}else{ if (document.mmm_fo) document.write ("&mmm_fo=1"); He's, you know, the private military contractor. So somebody was just waiting - and it turned out to be me and Mark - to come along and make the connection between the Sofia de LaRocca (ph) out in Wyoming and "Maria," quote, unquote, on the Project Veritas Exposed website. And then Mark Mazzetti, you know, my colleague, who just is an extraordinary journalist, we - you know, we managed to suss out what was going - we think - to a great degree what was going on in Wyoming and these other states. So, you know, this is not something I had ever done as a - you know, this is not something journalists do. Erik Prince, the founder of private military company Blackwater, whose sister Betsy DeVos was Trump's education secretary, trained the spies Their job was to find out who was disparaging Trump. Prince, Mr. Seddon and other topics, but he called his group a proud independent news organization that is involved in dozens of investigations. Mr. When does he do this, and do we know why? Between 1992 and 2001, Prince often listed Park County as his home, consistent with his voting records. The companys principal office is listed as being at the Prince familys ranch in Wapiti, though the mailing address is a property in Virginia. Why were they targeting H.R. Blackwater founder Erik Prince arranged for political activist James O'Keefe's conservative group Project Veritas to receive more than one round of "training in intelligence and elicitation. I'm Dave Davies, in for Terry Gross, who's off this week. McMaster, Trump's second national security adviser. GOLDMAN: Yeah. You know, we had - we talked to many, many people who worked there, and, you know, they described Seddon as wanting to do more long-term operations - right? GOLDMAN: I was going to say, you know, talking to Republicans, moderate Republicans, I mean, moderate - these guys are pretty conservative, by the way - when we're describing it as moderate Republicans they were targeting. DAVIES: Right. It is unclear how many potential donors Mr. There's a long backstory there. Friday crash claims lives of Powell sisters, Powell resident now leads open lands organization, Authorities say they caught Cody man selling meth, Game and Fish plan set for aquatic invasive species threat, 128 South Bent StreetPowell, WY 82435 That was certainly a catalyst. Regardless, Princes residency is not the real issue in the case. Separately, Ms. Gore unsuccessfully tried to raise money for the project from Foster Friess, a billionaire Wyoming businessman, during a January 2019 meeting, three people said. Erik Prince doesn't live in the state, he's from the same party as the incumbent, Sen. John Barrasso, and he's best known for founding a private security firm, Blackwater, that was kicked out of . So what I'm saying is from Richard Seddon's standpoint, the fact that she had a picture up on Project Veritas Exposed, that was a real risk they were taking, right? We rely on our journalists to be independent observers. She actually got a contract fundraising gig with the Democrats, right? One of the former spies, an ex-MI6 officer named Richard Seddon, helped run a 2017 operation to copy files and record conversations in a Michigan office of the American Federation of Teachers, one of the largest teachers unions in the nation. Anyone can read what you share. Did it expand the number of people that they had? GOLDMAN: Yeah, I think they nearly tripled the number of people they hired. DAVIES: Coming up, rock critic Ken Tucker reviews new songs by veteran artist Tom Jones, Jackson Browne and John Mayer. After Mr. Gordon won a close Republican primary battle against Mr. Friess, the billionaire, in August 2018, Mr. Friess blamed his loss on Democrats switching parties on Election Day to vote for Mr. Gordon. zoneId = 'Array'; And then I talked to somebody else. WASHINGTON During the summer of 2018, as Richard Seddon, a former British spy, was trying to launch a new venture to use undercover agents to infiltrate progressive groups, Democratic campaigns and other opponents of President Donald J. Trump, he turned for help to a longtime friend and former colleague: Erik Prince, the private military contractor. James OKeefe, a conservative activist, founded Project Veritas. But the effort is a glimpse of a vigorous private campaign to try to undermine political groups or individuals perceived to be in opposition to Mr. Trumps agenda. And he was pitching that plan, but it never got anywhere. They've targeted CNN. But I think - you would think that Democrats and Republicans would all be united, that this is a bipartisan issue, right? As the founder of Blackwater USA, now Academi, a private military company, Prince headed the organization. That's how you found them, and that's what raised the question? We know that because Glenn put it up on his Instagram account. Mr. But what is clear is if Beau and Sofia made these campaign contributions - right? Both operations were run by Project Veritas, a conservative group that has gained attention using hidden cameras and microphones for sting operations on news organizations, Democratic politicians and liberal advocacy groups. AFT Michigan sued Project Veritas in federal court, alleging trespassing, eavesdropping and other offenses. DAVIES: That's the Government Accountability Office. Of course, everybody's familiar with Watergate, right? Their names are Beau Maier and Sofia LaRocca, and they're in Las Vegas for a Democratic primary debate. Of course. GOLDMAN: In some instances, they were on, you know, these social - these dating apps, right? This item is available in full to subscribers. The next year, during a presidential debate with Hillary Clinton, Mr. Trump claimed without substantiation that videos released by Mr. OKeefe showed that Mrs. Clinton and President Barack Obama had paid people to incite violence at rallies for Mr. Trump. Using a different alias the next year, the same undercover operative infiltrated the congressional campaign of Abigail Spanberger, then a former C.I.A. Prince declined to comment. You mentioned that he was recruited by Erik Prince. He is married to an American diplomat, Alice Seddon, who is serving in the American consulate in Lagos, Nigeria. During a meeting in a Las Vegas suburb last April of employees of Ms. Gores organization, the Wyoming Liberty Group, Mr. Seddon pitched a proposal to build a website where other so-called preppers could buy their own supplies and communicate with each other in the event of what he called a Black Swan moment a major terrorist attack, another pandemic or a civil war. Erik Prince conducts business around the globe, but in a pending lawsuit, he says he does the bulk of his work from Wyoming. And, you know, eventually she starts using this to meet other prominent Democrats in the state. For example, a 2017 meeting he attended with a crown prince of the United Arab Emirates and an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin became a part of the impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump, whom he has served as informal adviser. They targeted somebody from the Justice Department, and I wrote they also targeted FBI employees. What are traditional political dirty tricks? Mr. Seddon was not. (SOUNDBITE OF GOGOL BORDELLO'S "NOT A CRIME"). And that one was made public. DAVIES: Now, one of the more well-known operations - because, well, you reported on this - was an effort to embarrass Trump's national security adviser, H.R. Presiding Judge Johnson, who is based in Cheyenne, has himself signaled some uncertainty about whether Wyoming is the right place for Princes case to be heard; in early November, Johnson asked the parties to submit additional briefs on either transferring the case to another district or delving further into the issues related to jurisdiction. And they targeted - Project Veritas had a whole series. I believed that to be true at the time that I signed my declaration, Prince wrote, but I have since come to learn that I was mistaken.. It's my understanding he designed the training exercises, which could have included, like, you know, going out to bars in Cody and trying to get people's names and numbers, how to pitch somebody in an elevator, how to spot people who could potentially provide you information. In 2010, Mr. O Keefe and three others pleaded guilty to a federal misdemeanor after admitting they entered a government building in New Orleans under false pretenses as part of a sting. Prince is under investigation by the Justice Department over whether he lied to a congressional committee examining Russian interference in the 2016 election, and for possible violations of American export laws. Prince a former C.I.A. All rights reserved. Prince said he regularly host[s] customers, investors, employees and other business associates at my Wyoming ranch.. O'Keefe did not respond to the substance of the Times' report but did accuse the newspaper of running a "smear piece" on Project Veritas. One target in particular was Gov. Trump, of course, wanted to pull out. In 2016, Republican operatives believed they had obtained deleted Hillary Clinton emails from the dark web, and sought Mr. Princes assistance to authenticate them, an episode investigated by Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel in the Trump-era Russia inquiry. In 2018, Ms. Jorge infiltrated the congressional campaign of Ms. Spanberger, posing as a campaign volunteer. AMY GOODMAN: In Wyoming. GOLDMAN: Yeah. GOLDMAN: What - the training they got was when they worked for an outfit called Project Veritas. Seddon left the project in 2018, before O'Keefe started releasing low-impact "unmasking the deep state" videos. The scope of that investigation is unclear. We still don't know everything about it, and we're trying to learn more about exactly who was behind this and if money was paid and so on. Mr. OKeefe earned about $387,000. Erik Prince Recruits Ex-Spies to Help Infiltrate Liberal Groups, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/07/us/politics/erik-prince-project-veritas.html. And I think the end goal was make a video and, if necessary, try to get the White House to fire McMaster. Mr. The ex-undercover British spy, Richard Seddon, trained conservative operatives first at the Prince family ranch in Wyoming, then at a large, $10,000-a-month house near Georgetown University. Erik Prince Helped Raise Money for Conservative Spy Venture, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/08/us/politics/erik-prince-spy-operation-trump-democrats.html. GOLDMAN: Well, again, this is a little murky. If Judge Johnson concludes he lacks jurisdiction to hear the case in Wyoming, Princes attorneys say the suit should be transferred to the Southern District of New York, where The Intercept is based. Last year, Project Veritas submitted a proposed list of witnesses for the trial over the lawsuit. Although he owns a home in Wapiti, Prince is not generally known as a Wyoming businessman. And I certainly don't think he thought he was going to get dragged into this. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Mr. And we've written about that. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information. Funneling contributions through a third party is a feature of the federal election code and most state election codes. So it was a fascinating moment in time last year when I realized what I suspected Beau and Sofia were doing. He did not mention the inquiries from the Powell Tribune about his lapsed registration that preceded his vote. Ledeen said "someone she trusted" contacted her to help with the McMaster operation. Is this stuff a crime? In 2016, a Project Veritas operative infiltrated Democracy Partners using a fake name and fabricated rsum and made secret recordings of the staff. She and Mr. They were, in fact, going to use a former Project Veritas operative named Tarah Price, who lives in the Dallas area, to, you know, possibly ensnare McMaster at a restaurant, get him to say something ill toward or maybe negative about Trump, something that would compromise him. Prince a former C.I.A. However, the story quoted a former U.S. Treasury official who suggested simply making an offer to assist Wagner might have violated current U.S. sanctions in place against the Russian firm. She was involved in that. You know, I've covered politics for a long time myself, mostly at the state and local level. While he has not been actively involved in Wyoming politics specifically, Prince comes from a political family he is the brother of U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and is an active political donor. Female undercover operatives tried to entrap FBI agents, sometimes using fake dating app profiles, and State Department employees, the Times reports. For example, Rolling Stone published an investigative piece in October, The New York Times broke the news of Princes potential run on Oct. 8, 2017, in another interview with Breitbart a few days later, identified the site as the Prince ranch in a 2019 article, asserting Prince participated in a plan to dampen turnout among Black voters, Powered by Creative Circle Media Solutions. A spokesman for Mr. And, you know, I'm not sure when the relationship started. You know, Princes are pretty savvy. Months later, in June 2019, a report said we are expecting a big haul, including new lines of intelligence on the Republican side of the house.. Prince has previously been involved in trying to find dirt on Democratic politicians. "Somebody who had his calendar conveyed to me that he goes to Tosca all the time," she said, and she passed the information on to a man she believed to be a Project Veritas operative with a fake name. And, of course, that was an entree into a larger circle of prominent Democrats. Mr. Seddon was a longtime British intelligence officer who served around the world, including in Washington in the years after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. At the time I signed my [September] declaration I believed Jones Creek and CMNS to be Wyoming entities, but I have subsequently learned they are not; I believe they are Delaware entities, Prince wrote in the document, which he signed from California. And they were deeply critical of Trump. Sofia makes a contribution - a small contribution to a woman she had befriended who ran, unsuccessfully, for the Wyoming state legislature. DAVIES: You know, the other thing that I wanted to just clarify to the extent I can is how much of a driving force Erik Prince was in this. Richard Seddon, in 2018, I guess, decided to stop working with Project Veritas. You know, a big question about the stories that you've described is, is this activity illegal, what the couple did in Wyoming, you know, presenting themselves as - dishonestly as active Democrats in order to get information? The two men had known each other since Mr. Princes days running Blackwater, and shared an affinity for guns and the American West. And Mr. O'Keefe disclosed that Foster Friess had actually given Project Veritas money. (Photo: Gerry Broome/AP) MIDDLEBURG, Va. A cheery fire warmed the glass-walled conservatory of the Goodstone Inn in Virginia's. And they will attend their rival's news conferences, public events and gather information. DAVIES: Right. document.write ("&loc=" + escape(window.location)); You know, O'Keefe has clearly raised a lot of money, you know, millions of dollars. You know, there was one exercise, I believe, where they had a cop - you know, a local cop who was there. McMaster. We'll talk more about his stories on undercover operations by conservatives to infiltrate Democratic and progressive groups after a short break. Published October 16, 2017. DAVIES: Right. Mr. Princes role in the effort, which has not been previously disclosed, sheds further light on how a group of ultraconservative Republicans employed spycraft to try to manipulate the American political landscape. officer who went on to win an important House seat in Virginia as a Democrat. ADAM GOLDMAN: They went there after making sizable donations to the DNC, the Democratic National Committee - $10,000 each - at the request of a Colorado businessman who was a - he's a fundraiser for the Democrats and basically said, if you make this donation, you can come and hang out in Las Vegas. DAVIES: Right. It is, instead, an entity dedicated to a specific political agenda.. And, you know, there were a whole range of people they went after. Blackwater Worldwide founder Erik Prince is considering a Republican primary challenge to Wyoming Senator John Barrasso, a senior member of the Senate GOP leadership team, in a race that could pit the party's establishment against insurgents inspired by allies of President Donald Trump. 1-307-754-2221. So while Times staff members may vote, they are not allowed to endorse or campaign for candidates or political causes. They were, in fact, undercover spies who had been building a cover as eager Democrats when, in fact, they were anything but that. Did it help, you know, Project Veritas raise more money? McMaster? To continue reading, you will need to either log in to your subscriber account, or purchase a subscription. And I think the Intercept geolocated that photo and determined it was Erik Prince's ranch. DAVIES: But the idea was that these public officials or FBI agents were secretly - they were part of the deep state. The Defense Department didn't go for it. Wyoming is not the place for security contractor Erik Prince to sue a New York-based publication, a federal judge says. He worked with the former national security adviser Michael T. Flynn during the presidential transition. They broke into the DNC. Now, you mentioned Project Veritas. DAVIES: Right. Prince said he wanted the Project Veritas employees to learn skills like how to recruit sources and how to conduct clandestine recordings, among other surveillance techniques. DAVIES: Right. But "one of the most brazen operations of the campaign" was an attempt to take down H.R. How Times reporters cover politics. We are speaking with Adam Goldman. And they received what was essentially clandestine training at a ranch in Wyoming that's owned by the family of Erik Prince. He'll be back to talk more about his stories on undercover operations by conservatives to infiltrate democratic and progressive groups after this short break. It also seems, to me, murky. One celebrated alum: Betsy DeVos's brother, Erik Prince, 49, the swashbuckling military contractor who has come to the serious attention of investigators looking into the Trump team's alleged. And the operatives had to give a - you know, had to give a cover story under duress. DAVIES: And when we say they targeted these public officials or FBI agents, what would they do? - were directed to make them or reimbursed for them, then that's a potential crime. It seems like the Democrats have figured out this party switch deal to their advantage, Mr. Friess wrote in an email obtained by Wyofile, a political news site in Wyoming. So he had pitched this idea of a private security force to largely replace American troops in Afghanistan. Remind us who they are and what they've done. He's proposed similar things in other countries, hasn't he? Prince recruited Mr. Seddon to join the conservative group Project Veritas to teach espionage skills to its operatives and manage its undercover operations. He's a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times. A man named Samuel Chamberlain who matched the description of the one employed by Mr. OKeefe denied he worked for Project Veritas. I believe he was involved in an effort to battle pirates in Somalia. But he was extremely wealthy conservative in Wyoming named Foster Friess, who had actually run for governor in '18. DAVIES: We need to take a break here. The New York Times broke the news of Princes potential run on Oct. 8, 2017, saying hed recently traveled to Wyoming to explore ways to establish residency there., The following day, Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow asked Prince whether the Times report was real or fake news, mentioning, Im not 100% positive on your connection to Wyoming.. These two are conservatives, right? She said the support she got from other teams was 'overwhelming. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. The McMaster operation was aborted after he, unrelated to Project Veritas, resigned under pressure from Trump. I also think that - I think recently, too, O'Keefe, did a photo op or made a video with Donald Trump. And this website is devoted to revealing the identities of Project Veritas operatives. But we were unaware of that. And then on a parallel but different track, you know, Sofia is trying to make her way through the Young Democrats of Wyoming, the Wyoming Democratic Party, you know, building her bona fides as an eager, young Democrat. Ms. Jorge, 25, did not respond to email addresses associated with her Liberty University account. When a muckraking news site published a story alleging private security contractor and Blackwater founder Erik Prince had offered his services to a Russian mercenary firm, the connections to Wyoming were not obvious; the state was never mentioned in the piece. [I] was a Wyoming resident for many years,, That same day Oct. 9, 2017 Prince obtained a Wyomings drivers license, which he touted, In early 2017, Prince reportedly welcomed James OKeefe and others from the conservative group Project Veritas, which describes itself as an army of guerrilla journalists. That February, OKeefe tweeted an image of himself taking aim with a silenced handgun amid snowy mountains, saying the team was undergoing intense training from a classified location as we make Project Veritas the next great intelligence agency. The Intercept ultimately, Other outlets, however, have continued writing about the contractor. We're going to take a break here. And then he stays on working for a Project Veritas till roughly June of '18. In a book published in 2018, Mr. OKeefe wrote that Mr. Trump years earlier had encouraged him to infiltrate Columbia University and obtain Mr. Obamas records. Park County records show he also skipped Augusts primary election, but Prince said he had intended to vote in Wyoming this year. Prince said he learned he wasnt registered when I went to cast my early vote for the general election in late September. Prince and Mr. Seddon met in August 2018 with Susan Gore, a Wyoming heiress to the Gore-Tex fortune, Ms. Gore became the projects main benefactor. Last week, our guest, reporter Adam Goldman, co-authored a story about a couple who ingratiated themselves with Democrats in Wyoming, often making substantial political contributions to ensure their access to valuable information. DAVIES: Right. Set some context for us here. DAVIES: That's an airport in Cody, Wyo. Prince is separately under investigation by the Justice Department on unrelated matters, according to people familiar with the case. I'm not sure that just because he's a conservative, this is something he wanted to help. Do we know? They were going to bug it. And then, you know, they both end up giving to the DNC. What kind of inroads did they make? Those contentions have become a key point of early proceedings in the case. I'm Dave Davies. You know, they were always - you know, always on the lookout for connections they could make. But in a pending lawsuit, Prince asserts the April 13 story from The Intercept was false, defamatory and aimed at Wyoming. Because of the article, Prince says his reputation and professional opportunities within Wyoming suffered, along with his business interests and reputation in general. I have always understood him to be a resident of Northern Virginia, the lead writer of The Intercepts April story, Matthew Cole, wrote in a declaration. if (document.MAX_used != ',') document.write ("&exclude=" + document.MAX_used); He's a former British intelligence officer who served in Washington, D.C., and in Pakistan and eventually leaves the British Secret Intelligence Service and develops some relationship with Erik Prince, a security contractor, and ends up being director of field operations at the conservative group known as Project Veritas. No one tells Project Veritas who or what to investigate, he said. Read more about the operation and its cast of characters at The New York Times. During the 2018 meeting with Ms. Gore, according to one person familiar with it, Mr. 'https://powellbanners.creativecirclemedia.com/www/delivery/ajs.php':'http://powellbanners.creativecirclemedia.com/www/delivery/ajs.php'); A document that month said that Mr. Seddons operatives had identified three potential sources in the new governors administration and have begun accelerated cultivations with a view to early recruitment., Later in January, the operatives wrote that they had successfully recruited another source with a role in the new governors administration, adding that the source has agreed to provide insights, help expose corruption and assist with eventual placement of undercovers.. Prince, the former head of Blackwater Worldwide and the brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, has at times served as an informal adviser to Trump administration officials. In 2017, he met with White House and Pentagon officials to pitch a plan to privatize the Afghan war using contractors in lieu of American troops. And GOLDMAN: Involving Roy Moore - exactly. But if the case was transferred to New York, that states laws could apply. A local farmer was utilizing the land to grow corn and soybean crops, but the potential for the ranch was far from being realized. And it would - you know, and make an enormous amount of money. And by the way, as we began reporting this, we started learning more about Beau's connection to people. He was dismayed, three former Project Veritas employees told the Times, with "O'Keefe's desire to produce quick media content rather than to run long-term infiltration operations." Prince have ties to President Trumps aides and family. 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', Death toll keeps rising in Greece's deadliest train crash, US Attorney General Merrick Garland testifies before Senate Judiciary Committee, Lineup announced for this years Capitol Hill Block Party, There's no shortage of salt for NYC roads, Temple University students march and protest to demand better safety. And his son - he brought his son, who was a former army officer, on board to help. And so we're all familiar with that, I think, to some extent. GOLDMAN: It's not clear they're actually being trained in firearms training. However, lawyers for the publication say they should not have to reveal who told them about Princes alleged meeting with Wagner Group or where they were told it occurred. Our understanding of the operation is that Mr. Seddon, while employed, in fact, at Project Veritas, was involved in this. GOLDMAN: I think - yeah, I think the latest is - you know, he's worked - his latest adventure is in Libya. 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