In Plain Sight by Ross Coulthart

Author:Ross Coulthart [Coulthart, Ross]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2021-07-27T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Sharing the Guilty Secret

Sitting at his desk in Washington DC, this time as the campaign manager for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidency bid, John Podesta had never heard of Victor Borisovich Netyksho, who headed unit 26165 of the Russian military intelligence agency, the GRU. But Netyksho certainly knew all about him. One unintended consequence of the crime Netyksho was about to commit against John Podesta was that it would corroborate Tom DeLonge’s extraordinary claims that he met senior US government Defence Department officials, spies and military contractors whom, he alleges, admitted a secret government conspiracy to hide the truth about UAPs from you and me.

Boris Netyksho led a team of highly trained military hackers known as Fancy Bear,1 who were doing politically motivated computer hacking for the Russian government in flagrant violation of international law – a kind of cyber-SMERSH. They hacked into the computer networks of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the Democratic National Committee. They were trying to dig up any embarrassing or damaging dirt on the Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. In front of glowing monitors, deep inside a secure GRU building somewhere in Moscow, Netyksho and Fancy Bear turned their efforts on Podesta.

Sometime in 2016, probably October, Podesta was working on his computer when he was prompted by his Gmail account to re-enter his password. Like most of us, he probably did not think twice about it; tapping in his password, he forgot about it. John Podesta had vastly more important things to worry about; he was a Washington DC Beltway insider on steroids and they were just weeks out from the finish line in Hillary Clinton’s campaign to win the 2016 presidential election against Donald Trump. Just a couple of months earlier, on 28 July 2016, no one could quite believe what Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said at a press conference in Florida. The candidate invited Russia to hack his rival Hillary Clinton’s email account. ‘Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,’ he said. ‘I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.’2

It was a breathtakingly irresponsible comment because Trump knew that American intelligence believed Russian government sponsored hackers were responsible for earlier attacks on Democratic Party organisations. Trump later claimed he was being sarcastic but, within hours of his comments, the hackers began new penetration efforts against the Democrats; eventually their cyber-sniffing led them to John Podesta. You might be thinking that Netyksho’s hacking was fairly harmless. Not a lot came out of the DNC leaks; one email revealed scuttlebutt that the White House rejected rockstar Ariana Grande from performing at a presidential gala because a video ‘caught her licking other peoples’ donuts while saying she hates America’.3 Embarrassing for Ariana, but hardly Watergate. And a waste of good donuts.

The GRU is hardcore Dr Evil; it saw advantage for Russia in sabotaging the Clinton campaign. It was GRU hitmen who smeared novichok nerve agent poison on the doorknob of former Russian military officer and double agent Sergei Skripal’s home in Salisbury, England, in March 2018.

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