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Thread @The_War_Economy More (1) "SPYFALL" There is an origin story for everything. And so, to understand the origins of SpyGate, we must first go back a few years.


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    1.  23 hours ago
      (2) There is an origin story for everything. And so, to understand the origins of SpyGate, we must first go back a few years.
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    2.  23 hours ago
      (3) In mid-2000, the energy company Enron in Houston, TX had a stock price of $90.75, only for it to plummet by the end of November 2001 to less than $1, and end up in bankruptcy on December 2, 2001.

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    3.  23 hours ago
      (4) One of the people in charge of Enron, Jeffrey Skilling, was reached out to on August 7, 2001 by Christopher James, who co-founded a little known organisation named Hakluyt & Co..
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    4.  23 hours ago
      (5) Now, Hakluyt & Co. is an intelligence organisation - parent company Holdingham Group Limtied - which features many retired spies and powerful, well-connected individuals, with a history of spying on environmental campaigners.

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    5.  23 hours ago
      (6) Hakluyt & Co. has associated companies, such as Hakluyt Cyber and Pelorus Research. They focus on intelligence services around the world, and all have offices based in London.

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    6.  23 hours ago
      (7) However, the fall of Enron led to the US Department of Justice forming the Enron Task Force on January 9, 2002, initially led by Leslie Caldwell, and featuring other familiar faces, such as Lisa Monaco, Andrew Weissmann, James Comey, Christopher Wray and Robert Mueller.

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    7.  23 hours ago
      (8) Even one of Michael Avenatti's partners at Eagan Avenatti LLP, Andrew Stopler, was on the Enron Task Force, although Stopler only worked at Eagan Avenatti LLP from November 2014 to May 2016.

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    8.  23 hours ago
      (9) The Enron Task Force would last a few years and would become known as the most complex white collar case the Federal Bureau of Investigation ever did.
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      (10) At its conclusion, agents in the Enron Task Force were all given honours at the US Department of Justice's Annual Awards Ceremony in September 2006. Others attended for separate reasons, including Aaron Zebley, David Laufman and Sally Yates.

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    10.  23 hours ago
      (11) A few years after this, after Lockheed Martin, James Comey went to work at Bridgewater Associates, where he was soon joined by James A. Baker (who was very well known by Lawfare Blog).

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    11.  23 hours ago
      (12) Meanwhile, Robert Mueller, Director of the FBI, would run through a number of Chiefs of Staff, including John P. Carlin, Lisa Monaco and Aaron Zebley.

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    12.  23 hours ago
      (13) Eventually, in 2013, Robert Mueller and James Comey would do a switcheroo, as Mueller retired after 10 years to be replaced as Director of the FBI by Comey.
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    13.  22 hours ago
      (14) Then you have John Brennan, the former President of the Analysis Corporation, which was a subsidiary of Global Defense Technology & Systems Inc. (later renamed Sotera Defense Solutions), based in McLean, VA and founded in 1990.

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    14.  22 hours ago
      (15) The Analysis Corporation ran into trouble during the 2008 Presidential election when they hacked into the passport information for Barack Obama, John McCain and Hillary Clinton. This was while Brennan was on candidate Obama's advisory staff.

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    15.  22 hours ago
      (16) While initially working as Homeland Security Advisor for Obama, Brennan took over the CIA after David Petreaus was told to resign by ODNI's Clapper after having an affair with a reporter, Paula Broadwell.

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    16.  22 hours ago
      (17) Brennan left the Homeland Security Advisor position to Monaco and became the CIA Director, where it was soon embroiled in scandal for hacking into a Senate network used by Congressional staffers connected to researching the CIA's torture program.

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    17.  22 hours ago
      (18) Senator Dianne Feinstein's staffer, Daniel J. Jones, led the inquiry into the CIA's torture program, which led to a change in the CIA's behaviour and was a career maker for Jones.

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    18.  22 hours ago
      (19) Daniel Jones later went on to join The Daschle Group, Human Rights First and founded his own organisation, the Penn Quarter Group.

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    19.  22 hours ago
      (20) Now, Stefan Halper (CIA's Ray Cline's son-in-law) is a professor at Cambridge University's POLIS department, and an integral part of the Cambridge Security Initiative and the Cambridge Intelligence Seminars.

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    20.  22 hours ago
      (21) Stefan Halper is a well-travelled man.

      On March 25, 2013, Stefan Halper visited the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) Staff College in Tokyo, Japan. …
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    21.  22 hours ago
      (22) Halper also has an extensive history with both the CIA and MI6.

      A BLITZ ON STEFAN HALPER
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    22.  22 hours ago
      (23) Halper has written numerous books and thanked a lot of people in them, including Christopher James, the founder of Hakluyt & Co. (courtesy of ).

      ✔️Links to CIA/FBI ✔️Links to MI6 ✔️…
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    23.  22 hours ago
      (24) Halper has even attended a conference back in October 2010 with Alexander Downer, who himself was a part of Hakluyt & Co. at the time.

      Literally just a picture of Stefan Halper and Alexander Downer from 2010 with an associated video.
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    24.  22 hours ago
      (25) At the Cambridge Intelligence Seminar in 2013, Stefan Halper would meet Svetlana Lokhova. Halper and Lokhova would later attend the Cambridge Intelligence Seminar in February 2014, where he would meet DIA's Michael Flynn.

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    25.  22 hours ago
      (26) A few months later, DIA's Flynn was pushed out of his position by ODNI's Clapper, obstinately for budgetary reasons. Flynn announced his retirement in April 2014, then left on August 7, 2014.

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    26.  22 hours ago
      (27) Then there's Christopher Steele, a former MI6 spy who spent time in Moscow for a few years before being forced to leave in the 90's, who later set up Orbis Business Intelligence in 2009 with another former MI6 spy, Christopher Burrows.

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    27.  22 hours ago
      (28) Steele worked investigations, including the FIFA investigation (he was used as a source for a Times article), and Project Charlemagne, researching Russian interference into countries' elections, which matched the Internet Research Agency's actions.

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    28.  22 hours ago
      (29) Steele already had extensive working relationships with many people in the US Governments and their associates, including Jonathan Winer and Strobe Talbott (Cody Shearer's brother-in-law).

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    29.  22 hours ago
      (30) Back in his Oxford University days, Bill Clinton studied with both Strobe Talbott and Stefan Halper (Clinton / Halper connection courtesy of ).

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    30.  22 hours ago
      (31) Information on Jonathan Winer can be found here:

      JONATHAN M WINER
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      Amazing research. Thank you for doing this.
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