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Fun Fact: Mike Flynn tried to kidnap a guy and sell him for $15 million ransom to foreign governmen.
Article from November 2017!
https://www.newsweek.com/mueller-investigating-michael-flynn-plot-kidnap-turkish-opposition-leader-708053
Special counsel Robert Mueller has begun investigating an alleged plot by former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn to kidnap a Turkish opposition leader living in the U.S.
Multiple sources with knowledge of the investigation confirmed the direction of Mueller’s probe to The Wall Street Journal Friday. Four sources also confirmed it to NBC News.
The plan was to remove Muslim cleric Fethullah Gülen, an avowed enemy of Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, from the U.S. and return him to Turkey. Gülen currently lives in Pennsylvania.
In March, former CIA Director James Woolsey told the WSJ that he attended a meeting in a hotel room in New York City last September where Flynn discussed “a covert step in the dead of night to whisk this guy away.” Flynn was named Trump’s national security adviser in November.
Erdoğan has accused Gülen of orchestrating an attempted coup against his government in 2016.
The kidnapping and return of Gülen would have netted Flynn and his son, Michael Flynn Jr., $15 million, people with knowledge of the discussions said. The alleged plan was to transport Gülen via private jet to the Turkish island prison island Imrali.
Multiple sources with knowledge of the investigation confirmed the direction of Mueller’s probe to The Wall Street Journal Friday. Four sources also confirmed it to NBC News.
The plan was to remove Muslim cleric Fethullah Gülen, an avowed enemy of Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, from the U.S. and return him to Turkey. Gülen currently lives in Pennsylvania.
In March, former CIA Director James Woolsey told the WSJ that he attended a meeting in a hotel room in New York City last September where Flynn discussed “a covert step in the dead of night to whisk this guy away.” Flynn was named Trump’s national security adviser in November.
Erdoğan has accused Gülen of orchestrating an attempted coup against his government in 2016.
The kidnapping and return of Gülen would have netted Flynn and his son, Michael Flynn Jr., $15 million, people with knowledge of the discussions said. The alleged plan was to transport Gülen via private jet to the Turkish island prison island Imrali.
Why in the world would Flynn cooperate with Mueller and tell him everything?
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