Perhaps to them, the former intelligence agent is not a traitor.
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The wife is choking a Pakistani intelligence agent in a pool.
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Asahi Shimbun reported that the US national was a Korean-American intelligence agent.
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Proving the authenticity of this British intelligence agent might be a more difficult task.
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The world is a more dangerous place now than when I was an intelligence agent.
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Toyota has introduced the concept "LQ" car that comes with an artificial intelligence agent, Yui.
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Fusion GPS contracted with Christopher Steele, and ex-British intelligence agent, to produce the dossier.
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A former British intelligence agent reportedly authored the document as opposition research for Trump's political adversaries.
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Ohr was also in touch with former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele prior to the 2016 election.
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You should be wondering why an intelligence agent was hiding with a camera in the second bedroom.
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Cybersecurity expert James Bamford speculated in a Reuters op-ed that it is likely a disgruntled intelligence agent.
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Putin, a former Russian intelligence agent, is known to come to high-profile meetings like this well-prepared.
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After the 2013 sentencing, the ex-intelligence agent changed her name to Chelsea Manning and identified as transgender.
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And his approach was prompted by information he got from his friend, the former British intelligence agent Steele.
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Among the evidence presented was a controversial dossier compiled in 2016 by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele.
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A dossier written by a foreign friendly named Christopher Steele, a retired MI6 intelligence agent from Great Britain.
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LONDON — Vladimir V. Putin's time as a Soviet intelligence agent in East Germany is largely shrouded in secrecy.
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A hallmark conservation bill is passed by the Senate; charges against a former US Air Force intelligence agent.
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Mr Flynn amassed a stellar reputation as an intelligence agent, when he had a defined mission to carry out.
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Along the way, Freed introduces Rebel pilots from all corners of the galaxy, recruited by intelligence agent Caern Adan.
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Later, the analyst's new friend -- an apparent foreign intelligence agent -- clumsily tries to get him to share work information.
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There I met the German intelligence agent who had debriefed Mr. Sarfo soon after his arrest in July 2015.
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Patten had a "long friendship" with a Russian intelligence agent Konstantin Kilimnik, The Atlantic's Natasha Bertrand reported in April.
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A statement announcing the sanctions also identified him as the supervisor of the intelligence agent who led that operation.
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Fusion GPS then hired Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence agent, who used Russian sources to compile his dossier.
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The dossier was authored by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, who was hired by opposition research firm Fusion GPS.
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A military intelligence agent told Reuters he was instructed to monitor Ko Ni in the months before the lawyer's death.
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He was not even Alexander Litvinenko, the former Russian intelligence agent murdered in London in 2006 on Vladimir Putin's orders.
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The memos' author, Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence agent, has not agreed to meet with investigators or the senators.
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Training an artificial intelligence agent to do something like navigate a complex 3D world is computationally expensive and time-consuming.
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Grant plays Roger Thornhill, an adman who is mistaken for an intelligence agent and finds himself running for his life.
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The key to her current situation turns out to be her role, in the 1980s, as an F.B.I. intelligence agent.
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The president's trip was mentioned in a dossier, parts of which are unconfirmed, compiled by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele.
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Mr Anderson says that "for a seasoned [Russian intelligence] agent to come up against a guy like Trump's kid, it's nirvana."
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"Most drugs are [still] transported via vehicle past the border in small loads," one DEA intelligence agent said through a spokesman.
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Holt had traveled to the country to marry a Venezuelan woman but was arrested there and charged as an intelligence agent.
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Although some reports have suggested he was an intelligence agent, his main qualification appears to be that he resembled Mr. Khashoggi.
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The spy thriller, which pits Oh's British intelligence agent against a dangerous and unhinged assassin named Villanelle (Jodie Comer), debuted last April.
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The report itself was apparently compiled by a former British intelligence agent "whose past work US intelligence officials consider credible," CNN says.
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He previously worked with Cambridge Analytica during the 2014 election cycle, and had a "long relationship" with Russian intelligence agent Konstantin Kilimnik.
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The lab recently launch edits first product, the IBM Learning Lab, which helps developers leverage IBM tech like artificial intelligence agent Watson.
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The Republicans also take aim at the opposition research dossier compiled on Trump and Russia by ex-British intelligence agent Christopher Steele.
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A former CIA agent was convicted by a jury in Virginia on Friday of giving classified secrets to a Chinese intelligence agent.
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Another was an Afghan intelligence agent who bragged on Facebook that he had the honor of striking the fatal blow against her.
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The dossier was commissioned as opposition research by political opponents of then-candidate Trump and compiled by a former British intelligence agent.
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Through its protagonist, a black FBI intelligence agent, the book tackles the complexities of living in America as a woman of color.
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In the DC case, there's a superseding indictment charging him with conspiracy to obstruct justice, along with a suspected Russian intelligence agent.
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"I can confirm that we are carrying out an investigation into intelligence agent activity," said Markus Schmitt, spokesman for German federal prosecutors.
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BuzzFeed itself notes errors in the dossier and does not name the former British intelligence agent who compiled it for Trump's political opponents.
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The dossier was compiled by a former British intelligence agent, Christopher Steele, who was gathering damaging information about President Trump and his associates.
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In his Saturday tweet, Trump accused the late senator of spreading the memos, written in 2016 by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele.
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It's in this light that the attempted murder of the former Russian intelligence agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia should be understood.
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LONDON — Christopher Steele, the former British intelligence agent who prepared the dossier on Donald J. Trump's supposed activities in Russia, has gone underground.
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Mr. Gubarev's lawyers have also filed a lawsuit in Britain against the former intelligence agent who compiled the report and his consulting company.
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Snowden&aposs book details how a dedicated intelligence agent and son of a military family become the most-notorious leaker of the century.
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She was working as a secretary in Cairo when she was recruited in 1951 by an Israeli intelligence agent to the secret Unit 131.
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Trump's allies in the House have said the FBI based its probe on a controversial dossier compiled by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele.
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"I regret I didn't know about Christopher Steele's hiring pre-election," he tweeted, referring to the former British intelligence agent who authored the dossier.
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Then, in June, 2013, the former intelligence agent Edward Snowden arrived in Moscow, and it seemed possible that he would continue on to Cuba.
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Details from the dossier, compiled by ex-British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, were used in part to justify the warrant to spy on Page.
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Nellie Ohr worked as a contractor for Fusion GPS, the research firm that hired ex-British intelligence agent Christopher Steele to compile the dossier.
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Through Viktor, he discovers that Tova Rivlin (Hadar Ratzon-Rotem), an Israeli intelligence agent, is off the leash and meeting with Dar in New York.
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Christopher Steele, the former British intelligence agent who collected the intelligence for the dossier; his business partner, Christopher Burrows; and their firm Orbis Business Intelligence.
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The report, which sources believe came from a former British intelligence agent, claims Trump has been "supported" and "cultivated" by the Russian government for years.
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"Wherever I go in the world, there is a growing Chinese presence," said John Cassara, a former financial intelligence agent at the U.S. Treasury Department.
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In 2015 he took part in action film, Suspended Death, which he co-produced and starred in as an intelligence agent rescuing a kidnapped businessman.
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Among the evidence presented by the Justice Department for the warrant was a controversial dossier compiled in 2016 by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele.
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Republicans have said the FBI improperly relied on details from the dossier compiled by ex-British intelligence agent Christopher Steele when applying for the warrant.
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In fact it is and was quite predictable given the fact that Putin was the author of this intervention and a former intelligence agent himself.
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The State Department didn't impose an expected second round of sanctions related to the March 2018 poisoning in Britain of a former Russian intelligence agent.
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It is a 35-page collection of research memos written by Christopher Steele, a respected former British intelligence agent, primarily during the 2016 presidential campaign.
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Page first came to their attention in an investigation of Russian intelligence agent Evgeny Buryakov, who allegedly tried to use Page as a source of information.
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Buryakov complied with this request, allowing the U.S. government to record hours of conversations among Russian intelligence agent between January and May 2013, the documents reveal.
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By 1951, an Israeli intelligence agent, Avraham Dar, was in Cairo working with the Mossad, the Israeli spy agency, to recruit young men for Unit 131.
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Other contacts were initiated by Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) officials, an Australian intelligence agent, an Australian diplomat, an Israeli diplomat and British diplomats, Papadopoulos told me.
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A former British intelligence agent, Christopher Steele, suggested in his dossier that there was a prurient bedroom scene at Mr. Trump's hotel videotaped by Russian intelligence.
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In court documents unsealed Monday, a former Syrian intelligence agent alleges an informant told the Damascus government about Colvin's location the night before she was killed.
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His father was a Soviet intelligence agent in Tehran posing as a merchant, and Gevork — code-named Amir — began working for Soviet intelligence as a teenager.
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The dossier, which was compiled by a former British intelligence agent during the 2016 campaign, contained a number of salacious allegations about Trump's ties to Russia.
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The unverified report published late Tuesday was allegedly prepared by a former British intelligence agent paid initially by anti-Trump Republicans and then by Democrats, CNN reported.
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Fact: Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort maintained close ties with his longtime business associate, a former Russian officer investigated in Ukraine of being a Russian intelligence agent.
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The dossier, compiled by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, detailed efforts by Russia to coordinate with the Trump campaign to meddle in the 2016 presidential election.
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A familiar face: Germany released an old Stasi ID card that belonged to a young Vladimir Putin when he was a Soviet intelligence agent in East Germany.
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Stone was already reportedly in Mueller's crosshairs before it came to light Thursday that he was admittedly in contact with a Russian intelligence agent during the campaign.
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The dossier -- portions of which remain unconfirmed -- was commissioned as opposition research by political opponents of then-candidate Trump and compiled by a former British intelligence agent.
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Specifically, the application included allegations about Mr. Page contained in a dossier compiled by Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence agent whose research was funded by Democrats.
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Baratov's lawyers said the indictment only presented evidence of Baratov receiving $104.20 into his PayPal account from a Russian intelligence agent for breaking into seven email accounts.
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Thomas Perry raises that question in THE OLD MAN (Mysterious Press, $26) by forcing a retired intelligence agent to run for his life using obsolete survival techniques.
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But before declaring a theory true, any good intelligence agent would complete the final step: "Red teaming," or a way of using an outsider's perspective to hack biases.
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CNN—which had the report but didn't publish it—is saying that it was prepared by a former British intelligence agent, funded by "anti-Trump Republicans" and Democrats.
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The James Bond film franchise has entertained audiences across the world since the early '60s with the heroic exploits of the British intelligence agent popularly known as 007.
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After that finishes, Comey stays behind for a one-on-one meeting to tell Trump about a dossier by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele containing salacious allegations.
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In 2005, Alexander Litvinenko, a Russian intelligence agent who defected to London, recorded an interview with investigators detailing his inside knowledge of the Kremlin's ties to organized crime.
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Republicans have alleged the FBI improperly relied on details from the dossier compiled by ex-British intelligence agent Christopher Steele to apply for the warrant to wiretap Page.
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The real purpose of the arrest became clear a few hours later, when the intelligence agent who had arrested Javad, along with his boss, came to Javad's cell.
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To obtain a warrant to spy on someone like Mr. Page, an American citizen, investigators must show probable cause that he is working as a foreign intelligence agent.
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It also cited the disappearance of what may have been key evidence, such as emails or call logs of a military intelligence agent who destroyed his mobile phone.
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In it, Simon Kovalic is an intelligence agent for the Commonwealth of Independent Systems, which has been engaged in a sort of cold war with the Illyrican Empire.
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For example, the applications included allegations about Mr. Page contained in a dossier compiled by Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence agent whose research was funded by Democrats.
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"So it might have been the name of an intelligence agent which we protected until we thought that they probably would no longer be with us," Tunheim said.
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Encrypting your communication isn't a matter of hiding criminal activity; it's a matter of ensuring innocuous activity can't be deemed suspicious by a zealous prosecutor or intelligence agent.
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That report contradicted claims by several Republican lawmakers that the FBI probe was based on a controversial opposition research dossier authored by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele.
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On Twitter on Friday morning, Mr. Trump again brought up the unsubstantiated, explosive dossier that a retired British intelligence agent compiled from information that he said Russia possesses.
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Revisit another one of his acclaimed roles from 37 years ago, in which he plays an Israeli intelligence agent working to smuggle Jews out of the Soviet Union.
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Page was also named in the dossier compiled by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele and used to brief then-president Obama and then-president-elect Trump in January.
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According to Claude Moniquet, a former Belgian intelligence agent and co-founder of the European Strategic Intelligence and Security Center, poverty and segregation are feeding extremism in the area.
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The memo also takes aim at Christopher Steele, the former British intelligence agent behind a controversial opposition research dossier that formed part of the surveillance warrant application for Page.
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The source — a former undercover intelligence agent who now works as a contractor for the Israeli government —spoke on condition of anonymity due to his past work in intelligence.
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He pointed to a new court filing by Mueller alleging that former Trump campaign adviser Richard Gates was knowingly in contact with a Russian intelligence agent during the campaign.
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The dossier, which was compiled by a firm called Fusion GPS and a former M16 British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, contains several allegations about Trump's business ties to Russia.
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Skripal bought the house under his own name for $130,000 with no mortgage in 2011, a year after the former Russian military intelligence agent was granted asylum in Britain.
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Weeks earlier, it had rocketed to notoriety as the source of the so-called Steele Dossier — a report by a former intelligence agent containing salacious allegations against Mr. Trump.
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People working for the opposition party found an intelligence agent holed up in a studio apartment in Seoul, from where she had been spreading conservative propaganda on the internet.
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The tweet appeared to refer to the unverified dossier of Trump's ties to Russia, authored by a former British intelligence agent and reportedly provided to BuzzFeed by McCain's office.
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"Our guys have been after her, by all means, but she is not traceable," said a Pakistani intelligence agent who spoke on the condition of anonymity, citing intelligence protocols.
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Grassley responded by explaining his rationale for issuing a criminal referral for Christopher Steele, the former British intelligence agent behind a dossier of unverified allegations linking Trump to Russia.
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Along with Trump Jr. and Veselnitskaya, the meeting attendees included Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, then-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and an alleged former Soviet intelligence agent.
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The memo, which was written by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele and backed by the firm Fusion GPS, included unverified allegations about Trump that linked him to Russia.
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Like a good intelligence agent, it manages to project its own false identity: When Samuel Townsend bought the house in 1738, it was a two-story, four-room structure.
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According to Serpas, the person who initially ran New Orleans' social network analysis from 2013 through 2015 was Jeff Asher, a former intelligence agent who joined NOPD from the CIA.
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The dossier, which was compiled by ex-British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, has been at the center of the political firestorm over probes into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
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Congressional Republicans have also submitted referrals to the Justice Department related to the various congressional Russia investigations, including for ex-British intelligence agent Christopher Steele and former Trump attorney Michael Cohen.
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Researchers are hoping that Minecraft's "digital playpen" can at least offer them a low-cost sandbox where they can teach the artificial intelligence agent to deal with complex decisions and consequences.
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The dossier is described as a collection of "unverified allegations" compiled by ex-British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, a former FBI source who was terminated by the bureau in fall 2016.
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Those documents cite allegations in a dossier compiled in 2016 by a former British intelligence agent that Page met with two senior Russian representatives during a trip to Moscow that year.
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Trump addressed the special counsel spokesman's statement Friday night on Twitter, referencing how BuzzFeed had published a dossier in 2016 of uncorroborated intelligence compiled by ex-British intelligence agent Christopher Steele.
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Prosecutors said that, while posted in Spain, Mr. Skripal had entered into a business partnership with a Spanish intelligence agent, who "bumped" him to a recruiter from Britain's foreign intelligence service.
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She noted that Mr. Gates revealed that Mr. Manafort had transferred confidential campaign polling data to a suspected Russian intelligence agent so he could share it with Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs.
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A Munich judge on Thursday found the 20143-year-old German former intelligence agent guilty of treason and leaking official secrets, sentencing him to eight years behind bars, Deutsche Welle reported.
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Patten has ties to Konstantin Kilimnik, the suspected Russian intelligence agent who in June was charged with Manafort for trying to tamper with potential witnesses against Manafort in pending criminal cases.
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Siti Aisyah's lawyer, Gooi Soon Seng, had questioned Wan Azirul on a May 2017 report in the Japanese daily, Asahi Shimbun, that Kim had met a U.S. intelligence agent in Langkawi.
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While working as a counterterrorism intelligence agent for the US Air Force in Africa, tracking Joseph Kony and the Lord's Resistance Army, Lieutenant Colonel Faye Cuevas wasn't particularly interested in elephants.
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Nevertheless, that doesn't mean any traces of past (or possibly present) relationships don't exist (she might play a British intelligence agent, but not even she has the power to scrub the internet).
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Grassley has also gone after Steele, the ex-British intelligence agent who was hired by Fusion GPS to write the opposition research dossier on Trump and Russia, when he and GOP Sen.
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In Hitchcock's "Notorious" (1946), a seemingly worthless party girl (Ingrid Bergman) goes to work after the war for an American intelligence agent (Cary Grant) and penetrates a dangerous Nazi circle in Brazil.
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In late February of this year, The New York Times ran a lead article in the Sunday edition questioning whether Kostya was just a hustling political operative or a Russian intelligence agent.
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The allegation was included in a dossier -- portions of which remain unconfirmed -- that was commissioned as opposition research during the 2016 election and compiled by a former British intelligence agent, Christopher Steele.
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Page admits talking to an undercover Russian spy but said he did not realize that the man was an intelligence agent at the time and that he did not share anything sensitive.
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Simpson's interviews have emerged as a significant element of the Russia investigation thanks to the political fight over the dossier on Trump and Russia compiled by ex-British intelligence agent Christopher Steele.
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Page admits talking to the undercover Russian spy but said he did not realize that the man was an intelligence agent at the time and that he did not share anything sensitive.
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The memo is said to stress that the application used information from a former British intelligence agent, Christopher Steele, without adequately explaining to the judge that his research was financed by Democrats.
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One Western analyst who positively identified the photographs after years of regular contact with Kilimnik told VICE News he was certain the man he'd been speaking to was a Russian intelligence agent.
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The Guardian revealed early last month that one of Nunes' longtime aides secretly dispatched two congressional GOP staffers to London in hopes of locating the dossier's author, former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele.
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Russia faced widespread criticism and increased sanctions after it was determined that the Kremlin ordered the poisoning of Sergei Skripal, a former Russian intelligence agent, and his daughter in March in Salisbury, England.
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Strzok refused to answer questions as Jordan repeatedly pressed him on his knowledge of the controversial dossier compiled by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele containing unverified claims about Trump's links to Russia.
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The dossier is a compilation of memos by a former British intelligence agent, working for Trump political opponents, that describe an effort by the Russian government to find weak points to exploit Trump.
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The FBI used information from a highly controversial dossier, written by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, alleging Page met with Russian officials and that the Kremlin has compromising information on the president.
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Mr. Cohen was named in connection with Russian efforts to interfere in the election in an unverified dossier, paid for by Mr. Trump's political opponents and compiled by a former British intelligence agent.
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A slate of reports from multiple outlets have catapulted the once-anonymous intelligence agent into the political maelstrom over what Republicans say is a woeful double standard of political bias at the FBI.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Czech authorities have arrested and extradited to Germany a Vietnamese intelligence agent suspected of involvement in the kidnapping of a Vietnamese businessman in Berlin last month, German prosecutors said on Thursday.
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A dossier of allegations on Trump-Russia contacts, compiled by a former British intelligence agent for Mr. Trump's political opponents, includes unproven claims that his aides collaborated in Russia's hacking of Democratic targets.
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First Words In January, BuzzFeed News published a dossier full of sensational and unverified claims compiled by a former British intelligence agent,which described extensive connections between President Trump and the Russian government.
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The Justice Department last October charged a Chinese intelligence agent, Yanjun Xu, with economic espionage after he recruited a GE Aviation engineer in a relationship that began on LinkedIn, according to the indictment.
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The Justice Department last October charged a Chinese intelligence agent, Yanjun Xu, with economic espionage after he recruited a GE Aviation engineer in a relationship that began on LinkedIn, according to the indictment.
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Last month, though, The Washington Post reported that the FBI reached an agreement with the former British intelligence agent, Christopher Steele, to continue his research — though the deal reportedly never came to fruition.
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Mikhail Petrov Four Russian spies, including an intelligence agent who had sought political asylum and a man accused of trying to hack into government networks, have been captured in Estonia, it has been revealed.
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Back in mid-May, Twitter citizen journalist Polly Sigh posted a short thread on efforts to overturn the Magnitsky Act — ostensibly the focus of the meeting — and a former intelligence agent named Rinat Akhmetshin.
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This would seem to go further than what the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board approved with some reservations in 2014, which described the query as happening when an intelligence agent initiated an assessment.
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The royal court was expected to acknowledge that Mr. Khashoggi was killed in the consulate, and to blame an intelligence agent for botching an operation to interrogate Mr. Khashoggi that ended up killing him.
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Now the dossier — financed by Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National Committee, and compiled by the former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele — is likely to face new, possibly harsh scrutiny from multiple inquiries.
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Simpson and Fusion GPS have been at the center of the political firestorm over the opposition research dossier on Trump and Russia, which Fusion GPS hired ex-British intelligence agent Christopher Steele to compile.
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Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence agent and the author of the now-infamous Steele Dossier, was friendly with Ivanka Trump for years and was "favorably disposed" toward the Trump family because of it.
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According to the memo, the Justice Department failed to disclose that the research contained in the dossier was financed by political sources, and that its author, a former British intelligence agent, was biased against Trump.
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Steele, who had been stationed in Russia as an intelligence agent and had extensive contacts there, prepared a dossier suggesting that the Kremlin had colluded with Trump to help him win the 85033 presidential election.
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The dossier, known by the name of its writer, ex-British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, has been a subject of intense political debate around the investigation into Russian collusion and meddling in the 2016 election.
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Last March, top national security officials gathered inside the White House to discuss with Mr. Trump how to respond to the nerve agent attack in Britain on Sergei V. Skripal, the former Russian intelligence agent.
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His administration refused to share with Congress an urgent whistleblower complaint by an intelligence agent (although sources familiar with the matter say it may be released Wednesday), so we don't yet know the full details.
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The businessman was previously reported to have been one of the sources for the Steele dossier, which was compiled by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele and contains salacious allegations about Trump's ties to Moscow.
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The book says that security camera footage from Kim Jong Nam's last trip to Malaysia showed him in a hotel elevator with an Asian-looking man who was reported to be a U.S. intelligence agent.
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On Thursday, a report from the Daily Beast alleged that the Guccifer 2.0 hacking persona—famous for leaking data stolen from the Democratic National Committee in 2016—has been linked to a GRU Russian intelligence agent.
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British officials on Thursday urged the Russian government to provide information about a chemical attack earlier this year on a former Russian intelligence agent after two British nationals were afflicted by the same substance last week.
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During a recent meeting with Reuters in Johannesburg, a senior Zimbabwean intelligence agent laid out on the table his three battered old Nokia handsets - the price he pays to ensure his movements and messages go undetected.
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Donald W. Keyser, a former senior State Department official, was sentenced to one year in prison in 2007 for concealing a personal relationship with an intelligence agent from Taiwan and keeping classified documents at his home.
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In the memo, Democrats say the FBI's investigation into the Trump campaign was not prompted by an unverified dossier created by ex-British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, and was instead the result of multiple credible leads.
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Like the first, the second turns on a flashback introduced by the adult Paul, who, having been stopped at the French airport, ends up describing his mysterious Soviet trip to a French intelligence agent (André Dussollier).
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The March attack sickened Sergei V. Skripal, a former Russian intelligence agent who had sold information to Britain and was living in Salisbury; his daughter, Yulia S. Skripal, who was visiting from Russia; and Detective Sgt.
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The transcript shows that Simpson said Fusion GPS was investigating Trump's real estate deals and suspicions of money laundering through Russian officials before the firm hired ex-British intelligence agent Christopher Steele to compile the dossier.
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The Nunes memo focuses on the FBI's use of the dossier on Trump and Russia compiled by ex-British intelligence agent Christopher Steele and paid for through Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
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That would include intercepted communications and would not meet the standard for approval if the applications were based largely or entirely on outside information, such as the dossier compiled by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele.
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Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence agent and the author of the now-infamous Steele Dossier, was friendly with Ivanka Trump for years and said he was "favorably disposed" toward the Trump family because of it.
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Judge Alejandro Madrid sentenced the ex-president's doctors, his chauffeur, an army officer and a former intelligence agent to between three and 10 years in jail for the poisoning of Frei in a Santiago clinic in 1982.
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The background of Perez, the apparent ringleader, appeared colorful: Reuters reported that he was involved in a 2015 action film, Suspended Death, which he co-produced and starred in as an intelligence agent rescuing a kidnapped businessman.
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The malware in question was sent by a Ministry of Intelligence agent that had interrogated Pour Ostad, attached as a threat and leveraging private records that would have been available only to someone collaborating with the government.
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The BBC show, which debuted this spring, features our lord and savior Sandra Oh as a relatably bumbling and neurotic British Intelligence agent name Eve Polastri who is trying to track down a serial killer named Villanelle.
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Prosecutors said Mallory, who is fluent in Mandarin, travelled to Shanghai in March and April 2017 to meet with Michael Yang, an employee of a Chinese think tank who Mallory believed to be a Chinese intelligence agent.
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Ohr works in the criminal division of the Justice Department, but within some conservative circles, he is considered a dirty official who knew about former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele and the salacious dossier Steele helped create.
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By relying on a dossier prepared by a former British intelligence agent, Christopher Steele, but hiding from the court that Mr. Steele's work was being funded by Democrats, including Hillary Clinton's campaign, and thus was hopelessly biased.
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" McCabe said it was "certainly possible" that Byrne volunteered information about Butina to the FBI, but disputed the claim that agents would have told Byrne to "engage in a romantic relationship with a suspected Russian intelligence agent.
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Administration officials are saying privately that a preventive military attack is "not on the table," said Bruce Klingner, a veteran intelligence agent who works as a senior research fellow for northeast Asia at the influential Heritage Foundation.
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John McCain who had met with former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele -- sent a letter to the House Intelligence Committee accusing the committee's Republicans of leaking information about Kramer's December testimony to the attorney of another witness.
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The former British intelligence agent at the center of the maelstrom over a 35-page dossier about Donald Trump and the Russians is named Christopher Steele, but an ex-colleague refers to him by a more familiar moniker.
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A former counter-intelligence agent, Gilmore served as governor of Virginia from 1998 to 2002 -- after stepping down as state attorney general to focus on his campaign -- and spent 2001 as the chairman of the Republican National Committee.
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But before the German intelligence agent can explain to Quinn why calling her "a good friend," in his apology hurts even more than when he punched her a few hours prior, the real suspicious neighbor shows up shooting.
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McClatchy said in its report that confirmation of the trip would lend credence to a dossier compiled by a former British intelligence agent that alleged Cohen met in Prague with a prominent ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) is permitting the House Intelligence Committee to interview an FBI employee thought to have been the main contact of the former British intelligence agent behind the unverified "Trump dossier," CNN reported on Sunday.
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The U.K. announced today that it would expel 23 Russian diplomats and cut off high-level diplomatic contact with Russia, in response to the attempted assassination in London last week of Sergei Skripal, a former Russian intelligence agent.
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The memo contends that the application used material gathered by Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence agent, without disclosing to the court that the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign financed his work as opposition research.
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This offers a new detail on the sensational question of whether, as claimed in the unverified dossier compiled by a former British intelligence agent, Mr. Trump was caught with prostitutes on video in his Moscow hotel in 2013.
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However, Nicholson's comments were unusually blunt and came in a context of growing tensions between NATO members and Moscow over the case of Sergei Skripal, a former intelligence agent found poisoned with a rare nerve agent in Britain.
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And they are portraying a dossier written by Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence agent, which laid out unverified claims that Russia had compromised Mr. Trump and was conspiring with him, as the fountainhead of the Russia investigation.
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Lindsey Graham issued a classified criminal referral to the Justice Department for the author of the opposition research dossier on Trump and Russia, suggesting ex-British intelligence agent Christopher Steele may have made false statements to federal investigators.
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In the memo, Democrats say the FBI's investigation into Page and the Trump campaign was not prompted by an unverified dossier created by ex-British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, and was rather a result of multiple credible leads.
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That pattern is relaxed in CHAOS (Morrow/HarperCollins, $28.99), which finds Scarpetta at home with her husband, Benton Wesley, a criminal-intelligence agent for the F.B.I., and taking care of business as director of the Cambridge Forensic Center.
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We know from public testimony that dossier author and former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele shared his findings with the FBI in summer and fall 2016 before he was terminated as a confidential source for inappropriate media contacts.
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Unlike the street addicts whose testimony often sends criminal defendants to prison for life, the now-notorious Christopher Steele -- a former British intelligence agent -- appears to be, by comparison, a seasoned professional highly adept at gathering reliable information.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A third man suspected of involvement in the nerve agent poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in England last year is a high-ranking Russian military intelligence agent, the investigative website Bellingcat said on Thursday.
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Earlier this month, Trump himself warned that BuzzFeed News would "suffer the consequences" for having published a dossier of unverified claims, initially compiled by a former British intelligence agent, about the depths of the incoming president's entanglement with Russia.
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CNN reported that senior intelligence officials had presented Trump with the dossier but did not publish the dossier itself, noting that much of it — which was sourced primarily through a retired British intelligence agent — had not yet been confirmed.
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With that challenge in mind, we spoke to Aliza Bran of the International Spy Museum to decipher Swift's recent behavior through the lens of an actual intelligence agent — and determine whether these posts really indicate whether TS27 is imminent.
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The FISA-warrant applications claim that while there he met Igor Sechin, an associate of Vladimir Putin, and Igor Divyekin, a Russian intelligence agent who reportedly dangled the prospect of providing Mr Trump's campaign with dirt on Hillary Clinton.
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In 2017, the Republican-led House Intelligence Committee successfully sued to enforce its subpoena for bank records from Fusion GPS, the firm that hired ex-British intelligence agent Christopher Steele for the opposition research dossier on Trump and Russia.
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Two of these are grand jury efforts to obtain testimony from witnesses -- Manning, the Army intelligence agent-turned-leaker who's central to his case, and, separately, former Roger Stone associate Andrew Miller -- who have information about Assange and Wikileaks.
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It&aposs one month after Christopher Steele, the opposition researcher, British intelligence agent, has been fired by the FBI, the Democrats are still in shock, I assume Lisa Page and Strzok are sorting through their feelings after the election.
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According to CNN, a former British intelligence agent hired by Trump's political opponents put together a 35-page dossier detailing the allegations, which were distilled into a two-page addendum to an intelligence briefing given to Trump last week.
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Trump's allies on Capitol Hill spent almost ten hours interrogating FBI counter-intelligence agent Peter Strzok in a committee hearing on Thursday, relentlessly questioning him over text messages he exchanged with a coworker with whom he had an affair.
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BuzzFeed has published a cache of documents, allegedly compiled by a former British intelligence agent, that claim Donald Trump and his associates have deep ties to Russian spies, and that Russia has "compromising information" about the U.S. president-elect.
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In the fall of 2016, the German actress Nina Hoss followed the American presidential campaign up close: She was in New York, shooting the sixth season of "Homeland," in which she played a fan favorite, the intelligence agent Astrid.
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He's referring, of course, to the dossier produced by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele — which is largely unproven, though some portions have since been verified — accusing him of various collusions with Russia and, of course, the pee tape.
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The memo charges that the opposition research dossier on Trump and Russia written by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele was improperly used to secure a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant on former Trump foreign policy adviser Carter Page.
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The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed sources, identified the dossier's author as Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence agent who in 2009 co-founded London-based Orbis Business Intelligence Ltd, an intelligence firm specializing in Russian and Asian affairs.
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Homeland threw a big curveball at us right at the end of the episode — which was appropriately titled "The Return," since it brought back Astrid (Nina Hoss), a German intelligence agent who also happens to be Quinn's (Rupert Friend) former lover.
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Washington (CNN)For the first time, US investigators say they have corroborated some of the communications detailed in a 35-page dossier compiled by a former British intelligence agent, multiple current and former US law enforcement and intelligence officials tell CNN.
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LONDON, Feb 14 (Reuters) - A third man suspected of involvement in the nerve agent poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in England last year is a high-ranking Russian military intelligence agent, the investigative website Bellingcat said on Thursday.
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The indictment stemming from Robert Mueller's probe into foreign interference in the 2016 election not only lays the blame directly on Russian intelligence officials, as many suspected, but it confirms reports that Guccifer 2.0 himself was indeed a Russian intelligence agent.
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Russia For the first time, US investigators say they have corroborated some of the communications detailed in a 35-page dossier compiled by a former British intelligence agent, multiple current and former US law enforcement and intelligence officials tell CNN.
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The report, according to four sources who have read all or parts of it, was written by the former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, who also wrote the famous dossier alleging that Russia had been "cultivating, supporting and assisting" Donald Trump.
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Gubarev and his companies were named in the dossier on Russian election interference written by Steele, a former British intelligence agent, which linked them with attempts to use cyberattacks to influence the US elections and collude with Donald Trump's campaign.
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"In the real world, it would be like turning a foreign intelligence agent and getting them to work for us ... Something like this should be possible in the cyber world too," Maassen told the committee in its first public hearing.
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In 2016, he was the figure funneling internal Trump polling to an alleged Russian intelligence agent, and one of the figures liaising with fascistic con-man Roger Stone in coordinating events surrounding Wikileaks' dump of Democratic emails, initially swiped by Moscow.
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Nunes' memo, which was cited by President Donald Trump in his attacks on the Mueller investigation, alleges that the author of the dossier, ex-British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, harbored anti-Trump motivations that were not disclosed in the FISA application.
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Judge Alejandro Madrid charged doctor Patricio Silva, chauffeur Luis Becerra, and intelligence agent Raul Lillo of poisoning Eduardo Frei Montalva in a Santiago clinic in 1982, an act apparently instigated by the right-wing dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, court documents showed.
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When he was still FBI chief, Comey briefed Trump on the details of a dossier -- portions of which remain unconfirmed -- that was commissioned as opposition research during the 2016 election and compiled by a former British intelligence agent, Christopher Steele.
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Other people on the list have links to Christopher Steele, the British former intelligence agent who compiled a dossier claiming that the Russian government had compromising information about Mr. Trump and had conspired to hand the 2016 election to him.
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During a preliminary hearing in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the lead prosecutor in the case showed a photo of Butina in a Washington restaurant meeting with someone whom they believe is a Russian intelligence agent.
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The "golden showers" claim, which surfaced in the dossier of unverified opposition research by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, claims Trump ordered two prostitutes to urinate on a bed once used by the Obamas at the Moscow Ritz-Carlton.
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"Many look at how politics is done here, with a tie and a nice car and all the money and they say: 'We can't do that, we don't want to,'" said Yimmy Ríos, 47, a rebel intelligence agent at the settlement.
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WASHINGTON — During the 2016 campaign, Donald J. Trump's second campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, had regular communications with his longtime associate — a former Russian military translator in Kiev who has been investigated in Ukraine on suspicion of being a Russian intelligence agent.
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Among other things, the GOP memo accused the Justice Department of misleading the FISA court by failing to mention the political connections of the dossier's author, ex-British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, to Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
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Republicans accuse the FBI of relying on the opposition research dossier compiled by ex-British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, which was paid for by Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee through their shared law firm Perkins Coie.
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There are also lingering questions about onetime Trump adviser Carter Page, whose name pops up again and again in the unverified and now-infamous dossier about Trump that was prepared by a retired British intelligence agent and later published by BuzzFeed.
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Director Kim Jee-woon's story begins as a fairly typical tale of a grieving intelligence agent (Lee Byung-hun) who decides to take justice into his own hands after the horrific death of his fiancée at the hands of a serial killer.
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In February, US investigators said they had corroborated some details in the 35-page document, compiled by a former British intelligence agent, through intercepted communications, giving some weight to the veracity of at least parts of the document as other allegations are investigated.
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After a string of attacks against high-profile Jewish figures across Europe, she's identified by senior Israeli intelligence agent Martin Kurtz (played by Michael Shannon) as the perfect person to track down the Palestinian kingpin he believes to be behind it all.
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"I was deeply offended to learn that two disgraced FBI agents considered infiltrating our transition team by sending a counter intelligence agent to one of my very first intelligence briefings only 9 days after the election," Pence said in a statement to Axios.
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Help from a former British intelligence agent came in spring 2016, when Simpson and Fritsch sought some more specialized expertise on Russia, and hired an old acquaintance — Christopher Steele, the former premier Russia expert for British intelligence, and now a private investigator.
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He also has called before the committee and threatened to subpoena Glenn Simpson, a co-founder of Fusion GPS, a firm that commissioned former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele to dig up opposition research on Trump, when he was a presidential candidate.
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Mueller's exhaustive 448-page report, which was redacted to conceal information told to the grand jury, classified material, and details about ongoing investigations and third parties, makes only passing mention of the so-called dossier compiled by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele.
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Over eight high-paced episodes, Sandra Oh throws down her Golden Globe-winning performance as Eve Polastri, an indefatigable British intelligence agent hot on the trail of the formidable Villainelle, a chillingly brutal assassin played with frankly terrifying conviction by Jodi Comer.
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Of the four men formerly sentenced to death in the case, three had their sentences reduced to 20 years, including the custodian of the shrine, Zainuddin; the intelligence agent, Sharaf Baghlani; and the defendant who drove his car over Farkhunda's body, Abdul Basheer.
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In addition to the call with Mr. Megahed, three other audio recordings of strikingly similar telephone conversations with the same intelligence agent, Captain Kholi, were all provided to The Times by an intermediary supportive of the Palestinian cause and opposed to President Sisi.
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Sekulow has signaled that the defense team is likely to go after former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden, as well as the Russia investigation into the President and the opposition research dossier from ex-British intelligence agent Christopher Steele.
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The F.B.I. is reviewing an unverified dossier, compiled by a former British intelligence agent and funded by Mr. Trump's political opponents, that claims Mr. Cohen met with a Russian representative in Prague during the presidential campaign to discuss Russia's hacking of Democratic targets.
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Washington is on tenterhooks for the release of the Nunes memo, which Republicans say shows a dossier about Trump and Russia written by a former British intelligence agent was misused to secure a surveillance warrant for former campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page.
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I'm the only United States Army veteran having gone to Europe during the Cold War as United States Army Intelligence agent, the governor during the 9/11 attack, the chairman of the National Commission on Homeland Security for the United States for five years.
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"Anyone from a foreign intelligence agent to a jealous spouse can pretty easily sign up with a large internet advertising company and on a fairly modest budget use these ecosystems to track another individual's behavior," said author Paul Vines, a recent UW doctoral graduate.
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"Je Compte sur Vous" – released in English as "Thank You for Calling" – is based on the exploits of the French-Israeli con man Gilbert Chikli, who engineered rogue payments by phoning companies and pretending to be the firm's CEO or a French intelligence agent.
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Sergei Skripal, a former Russian military intelligence agent who betrayed dozens of Russian agents to British intelligence, and his daughter are fighting for their lives after they were found on March 4 collapsed on a bench, having been poisoned with Novichok, according to British authorities.
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Lawyers for Fusion GPS, a political research firm run by a former Wall Street Journal reporter, wrote to Grassley in April that they could not provide backup documents behind the dossier -- written by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele -- because of client confidentiality agreements.
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Koechlin is one of several actresses this season who serve to fill the void otherwise left by Radhika Apte and Kubra Sait, the others being Amruta Subhash as intelligence agent Kusum Devi Yadav and Surveen Chawla returning as fellow foul-mouthed gangster Jojo Mascarenas.
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The calls for a second special counsel amplified this week after Fox News reported that Bruce Ohr was demoted over 2016 meetings with Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson and Christopher Steele, the ex-British intelligence agent who assembled the dossier on Trump and Russia.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican memo unclassified by President Donald Trump on Friday says an FBI official acknowledged to lawmakers that a dossier compiled by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele was an "essential part" of an application for surveillance of Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
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In a question-and-answer session, Ms. Haspel fielded questions about recent movies she had seen ("Red Sparrow," about a Russian intelligence agent and the C.I.A.), favorite books ("Hillbilly Elegy"), preferred Johnny Cash songs ("Ring of Fire" and "I Walk the Line") and Kentucky whiskey.
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Based on a series of stories by Luke Jennings, "Killing Eve" follows the underachieving British intelligence agent Eve Polastri (the "Grey's Anatomy" alum Sandra Oh, also an associate producer) as she tracks a glamorous, young female assassin known as Villanelle (Jodie Comer) across Europe.
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Some of the president's allies have pushed an unfounded theory that the Maltese-born Mr. Mifsud is a Western intelligence agent possibly under the control of the F.B.I. or C.I.A. whom the deep state officials dispatched as a counterintelligence trap for the Trump campaign.
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The memo spearheaded by House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes accused the FBI of improperly obtaining the FISA warrant by relying on the opposition dossier authored by ex-British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, and hiding the fact he was funded by Democrats and the Clinton campaign.
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He attacked McCain, who died of brain cancer last year, for passing on to the FBI a copy of the Steele Dossier, written by a former British intelligence agent that claimed he was compromised by Russia, and for voting against a bill to replace Obamacare.
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During the Cuban missile crisis, in October 1962, Mr. Bartlett contacted a Russian intelligence agent in Washington, at the request of the president's brother Robert F. Kennedy, then the attorney general, as a back-channel means of conveying the American stance to the Soviet leadership.
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Simpson told the committee in closed-door testimony in August -- which was released publicly on Tuesday -- that he did not know how the FBI would react when ex-British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, the author of the dossier, went to the bureau in July 2016.
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Washington (CNN)Republicans have two new targets in their effort to discredit the dossier on Donald Trump and Russia written by ex-British intelligence agent Christopher Steele: the State Department under President Barack Obama and Sidney Blumenthal, a longtime associate of Bill and Hillary Clinton.
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Her other major scoops included a 1963 article for The Guardian in which she cautiously identified the British intelligence agent Kim Philby as the long-sought "third man" in the ring of Soviet spies then known to include the Englishmen Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess.
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He faces up to 10 years in a penal colony on charges of soliciting a $2 million bribe to approve a major oil deal sought by the state oil giant Rosneft, run by Igor I. Sechin, a Putin ally and former military intelligence agent.
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Grassley has sent a letter to the firm, Fusion GPS, asking for the firm to disclose who funded the dossier, which was compiled by a former British intelligence agent, and whether the company was in touch with the FBI or Justice Department about it.
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But BuzzFeed News revealed that the report — written by none other than Christopher Steele, the former British intelligence agent who also wrote the notorious Trump dossier — says Lesin was beaten to death by hired thugs, on the eve of a scheduled meeting with the Justice Department.
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A judge in Washington, DC, has tossed out a defamation lawsuit brought by three Russian oligarchs against former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele over his discussion of them in the dossier he prepared during the 2016 US presidential election campaign describing Donald Trump's links to Russia.
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The 173-page report, supposedly written by an ex-intelligence agent, alleged among other things, that President-elect Trump had hired "a number of prostitutes to perform a 'golden showers' (urination) show in front of him" and that Trump had engaged in "sex parties" in Russia.
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The French movie "Je Compte sur Vous" – released in English as "Thank You for Calling" – is based on the exploits of the French-Israeli con man Gilbert Chikli, who engineered rogue payments by phoning companies and pretending to be the firm's CEO or a French intelligence agent.
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In December 2014, the United States freed three convicted Cuban spies in return for the release of U.S. foreign aid worker Alan Gross, imprisoned in Cuba in 2009, and of an intelligence agent who spied for the United States and had been held for nearly 20 years.
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While in office, however, Clinton endorsed the "reset" policy with Russia despite evidence, since confirmed, that the Putin regime ordered the nuclear poisoning in London of Alexander Litvinenko, a former intelligence agent, and was implicated in the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, Russia's pre-eminent investigative reporter.
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Konstantin is both a Russian agent and Villanelle's handler More than halfway through season one, it was revealed that Konstantin, Villanelle's point of contact for assassination assignments, is not only a government intelligence agent but also a friend and ex-lover of Eve's boss, agent Carolyn Martens.
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Adam Schiff, the committee's top Democrat, argues that the FISA warrant was properly obtained by the FBI, pushing back against Republican charges that FBI failed to disclose the political motivations of the author of the dossier on Trump and Russia, ex-British intelligence agent Christopher Steele.
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ET. The spy thriller, which pits British intelligence agent Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh) against a dangerous and unhinged assassin named Villanelle (Jodie Comer), debuted last April, and over eight episodes, it developed a cult following and a spot on many TV critics' Top 10 TV shows of 2018 lists.
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Perhaps the most significant assertion in the memo is that the applications against Page—which were ultimately approved by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court—cited an article by journalist Michael Isikoff, as well as the dossier itself, which was prepared by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele.
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February 219, 22017: US investigators corroborate some aspects of the Russia dossier -- US investigators said they corroborated some of the communications with foreign nationals detailed in a 224-page dossier compiled by a former British intelligence agent, multiple current and former US law enforcement and intelligence officials told CNN.
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They also demanded officials declassify a dozen FD-302s — forms used by the FBI to record investigative activities — related to interviews of Justice Department official Bruce Ohr about his contacts with Christopher Steele, the former British intelligence agent who compiled the controversial dossier for research firm Fusion GPS.
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"I think the Russians elected a former KGB agent and he spends all of his time and their resources squandering it on penny-ante spy tactics to try to get into loser kind of lobbyist pockets and so forth," he added, referencing Putin's past as an intelligence agent.
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Washington (CNN)The ex-British intelligence agent who authored the opposition research dossier on President Donald Trump and Russia did not pay the sources he used to compile the document, Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson testified to congressional Russia investigators, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CNN.
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Fox News reported last month that the special counsel had begun interviewing White House staffers, while CNN reported last week that Mueller's investigative team met earlier this summer with former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, who authored the controversial, unverified dossier on alleged ties between Trump and Russia.
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Grob wishes that Roberts would back more hardcore UFO-related issues, such as posting more about the Petagon AATIP program or that Luis Elizondo, a former Pentagon intelligence agent, told Tucker Carlson on Fox News that individuals were in possession of debris which allegedly came from a UFO.
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Ramón Allan Bogado, who claims to be a one-time Argentine intelligence agent and is one of those recently indicted, testified last month that the backchannel included an arrangement for Argentina to provide Iran with nuclear technology, with front companies in Argentina and Uruguay to conduct the transactions.
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None of the evidence used to open the investigation came from the C.I.A. or from a notorious dossier of claims about Trump-Russia ties compiled by Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence agent whose research was funded by Democrats, the report concludes, according to the people briefed on it.
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Schiff and other Democrats charge that the Republican memo led by House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes of California is misleading and omits key facts, including that the FISA application did state that ex-British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, the author of the dossier, was paid by a political entity.
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Those include the Page FISA materials, any transcripts or summaries of George Papadopoulos' conversations with confidential informants and "the chart that shows the FBI's attempts to verify the allegations in the Steele dossier," a reference to the opposition research document compiled by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele.
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The watchdog outlined seven "significant inaccuracies and omissions" in the FBI's application to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) to monitor Page, some of them related to the FBI's assertions or omissions regarding information they received from ex-British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, who authored the Trump-Russia dossier.
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But in late September, Yahoo News ran an article reporting that American intelligence officials suspected that Page had met with both of them in Moscow — a claim, Page later discovered, that appeared in the dossier on Trump's suspected Russia entanglements complied by the former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele.
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The FBI found messages between Butina and the unnamed Russian official — believed to be Torshin — who allegedly directed her activities in which the official compared her to Anna Vasilyevna Chapman, a Russian intelligence agent who was arrested in 2010 and later pleaded guilty to conspiring to act as a foreign agent.
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Stein's campaign said that it did not have any records of communications with Fusion GPS or Christopher Steele, the ex-British intelligence agent who compiled the opposition research dossier on Trump and Russia, nor did it have records of communication with WikiLeaks related to disseminating information about the 2016 election.
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The White House also said Trump would grant Republican requests to declassify FBI reports on interviews with Bruce Ohr, a Justice Department employee who has faced GOP criticism for his ties to Christopher Steele, the former British intelligence agent who compiled a dossier of salacious claims about Trump's involvement with Russia.
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McCain was tipped off to its existence by a former British ambassador to Russia, who at McCain's request arranged for the author of the dossier, former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, to meet with Kramer to show him "the pre-election memoranda on a confidential basis," according to court filings.
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Trump's tweet also referenced former FBI Director James Comey, FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, ex-CIA Director John Brennan, former national intelligence chief James Clapper, senior Justice Department official Bruce Ohr and his wife, Nellie, and former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele.
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Among other things, Horowitz's investigation concerns how officials handled a dossier assembled by Christopher Steele , a former British intelligence agent with experience in Russia, who was working for a company called Fusion GPS, which had been retained by a law firm hired by Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
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It claims that an affidavit to monitor Carter Page, the former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser, failed to point out reasons to discredit the former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, whose research, according to the memo, was part of the basis for believing that Mr. Page was a foreign spy.
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After she was featured in several news articles, Mr. Torshin likened her to Anna Chapman, a Russian intelligence agent who was arrested in the United States in 2010, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to act as a Russian agent, and was deported to Russia as part of a swap for American prisoners.
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Republicans allege in the memo details FBI abuses related to FISA and the use of the opposition research dossier on Trump and Russia that was compiled by ex-British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, whose work with Fusion GPS was paid through Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
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"Unless you know the sources, and unless you know how a particular source acquired a particular piece of information, you can't judge the information — you just can't," Morell continued, referencing an unsubstantiated dossier, compiled by a former British intelligence agent, that made claims of Trump aides' connections to Russian officials.
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The House intelligence committee issued a pair of subpoenas last month seeking documentation of whether the FBI or Justice Department used material from the dossier compiled by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele as part of the federal investigation into possible collusion between the campaign of President Donald Trump and the Kremlin.
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Supporters of Mr. Trump, including Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee, have seized on the fact that the F.B.I., in making the case to judges that Mr. Page might be a Russian agent, used some claims included in a notorious Democratic-funded dossier compiled by Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence agent.
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That data, Mr. Lewis and others said, can be used to track which Chinese citizens visited the same city, or hotel, as an American intelligence agent who was identified in data taken from the Office of Personnel Management or from American health insurers that document patients' medical histories and Social Security numbers.
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Although the application is said to have drawn on a variety of material, the Intelligence Committee memo apparently focuses on one strand: information from Mr. Steele, a former British intelligence agent who wrote the dossier of unverified and salacious allegations that suggested that Mr. Trump had been compromised by a Russian intelligence operation.
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And Mr. Horowitz reaffirmed that the F.B.I.'s decision to open Crossfire Hurricane in July 2016 met legal standards, and that a notorious dossier of political opposition research about purported links between the Trump campaign and Russia gathered by Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence agent, played no role in that step.
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And as the evidence mounts that many of Trump's closest advisers colluded with Russia -- most recently, the revelation that former campaign chair Paul Manafort shared sensitive internal polling data with Russian oligarchs, through a suspected Russian intelligence agent -- Giuliani must now realize he cannot continue to issue blanket denials of campaign collusion.
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The inspector general outlined seven "significant inaccuracies and omissions" in its application to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA court) to monitor Page, some of them related to the FBI's assertions or omissions regarding information they received from Christopher Steele, an ex-British intelligence agent who authored the notorious Trump-Russia dossier.
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Butina insisted, in a pair of interviews with CNN at the Alexandria Detention Center, that she has no plans to become a media darling or television star when she returns home, a nod to the celebrity homecoming Russian intelligence agent Anna Chapman received when she returned to Russia as part of a 2010 spy swap.
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Washington (CNN)The Justice Department has agreed to allow congressional investigators to interview a key FBI employee believed to have served as the main contact, or "handler" of, former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, who compiled the so-called "dossier" of allegations about President Donald Trump's connections to Russia, according to a department spokesperson.
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And that means the news media — perhaps longing to find a new Watergate, to revive sagging fortunes — were far too willing to be manipulated by players in a case that began as a political opposition research project funded by Clinton's campaign and led by a former British intelligence agent, Christopher Steele, who despised Trump.
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The assault on the Skripals echoed the murder in London in 2006 of Alexander Litvinenko, a critic of President Putin who had been an officer in the F.S.B., a successor to the K.G.B. He was killed with radioactive polonium-210 in a cup of tea that he drank while with a known Russian intelligence agent.
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But in one case, Mr. Berglas said, F.B.I. agents monitoring an infected computer were surprised to see a hacker who was the target of their investigation share a copy of his passport with a person the F.B.I. believed to be a Russian intelligence agent — a likely signal that the suspect was being recruited or protected.
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Meanwhile, the Immigration and Naturalization Service's annual reports provide nearly 300 examples of "subversives" who were identified after they entered -- Cedric Belfrage, editor of a communist publication called the National Guardian in 1956; Otto Verber, a Soviet espionage agent, in 1960; and Chen Kung Cheng, a suspected intelligence agent for China, in 1964, to name just a few.
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The allegations stem from the memo released last week by Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee, along with new accusations that the Obama State Department fed ex-British intelligence agent Christopher Steele information from Hillary Clinton associates, which he then used to reinforce the disputed dossier on Trump and Russia that he provided to the FBI.
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But now, an unprecedented standoff between Congress and the Trump administration over a staffer who did go through the formal channels, only to have their concerns withheld from lawmakers, has laid bare a loophole in whistleblower protection laws that many thought would never be revealed: What happens when an intelligence agent blows the whistle on the president?
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The Nunes memo alleges that the FBI failed to provide information to the FISA court when using the dossier as part of an effort to obtain a surveillance warrant for former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page, including that the dossier written by ex-British intelligence agent Christopher Steele was bankrolled in part by Democrats.
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This week, the Organization for Prevention of Chemical Weapons announced that the Kremlin had crossed yet another previously unimaginable line, when it confirmed findings by the British government that a Russian military-grade nerve agent, which British authorities identified as Novichok, was used to poison a former Russian intelligence agent, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter in the English city of Salisbury.
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Now, we also have incontrovertible evidence that the Clinton campaign and the DNC, they paid Fusion GPS over $9 million --although nobody knows anything -- and they hired a former British intelligence agent who then used current and former Russian government sources to produce this phony, fake, salacious news dossier that was full of lies, disinformation and propaganda against Donald Trump.
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Mr. Van Der Zwaan, whose father-in-law is the Russian oligarch German Khan, lied to investigators about his conversations with Mr. Gates, the Trump deputy campaign manager, and a Person A, whom the F.B.I. assessed as a Russian intelligence agent and many believe to be Konstantin Kilimnik, an associate of both Mr. Gates and Mr. Manafort, a Trump campaign manager.
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According to people familiar with it, the Republican memo contends that the application for an order authorizing surveillance of Mr. Page relied on information provided by Christopher Steele, the former British intelligence agent who compiled a notorious dossier about President Trump and Russia, without adequately explaining that the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton's campaign was funding his Trump-Russia research.
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Speaking to reporters in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, a spokesman for the public prosecutor said the order to kill Mr. Khashoggi had been taken by only a single intelligence agent on the scene in Istanbul, without authorization from superiors in Riyadh, and that it was accomplished with a deadly dose of a tranquilizer — not by strangulation, as the kingdom had previously said.
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The letter said the Justice Department's initial application to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to spy on Mr. Page, filed in October 2016 after he had left the Trump campaign, "appears to contain no additional information corroborating the dossier allegations" posed by Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence agent who had been working with a research firm paid by the Democrats.
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Glenn Simpson, whose firm Fusion GPS hired ex-British intelligence agent Christopher Steele to compile the dossier on Trump and Russia, mentioned Malloch in testimony to the House Intelligence Committee last year, calling him a "significant figure" in the Brexit campaign with ties to former Trump campaign chief and former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon as well as Stone.
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The transcript sheds new light explaining the work Fusion GPS and ex-British intelligence agent Christopher Steele did investigating real estate deals from the Trump Organization and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, connections between the Trump world and Russian oligarchs and the possibility that the Russians had blackmailed Trump, which is what prompted Steele to go to the FBI with the dossier.
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The central theory propounded by the President and his allies has been that the FBI used intelligence gathered from former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele in the FISA application, misled the court about how Steele's dossier had been funded through a law firm by the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign, and did not disclose his bias against Trump.
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"Of course he shot the messengers on the 11th of January when he characterized us as Nazis for having delivered truth to power," Clapper added, referring to President Trump's tweet protesting CNN's report on how intelligence leaders had selected then-FBI Director James Comey during that trip to brief him on the existence of a dossier put together by a former British intelligence agent.
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The dossier is a complication of memos collected by a former British intelligence agent who was hired to do opposition research and dig up unfavorable information about then-candidate Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE.
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In addition to Musk's call for the case to be dismissed, his attorneys also released excerpts of a deposition in which the Tesla CEO defended his support of an investigation of Unsworth by invoking Jeffrey Epstein, as well as a statement from the head of Musk's family office, who hired an alleged former British intelligence agent to compile a dossier on the cave rescuer.
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Trump and his allies have charged that the FBI used intelligence gathered from former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele — the author of the dossier on Trump and Russia — in the FISA application, misled the court about how Steele's dossier had been funded through a law firm by the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign, and did not disclose Steele's anti-Trump bias.
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For example, while penetrating an air-gapped system would be difficult, nuclear plants are not impervious to insider threats; a person working in a plant could put a virus directly into the network, as was demonstrated in the famous case of Stuxnet, when a foreign intelligence agent posing as an employee reportedly used a thumb drive to inject malware into Iran's centrifuge industrial controls.
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READ: The Mueller report makes a damning case that Trump obstructed justice That's why rank-and-file Republicans are now pushing Graham to investigate the origins of the investigation, particularly since the Mueller report discredits the so-called Steele dossier, a salacious account of prostitutes and spies created by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele and paid for by the Democratic National Committee. Rep.
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Even before America's 17 intelligence agencies concluded that Putin had ordered Russian intelligence to launch a campaign to influence the American election and help Trump win; even before we learned about a secret dossier put together by a respected former British intelligence agent claiming (without confirmation) the Russians had compromising information on Trump -- long before that, Trump's statements and his campaigns actions regarding Russia ranged from startling to shocking.
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Judiciary Chairman Bob GoodlatteRobert (Bob) William GoodlatteImmigrant advocacy groups shouldn't be opposing Trump's raids Top Republican releases full transcript of Bruce Ohr interview It's time for Congress to pass an anti-cruelty statute MORE (R-Va.) has said he is "troubled" by the staff assigned to special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, citing a senior intelligence agent, Peter Strzok, who was reassigned from Mueller's team for sending allegedly anti-Trump texts.
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The dossier, which was commissioned by the private research firm Fusion GPS and compiled by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, was paid for in part by Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE's presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
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"Putin's going to be incredibly well briefed, have a great background and knowledge about Trump, and as a former intelligence agent, the idea of manipulating Donald Trump comes naturally to him, whereas Trump assumes that he can walk into a room with anybody cold," said Derek Shearer, a former United States ambassador to Finland who organized a 1997 summit meeting between Presidents Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin in Helsinki.
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That dossier, which was commissioned by the private research firm Fusion GPS and compiled by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, was funded in part by Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE's 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
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In this strongly worded filing, her defense attorneys, who previously had asked the sentence to be the time she has already served, reiterated that she is not a spy or Russian intelligence agent and has helped both the Senate Intelligence Committee as it investigated her contact and former Russian central banker Alexander Torshin, and prosecutors extensively, while asking the judge to throw out some of the prosecutors' discussion of her activities for Russia.
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As a result, the allegations in the dossier compiled by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele that the Russians used prostitutes to compromise President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE while he was in Moscow in 22019 appear more plausible.
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Earlier this year, the FBI clashed with the President over a controversial Republican intelligence memo from House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes, which argued that ex-British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, the author of a controversial dossier on Trump and Russia, harbored anti-Trump motivations that were not disclosed in the FISA application and that the FISA court was not told that Steele's dossier was funded through a law firm by the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign.
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Kashyap Patel, a senior staffer for House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin NunesDevin Gerald NunesJuan Williams: Trump, his allies and the betrayal of America Trump expected to nominate Texas GOP lawmaker to replace Dan Coats: report House Republicans claim victory after Mueller hearings MORE (R-Calif.), sought a meeting in London with Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence agent commissioned by opposition research firm Fusion GPS to research the Trump campaign's ties to Russia, according to The New York Times.
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The conservative host also played a similar montage of the words "pee tape" being said on CNN this week following former FBI Director James ComeyJames Brien Comey3 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 85033 Barr predicts progressive prosecutors will lead to 'more crime, more victims' James Comey shows our criminal justice system works as intended MORE's speculation on salacious claims in an infamous account that first surfaced in the dossier of unverified opposition research created by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele.
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