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"BLACK CUBE"More fabulous reporting from Ronan Farrow at The New Yorker:
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/israeli-operatives-that-aided-harvey-weinstein-collected-information-on-former-obama-administration-officials
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In June, 2017, Ann Norris, a former State Department official, received an e-mail containing an unusual proposal. Norris is married to Ben Rhodes, a former foreign-policy adviser to President Barack Obama and a prominent advocate of the Iran nuclear deal. In the e-mail, a woman who introduced herself as Eva Novak and claimed to work for a London-based film company called Shell Productions asked Norris to consult on a movie that she described as All the Presidents Men meets The West Wing : it would follow the personal lives of government officials in the positions that determine war and Peace during times of geopolitical crisis, including nuclear negotiations with a hostile nation. Recalling the exchange, Ann Norris said that she found Eva Novaks request bizarre, and that she never responded.
The e-mail appears to be part of an undercover campaign by an Israeli private-intelligence firm to discredit Obama officials who had been leading proponents of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. The campaign was first reported, on Saturday, by the British newspaper the Observer. However, sources familiar with the effort and pages of documents obtained by The New Yorker reveal that there is more to understand. Two of those sources told me on Sunday that the operation was carried out by Black Cubea firm that was also employed by Harvey Weinstein and that offers its clients access to operatives from Israels élite military and governmental intelligence units, including the Mossad.
A month before Norris received her e-mail, Rebecca Kahl, a former program officer at the National Democratic Institute and the wife of the former Obama Administration foreign-policy adviser Colin Kahl, had also received a puzzling e-mail. A woman named Adriana Gavrilo claimed to be the head of corporate social responsibility at Reuben Capital Partners, a London-based wealth-management firm. Gavrilo told Kahl that her firm was launching an initiative on education and that she wanted to meet to discuss the school that Kahls daughter attended, at which Kahl volunteered. Kahl referred Gavrilo to school staff members, but Gavrilo repeatedly refused to speak to anyone but her. Gavrilos firm would not be able to make the necessary due diligence on the school employees, she wrote. Rebecca Kahl, who said she worried Im strangely a target of some sort, eventually stopped responding to Gavrilo.
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Israeli Operatives Who Aided Harvey Weinstein Collected Information on Former Obama Admin Officials (Original Post)
CousinIT
May 2018
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(9,241 posts)1. The title of the article leaves out most important point: THEY WERE HIRED BY DONALD J. TRUMP. n/t