Twelve GRU officers indicted over the 2016 election hacks
Alleged: Reported or claimed; not established in the public record.
On 13 July 2018 twelve Russian intelligence officers were accused in an indictment from the Mueller investigation of trying to interfere in the 2016 US election, including a hack of the Democratic National Committee. The indictment says they worked for the GRU and released tens of thousands of documents under pseudonyms such as “Guccifer 2.0” and “DC Leaks”. The Senate Intelligence Committee released Volume 5 of its bipartisan Russia report on 18 August 2020.
Documented
The indictment is public and PBS reproduced it. The Senate Committee’s release of Volume 5 on counterintelligence threats and vulnerabilities is on its website.
Claimed, disputed or not established
An indictment is an allegation. The sources opened do not report any trial of the accused.
Sources (opened in a new tab)
- PBS NewsHour: Mueller’s indictment of 12 Russian officers (13 Jul 2018) ↗https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/read-muellers-full-indictment-against-12-russian-officers-for-election-interference
- Senate Intelligence Committee: Volume 5 release (18 Aug 2020) ↗https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/2020/08/18/press-senate-intel-releases-volume-5-bipartisan-russia-report/
Connected
- Section: Russia and the USSR
- Agencies: GRU
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