Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election · 2019
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- 26 2/ 11/ 15 Email, [Redacted: (b) (7)(A), (b) (7)(E), (b) (3)] (email and attachment).
- 27 4/8/ 15 Email, [Redacted: (b) (7)(A), (b) (7)(E), (b) (3)] (email and attachment).
- 28 The term "troll" refers to internet users-in this context, paid operatives- who post inflammatory or otherwise dismptive content on social media or other websites. Internal IRA Chart Outlining Structure (Translated from Russian)
- 67 Other individualized accounts included @MissouriNewsUS (an account with 3,800 followers that posted pro-Sanders and anti-Clinton material).
- 79 Eli Rosenberg, Twitter to Tell 677,000 Users they Were Had by the Russians. Some Signs Show the Problem Continues, Washington Post (Jan. 19, 2019).
- 129 Netyksho Indictment ,i 24(b).
- 130 Netyksho Indictment ff 27-29; [Redacted: (b) (7)(A), (b) (7)(E)]
- 131 [Redacted: (b) (7)(A), (b) (7)(E)] - See SM-2589105-GJ, sena 649. As pa1t o its mvestigation, e FBI ater receive se1vers and copies ofrelevant traffic logs. Netyksho Indictment ,i,i 28-29.
- 136 Netyksho Indictment ,r 29. The last-in-time DNC email released by WikiLeaks was dated May 25, 2016, the same pe1iod of time during which the GRU gained access to the DNC's email se1ver. Netyksho Indictment ,r 45.
- 163 SCR015_000199 (2/15/17 Draft Memorandum to file from the Office of the Counsel to the President); McGahn 11/30/17 302, at 8; Yates 8/15/17 302, at 8.
- 166 7/ 18/ 16 Twitter DM, @Guccifer_2 & @WikiLeaks.
- 175 Ellen Nakashima et al., A German Hacker Offers a Rare Look Inside the Secretive World of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, Washington Post (Jan. 17, 2018).
- 185 Netyksho Indictment ,i 34; see also SM-2589105-HACK, serial 29 [Redacted: (b) (7)(A), (b) (7)(E)]
- 186 Netyksho Indictment ,i 69.
- 187 Netyksho Indictment ,i 69; see also U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Analysis Repo1t #AR-17-20045, "Enhanced Analysis of Griuly Steppe Activity," Feb. 10, 2017 (summarizing analysis of malicious GRU cyber activity). -
- 188 [Redacted: (b) (7)(A), (b) (7)(E)]
- 214 7/25/ 16 Email, Corsi to Malloch.
- 215 Corsi 10/31/18 302, at 4.
- 216 Corsi 9/6/ 18 302, at 5.
- 217 7/31/ 16 Email, Stone to Corsi.
- 218 Malloch denied ever communicating with Assange orWikiLe est to contact Assange because he believed he had no connectio
- 220 At the August 8, 2016 event, Stone stated, "I actually have communicated with Assange. I believe the next tranche of his documents pe1tain to the Clinton Foundation, but there's no telling what the October surprise may be." "Roger Stone at the Southwest Broward Republican Organization," YouTube Channel "Stone Cold Trnth," Posted 8/ 10/ 16, available at https://www.youtube.com/watch ?v=6gM_cyROnto (sta1ting at 46:50). On August 16, 2016, Stone stated during an inte1view, "I had communicated with Mr. Assange," then adding, "I never said I met with him or that I spoke with him," but said "we have a mutual acquaintance who is a fine gentleman." "Roger Stone Discusses the Future Plans of WikiLeaks," YouTube Channel TheBlaze, Posted 8/16/ 16, available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_ continue= 18&v=HfrzKmeXsrl (starting at 0:00).
- 271 12/3/ 15 Email, Smith to Szobocsan & Safron. 2n Szobocsan 3/29/ 18 302, at 1.
- 328 11/3/15 Email, Sater to Cohen (12:40 p.m.).
- 329 Cohen 9/12/18 302, at 3-4; Cohen 8/7/18 302, at 15.
- 330 [Redacted: (b) (3)] Sater 12/15/17 302, at 2.
- 331 Sater 12/15/17 302, at 3-4.
- 332 10/12/15 Email, Sater to Cohen (8:07 a.m.).
- 333 [Redacted: (b) (3)]
- 334 Ivanka Tmmp received an email from a woman who identified herself as "Lana E. Alexander," which said in prut, "If you ask anyone who knows Russian to google my husband Dmitiy Klokov, you'll see who he is close to and that he has done Putin's political campaigns." 11/16/ 15 Email, Erchova to I. Tmmp.
- 359 Toll records show that Sater was speaking to Evgeny Dvoskin. Call Records of Felix Sater [Redacted: (b) (3)] Dvoskin is an executive of Genbank, a large bank with lending focused in Crimea, Ukraine. At the time that Sater provided this financing letter to Cohen, Genbank was subject to U.S. government sanctions, see Russia/Ukraine-related Sanctions and Identifications, Office of Foreign Assets Control (Dec. 22, 2015), available at https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/OFAC- Enforcement/Pages/20151222.aspx. Dvoskin, who had been deported from the United States in 2000 for criminal activity, was under indictment in the United States for stock fraud under the aliases Eugene Slusker and Gene Shustar. See United States v. Rizzo, et al., 2:03-cr-63 (E.D.N.Y. Feb. 6, 2003).
- 430 [Redacted: (b) (3)]
- 431 3/24/ 16 Email , Clovis to Papadopoulos et al. (8:55:04 a.m.).
- 499 [Redacted: (b) (3)]
- 503 7/23/ 16 Facebook Message, Timofeev to Papadopoulos (4:31 :37 a.m.); 7/26/ 16 Facebook Message, Timofeev to Papadopoulos (3:37: 16 p.m.).
- 522 Page 3/30/ 17 302, at 10; [Redacted: (b) (3)] 523 [Redacted: (b) (3)] 524 [Redacted: (b) (3)] Complaint ,i,i 22, 24, 32, United States v. Buryakov, 1:15- mj -215 (S . "Buryakov Complaint").
- 536 Page 3/16/17 302, at 4; [Redacted: (b) (3)]
- 545 [Redacted: (b) (3)]
- 547 [Redacted: (b) (3)]
- 570 s. Weber 7/28/17 302, at 4.
- 571 [Redacted: (b) (3)] 5 n Page 3/10/17 302, at 3; Page 3/30/17 302, at 3; Page 3/31/17 302, at 2.
- 594 McGahn 12/14/17 302, at 10; Call Records of Don McGahn; McGahn 2/28/19 302, at 3-4; Priebus 4/3/18 302, at 6-7.
- 595 Advisory Counsel, CNI, available at https://web.archive.org/web/20161030025331/ http://cftni.org/about/adviso1y-council/; Simes 3/8/ 18 302, at 3-4; Saunders 2/ 15/18 302, at 4; Sessions 1/ 17/ 18 302, at 16.
- 596 Simes 3/8/ 18 302, at 2.
- 610 Lewandowski 4/6/ 18 302, at 3; Lewandowski 6/ 19/ 17 Notes, at 3.
- 654 C00007981-84 (8/9/16 Email, Simes to Kushner (6:09:21 p.m.)). The memorandum recommended "downplaying Russia as a U.S. foreign policy p1iority at this time" and suggested that "some tend to exaggerate Putin' s flaws." The memorandum also recommended approaching general Russian related questions in the framework of "how to work with Russia to advance impo1tant U.S. national interests" and that a Tmmp Administration "not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy." The memorandum did not discuss sanctions but did address how to handle Ukraine-related questions, including questions about Russia's invasion and annexation of Crimea.
- 659 Simes 3/8/18 302, at 30; Simes 3/27/ 18 302, at 6.
- 693 at 2-3; 693 Kaveladze 11/ 16/ 17 302, at 6.
- 711 Interview of Donald J. Trump, Jr., Senate Judiciary Committee, 115th Cong. 28-29, 84, 94-95 (Sept. 7, 2017). The Senate Judicia1y Committee inte1view was not under oath, but Tmmp Jr. was advised that it is a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1001 to make materially false statements in a congressional investigation. Id. at 10-11.
- 713 Written Responses of Donald J. Tmmp (Nov. 20, 2018), at 8 (Response to Question I , Pruts (a) (c)). We considered whether one sequence ofevents suggested that candidate Tmmp had contemporaneous knowledge of the June 9 meeting. On June 7, 2016 Tmmp announced his intention to give "a major speech" "probably Monday of next week"- which would have been June 13- about "all of the things that have taken place with the Clintons." See, e.g. , Phillip Bump, What we know about the Trump Tower meeting , Washington Post (Aug. 7, 2018). Following the June 9 meeting, Tmmp changed the subject ofhis planned speech to national secmity. But the Office did not find evidence that the original idea for the speech was connected to the anticipated June 9 meeting or that the change of topic was attributable to the failure of that meeting to produce concrete evidence about Clinton. Other events, such as the Pulse nightclub shooting on June 12, could well have caused the change. The President's written answers to our questions state that the speech's focus was altered "[i]n light of' the Pulse nightclub shooting. See W1itten Responses, supra. As for the 01iginal topic of the June 13 speech, Tmmp has said that "he expected to give a speech referencing the publicly available, negative info1mation about the Clintons," and that the draft of the speech prepru·ed by Campaign staff "was based on publicly available material, including, in pa1t iculru·, info1m ation from the book Clinton Cash by Peter Schweizer." Written Responses, supra. In a later June 22 speech, Tmmp did speak extensively about allegations that Clinton was conupt, drawing from the Clinton Cash book. See Full Transcript: Donald Tmmp NYC Sp eech on Stakes of the Election, politico.com (June 22, 2016).
- 715 [Redacted: (b) (3)]
- 717 Kaveladze 11/16/ 17 302, at 7; Samochomov 7/ 13/ 17 302, at 2, 4;
- 718 [Redacted: (b) (3)] 11/ 16/ 17 302, at 7; • 1 12/17 302, at 4. In her later Se Veselnitskaya produced what she claimed were the talking points that she brought to the June 9 meeting. no [Redacted: (b) (3)] ni E.g., Samochomov 7/ 12/ 17 302, at 4. n2 E.g., Samochomov 7/ 12/ 17 302, at 4.
- 723 E.g., Samochomov 7/ 12/ 17 302, at 4; Goldstone 2/8/ 18 302, at 9. n4 [Redacted: (b) (3)] ns [Redacted: (b) (3)] [Redacted: (b) (3)]
- 746 [Redacted: (b) (3)]
- 747 Kaveladze 11/16/ 17 302, at 8; Call Records of Ike Kaveladze [Redacted: (b) (3)]
- 748 Kaveladze 11/ 16/ 17 302, at 8; Call Records of Ike Kavela On June 14, 2016 Kaveladze's teenage daughter emailed asking how Kaveladze responded, "meeting was boring. The Russians · - KAV_ 00257 ( 6/ 14/ 16 Email, I. Kaveladze to A. Kaveladze;
- 750 OSC-KAV 00138 11/23/ 16 Email, Goldstone to Kaveladze); [Redacted: (b) (3)]
- 766 [Redacted: (b) (7)(E)]
- 767 7/10/17 Email, Goldstone to Futerfas & Gruten.
- 768 [Redacted: (b) (3)]
- 859 Manafort 9/11/18 302, at 5.
- 875 Manafo1t 10/16/18 302, at 6.
- 876 Manafo1t 10/16/18 302, at 6.
- 886 Gates 2/2/ 18 302, at 12.
- 889 Gates 9/27/ 18 302, Pait II, at 2; [Redacted: (b) (3)]
- 894 [Redacted: (b) (3)]
- 895 8/ 18/ 16 Email, Kilimnik to Dirkse; 8/ 18/ 16 Email, Kilimnik to Schultz; 8/ 18/ 16 Email, Kilimnik to Marson; 7/27/ 16 Email, Kilimnik to Ash; 8/ 18/ 16 Email, Kilimnik to Ash; 8/ 18/ 16 Email, Kilimnik to Jackson; 8/ 18/ 16 Email, Kilimnik to Mendoza-Wilson; 8/ 19/ 16 Email, Kilimnik to Patten.
- 896 [Redacted: (b) (3)]
- 914 7/29/16 Email, Kilimnik to Manafo1t (1 0:51 a.m.).
- 916 7/29/16 Email, Manafo1t to Kilimnik; [Redacted: (b) (7)(A), (b) (7)(E)] [Redacted: (b) (3)]
- 917 7/29/16 Email, Manafo1t to Kilimnik.
- 918 7/31/16 Email, Manafo1t to Kilimnik.
- 926 Manafo1t 9/ 12/18 302, at 4.
- 927 [Redacted: (b) (3)] Manafo1t 9/ 11/ 18 302, at 5; Manafo1t 9/ 12/18 302, at 4.
- 929 Documentaiy evidence c 01wai·ding email from Manafo1t); 2/21/18 Email, Manafo1t to Ward & Fab1izio.
- 940 Kalashnikova 5/ 17/ 18 302, at 4; Ga1y Lee, Soviet Embassy's Identity Crisis, Washington Post (Dec. 20, 1991); Georgy S. Oganov Executive Profile & Biography , Bloomberg (Mar. 12, 2019).
- 958 ._.._ In resolving whether Manafo1t breached his cooperation p ea agreement y ymg to e O ice, t e 1strict comt found that Manafo1t lied about, among other things, his contacts with Kilimnik regarding the peace plan, including the meeting in Madrid. Manafort 2/ 13/ 19 Transc1ipt, at 29-31, 40.
- 990 Knill Dmitriev Biography, Russian Dfrect Investment Fund, available at https://rdif.rn/Eng_person_ dmitiiev_kirill/. See also Ove1view, Russian Dfrect Investment Fund, available at https://rdif.rn/Eng_ About/.
- 1009 [Redacted: (b) (3)] INader 1/22/18 302, at 5-6; - lOll [Redacted: (b) (3), (b) (7)(E)] I ' , '. b) (3), [Redacted: (b) (7)(E)] __, [Redacted: (b) (3), (b) (7)(E)] , [Redacted: (b) (3), (b) (7)(E)] I
- 1015 [Redacted: (b) (3), (b) (7)(E)]
- 1015 Cohen, 10/ 17/ 18 302, at 11.
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- 1048 Prince 5/3/ 18 302, at 3.
- 1049 [Redacted: (b) (3)]
- 1057 Bannon 2/ 14/ 18 302, at 25-26.
- 1061 Prince 5/3/ 18 302, at 4; [Redacted: (b) (3)] 1062 [Redacted: (b) (3)] 1063 [Redacted: (b) (3)]
- 1066 [Redacted: (b) (3)]
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- 1069 Prince 5/3/ 18 302, at 4-5.
- 1070 [Redacted: (b) (3)] 1011 Prince 5/3/ 18 302, at 4; [Redacted: (b) (3)] 1072 [Redacted: (b) (3)]
- 1075 [Redacted: (b) (3)] 1/ 11/ 17 Text Messages, Dmitriev & Nader (9:13:54 - 10:24:25 p.m , owever, eme t at an reca e t at e was ma g ese remai· s to Dmitnev not m an o 1cia capacity for the transition but based on his experience as a fo1mer naval officer. Prince 5/3/ 18 302, at 4.
- 1077 [Redacted: (b) (3)]
- 1118 1/18/17 Text Message, Gerson to Dmitriev; Gerson 6/15/18 302, at 2.
- 1174 Burt 2/9/18 302, at 5.
- 1187 Burt 2/9/18 302, at 3-4.
- 1188 [Redacted: (b) (3)]
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- 1191 [Redacted: (b) (3)]
- 1194 Aven 8/2/18 302, at 8; [Redacted: (b) (3)]
- 1195 Page 3/10/ 17 302, at 4; Page 3/ 16/ 17 302, at 3; ~ ~ Among other meetings, Page contacted Andrey Baranov, head of· iscussed the sale of Rosneft and meetings Baranov had attended with Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin. •
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- 1270 McFarland 12/22/17 302, at 10.
- 38 Donald Trump News Conference, Doral, Florida, C-SPAN (July 27, 2016).
- 523 Hunt-000051 (Hunt 5/ 18/ 17 Notes).
- 1019 Cohen 9/ 12/ 18 302, at 11. °Cohen 9/ 12/ 18 302, at 11. 102
- 1021 Cohen 9/ 12/ 18 302, at 11.