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Today might be a good day to note that Bannon's Cambridge Analytica work was evidently also the brainchild of Kilimnik, identified in the SSCI report as an active GRU officer (and implicated here in the DNC hack and leak operation).
I suppose we can be pedantic here and say that Kilimnik might belong to a different service, not the GRU. But the evidence in his c.v. and as established by the SSCI doesn't bear that out.
He attended the Military Institute for Foreign Languages in Moscow in 1987; the institute minted GRU officers. (Today it is part of the Kremlin’s Military University, tied to the Russian Ministry of Defense.)
As we know, there were two hacking operations launched against the DNC: Cozy Bear, which was run by the SVR (civilian foreign intel), got into the DNC servers first but only performed espionage. Fancy Bear, run by the GRU (military intel), leaked the correspondence to WikiLeaks.
These operations were mutually exclusive; the SVR did not know what the GRU was doing and vice versa. So if Kilimnik was SVR, it is highly unlikely he'd have been connected, as per the report, to the GRU hack-and-leak operation. Ditto if he was FSB (civilian domestic intel).
Oh, and more on KK's background:
Note KK told Patten to lie to the grand jury. And quite a few U.S. embassy officials in Kyiv knew he was bad news and peddling bogus information:
The U.S. embassy in Kyiv has talked to all sorts of dodgy characters over years such as the pro-Russian oligarch Dymtro Firtash (now indicted in the U.S. and implicated in the Ukraine-Trump impeachment saga): theguardian.com/world/us-embas…
Amb. Pyatt saw through KK:
Hahaha! "GRU does not have agents abroad." Note in the midst of a redaction, SSCI states: "All of these assertions are lies."
Trade delegations are a favored cover for GRU officers. See Suvorov's "Inside Soviet Military Intelligence." Better yet, look up how Penkovsky traveled to London and Paris:
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