Kevin Helson

“ In this email, U.S. Person 1 told BUTINA that
If you were to sit down with your special friends and make a list of ALL the most important contacts you could find in America for a time when the political situation between the U.S. and Russia will change, you could NOT do better than the list that I just emailed you. NO one—certainly not the "official" Russian Federation public relations representative in New York—could build a better list. And for a variety of current political reasons, the current Russian ambassadors to the United States and United Nations do not even try. ”

“ The Russian government engages in a range of malign activity around the globe, including continuing to occupy Crimea and instigate violence in eastern Ukraine, supplying the Assad regime with material and weaponry as they bomb their own civilians, attempting to subvert Western democracies, and malicious cyber activities. Russian oligarchs and elites who profit from this corrupt system will no longer be insulated from the consequences of their government's destabilizing activities. ”

“ On February 6, 2017, BUTINA emailed a National Prayer Breakfast organizer to thank him for "the gift of you [sic] precious time during the National Prayer Breakfast week—and for the very private meeting that followed. A new relationship between two countries always begins better when it begins in faith. Once you have a chance to rest after last week's events, I have important information for you to further this new relationship. ”