see also 6/27/16 Email, [email protected] to Personal Privacy█ █ █ (subject “leaked emails”); IT█ █ █ (claiming DCLeaks was a “Wikileaks sub project”). 150 Before sending the reporter the link and password to the closed DCLeaks website, and in an apparent effort to deflect attention from the fact that DCLeaks and Guccifer 2.0 were operated by the same organization (IAEN), the Guccifer 2.0 persona sent the reporter an email stating that DCLeaks was a “Wikileaks sub project” and that Guccifer 2.0 had asked DCLeaks to release the leaked emails with “closed access” to give reporters a preview of them. 151 Netyksho Indictment ¶ 43(a). 152 Netyksho Indictment ¶ 43(b). 153 Netyksho Indictment ¶ 43(c). 154 HOM█ █ █ 155 Harm to Ongoing Matter█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ 156 11/19/15 Twitter Group Chat, Group ID 594242937858486276, @WikiLeaks et al. Assange also wrote that, “GOP will generate a lot opposition [sic], including through dumb moves. Hillary will do the same thing, but co-opt the liberal opposition and the GOP opposition. Hence hillary has greater freedom to start wars than the GOP and has the will to do so.” Id. 157 WikiLeaks, “Hillary Clinton Email Archive,” available at https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/. 158 3/14/16 Twitter DM, @WikiLeaks to PP█ █ █ Less than two weeks earlier, the same account had been used to send a private message opposing the idea of Clinton “in whitehouse with her bloodlutt and amitions [sic] of empire with hawkish liberal-interventionist appointees.” 11/19/15 Twitter Group Chat, Group ID 594242937858486276, @WikiLeaks et al. 159 6/14/16 Twitter DM, @dcleaks_ to @WikiLeaks. 160 Netyksho Indictment ¶ 47(a). 161 7/6/16 Twitter DMs, @WikiLeaks & @guccifer_2. 162 Investigative Technique█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ 163 This was not the GRU’s first attempt at transferring data to WikiLeaks. On June 29, 2016, the GRU used a Guccifer 2.0 email account to send a large encrypted file to a WikiLeaks email account. 6/29/16 Email, [email protected] IT█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ (The email appears to have been undelivered.) 164 See SM-2589105-DCLEAKS, serial 28 (analysis). 165 6/27/16 Twitter DM, @Guccifer_2 to @WikiLeaks. 166 7/18/16 Twitter DM, @Guccifer_2 & @WikiLeaks.
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