NEW: A German cybersecurity guru who took part in two Russian influence operations last year snagged meetings with top DHS officials, Amazon, Microsoft and U.S. public utilities on a bicoastal tour of America: thedailybeast.com/cybersecurity-…
Hans-Wilhelm Dünn's trip to these shores took place about six months after a major German media exposé of his collaboration with Vladislav Sherstyuk, a former KGB officer and director of FAPSI, Russia's signint agency. Caused quite a fuss in Berlin.
Dünn also went on one of Prigozhin's "election monitoring" missions to Zimbabwe, alongside European neo-Nazis. They met Mugabe and took pics -- all uploaded to Dünn's Twitter feed. Prigozhin's org describes itself as a "network of agents of influence." thedailybeast.com/prigozhin-is-u…
Dünn also snapped a photo of @NSAGov HQ at Fort Meade on his trip to the U.S.
Despite all this being open source, past and present U.S. officials had no idea of Dünn's background. A slew of Western tech and industrial companies still affiliate with his Cyber-Security Council. The CEO of one said, "Oh, fuck," when I explained the story.
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