DCLeaks ...... .. ......................................................... 41 2.
WikiLeaks’s First Contact with Guccifer 2.0 and DCLeaks ....... ........... 45 A A
hacking its network, the GRU began disseminating stolen materials through the fictitious online personas “DCLeaks
DCLeaks victims included an advisor to the Clinton Campaign, a former DNC employee and Clinton Campaign
Additionally, DCLeaks released documents relating to , emails belonging to q, and emails from 2015 relating
Department of Justice GRU officers operated a Facebook page under the DCLeaks moniker, which they
through a small number of preexisting GRU-controlled Facebook accounts.142 GRU officers also used the DCLeaks
GRU officers using the DCLeaks persona gave certain reporters early access to archives of leaked files
For example, on July 14, 2016, GRU officers operating under the DCLeaks persona sent a link and password
for a non-public DCLeaks webpage to a U.S. reporter via the Facebook account.143 Similarly, on September
March 2016.‘49 That the Guccifer 2.0 persona provided reporters access to a restricted portion of the DCLeaks
was a “Wiki eaks sub 15° 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, the Guccifer 2.0 persona sent the reporter an email stating that DCLeaks was
a “Wikileaks sub project” and that Guccifer 20 had asked DCLeaks to release the leaked emails with “
WikiLeaks’s First Contact with Guccifer 2.0 and DCLeaks Shortly after the GRU’s first release of stolen
documents through dcleaks.com in June 2016, GRU officers also used the DCLeaks persona to contact WikiLeaks
The Office was able to identify when the GRU (operating through its personas Guccifer 2.0 and DCLeaks
Similar communications occurred between WikiLeaks and the GRU-operated persona DCLeaks.
On September 15, 2016, @dcleaks wrote to @WikiLeaks, “hi there! I'm from DC Leaks.
29/16 Email, [email protected] H (The email appears to have been undelivered.) 16“ See SM-2589105-DCLEAKS
Department of Justice Guccifer 2.0 persona informed DCLeaks that WikiLeaks was trying to contact
DCLeaks and arrange for a way to speak through encrypted emails.170 An analysis of the metadata collected
DCLeaks email account [email protected] sent an email to a WikiLeaks account with the subject
“Submission” and the message “Hi from DCLeaks.”
On September 22, 2016 (the same day of DCLeaks’ email to WikiLeaks), theTwitte. account 1 dcleaks sent
election from these accounts and computers, and disseminated that data through fictitious online personas (DCLeaks
Prior to the July 22, 20l6 release, were you aware from any source that WikiLeaks, Guccifer 2.0, DCLeaks
representatives of WikiLeaks, (d) Guccifer 2.0, (e) representatives of Guecifer 2.0, or (t) representatives of DCLeaks
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