in London and run by a small crew of investment bankers, that Nat has made his latest investments, prospecting for oil in Ukraine and buying a stake in Diligence, a corporate intelligence firm."
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