Why Is Robert Mueller Interested in a Private Intelligence Firm Called 'PSY Group'?

[orangecrush]

Meetings between Trump campaign officials and representatives of an intelligence firm that promises to "shape reality" are reportedly of particular interest.
By Alex Kasprak 23 May 2018
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On 19 May 2018, the New York Times first reported on an 3 August 2016 meeting arranged by Blackwater founder Erik Prince; it was attended by Donald Trump Jr., George Nader (who represented himself as an emissary of two wealthy princes, one from Saudi Arabia and one from the United Arab Emirates), and an “Israeli specialist in social media manipulation” named Joel Zamel:

[Erik Prince, the private security contractor and the former head of Blackwater, arranged the meeting, which took place on Aug. 3, 2016. The emissary, George Nader, told Donald Trump Jr. that the princes who led Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates were eager to help his father win election as president.]

The social media specialist, Joel Zamel, extolled his company’s ability to give an edge to a political campaign; by that time, the firm had already drawn up a multimillion-dollar proposal for a social media manipulation effort to help elect Mr. Trump.

Though Zamel is associated with several high-profile companies — including the Israeli-founded, Washington, D.C.-based consulting firm Wikistrat — the company he was representing at this particular Trump Tower meeting was a secretive entity called PSY Group, whose somewhat ominous motto is “Shape Reality.” Their proposal, as described by the Times, involved the use of thousands of fake Facebook profiles:

[Mr. Zamel had been working on a proposal for a covert multimillion-dollar online manipulation campaign to help elect Mr. Trump, according to three people involved and a fourth briefed on the effort. The plan involved using thousands of fake social media accounts to promote Mr. Trump’s candidacy on platforms like Facebook.]

Currently, the company’s official site is extremely sparse, showing only their corporate logo and a Cypriot business address that is also the address of the Cyprus branch of an international firm that “predominantly serves professional intermediary and corporate clients in Cyprus, Russia and [Central and Eastern Europe].


https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/05/23/why-mueller-interested-psy-group/



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[NCTraveler]

1. WSJ from yesterday.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/israeli-intelligence-company-formed-venture-with-trump-campaign-firm-cambridge-analytica-1527030765

[orangecrush]

3. Thanks!

[C_U_L8R]

2. Shape reality ?? !!

These awful folks would make Dick Cheney's pacemaker for pitter-pat

[orangecrush]

4. PSY warfare for hire.

We are the targets.

[MineralMan]

5. Here's a pdf file of a brochure from PsyGroup

http://www.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/psygroup.pdf?mod=article_inline

[orangecrush]

7. Psyops is a form of warfare

in this case the target was American voters.


Thanks for the link!

[spanone]

9. wow!

PSY is managed by an elite group of high-ranking officers from one of the world’s most renowned intelligence agencies

oh really! who might that be?

[NCTraveler]

10. For the most part, Israel.

They seem to be pretty open about that aspect.

[sunonmars]

6. payments through cypriot banks putting Wilbur Ross in the frame.

[orangecrush]

8. And hopefully

putting a few conspirators in jail.