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kentuck

(111,094 posts)
Wed Mar 28, 2018, 06:37 PM Mar 2018

"Person A" is a Russian spy?

I was very interested in the first topic covered by Ari and his panel. A couple of lady reporters were discussing one of their articles in the NY Times. ( https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/28/us/politics/rick-gates-trump-campaign-russian-intelligence.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news )

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The campaign official, Rick Gates, had frequent phone calls in September and October 2016 with a person the F.B.I. believes had active links to Russian spy services at the time, the document said. Mr. Gates also told an associate the person “was a former Russian Intelligence Officer with the G.R.U.,” the Russian military intelligence agency.

The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, is investigating numerous contacts between President Trump’s advisers and Russia-linked individuals and entities leading up to and after the November 2016 election. The document, filed in Mr. Mueller’s name, stated that the communications between Mr. Gates and the individual were “pertinent to the investigation.”

The individual is identified only as “Person A,” and the document describes him as someone who worked for Mr. Gates and Paul Manafort, Mr. Trump’s campaign chairman, as part of their earlier representation of Russia-aligned parties and politicians in Ukrainian, including the former president of Ukraine. A person with knowledge of the matter identified Person A as Konstantin V. Kilimnik, who for years was Mr. Manafort’s right-hand man in Ukraine.



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"Person A" is a Russian spy? (Original Post) kentuck Mar 2018 OP
...was a former Russian Intelligence Officer with the G.R.U... Snarkoleptic Mar 2018 #1
I think that is the word on the street... kentuck Mar 2018 #2

Snarkoleptic

(5,997 posts)
1. ...was a former Russian Intelligence Officer with the G.R.U...
Wed Mar 28, 2018, 06:56 PM
Mar 2018

I've a feeling that the only 'former Russian Intelligence Officer' is one that Putin has permanently 'retired'.

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