Fusion GPS Sleazy Venezuela Links Shed New Light on Trump Dossier Tablet Magazine. The Fusion GPS news for hire scandal has not only led to the public identification of the source of the Trump Dossiera for profit company that provides opposition research to whoever could write big checks, which is staffed by four former Wall Street Journal reporters led by Glenn Simpson. The scandal has also lifted the lid off a sewer of corporate information warfare and opposition research that the flailing institutions of the mainstream press now regularly re package as news, without ever saying where it came fromor who paid for it. While the idea that the products of paid opposition research are being main lined by name news outlets makes an ongoing mockery of claims to objective reporting, that part of the story is hardly newit goes back at least to the partisan warfare of the 1. So why is Fusion GPS such a big deal The Trump Dossier, and the firestorm it ignited, is only one piece of the Fusion GPS story. Whats new about Fusion GPS and its fellow DC oppo shopsfew of which register as foreign lobbyistsis that they take money from entities linked to foreign governments that are eager to re frame or invent news stories to punish their enemies at home and torque American foreign policy by controlling information. When you connect the dots between Fusion GPSs foreign clients and U. S. media outlets, a much more disturbing picture emerges of the firms activities, and what they reveal about the weakened state of the American press, and American democracy. Faith in the outfits journalistic expertise and experience is one of the chords that Fusion GPS strikes in its relations with journalists, whether theyre trying to block a story or shop one. If they have a story they think youd be interested in, says one Washington, D. C. journalist familiar with Fusion GPSs operations, they call you down to their office on Dupont Circle and show you a dossier. Theres no confidentiality agreement, but its understood that if they show you something and you talk about it, youre cut off, or worse. The fact that Fusion GPS has the whip hand in its relationship with journalists hardly compels the company to be honestrevealing sources is for suckers, especially when your sources are paying the bills. At the same time as Fusion GPS was being paid directly by Russian clients in Washington, it was also being paid by a Venezuelan company called Derwick Associates that reportedly skimmed billions of dollars from rigged contracts with Hugo Chavezs regimeand which did large amounts of business with Russian state companies like Gazprom and Gazprombank that are sanctioned by Washington for issues related to Russias involvement in Ukraine. Caracas Venezuela Zip' title='Caracas Venezuela Zip' />Name Enio A Pea Email ge65yahoo. Location Valencia Venezuela 2001 Date Saturday December 15, 2007 200148 GMT Comments Hi Randy, good afternoon. Buenisima esta blog recuerdo que mi mama hacia aerobics al ritmo del meneito, y el tun,tun mami. YR is a global boutique with 189 offices in 93 countries. Explore our locations below. Constructed by Jeffrey Wechsler Edited by Rich Norris Quicklink to a complete list of todays clues and answers Quicklink to comments Theme Breaking News Today. Caracas Venezuela Zip' title='Caracas Venezuela Zip' />
Thats how Fusion GPS kept the lights on. If taking money from repressive kleptocracies is an ugly business, an even uglier story emerges when you start connecting the dots. Add Fusion GPSs contracts with Russian and Russian linked entities together with the companys role in compiling and distributing a defamatory dossier sourced to the Kremlin, and the idea that the Trump Dossier was a Kremlin information operation becomes quite plausiblewith much of the U. S. media serving as the delivery mechanism for a poison dart aimed at the legitimacy of the American democratic system. But wait How could the Kremlin be targeting Donald Trump, at the same time as it was trying to elect Trump by hacking John Podestas emails and spreading them on Wikileaks, and running anti Hillary Clinton conspiracy stories on Russia Today The answer is that the purpose of Russias interventions in the 2. Clinton or Trump, for a traditional quid pro quo. Information operations dont work that way theyre hammers, not scalpels. You can sow distrust and confusion, and pit groups against each otherbut you cant move swing voters in Wisconsin from one column to another with any kind of reliability, and efforts to achieve such a straightforward aim are more likely than not to backfire. No, the point of the Kremlins assault on the American election of 2. Benq Q Presenter Software Download. American system of government, which rests on the consent of the governed. By any measure you care to use, the Kremlin has succeeded, and Fusion GPS was one of its most useful instruments. In order to understand Fusion GPSs role in Venezuela, and how that work connects to the Trump Dossier and the firms other activities in Washington, I recently interviewed the Venezuelan investigative reporter Alek Boyd, who has compiled a dossier of his own about the firms activities in his native country. In 2. 00. 6, Boyd met Thomas Catan, who would later join former Wall Street Journal colleagues Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch at Fusion GPS, when Catan was covering the Venezuelan presidential elections for the Times of London. Catans father was from Mexico, so we spoke to each other in Spanish, Boyd told me earlier this week in a phone call. IMG2012764380HI.jpg?width=800' alt='Caracas Venezuela Zip Code' title='Caracas Venezuela Zip Code' />He came to my house for dinner with my family. Fast forward a few years Im looking into this group of young Venezuelan businessmen who won 1 billion worth of contracts for power plants in Venezuela, without bidding. That was Derwick Associates, five young Venezuelan businessmen with ties to figures in the Chavez regime. Later, as Boyd reported, Derwick also entered into a partnership with Gazprom to enter the Venezuelan oil sector, through a strategic venture with Petroleos de Venezuela PDVSA. As soon as Hugo Chavez took over the state oil conglomerate, says Boyd, he fired some 2. Obviously Russia has been staunch supporter all along of Chavez. Gazprom, one of Russias own state oil conglomerates, entered the Venezuelan market. In one of their ventures, Gazprom partnered with Derwick Associates in a deal with PDVSA. Map of Venezuela, The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is a tropical country situated on the northern coast of South America. It is bordered by Colombia to the west. CARACAS, Venezuela AP Venezuelan authorities detained the acting president of Citgo, the stateowned oil companys U. S. subsidiary, and five other executives for. Somos un servicio Courier para paquetera que realiza envos desde USA hacia Venezuela. Regstrate gratis y comienza a disfrutar hoy mismo del servicio. CARACAS, Aug 1 Reuters Venezuelan security officials seized two opposition leaders from their homes in overnight raids, their families said on Tuesday. What does Derwick bring to the table Boyd said to me. They had no track record related to oil. All they had was misappropriated millions and their network of contacts, which they used to provide an expensive loan to Gazprom and insert themselves into a joint PDVSA Gazprom oil production deal. For all Derwick Associates ambition, Boyd told me, what was really exceptional about them was that when journalists started asking questions, they threatened legal action. Most corrupt Venezuelan businessmen get their money and buy a condo in Miami and fly off into the sunset quietly. But these guys seemed to like the attention. They waged an international censorship campaign and it was the clumsiness of the campaign that got my attention. Derwick did not respond to requests for comment. So Derwick called in Fusion GPS. In 2. 01. 4 Boyd received a tip that one of Catans colleagues at Fusion GPS had flown to Caracas to meet with Derwick principals. Catan denied it, Boyd told me. But I had a copy of a hotel reservation from July 2. Peter Fritschs name on it. Fritsch, said one journalist who knows him, is the man who keeps the trains running on time at Fusion GPS. Simpson has the contacts, says the journalist, who asked not to be named, but Fritsch is the guy who keeps order there. The purpose of Fritschs visit to Venezuela was to meet with reporters from the Wall Street Journal who were working on an investigative article about Derwick Associates. Fritsch came with a lawyer, Adam Kaufman, whod worked with Robert Morgenthau at the New York District Attorneys office, to silence any further investigations from the Wall Street Journal, says Boyd. AFCONA Additives Sdn Bhd. Hong Kong AFCONA Additives HK Limited Unit 5. F, Block E, Wah Lok Industrial Centre,3. Shan Mei Street, Fo Tan, Shatin, N. T., Hong Kong. 3. E45. 2Tel 8. Fax 8. Contact Person Leung Hon Wai.