While liberal activists and media outlets were accusing former President Donald Trump of “colluding with Russia,” at least two liberal organizations were being paid by the Russian government to influence American politics.
The Black Hammer Party, a left-wing black nationalist group based in Atlanta, Georiga, and the Uhuru Movement, based in Tampa, Florida, were part of an alleged effort by the Russian government to stir political unrest in the United States.
“As alleged in the indictment, from at least December 2014 until March 2022, Aleksandr Viktorovich Ionov, a resident of Moscow, together with at least three Russian officials, engaged in a years-long foreign malign influence campaign targeting the United States,” the Justice Department announced.
“Ionov is the founder and president of the Anti-Globalization Movement of Russia (AGMR), an organization headquartered in Moscow and funded by the Russian government. Ionov utilized AGMR to carry out Russia's influence campaign,” the Justice Department reports.
“Ionov provided financial support to these groups, directed them to publish pro-Russian propaganda, coordinated and funded direct action by these groups within the United States intended to further Russian interests, and coordinated coverage of this activity in Russian media outlets. Ionov also relayed detailed information about this influence campaign to three FSB officials,” they added.
The indictment alleges Ionov “exercised direction or control” over the groups on behalf of the Russian Federal Security Service, known as the “FSB.”
“In May 2015, Ionov funded an all-expense paid trip to Russia for the leader of U.S. Political Group 1 (Unindicted Co-Conspirator-1, UIC-1) in order to ‘communicate on future cooperation' between U.S. Political Group 1 and AGMR. Following that trip, and for at least the next seven years, Ionov exercised direction and control over senior members of U.S. Political Group 1,” the Justice Department alleged.
The indictment refers to the Uhuru Movement as “U.S. Political Group 1” and the Black Hammer Party as “U.S. Political Group 2.
The Justice Department alleges the liberal activists knew they were being funded by the Russian government.
“In September 2015, Ionov paid for UIC-1 to attend an AGMR-sponsored ‘Dialogue of Nations' conference in Moscow. Upon his return to Florida, UIC-1 reported to the leadership of U.S. Political Group 1 that AGMR is ‘a solid institution of Russian politic,' and that it was ‘clear' that AGMR was ‘an instrument of [the] Russian government,”' which, UIC-1 wrote, did not ‘disturb us,'” the Justice Department alleges.
“The following week, in an email discussion, U.S. Political Group 1 leaders observed that it was ‘more than likely' that the Russian government was using AGMR ‘to utilize forces inside of the U.S. to sew [sic] division inside the United States,'” the Justice Department added.
The Russian influence operation appears to have gone on at the same time Justice Department employees falsely accused former President Donald Trump and his associates of “colluding with Russia,” going to far as to allegedly misrepresent evidence in order to get a court to approve a wiretap of a former Trump campaign official. The false allegations were based upon a document allegedly created by foreign agents and paid for by the Democratic National Committee and presidential campaign of 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
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to aid BLM??
I’ve always said, put one in charge of anything, it get criminalized quickly
You should have known there was some kind of truth to the Clintons being involved This needs to be further investigated because Trump was accused falsely.
Humm, seems like what folks that have been going after Trump for “colluding with Russia” for 5+ years are really guilty of the exact crimes that they were accusing Trump of. How about that. But, ain’t no body gonna do anything about that, are they?
My sainted Father back in the late 1960’s warned me of agitator organizations funded, inspired and encouraged by the Communists, were behind the student dissident movements. Yuri Bezmennov (KGB defector) discloses on YouTube how the old KGB would be amazed how their disinformation and sabotage programs have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams.
… agitator organizations funded, inspired and encouraged by the Communists?
Ya, the Democrat Party.
Whats the saying.. it takes one to know one.. or in the Dems case it takes one to accuse one!
No surprise there, we have had communist operatives and sympathizers in the highest level of government since World War Two. Our government brought hundreds of German operatives into our country. They were in NASA, one German created the atomic bomb, others were in very high government positions. This was all done secretly, so we wouldn’t know about it. They were also in the FBI and CIA. Some new operatives still are, trained by the communists and placed in our military, weapons manufacturing and elsewhere. The demonrats are on board with them, destroying our country. This goes so deep, some will never be found out, because the demonrats cover for them.