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3 Apr, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Inside a stealth persuasion machine promising Republican victories in 2022 - John Tillman, CEO of Illinois Policy Institute is now chairman of American Culture Project which seeks to raise $24mil & flip senate & house in 2022 midterms, by @isaacstanbecker

washingtonpost.com/politics/repub…
This story by @Simon_Schuster provides more detail on Tillman and the many financial and media links among orgs he's involved with

An investigation by MCFN reveals the nonprofits are closely tied and often align in messaging.
mcfn.org/node/7395/surr…
Here's the letter sent out by the American Culture Project that describes their 'Reclaiming the Public Narrative' strategy to fundraise and swing 2022 midterms
washingtonpost.com/context/reclai…
A 2018 ProPublica and Chicago Sun-Times story

As Conservative Group Grows In Influence, Financial Dealings Enrich Its Leaders - Illinois Policy Institute has called for government reform while channeling money to firms owned by insiders
propublica.org/article/illino…

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Court docs in Canada show Catalyst agreed to pay up to $11 million to Black Cube for scheme to discredit Ontario judge and new links for Black Cube & Psy Group - noting “Arik” from Psy-Group e-mailed “Guy” from Black Cube and discussed the sting operation
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17 Mar
Russian couple expected to plead guilty in NC murder-for-hire scheme - Leonid & Tatyana Teyf are accused of money laundering & $150 million kickback scheme w/Russian military. Leonid Teyf has reported links to Putin's chef Yevgeny Prigozhin HT DDulany
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16 Mar
From report declassified by DNI Haines

"We assess that Putin had purview over the activities of Andriy Derkach"

Reminder: Andy Kuchma (Artemenko) & Nabil Bader worked for Derkach per Apr '20 FARA

Kuchma company Airtrans LLC is part of Erik Prince's FRG

dni.gov/files/ODNI/doc…
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The 2020 FARA related to Andrii Derkach - whose activities Putin had purview over per DNI report - was for consultancy services from Global Management Association, majority owned by Oksana Kuchma, wife of Andrii Artemenko aka Kuchma

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16 Mar
UN Security Council report on Libya, 548 pgs

Re: attack on Tripoli by armed groups affiliated w/Khalifa Haftar & Project Opus military op, Report notes arms embargo remains ineffective

Mentions Erik Prince 40x & assoc James Fenech, Christiaan Durrant etc
undocs.org/S/2021/229
Recent reporting from @declanwalsh prior to the release of the full UN report

Erik Prince violated Libya arms embargo, offered to supply weapons, drones, mercenaries to Libyan militia commander seeking to overthrow government

Per @RYP__ much of the info in the UN report is from various Prince associates

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13 Mar
Myanmar: Facial Recognition System Threatens Rights

@hrw describes Myanmar “Safe City” initiative with surveillance cameras from Huawei & risks to activists and protesters

In 2017 Agent Vi (Erik Prince is an investor) announced deal w/Huawei Safe City

hrw.org/news/2021/03/1…
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