Thread by @fascinatorfun

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A thread to give an idea what is in the documents submitted by @chrisinsilico to @CommonsCMS this week in relation to SCL Elections, Cambridge Analytica, AggregateiQ, Global Science Research (Kogan’s Company), Kanto Ltd (The “Hon” Thomas Borwick & Vote Leave’s Ch Tech Officer

2/. There are also some rather interesting emails referring to the wishes of “Ambassador Bolton”, Trumps new National Security Advisor.

A Condifential advice to Rebekah Mercer, Bannon and Nix and some docs re SCL Social re training U.K. Intelligence Community in PsyOps.

3/. Try and hold off commenting for a short while as I anticipate it will need at least 12 tweets. I shall signal “End”.

So. To start you off a link to the docs released by the DCMS Committee.

parliament.uk/documents/comm…

4/. The bundles contains a series of contracts between SCL Elections Ltd and Aggregate iQ covering a period between November 2013 to well into 2014.

They describe development work being done by AiQ for SCL Elections Ltd together with Intellectual Property licensing.

5/. This is not to suggest that therehave not been a whole series of subsequent contracts between the two organisations (or affiliates, subsidiaries or assignees) .

In fact it is clear that the relationship was intending to be ongoing.

6/. However the docs in this first release clearly cover the first full year of the relationship.

SCL Elections Ltd is the dominant organisation buying services and intellectual property. AiQ is the developer and supplier.

Payment for the first tranche of work was c $US 200k

7/. There was an agreement to pay a further total of over CAD 500k for continuing work done by AiQ for SCL Elections Ltd in 2014.

8/. In that second agreement clause 3.1 says

“In the event either party enters into third party arrangements utilizing the Product to generate revenue, the revenue shall be shared between AIQ and SCL.”

10/. That being the case, if AiQ received several £millions from Vote Leave, DUP, BeLeave and Veterans for Leave, did half(or indeed any) of the revenue go to SCL Elections (or any of the associated or affiliated companies?

11/. It certainly blows a hole in the suggestion that CA/SCL and AiQ had nothing to do with one another.

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In fact a series of emails exchanged between AiQ and Nix and Tayler (the acting CEO of CA U.K. Ltd whilst Nix suspended) shows they were working very closely together well before the USA elections and the EU Ref.

Those emails make several references to “Ambassador Bolton”

13/. The agreements ALSO make clear that the IP developed by AiQ was transferred to SCL Elections Ltd

To be clear:
CA LLC (American company: Bannon, Mercer, Nix)) was formed BEFORE CA U.K. Ltd (U.K. Company, Nix).
SCL Elections was initially a minority shareholder in CA LLC.

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CA U.K. Ltd was originally called SCL US Ltd when inc in the U.K. in Jan 15. name change April 2016 CA U.K.

It is a shell company. They money mainly flows through SCL Elections Ltd and CA LLC (the Mercer Bannon Company).

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SCL Elections Ltd entered into a contract with Global Science Research Ltd, (GSR) that had Dr Kogan (Cambridge University U.K. & St Petersburg university Russia who had developed a Psydata Analysis application using Facebook data.

Ooops. 2 x no 14s!

15/. That contract covered data collected from 11 USA States and seems connected to the Bolton emails some attached previously.

Schedule 2 is particularly interesting as it describes the sort of data it collects and a limitation via changing FBook T&Cs.

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Schedule 2 describes what the GSR technology and specifies FB likes. It specifies further that it does NOT rely much n surveys as that would create an altruism bias.

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It also specifies that it relies on a pre existing applications and acquisition terms based on FB’s OLD terms of service. New acquisitions do not permit access to friend networks. Sothe application was installed before Facebook changed its rules?

18/. There is also a handy Condifential Advice relating to the proprieties of U.K. or Canadian personnel, not US citizens or Green Card holders, working on US election related projects.

19/. Whatever to public record, the advice specifies both Mercer daughters, Rebekah and Jennifer were “preferred managers” along with Bannon and COULD legitimately work on US election projects.

20/. Nix is described as a “common” manager and limited legally substantially as to the scope of his involvement due to his British Citizenship.

21/. That advice was dated June 2014.

However in February 2014 SCL Elections Ltd entered into a contract of services with Kanto Ltd, a company owned by Thomas Borwick, Vote Leave’s Chief Technical Officer.

Apps/develop & focus group work were to be undertaken I think in the USA

22/. What exactly was done where?

Was there a breach of US electoral law or not?

I have not had enough time to go through that agreement in detail, or the timelines.

FINALLY

23/. It seems that an associated SCL Company, SCL Social Ltd, provided training in PsyOps to the U.K. Intelligence community in 2012.

More about that another time.
Doesn’t look to “social” to me.
There was I thinking they were getting involved in the online dating business!
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24/. Appendix.1.

A while back, when I was looking at SCL Elections Ltd abbreviated filed accounts I noticed that the ones to the end of Dec 16 indicated that over £4 million went through its accounts.

How much, if any, came from AiQ for Brexit related work?

has just alerted me to the fact that a Breach of ethics complaint has just been filed with the FBI re Bannon, Nix, Cambridge Analytica, SCL Elections, Trump Campaign and John Bolton .
These people/companies are all over the docs from @chrisinsilico and DCMS committee