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A Veteran Spy Has Given the FBI Information Alleging a Russian Operation to Cultivate Donald Trump
Mother Jones ^ | October 31, 2016 | David Corn

Posted on 01/12/2017 7:58:11 PM PST by Fedora

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And a former senior intelligence officer for a Western country who specialized in Russian counterintelligence tells Mother Jones that in recent months he provided the bureau with memos, based on his recent interactions with Russian sources, contending the Russian government has for years tried to co-opt and assist Trump—and that the FBI requested more information from him.

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In June, the former Western intelligence officer—who spent almost two decades on Russian intelligence matters and who now works with a US firm that gathers information on Russia for corporate clients—was assigned the task of researching Trump's dealings in Russia and elsewhere, according to the former spy and his associates in this American firm. This was for an opposition research project originally financed by a Republican client critical of the celebrity mogul. (Before the former spy was retained, the project's financing switched to a client allied with Democrats.) "It started off as a fairly general inquiry," says the former spook, who asks not to be identified. But when he dug into Trump, he notes, he came across troubling information indicating connections between Trump and the Russian government. According to his sources, he says, "there was an established exchange of information between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin of mutual benefit."

This was, the former spy remarks, "an extraordinary situation." He regularly consults with US government agencies on Russian matters, and near the start of July on his own initiative—without the permission of the US company that hired him—he sent a report he had written for that firm to a contact at the FBI, according to the former intelligence officer and his American associates, who asked not to be identified. (He declines to identify the FBI contact.) The former spy says he concluded that the information he had collected on Trump was "sufficiently serious" to share with the FBI.

Mother Jones has reviewed that report and other memos this former spy wrote. The first memo, based on the former intelligence officer's conversations with Russian sources, noted, "Russian regime has been cultivating, supporting and assisting TRUMP for at least 5 years. Aim, endorsed by PUTIN, has been to encourage splits and divisions in western alliance." It maintained that Trump "and his inner circle have accepted a regular flow of intelligence from the Kremlin, including on his Democratic and other political rivals." It claimed that Russian intelligence had "compromised" Trump during his visits to Moscow and could "blackmail him." It also reported that Russian intelligence had compiled a dossier on Hillary Clinton based on "bugged conversations she had on various visits to Russia and intercepted phone calls."

The former intelligence officer says the response from the FBI was "shock and horror." The FBI, after receiving the first memo, did not immediately request additional material, according to the former intelligence officer and his American associates. Yet in August, they say, the FBI asked him for all information in his possession and for him to explain how the material had been gathered and to identify his sources. The former spy forwarded to the bureau several memos—some of which referred to members of Trump's inner circle. After that point, he continued to share information with the FBI. "It's quite clear there was or is a pretty substantial inquiry going on," he says.

"This is something of huge significance, way above party politics," the former intelligence officer comments. "I think [Trump's] own party should be aware of this stuff as well."

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To: El Cid; fightin kentuckian

You mean Rolling Stone’s U-Va rape story?


21 posted on 01/12/2017 8:46:16 PM PST by Fedora
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To: jonrick46

Their motto is, “If it’s broke, don’t fix it!”


22 posted on 01/12/2017 8:47:27 PM PST by Fedora
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To: Fedora
TRIED
23 posted on 01/12/2017 9:12:47 PM PST by stocksthatgoup (Imagine that!)
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To: Fedora

What do you make of this? =>

The Russian Embassy in London sent a mysterious tweet saying: ‘Christopher Steele story: MI6 officers are never ex: briefing both ways – against Russia and US President’

http://www.independent.ie/world-news/north-america/us-election-2016/russians-point-finger-at-uk-over-trump-dossier-35364571.html


24 posted on 01/12/2017 9:29:56 PM PST by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: tomkat

I mean..you simply CAN NOT, make this stuff up and get it any better.


25 posted on 01/12/2017 9:32:42 PM PST by crz
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To: Fedora

He... Is... David... CORNHOLIO!!!


26 posted on 01/12/2017 9:53:43 PM PST by kiryandil (Will Hillary's BrownShirt Media thugs demand that The Deplorables all wear six-pointed Orange Stars?)
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To: Ken H
That's very interesting--especially this item on Christopher Steele: "It emerged yesterday that he was the MI6 case officer assigned to Alexander Litvinenko, the former FSB agent murdered in London with a radioactive substance." I had been wondering where MI6 and the British government fit into things even before seeing this, so now I'm really curious. During Plamegate, the forces collaborating to smear Bush included rogue elements from Italian, French, British, and American intelligence, as well as former and current U.S. intelligence officers stationed abroad in those countries and others. With the current Trump dossier, we have Steele shopping it to the FBI in Rome, to the BBC in the UK ("Our correspondent said he had been shown the memos about Mr Trump in October last year, when he was told Mr Steele was "in fear of his life", having spoken out about potential Russian involvement in Mr Trump's election.": Ex-MI6 officer Christopher Steele in hiding after Trump dossier), and to Mother Jones and CNN in the United States (and who knows who else). I agree with the Russians' premise that we should assume Steele still has some connection to MI6. I wouldn't assume he's acting officially on behalf of the British government without some evidence, though--more inclined to see anti-Brexit elements working with Obama and Clinton's people here on this.

I also see from that link that I'm not the only one reminded of Nigergate: Patrick Cockburn: Dodgy dossier is reminiscent of Saddam's supposed WMDs.

27 posted on 01/12/2017 10:13:20 PM PST by Fedora
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To: Fedora

I unearthed this on FreeRepublic and I didn’t post it, because it is Motherearth.

What is missing is the reference to Harry Fraud


28 posted on 01/12/2017 10:14:38 PM PST by dila813 (Voting for Trump to Punish Trumpets!)
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To: Fedora

Please.

This is to take the focus off Hillary and Podestas Uranium One quid pro quo deal.

She and her minions are the only ones with proven ties to Russia. For a known sweetheart deal.

This is total bs.


29 posted on 01/12/2017 10:16:08 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: kiryandil

30 posted on 01/12/2017 10:18:14 PM PST by Fedora
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To: dila813

I searched for it and I didn’t see it. And yes, Harry Reid is also part of this story.


31 posted on 01/12/2017 10:19:20 PM PST by Fedora
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To: Fedora

and only my wife thinks they’re out to get us....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3513376/posts?page=15#15


32 posted on 01/12/2017 11:29:28 PM PST by stylin19a (Hey obamas-it's Ray Charles time - "Hit the Road Jack"...you know the rest)
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To: Fedora

bump for fake news refernce


33 posted on 01/12/2017 11:39:46 PM PST by Robert357 (D.Rather "Hoist with his own petard!" www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1223916/posts)
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To: stylin19a

Thanks, I saw a thread on that article earlier but I missed your post!—I see the scent of Joe Wilson’s Nigerian mint tea did not got undetected. Also see Posts #24 and #27 in this thread.


34 posted on 01/12/2017 11:42:29 PM PST by Fedora
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To: Fedora

Missing in this discussion: what about Saudi elites trying to co-opt and assist Obama and Hillary over the years. Is there not clear evidence this happened, and is this not relevant to those trying to link Trump to Russia?


35 posted on 01/13/2017 12:08:22 AM PST by tomatomaster (Obama Hillary Saudi influence)
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To: tomatomaster

Well, the Saudis allegedly financed part of Obama’s college career, and they pledged $20 million or so to the Clinton Foundation, so you could make a case for them having some influence over the Obama-Clinton policy towards Iran, Syria, and Israel, which in turn could influence their Russian policy to the extent Russia is involved in the Middle East.


36 posted on 01/13/2017 12:23:19 AM PST by Fedora
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To: Fedora

Of course they don’t bother to mention that the brilliant intelligence guy sat in a pub writing this fiction. He contacted no ne in Russia


37 posted on 01/13/2017 1:27:15 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Fedora

David Corn is and has been a hard left gazoonie for years. Mother Jones isn’t even a good beer coaster.


38 posted on 01/13/2017 2:36:03 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: Fedora

Yawn.

Executives who have business interests in foreign countries have sophisticated and meaningful exchanges with foreign governments and foreign executives in order to facilitate business.

Better contacts than the government hacks manage. Period.

It’s for generating profits.


39 posted on 01/13/2017 3:57:10 AM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Fedora
She Who Must Not Be Named, Or Cornholioed...

LOL! Thanx for the pic! 😀

40 posted on 01/13/2017 4:47:39 AM PST by kiryandil (Will Hillary's BrownShirt Media thugs demand that The Deplorables all wear six-pointed Orange Stars?)
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