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Aren't we proud? It was like Russians shooting fish in a barrel. He just swam up to the to the top. Over and over and over...
Greed, corruption, ego’: Ex-CIA intel officer explains why Russian operatives saw Trump as the perfect mark
BRAD REED
25 JUN 2018 AT 11:05 ET
Writing in Just Security, Mowatt-Larssen says that Trump possesses all of “the classical vulnerabilities that intelligence officers seek to identify and exploit including sexual indiscretions, greed, corruption, revenge, and most of all, ego.”
While assessing Trump’s fitness to be an asset, Russian officials would begin slowly by “initiating mutually beneficial activity to test receptiveness to a deepening relationship” — such as, say, the 2013 Miss Universe pageant that was held in Moscow.
Mowatt-Larssen then explains how Trump’s announced presidential run must have proven irresistible for Russian agents — and he says that any work trying to reach out to the Trump campaign would have been done gradually and slowly, rather than simply diving in with a plan to collude.
“In carrying out the election operation, it is possible Russian intelligence may never have felt the need to confront Trump directly with any compromising material (Kompromat) they had collected, particularly if they assessed that it was not sufficiently serious to serve as the basis of meaningful control over him,” he writes....
'Greed, corruption, ego': Ex-CIA intel officer explains why Russian operatives saw Trump as the perfect mark
Greed, corruption, ego’: Ex-CIA intel officer explains why Russian operatives saw Trump as the perfect mark
BRAD REED
25 JUN 2018 AT 11:05 ET
Writing in Just Security, Mowatt-Larssen says that Trump possesses all of “the classical vulnerabilities that intelligence officers seek to identify and exploit including sexual indiscretions, greed, corruption, revenge, and most of all, ego.”
While assessing Trump’s fitness to be an asset, Russian officials would begin slowly by “initiating mutually beneficial activity to test receptiveness to a deepening relationship” — such as, say, the 2013 Miss Universe pageant that was held in Moscow.
Mowatt-Larssen then explains how Trump’s announced presidential run must have proven irresistible for Russian agents — and he says that any work trying to reach out to the Trump campaign would have been done gradually and slowly, rather than simply diving in with a plan to collude.
“In carrying out the election operation, it is possible Russian intelligence may never have felt the need to confront Trump directly with any compromising material (Kompromat) they had collected, particularly if they assessed that it was not sufficiently serious to serve as the basis of meaningful control over him,” he writes....
'Greed, corruption, ego': Ex-CIA intel officer explains why Russian operatives saw Trump as the perfect mark
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