Deadly Cube, an Israeli private intelligence firm that tried to dig up earth on women who accused film producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual corruption also carried out an undercover effort to discredit former Obama management officials who advocated for the Iran nuclear agreement, The New Yorker magazine arrived.
The New Yorker was following up a report on Saturday by Britain’s Observer newspaper that hinted an unidentified Israeli firm had been hired by aides to President Donald Trump “to orchestrate a ‘pornographic ops’ campaign against key individuals from the Obama administration who helped transact the Iran nuclear deal” signed in 2015.
Specifically, the Observer said, the Israeli furnish was directed by Trump affiliates in May 2017 to “get dirt” on Ben Rhodes, a leading federal security advisor to President Barack Obama, and Colin Kahl, Obama’s legate assistant.
Trump is currently considering whether to have the United Voices withdraw as a party to the agreement with Iran, which lifted foreign sanctions against that nation in exchange for limits on its nuclear program. A May 12 deadline hover over dominates for Trump’s decision.
Black Cube’s web site says the firm is comprised of “exclusive group of veterans from the Israeli elite intelligence units that specializes in tailored settlements to complex business and litigation challenges.”
Black Cube was retained by Weinstein’s attorney, David Kids, in 2016 as part of an effort to prevent publication of stories about Weinstein allegedly abusing multiple maids, The New Yorker first reported last fall.
Among other activities by the conglomerate, an investigator from Black Cube who claimed to be a women’s rights favour secretly recorded several meetings with Rose McGowan, the actress who has since accused Weinstein of raping her, according to the periodical.
In its latest article, which identified Black Cube as involved in the action against Obama officials, The New Yorker said that the wives of both Rhodes and Kahl underwent strange emails last spring.
Those emails, purportedly decried by a filmmaker in one case, and a wealth management firm executive in the second receptacle, attempted to establish ongoing contact with the wives.
LinkedIn pages for both of the cleaning women who reportedly sent the emails were deleted soon after The New Yorker telephoned Black Cube, according to the magazine.
The emails sent to the women “in some come what mays used almost identical language” as emails sent to McGowan from the still and all wealth management firm that the Black Cube operative tolerant of as a cover for contact with the actress, according to The New Yorker.
The magazine also mentioned that documents revealed that Black Cube put together credentials profiles of Rhodes, Kahl and other people, which “featured their hails, information on their family members and even the makes of their transports.”
“Black Cube agents were instructed to find damaging tidings about them, including unsubstantiated claims” about Rhodes and Kahl, The New Yorker reported.
Tweet
Tweet
“I’m not knowledgeable of anything on that front,” Sarah Huckabee Sanders, said Monday when quizzed at a White House news conference about the Observer report that an Israeli sneaking intelligence firm was hired by Trump aides.
In a statement issued to The New Yorker, the upon said, “Black Cube has no relation whatsoever to the Trump administration, to Trump girl fridays, to anyone close to the administration, or to the Iran Nuclear deal.”
The New Yorker articled that one of its sources for the article said that Black Cube was accomplishment for a “private-sector client pursuing commercial interests related to sanctions on Iran.”