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Putin-linked think tank drew up plan to sway 2016 US election
A Russian government think tank controlled by Vladimir Putin developed a plan to swing the 2016 U.S. presidential election to Donald Trump and undermine voters’ faith in the American electoral system, three current and four former U.S. officials told Reuters.
They described two confidential documents from the think tank as providing the framework and rationale for what U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded was an intensive effort by Russia to interfere with the Nov. 8 election. U.S. intelligence officials acquired the documents, which were prepared by the Moscow-based Russian Institute for Strategic Studies [en.riss.ru/], after the election.
The institute is run by retired senior Russian foreign intelligence officials appointed by Putin’s office.
The first Russian institute document was a strategy paper written last June that circulated at the highest levels of the Russian government but was not addressed to any specific individuals.
It recommended the Kremlin launch a propaganda campaign on social media and Russian state-backed global news outlets to encourage U.S. voters to elect a president who would take a softer line toward Russia than the administration of then-President Barack Obama, the seven officials said.
A second institute document, drafted in October and distributed in the same way, warned that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was likely to win the election. For that reason, it argued, it was better for Russia to end its pro-Trump propaganda and instead intensify its messaging about voter fraud to undermine the U.S. electoral system’s legitimacy and damage Clinton’s reputation in an effort to undermine her presidency, the seven officials said.
The current and former U.S. officials spoke on the condition of anonymity due to the Russian documents’ classified status. They declined to discuss how the United States obtained them. U.S. intelligence agencies also declined to comment on them.
Putin has denied interfering in the U.S. election. Putin’s spokesman and the Russian institute did not respond to requests for comment.
The documents were central to the Obama administration’s conclusion that Russia mounted a “fake news” campaign and launched cyber attacks against Democratic Party groups and Clinton’s campaign, the current and former officials said.
“Putin had the objective in mind all along, and he asked the institute to draw him a road map,” said one of the sources, a former senior U.S. intelligence official.
Trump has said Russia’s activities had no impact on the outcome of the race. Ongoing congressional and FBI investigations into Russian interference have so far produced no public evidence that Trump associates colluded with the Russian effort to change the outcome of the election.
Four of the officials said the approach outlined in the June strategy paper was a broadening of an effort the Putin administration launched in March 2016. That month the Kremlin instructed state-backed media outlets, including international platforms Russia Today and Sputnik news agency, to start producing positive reports on Trump’s quest for the U.S. presidency, the officials said.
Russia Today did not respond to a request for comment. A spokesperson for Sputnik dismissed the assertions by the U.S. officials that it participated in a Kremlin campaign as an “absolute pack of lies.” “And by the way, it’s not the first pack of lies we’re hearing from ‘sources in U.S. official circles’,” the spokesperson said in an email.
PRO-KREMLIN BLOGGERS
Russia Today and Sputnik published anti-Clinton stories while pro-Kremlin bloggers prepared a Twitter campaign calling into question the fairness of an anticipated Clinton victory, according to a report by U.S. intelligence agencies on Russian interference in the election made public in January. [bit.ly/2kMiKSA]
Russia Today’s most popular Clinton video – “How 100% of the 2015 Clintons’ ‘charity’ went to … themselves” – accumulated 9 millions views on social media, according to the January report. [bit.ly/2os8wIt]
The report said Russia Today and Sputnik “consistently cast president elect-Trump as the target of unfair coverage from traditional media outlets.”
The report said the agencies did not assess whether Moscow’s effort had swung the outcome of the race in Trump’s favor, because American intelligence agencies do not “analyze U.S. political processes or U.S. public opinion.” [bit.ly/2kMiKSA]
CYBER ATTACKS
Neither of the Russian institute documents mentioned the release of hacked Democratic Party emails to interfere with the U.S. election, according to four of the officials. The officials said the hacking was a covert intelligence operation run separately out of the Kremlin.
The overt propaganda and covert hacking efforts reinforced each other, according to the officials. Both Russia Today and Sputnik heavily promoted the release of the hacked Democratic Party emails, which often contained embarrassing details.
Five of the U.S. officials described the institute as the Kremlin’s in-house foreign policy think tank.
The institute’s director when the documents were written, Leonid Reshetnikov, rose to the rank of lieutenant general during a 33-year-career in Russia’s foreign intelligence service, according to the institute’s website [bit.ly/2oVhiCF]. After Reshetnikov retired from the institute in January, Putin named as his replacement Mikhail Fradkov. The institute says he served as the director of Russia’s foreign intelligence service from 2007 to 2016. [bit.ly/2os4tvz]
Reuters was unable to determine if either man was directly involved in the drafting of the documents. Reshetnikov’s office referred questions to the Russian institute.
On its website, the Russian institute describes itself as providing “expert appraisals,” “recommendations,” and “analytical materials” to the Russian president’s office, cabinet, National Security Council, ministries and parliament. [bit.ly/2pCBGpR]
On Jan. 31, the websites of Putin’s office [bit.ly/2os9wMr] and the institute [bit.ly/2oLn9Kd] posted a picture and transcript of Reshetnikov and his successor Fradkov meeting with Putin in the Kremlin. Putin thanked Reshetnikov for his service and told Fradkov he wanted the institute to provide objective information and analysis.
“We did our best for nearly eight years to implement your foreign policy concept,” Reshetnikov told Putin. “The policy of Russia and the policy of the President of Russia have been the cornerstone of our operation.”
10 Comments on "Putin-linked think tank drew up plan to sway 2016 US election"
Apneaman on Fri, 21st Apr 2017 7:34 pm
LMAO
Donald Trump has ‘dangerous mental illness’, say psychiatry experts at Yale conference
“Donald Trump has a “dangerous mental illness” and is not fit to lead the US, a group of psychiatrists have warned during a conference at Yale University.
Mental health experts claimed the President was “paranoid and delusional”, and said it was their “ethical responsibility” to warn the American public about the “dangers” Mr Trump’s psychological state poses to the country.”
“Dr Gartner, who is also a founding member of Duty to Warn, an organisation of several dozen mental health professionals who think Mr Trump is mentally unfit to be president, said the President’s statement about having the largest crowd at an inauguration was just one of many that served as warnings of a larger problem.
“Worse than just being a liar or a narcissist, in addition he is paranoid, delusional and grandiose thinking and he proved that to the country the first day he was President. If Donald Trump really believes he had the largest crowd size in history, that’s delusional,” he added.”
“I’ve worked with murderers and rapists. I can recognise dangerousness from a mile away. You don’t have to be an expert on dangerousness or spend fifty years studying it like I have in order to know how dangerous this man is.”
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/donald-trump-has-dangerous-mental-illness-say-psychiatry-experts-at-yale-conference/ar-BBA6XaI?li=BBoPWjQ
Another day at freak show America
Plantagenet on Fri, 21st Apr 2017 8:22 pm
Who ever dreamed that putting John Podesta’s emails on Wikileaks would cause all this trouble?
Cheers!
GregT on Fri, 21st Apr 2017 11:58 pm
“Both Russia Today and Sputnik heavily promoted the release of the hacked Democratic Party emails, which often contained embarrassing details.”
It doesn’t exactly take a brain surgeon to figure out that you should never put anything in writing, that you don’t want other people to read. Especially the ’embarrassing details’.
Anybody stupid enough to do so, won’t even last very long flipping burgers at McDonalds.
makati1 on Sat, 22nd Apr 2017 2:11 am
GregT, anything that is tweeted, emailed or posted online is permanent and is open to anyone who can hack the system. I never post anything I would not want the world to know. Privacy, in the 1st world, is gone, just like the Dodo bird.
Cloggie on Sat, 22nd Apr 2017 2:28 am
Donald Trump has ‘dangerous mental illness’, say psychiatry experts at Yale conference
OMG, the TalmudTurd Apneaman uses his co-tribalist and shrink from New York, John D Gardner, to continue with his war against white America under the age old motto “kill the best gentile”.
https://www.facebook.com/john.d.gartner
(see link to “Birthright Israel”)
Gardner uses the heritage of co-tribalist Sigmund Fraud for political motives.
Cloggie on Sat, 22nd Apr 2017 2:57 am
Yet another MSM attack and attempt to undermine the legitimacy of the Trump presidency by the Anglo-Zionist media. Until 2008 Reuters was owned by Rothschild and then taken over by a Canadian billionaire David Thomson, 3rd Baron Thomson of Fleet, no doubt firmly loyal to the intentions of the Anglo global empire aka the “NWO” in Alex Jones circles.
Did Putin want Trump to become US president? You bet.
Could it be that a Russian intelligence group sat together and have some thoughts to see if they could do something to increase Trump’s chances? Likely. US think tanks think 24/7/365 about how to go about with regime change in countries not yet part of the US empire.
Where they effective? Hard to measure. If it is true that the Russians had a hand in releasing these Podesta emails, than it could have helped tilting the balance.
But the real reason why Trump won will never be mentioned by the likes of Reuters, namely that European-America had enough of the schemes of the Anglo elite. The Anglo elite loves to make fun of “Tuck Buckford”…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qBNml_sSVo
…but in November “Tuck Buckford” hit back, and Corbett and Reuters’ Baron Thomson and Meryl Streep and Madonna and NYT-Friedman and Apneaman and the rest of the globalist rabble didn’t like that too much and now they want “their” country back.
Come and get it, a*holes.
But who cares about Reuters and the rest of the MSM. The internet is in the process of completely replacing the MSM. The MSM that’s for the boobs who don’t like to think for themselves.
Richard Spencer today on the Bill O’Reilly episode and the demise of the MSM, the brain washing machine of the NWO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX2AXZM0xRE
Theedrich on Sat, 22nd Apr 2017 3:43 am
There are increasingly loud whispers about contacts between Russians and the Taliban. Moscow of course denies any such rapprochement between the two former enemies. Clearly, politics would make very strange bedfellows in this case.
But any outside viewer knows that the denials are almost certainly false. So one must ask why such events are occurring.
To begin with, the standard propaganda creeping out of the Pentagon’s mouth about evil Russians committing grave crimes in opposing American “interests” is to be ignored. The Yankee-Zionist “Deep State” (never mind its puppet, the mainstream media) is so corrupt that it has no credibility whatsoever.
So why, then, is this surprising operation going on?
One explanation is that Russia needs the Taliban to help in blocking Islamist fanaticism spreading into ex-Soviet states bordering Russia itself. That is unquestionably one motive.
But there is another one. Firstly, it is clear to all and sundry onlookers that the U.S. adventure in A-stan is a complete failure. After something like two-and-a-half thousand U.S. military deaths there, plus 20,000 wounded, plus over a thousand military contractors killed; after sixteen years of futile war against stone-age tribesmen; after $4 trillion flushed down the international commode into corrupt Afghan, Pakistani and other local pockets; after countless disastrous blunders by Presidents G.W. Bush and Mr. Negro for political reasons and due to culpable ignorance and just plain stupidity; after all of these things and more, the world can see that the United States is nearing the end of its global hegemony.
As opposed to our overlords in D.C., Hymietown and Jerusalem, the Russians under Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, having been taught by a thousand years of dire hardship and great suffering, show profound wisdom in their understanding of international politics and history. They can see that Yankeedom is invincibly ignorant of the fact that it is in a religious war that, due to its own inner contradictions, it cannot possibly win.
President Putin is a man of spectacular intelligence and ability. By comparison, the U.S. of past decades has been led by psychopathic individuals consumed with their own grandiosity and without vision. They imagine that, by contradicting nature and using the dying, myth-based, teary-eyed preachery of Judaeo-Christiandom along with overwhelming military force, they can compel the world to conform to their own phantasmagorical utopias in which a stupidifying humanity happily regresses to a mixed-race jungle.
In contrast, Mr. Putin is a master at international chess. Attacked by U.S. “sanctions” aimed at crippling his economy, he is using asymmetrical countermeasures. As part of the Anglo-Zionist world-conquest game fails in Afghanistan, he is doing to the U.S. what the U.S. did to the Soviet Union there in the 1980s: turning the populace against its occupier — an occupier which is now a Washington-directed invasion force.
The generals of that force are becoming desperate. Recently they used a big bomb (the “MOAB”) to kill about 36 ISIS fighters in Afghanistan, hoping that that would send a Yankee “message” to those who would dare oppose the supernation. But the only effect of this semaphore will have, will be to intensify resistance. The savagery in that land will increase, not to mention that the fury of the Mohammedanists globally will increase concomitantly, resulting in ever more attempts to infiltrate and destroy the West in general and the United States in particular. Vladimir Putin knows this, and is joining the side which will win in the end. By sending medical supplies and munitions to the Taliban, he is ingratiating himself to that side.
And when Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, falls, the U.S. will experience its second Vietnam-like defeat to a backward land. The consequences of that will be to shrink the Imperium Judæorum down to size. Which will very likely mean its collapse.
Cloggie on Sat, 22nd Apr 2017 4:05 am
The US used the Taliban to get the Soviets out of Afghanistan. Russia now uses the same Taliban to get the US out of Afghanistan. Are they going to succeed? You bet.
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2017/02/16/russia-openly-aligns-afghan-taliban-says-u-s-military-presence-disturbing/
This was Afghanistan before it was ruined by the Soviets and their shabby communism or the Americans and their shabby 7th century hired Taliban guns.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3404803/Life-Taliban-Fascinating-photographs-idyllic-Afghanistan-1960s-residents-free-enjoy-outdoor-picnics-colourful-markets.html
This secular Afghanistan will not return, mourn and weep. The Sunny Muslim world after a century of secularism is now returning to the 7th century under the inspiring leadership of Caliph Erdogan.
Samuel Huntington was right once again.
Davy on Sat, 22nd Apr 2017 7:17 am
“Donald Trump has ‘dangerous mental illness’, say psychiatry experts at Yale conference”
That is the pot calling the kettle black. Please show me what sanity is today. If you do then I will show you it is part of the insanity. Do not mistake a clinical condition with a social fabric based on deception and denial. Experts are part of this and academia is promoting it.
twocats on Sat, 22nd Apr 2017 1:29 pm
two naive assumptions running through the thread of comments:
1) that you could hold or run for major political office without having a shit-ton of details on framing topics that would need to be kept secret. sorry to dash your dreams makati.
2) that strategically unveiling these dark secrets in the middle of a campaign would not work to heavily propagandize a population. esp. against a candidate that had already been so heavily targeted by one of the greatest propaganda campaigns in modern history (against clintons in general).
not a clinton fan, but I’m just saying that as far as conspiracy theories go, this one has quite a lot smoke. i’d say some version of the russian campaign is even more believable than most versions of 9/11 conspiracy.