PARIS —When French politician Marine Le Pen needed cash for her far-right party, an obscure Russian bank agreed to help.
The Le Pen loan, analysts say, is an example of how it works. After Putin sets out the vision, agents inside and outside the government begin executing it, hoping to score points with him if their gambits succeed.
After Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. election, the intelligence community concluded that Putin himself had signed off on “active measures” to bolster Donald Trump. The assessment added to a perception in the United States and beyond that the Russian president personally orchestrates all of Moscow’s covert operations.
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The money is also perhaps the best evidence in recent years that Russian influence operations abroad involve not only Internet trolling and military adventurism but secretive financing as well
https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...1c671a50422_story.html?utm_term=.fca2f8475fde
The Le Pen loan, analysts say, is an example of how it works. After Putin sets out the vision, agents inside and outside the government begin executing it, hoping to score points with him if their gambits succeed.
After Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. election, the intelligence community concluded that Putin himself had signed off on “active measures” to bolster Donald Trump. The assessment added to a perception in the United States and beyond that the Russian president personally orchestrates all of Moscow’s covert operations.
ARE YOU LISTENING NRA
The money is also perhaps the best evidence in recent years that Russian influence operations abroad involve not only Internet trolling and military adventurism but secretive financing as well
https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...1c671a50422_story.html?utm_term=.fca2f8475fde
