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By late 2018, Hull wrote, the FBI began proactively contacting Biggs to inquire about his provocative commentary, often issued through the pro-Trump Right Side Broadcasting Network or InfoWars. And Biggs stayed in touch with multiple FBI agents since that time, he said.

Trump-era intelligence agencies have faced criticism — long denied by top officials like FBI Director Christopher Wray — that they were pressured to inflate the threat of antifa while downplaying the threat posed by right wing extremists. The most troubling issue that Wray may

face is the fact that his law firm — King & Spalding — represents Rosneft and Gazprom, two of Russia’s largest state-controlled oil companies. As such, he also works closely with Russia's other energy giant, Gazprom, and last year he became chairman of the board of directors at

Nord Stream 2, a Gazprom subsidiary.
He has long been friends with President Putin - in 2014 they were pictured embracing at Mr Schroeder's 70th birthday party. Mr Schroeder also opposed the sanctions over Crimea.

He is currently the chairman of the board of Nord Stream AG and of Rosneft, after having been hired as a global manager by investment bank Rothschild

Rothschild's financial advisory division is known to serve British nobility, including the British Royal Family. Past chairman

Sir Evelyn Rothschild is the personal financial advisor of Queen Elizabeth II, and she knighted him in 1989 for his services to banking and finance.

In the late 18th century and early 19th century, Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744–1812) rose to become one of Europe's most

powerful bankers in the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel in the Holy Roman Empire. In pursuit of expansion, he appointed his sons to start banking operations in the various capitals of Europe, including sending his third son, Nathan Mayer Rothschild (1777–1836), to England. Kissinger

was then reassigned to the Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC), where he became a CIC Special Agent holding the enlisted rank of sergeant. He was given charge of a team in Hanover assigned to tracking down Gestapo officers and other saboteurs, for which he was awarded the Bronze

Star.[23] In June 1945, Kissinger was made commandant of the Bensheim metro CIC detachment, Bergstrasse district of Hesse, with responsibility for de-Nazification of the district. Although he possessed absolute authority and powers of arrest, Kissinger took care to avoid abuses

against the local population by his command. In 1946, Kissinger was reassigned to teach at the European Command Intelligence School at Camp King and, as a civilian employee following his separation from the army, continued to serve in this role.

In July 1946 General Reinhard Gehlen arrived on the Camp King post and established the Gehlen Organization which later went on to become the BND (Bundesnachrichtendienst, or "Federal Intelligence Service").

Notably Dwight D. Eisenhower had his office in the building. It became the principal location for implementing the Marshall Plan, which supported the post-war reconstruction of Europe. The 1948 Frankfurt Documents, which led to the creation of a West German state allied with the

western powers, were signed in the building.[6] The IG Farben Building served as the headquarters for the US Army's V Corps and the Northern Area Command (NACOM) until 1995. It was also the headquarters of the CIA in Germany. During the early Cold War, it was referred to by US

authorities as the Headquarters Building, United States Army Europe (USAREUR); the US Army renamed the building the General Creighton W. Abrams Building in 1975.[1] It was informally referred to as "The Pentagon of Europe."During the Second World War American general

Dwight D. Eisenhower established a military headquarters at 20 Grosvenor Square, and during this time the square was nicknamed "Eisenhower Platz".[9] Until 2009, the United States Navy continued to use this building as its headquarters for United States Naval Forces Europe.

On 14 July 1965, while walking with Marietta Tree, the then-U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Adlai Stevenson, suffered a heart attack, later dying at the old St George's Hospital at Hyde Park Corner. As they reached the front of the Sportsman's Club, his last words were

reportedly to ask her to slow down.

Dan spent months as a mole inside the Watchmen, where he was quickly elevated to leadership position because of his Army background and specialized training, he said. 
Not only did he wear a wire, he gave the FBI access to his email, encrypted chat and Facebook accounts so they

could monitor the group. 
Defense attorneys have argued the FBI may have entrapped their clients by using a paid informant, suggesting Dan may have been by money. As of October, the FBI paid him $14,800 “for reporting and expenses,” according to court documents. But Dan said he

did not expect compensation when he decided to help authorities, and the money was justified because of the heavy toll his work took on his personal life. 
He had to routinely take time off from his job at the U.S. Postal Service to attend militia meetings, he said.

Aleksandr Kogan, a data scientist at the University of Cambridge, was hired by Cambridge Analytica, an offshoot of SCL Group, to develop an app called "This Is Your Digital Life" (sometimes stylized as "thisisyourdigitallife").[13][14] Cambridge Analytica then arranged an

informed consent process for research in which several hundred thousand Facebook users would agree to complete a survey for payment that was only for academic use.[13][15] However, Facebook allowed this app not only to collect personal information from survey respondents but also

from respondents’ Facebook friends.[13] In this way, Cambridge Analytica acquired data from millions of Facebook users. Wired, The New York Times, and The Observer reported that the data-set had included information on 50 million Facebook users.[34][35] While Cambridge Analytica

claimed it had only collected 30 million Facebook user profiles,[36] Facebook later confirmed that it actually had data on potentially over 87 million users,[37] with 70.6 million of those people from the United States.

Cambridge Analytica Ltd (CA) was a British political consulting firm that came to prominence through the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal. It was started in 2013[6] as a subsidiary of the private intelligence company and self-described "global election management

agency" SCL Group by long-time SCL executives Nigel Oakes, Alexander Nix and Alexander Oakes, with Nix as CEO.[6] The company had close ties to the Conservative Party (UK), the British royal family and the British military. Alexander James Ashburner Nix (born 1 May 1975) is a

British businessman, the former CEO of Cambridge Analytica[1] and a former director of the Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL) Group,[2] a behavioural research and strategic communications consultancy, leading its elections division (SCL Elections). Cambridge Analytica and

its parent SCL were involved in psychological warfare operations for the British military and involved in influencing hundreds of elections globally; Cambridge Analytica helped Leave.EU with its Brexit campaign, according to both Leave.EU and

Cambridge Analytica staff.

Update, 7/13/2018: Special counsel Robert Mueller’s office identified Guccifer 2.0 as a Russian intelligence officer and indicted him along with 11 other officers for crimes related to the alleged hacking of Democrats in 2016.

FBI and Justice Department officials have said publicly that there was no evidence Clinton’s server was hacked by a foreign power. Former FBI Director James Comey said at a July 2016 news conference that the FBI did not find direct evidence that the sever had been successfully

hacked though he also acknowledged that, “given the nature of the system and of the actors potentially involved,” it would have been unlikely for the bureau to find such direct evidence.

As CNN's Donie O'Sullivan reports: The disrupted operation used fake personas including realistic-looking computer-generated photos of people, a network of Facebook accounts and pages that had only a small amount of engagement and influence at the time it was taken down, and a

website that was set up to look and operate like a left-wing news outlet. The 45-acre site on the Corsica River near Centreville was purchased by the Soviet Union in 1972, a State Department official said. Its ownership has been widely known for decades, and Russian officials

have described it as a recreational site for diplomats and their families. Satellite images show a mansion, tennis courts and a swimming pool. The administration also moved to deny Russian access to a property on Long Island, N.Y. The Obama administration offered no detail about

what sort of intelligence gathering it believes occurred at the sites. When CrowdStrike came to the DNC, it moved quickly. Using a system called Falcon, a two-megabyte agent installed on systems without the need for a reboot, it profiled every action that occurred at a programme

level on the hundreds of machines owned by the DNC. One clue might be a programme behaving abnormally; it might be the unusual transfer of millions of documents. "We're not looking at any personal data, any documents or emails," explains Alperovitch. "We're just looking at what

is being executed.""Almost immediately, Falcon started lighting up with a number of indications of breaches of the DNC network," Alperovitch says.

But Perkins Coie’s role in the evolution of the Trump dossier only came to light a year later in a Washington Post expose. It turns out the firm not only hired and paid for the opposition research firm that compiled the debunked dossier but also took possession of it.
Marc E.

Elias, a lawyer representing the Clinton campaign and the DNC, retained Fusion GPS, a Washington firm, to conduct the research.
After that, Fusion GPS hired dossier author Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer with ties to the FBI and the U.S. intelligence

community, according to those people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Elias and his law firm, Perkins Coie, retained the company in April 2016 on behalf of the Clinton campaign and the DNC.
…Fusion GPS gave Steele’s reports and other research documents to Elias, the

people familiar with the matter said. The New York Times senior White House correspondent Maggie Haberman and reporter Kenneth Vogel are slamming Hillary Clinton‘s campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC), saying they lied about funding for the so-called

Trump dossier.
“When I tried to report this story, Clinton campaign lawyer @marceelias pushed back vigorously, saying ‘You (or your sources) are wrong,’ ” Vogel tweeted, referring to Clinton campaign lawyer Marc Elias.