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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsExclusive: Manafort flight records show deeper Kremlin ties than previously known
By Peter Stone And Greg Gordon
November 27, 2017 05:00 AM
Political guru Paul Manafort took at least 18 trips to Moscow and was in frequent contact with Vladimir Putins allies for nearly a decade as a consultant in Russia and Ukraine for oligarchs and pro-Kremlin parties.
Even after the February 2014 fall of Ukraines pro-Moscow President Viktor Yanukovych, who won office with the help of a Manafort-engineered image makeover, the American consultant flew to Kiev another 19 times over the next 20 months while working for the smaller, pro-Russian Opposition Bloc party. Manafort went so far as to suggest the party take an anti-NATO stance, an Oppo Bloc architect has said. A key ally of that party leader, oligarch Viktor Medvedchuk, was identified by an earlier Ukrainian president as a former Russian intelligence agent, 100 percent.
It was this background that Manafort brought to Donald Trumps presidential campaign, which he joined in early 2016 and soon led. His web of connections to Russia-loyal potentates is now a focus of federal investigators.
Manaforts flight records in and out of Ukraine, which McClatchy obtained from a government source in Kiev, and interviews with more than a dozen people familiar with his activities, including current and former government officials, suggest the links between Trumps former campaign manager and Russia sympathizers run deeper than previously thought.
Whats now known leads some Russia experts to suspect that the Kremlins emissaries at times turned Manafort into an asset acting on Russias behalf. ...........
Even after the February 2014 fall of Ukraines pro-Moscow President Viktor Yanukovych, who won office with the help of a Manafort-engineered image makeover, the American consultant flew to Kiev another 19 times over the next 20 months while working for the smaller, pro-Russian Opposition Bloc party. Manafort went so far as to suggest the party take an anti-NATO stance, an Oppo Bloc architect has said. A key ally of that party leader, oligarch Viktor Medvedchuk, was identified by an earlier Ukrainian president as a former Russian intelligence agent, 100 percent.
It was this background that Manafort brought to Donald Trumps presidential campaign, which he joined in early 2016 and soon led. His web of connections to Russia-loyal potentates is now a focus of federal investigators.
Manaforts flight records in and out of Ukraine, which McClatchy obtained from a government source in Kiev, and interviews with more than a dozen people familiar with his activities, including current and former government officials, suggest the links between Trumps former campaign manager and Russia sympathizers run deeper than previously thought.
Whats now known leads some Russia experts to suspect that the Kremlins emissaries at times turned Manafort into an asset acting on Russias behalf. ...........
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/article186102003.html
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Exclusive: Manafort flight records show deeper Kremlin ties than previously known (Original Post)
L. Coyote
Nov 2017
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Irish_Dem
(47,131 posts)1. Looks like Manafort and Flynn are Russian assets.
Just the tip of the iceberg.
2naSalit
(86,647 posts)2. Just as I suspected. K&R
dalton99a
(81,516 posts)3. Great job by the KGB masters
lastlib
(23,248 posts)4. This prick AND his associates (INCLUDING dRumpf)...
need to do a LO-O-O-ONNNG stretch in the Big House! They are dirty, soiled, fetid, ROTTEN TREASONOUS CRIMINAL scumbags!
My hatred of this cabal grows daily. Exponentially.