Russia's Pension Money For Its Veterans Flows Freely Into U.S.

[DonViejo]

Greg Gordon, Kevin G. Hall and David Goldstein
McClatchy Washington Bureau

February 21, 2017 11:20 pm

WASHINGTON — Hundreds of thousands of dollars flow every month from Russia to its former soldiers living in the United States, usually unseen and unchecked. But now U.S. investigators are examining whether this river of pension benefits intended for Russian military veterans is somehow mixed up in efforts to undermine last fall's U.S. election and put Donald Trump in the White House.

Investigators have tried to determine if Russia's Federal Security Service, the intelligence agency known as the FSB, funneled payments disguised as pension benefits to U.S.-based operatives who hacked top Democrats' emails and took other measures to discredit Hillary Clinton.

"If you are the Russian FSB and you want to pay these hackers, you have to figure out how to make your payments in a way that won't raise red flags," said Peter Harrell, who served as a deputy assistant secretary of state for sanctions from 2012 to 2014.

"You want to hide them in a large volume of transactions."

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[underthematrix]

1. There are supposedly 50,000

undocumented Russian immigrants in the US. I just refer to them as Russian troops

[n2doc]

2. You may be right

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028692537


Russia military acknowledges new branch: info warfare troops

MOSCOW (AP) — Along with a steady flow of new missiles, planes and tanks, Russia's defense minister said Wednesday his nation also has built up its muscle by forming a new branch of the military — information warfare troops.

Sergei Shoigu's statement — which came amid Western allegations of Russian hacking — marked the first official acknowledgement of the existence of such forces.