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(SBU) The United States intelligence community has recently assessed with high con?dence that the
recent disclosures of alleged hacked emails on sites like DCLeaks.eom, and WikiLeaks, and by
Guccifer 2.0 are consistent with the methods and motivations of Russian-directed efforts. Given the
scope of those efforts, the intelligence community has concluded that they are almost certainly
directed by senior Russian government of?cials.

 

 

 

 

(SBU) The US. govemment?will provide resources to ensure the sanctity of our electoral systems.
The Department of Homeland Security has already been working effectively with more than 30 states
to fortify their systems, in addition DHS has engaged a number of local jurisdictions.

(SBU) Pro-Kremlin NGOs and Think Tanks

(SBU) In the United States, an organization known as the ?Human Rights Accountability Global

Initiative," is.working to erode support for the Magnitsky Act, which imposes sanctions on persons
responsible for the death of Sergey Magnitsky and other gross human rights violations. The
organization screened an anti-Magnitsky ?lm at Washington?s Newseum in June. Circumstantial
evidence suggests the organization?s funding is connected to individuals who bene?ted from the tax
fraud that Magnitsky uncovered in 2008.

(SBU) Russian Activities in Nations

(SBU) There has been much public reporting on Russian actions in many Allied and Partner states,
and we note that Russia has focused signi?cant resources on speci?c Partners, like Sweden and
Finland. Russian actors are suspected of being behind recent efforts to in?ltrate Sweden with
distorted and false information about NATO in the Swedish press, at think tank events, and on social
media, notably in the run-up to the 2016 Swedish rati?cation of the NATO Host Nation Support

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Agreement, confusing public perceptions about Sweden' 5 partnership with the Al_.liance Russia is also
suspected of carrying cut cyber attacks against Swedish media outlets in March 2016. SAPO the
Swedish Security Service, look the unprecedented step last April of publicly stating that at least one
individual involved in the debate over cooperation witlilNATO, on the anti-NATO side, was directly
connected to Russian intelligence.

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