![]() ![]() Ten days before Trump’s inauguration in 2017, Buzzfeed published the full Steele Dossier-35 pages of raw, uncorroborated musings collected from the mouths of Moscow hotel staff and similar chatty sources. Steele then tapped his network of Russian contacts to mine for compromising information-kompromat-on Trump. Fusion GPS, in turn, farmed out the job to Christopher Steele, a former operative for the M16 UK intelligence unit, who operated his own private-intelligence firm. Meier’s other linchpin example involves the Washington, DC, firm Fusion GPS, which advertises “premium research, strategic intelligence, and due diligence services to corporations, law firms, and investors worldwide.” The firm is led by a pair of ex- Wall Street Journal reporters, Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch, and not surprisingly makes enterprising use of its close personal ties to the journalism fraternity.Ī law firm with Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign as its client hired Fusion GPS to probe the nexus between Russia and Donald Trump. Asked whether Black Cube’s tactics involving fake identities constituted misrepresentation, Boies retreated to unconvincing legalese: “I think it may depend on how significant the misrepresentation is to the person receiving it.” All of this later came to light in Ronan Farrow’s 2017 expose of Black Cube. ![]() The agent’s covert aim was to persuade McGowan to share an as-yet-unpublished memoir that dealt with Weinstein. One such operative, a female Israeli military veteran given the cover of a women’s rights advocate employed at a London investment firm, befriended a Weinstein accuser, the actress Rose McGowan. The contract, Meier notes, specifically mentioned the intelligence firm’s use of “avatar operators”: experts in social media who specialized in creating fake Facebook pages, LinkedIn profiles, and the like for field operatives. ![]() In 2016, in hopes of keeping the press from publishing sexual harassment allegations against Harvey Weinstein, the law firm of superlawyer David Boies hired Black Cube to work on Weinstein’s behalf. ![]()
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