You know, in this recent story that you wrote with Mark Mazzetti of the Times, you introduce us to a couple. Neither party wants to be, you know, exposed to this kind of spycraft - right? DAVIES: So an active player in the Trump world. We rely on our journalists to be independent observers. 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. And they were doing this - it appears that they were doing this from the house where Beau and Sofia lived with others. DAVIES: Let me reintroduce you again. What did they show? contractor who is best known as the founder of the private military firm Blackwater and whose sister, Betsy DeVos, was Mr. Trump's education secretary has drawn. They targeted NPR. The emails refer to other operations, including weekly case updates, along with training activities that involved operational targeting. Project Veritas redacted specifics about those operations from the messages. DAVIES: Right. And, you know, I'm not sure when the relationship started. You know, again, as when Barbara Ledeen, the staffer for the Senate Judiciary Committee, which was run by Chuck Grassley, you know, was trying to find Hillary Clinton's missing emails, and Prince gets involved in that, too. Efforts to locate Mr. Thomas were unsuccessful. Wagner which The Intercept described as a semi-private military force that operates in countries or conflicts where the Russian government seeks plausible deniability for its activities reportedly turned down Princes offer. GOLDMAN: Well, that's a great question and one we struggle with at the Times in trying to put this in context. Were just trying to hold them accountable for this industrial espionage.. Did it expand the number of people that they had? Many conservatives have gleefully pounced on Project Veritass disclosures, including one particularly influential voice: Donald Trump Jr., the presidents eldest son. We'll talk about Project Veritas in a moment. 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. So there has been - the two have interacted, I think, even before Trump was president. Project Veritas tax filings list Mr. Halderman as a project manager.. Princes attorneys responded that, if the judge has any doubts about Wyoming being the appropriate venue for the case, they should be allowed to learn the identity of The Intercepts confidential sources. Prince and former British spy Richard Seddon both did work for the organization. You know, this is something we haven't seen, right? And last year, I learned that Beau and Sofia had been working out of this house in Georgetown. Prince might have approached for money for Mr. Seddons venture besides Ms. Gore. Mr. OKeefe and others shared social media photos of taking target practice with guns at the ranch, including one post from Mr. OKeefe saying that with the training, Project Veritas will be the next great intelligence agency. Mr. - 500, 1000. During the 2018 meeting with Ms. Gore, according to one person familiar with it, Mr. 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. Is this stuff a crime? DAVIES: This is FRESH AIR. Prince also allowed Project Veritas to use his familys Wyoming ranch for training. Princes parents, Elsa Prince and the late Edgar Prince, bought the 940-acre Double E Ranch in the Wapiti Valley in the early 1990s. Mr. Funneling contributions through a third party is a feature of the federal election code and most state election codes. It was Maria (ph). DAVIES: Adam Goldman, thank you so much for speaking with us. McMaster, Trump's second national security adviser. We know that because Glenn put it up on his Instagram account. DAVIES: Let's talk about some of the people who are behind this. There's an annual one, Nellie T. Ross Banquet, and I believe it's in Cheyenne every February. He said that he did not think so. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. 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. Well, that and - by the way, at some point - I don't know the time period. Mr. Seddon used other former Project Veritas employees to help with the Wyoming operation, including James Artherton, a British operative code-named kimchi who was involved in a Project Veritas plan targeting an editor for The New York Times in London in 2017. The Intercept, however, wants the complaint dismissed. He gave the examples of Jones Creek and CMNS Systems. However, neither of those entities appear to be registered to do business in Wyoming; the only reference the Tribune could find to a company named CMNS Systems was an LLC formed in Delaware in August months after Prince filed his suit. And Prince comes up in the special council report - Robert Mueller's report. You know, they targeted the teachers unions. Erik Prince, a Park County resident and founder of the controversial private military firm Blackwater, is suing a national news organization in federal court in Wyoming after it published an. Erik Prince, the founder of controversial private military firm Blackwater and a supporter of former President Donald Trump, jumped into the COVID-19 business late last year with a deal to . Erik Prince, founder of the private military firm Blackwater, helped raise money for a political-intelligence operation run by Richard Seddon, a former British spy. Other outlets, however, have continued writing about the contractor. GOLDMAN: Beau does. GOLDMAN: Yes, very wealthy and very conservative. 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. McMaster was thwarting the president's agenda - right? He's been reporting on an effort by conservatives to train operatives in undercover operations to infiltrate progressive groups and Democrats. Ms. Jorge was eventually exposed and kicked out of the campaign office. 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. And they will get, you know, negative information from public records. Why did they want to embarrass him and get him out of the government? zoneId = 'Array'; And so these people were brought on to help manage these many, many, many, many operations. And they - the purpose for - they themselves will launch this undercover operation and then, you know, secretly record you - audio, video - and then make a video out of it and, you know, expose what they describe as wrongdoing. I'm not sure that just because he's a conservative, this is something he wanted to help. James OKeefe, the head of Project Veritas, declined to answer detailed questions about Mr. 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? Prince said he regularly host[s] customers, investors, employees and other business associates at my Wyoming ranch.. So he had pitched this idea of a private security force to largely replace American troops in Afghanistan. The McMaster operation was aborted after he, unrelated to Project Veritas, resigned under pressure from Trump. #Veritas pic.twitter.com/4IFvjKurGK, In the pending defamation case, Princes attorneys have cited that reporting as evidence The Intercept knew Prince did his business from Wyoming, going as far as to allege the articles unstated focus was on Princes reputation and livelihood in Wyoming., The Intercept attorneys, however, pointed to past statements from Prince and records indicating he lives in Virginia. There were steps taken to advance this plan, but in the end, it didn't happen because McMaster was fired. State records show Moyock Medical Supplies was formed in Wyoming by an associate of Princes on April 15 two days after The Intercept published its article. This is FRESH AIR. Jim Mattis, then the defense secretary, rejected the idea. And they would secretly record them, you know, and create content and then eventually, you know, release a video, like they did in several instances. So it was a fascinating moment in time last year when I realized what I suspected Beau and Sofia were doing. In 2016, a Project Veritas operative infiltrated Democracy Partners using a fake name and fabricated rsum and made secret recordings of the staff. You know, there was one exercise, I believe, where they had a cop - you know, a local cop who was there. Anyone can read what you share. It's not clear to me how close he is to Trump. But then they got reversed stung by the Post, which was quite a moment. And, you know, we wrote the story about the operation targeting McMaster and Georgetown. And then as I sort of gathered - started to gather information on this, I knew this was going to be a story. DAVIES: Right. DAVIES: Right - Erik Prince, the security contractor who we'll talk more about. The list included John Cox, then the director of the Wyoming Department of Workforce Services, and Scott Talbott, then the director of the Wyoming Game and Fish Department. But "one of the most brazen operations of the campaign" was an attempt to take down H.R. Adam Goldman is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times. They were undercover conservative operatives, the paper discovered, who had been trained at a ranch belonging to Blackwater founder Erik Prince by a former MI6 officer with ties to the right-wing . So, you know, this is not something I had ever done as a - you know, this is not something journalists do. Back in December, county commissioners approved a rezoning request for a multi-billionaire to develop an exclusive guest ranch in the southernmost part of the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem. Currently, Prince leads a Hong Kong-based firm providing security, logistics, insurance and infrastructure services in parts of Africa and other high-conflict areas. In 2018, Ms. Jorge infiltrated the congressional campaign of Ms. Spanberger, posing as a campaign volunteer. On Sept. 30, Prince personally visited the Park County Elections Office, registered and cast a general election ballot, according to the clerks office. 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." 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. DAVIES: 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. I'm Dave Davies, in for Terry Gross, who's off this week. 'https://powellbanners.creativecirclemedia.com/www/delivery/ajs.php':'http://powellbanners.creativecirclemedia.com/www/delivery/ajs.php'); GOLDMAN: What - the training they got was when they worked for an outfit called Project Veritas. But when I learned about Beau and Sofia last year - there's a website, Project Veritas Exposed. And Mr. O'Keefe disclosed that Foster Friess had actually given Project Veritas money. (Last week, Trump pardoned the four Blackwater guards who were convicted of crimes in connection with the killings in Baghdad.). DAVIES: They'd gotten formal training in this. She said the support she got from other teams was 'overwhelming. One of the documents indicates that Marti Halverson, a former Wyoming state lawmaker, provided a list of people for the operatives to target. In the case of the FBI, you know, they were looking for bias to see if somebody - they could get somebody to say something anti-Trump, which, of course, fit the theme at the time because, you know, these infamous text messages between these two FBI officials who had worked on the Russia investigation - the FBI's Russia investigation had come out, right? And another individual named Barbara Ledeen, who worked for a prominent senator, his committee - Chuck Grassley - she admitted her involvement, and she had actually said she had met with a Project Veritas operative. Sofia makes a contribution - a small contribution to a woman she had befriended who ran, unsuccessfully, for the Wyoming state legislature. Their attorneys wrote that the story did not focus its efforts on or in Wyoming, nor would it have any reason to do so . - where you have people in your organization who aren't who they say they are, you know, collecting intelligence, if that's what you want to call it. His uncle is the conservative commentator Glenn Beck. 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. Erik Prince, founder and CEO of Blackwater Worldwide, in 2008. However, in all of the 74 campaign donations hes made since 2002 including a $3,042.86 donation to the Wyoming Republican Party in 2016 Prince has been identified with a Virginia address. var m3_u = (location.protocol=='https:'? I'm Dave Davies. Over two years, Mr. Seddons undercover operatives also developed networks in Colorado and Arizona, and made thousands of dollars in campaign donations posing as Democrats, both to the Democratic National Committee and individual campaigns. Wapiti resident Erik Prince is one of several people associated with a Wyoming-based effort to infiltrate political campaigns and get "dirt" to sabotage candidates. According to the documents, Mr. Seddons operatives also aimed to dig up information on Steve Harshman, the Republican speaker of the House in Wyoming at the time, who was also seen by some conservatives as not sufficiently supportive of Mr. Trump. I'm Dave Davies, in for Terry Gross, who's off this week. DAVIES: Wow. They make significant political contributions, right? GOLDMAN: Well, again, this is a little murky. 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.. 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. If he enters the race, he would be challenging Republican incumbent John Barrasso in the 2018 primaries, with the encouragement of Steve Bannon. You know, Princes are pretty savvy. How Times reporters cover politics. Emails sent to Mr. Seddon went unanswered. In particular, you know, Sofia targeted a employee with the GAO. There was eventually litigation about that, wasn't there? DAVIES: This is FRESH AIR. And, you know, there were a whole range of people they went after. And we're speaking with New York Times reporter Adam Goldman. 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. 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? Key figures in the operation are a former British spy named Richard Seddon and private security contractor Erik Prince, a staunch supporter of Donald Trump. I mean, we know that Erik Prince was trying to sell a plan to the Trump administration to put these - for him, in fact, to put a private, you know, army of a bunch of mercenaries in Afghanistan and sort of take over those responsibilities from the government, sort of, in some ways, replace the U.S. forces on the ground there. Mr. Seddon and Ms. Gore did not respond to messages. 1-307-754-2221. Its among a number of issues and motions that will have to be sorted out before a judge or jury would consider the accuracy of The Intercepts April article. 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. And that was their logo. Prince took on the role of celebrity pitchman, according to interviews and documents, raising money for Mr. Seddons spying operation, which was aimed at gathering dirt that could discredit politicians and activists in several states. To do so would potentially reveal the sources identity, in breach of a promise of confidentiality made to the source, and creating personal risk for the source, they wrote, adding Princes real motive in bringing this lawsuit obtaining the identity of [The Intercepts] confidential source is plain., Further, if Prince is allowed to take discovery of The Intercept, the lawyers say they should be allowed to probe Princes ties to Virginia versus Wyoming, since he already has been forced to admit [his sworn statements] contained certain falsehoods.. He is married to an American diplomat, Alice Seddon, who is serving in the American consulate in Lagos, Nigeria. And then they married last week. McMaster. I think Trump pardoned at least one. It's not clear, though, if any of that was actually used in a way that thwarted anybody's candidacy or damaged their political reputation. Remind us who he is. DAVIES: Coming up, rock critic Ken Tucker reviews new songs by veteran artist Tom Jones, Jackson Browne and John Mayer. What was going on there? So we had never seen something like that. He recruited a British commando to help - this guy Gaz Thomas, who I guess had knew Seddon through his days at MI6. They targeted somebody from the Justice Department, and I wrote they also targeted FBI employees. I have a Wyoming drivers license, I am a Wyoming resident, and exploration is underway, Prince said of his potential Senate bid. One February 2019 report said that a new undercover will be joining the team and tasked with targeting Mr. Harshman. Mr. They've targeted CNN. 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. Erik Prince, the failson face of privatized war If the face long associated with modern mercenaries were more successful at his business, we might already live in a much more dystopian world. Reached by phone, Ms. Halverson said: Frankly, I have nothing to say on the subject. She then hung up. So I thought to myself, why are they giving money to these people, these Democratic politicians? 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. DAVIES: Right. Read more about the operation and its cast of characters at The New York Times. And so Sofia's picture was up there. 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 identified the site as the Prince ranch in a 2019 article. I don't know. The financial document also listed the names of others who gave much smaller amounts to Project Veritas last year. He worked with the former national security adviser Michael T. Flynn during the presidential transition. The website for Mr. OKeefes coming wedding listed Donald Trump Jr. as an invited guest. GOLDMAN: Well, as we started reporting on Erik Prince and Richard Seddon, I became deeply interested in learning who, in fact, was working for this organization. But (laughter) this seemed to be the training out in Wyoming. And I think the Intercept geolocated that photo and determined it was Erik Prince's ranch. 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. And by the way, as we began reporting this, we started learning more about Beau's connection to people. And Las Vegas was the - you could almost say it was the pinnacle, the apex of their operation. contractor who is best known as the founder of the private military firm Blackwater and whose sister, Betsy DeVos, was Mr. Trump's education secretary has drawn. According to Prince, the tech adviser determined that the emails were not authentic.. Other Project Veritas employees on the emails include Joe Halderman, an award-winning former television producer who in 2010 pleaded guilty to trying to extort $2 million from the comedian David Letterman. 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. And Beau's mom is the ranch cook at the Erik Prince family's ranch near Cody, Wyo. GOLDMAN: No. They broke into the DNC. And he ends up giving, you know, $6,000 to Wyoming Democratic Party and also money to other political figures. Funneling money surreptitiously to campaigns through other donors known as straw man donations would violate federal campaign finance laws. Of course. There's a long backstory there. Prince submitted his own declaration to presiding U.S. District Judge Alan Johnson in September, disputing The Intercepts reporting and laying out some of his bona fides as a Wyomingite. 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. The campaign discovered the operative and fired her. Prince a former C.I.A. [CDATA[ GOLDMAN: I think - yeah, I think the latest is - you know, he's worked - his latest adventure is in Libya. DAVIES: And then Beau and Sofia married, right? For example, Rolling Stone published an investigative piece in October asserting Prince participated in a plan to dampen turnout among Black voters in the 2016 election. Mr. Amid his globe-trotting, however, Prince says he does most of his work from Wyoming and calls Park County home. DAVIES: But the idea was that these public officials or FBI agents were secretly - they were part of the deep state. This is FRESH AIR. He is not registered in Park County or [Wyoming] presently, unless he is not going by Erik Dean Prince and has changed his name, Park County Elections Deputy Pat Cole said in a Sept. 17 email; he said Prince hadnt voted in Wyoming since 2000. This couple, Beau and Sofia - they spent real time and effort trying to ingratiate themselves with Democrats and progressives. Mr. Seddon directed an undercover operative to secretly tape the unions local leaders and try to gather information that could be made public to damage the organization, documents show. They need some spy training and covert military, paramilitary training at his ranch. What were they trying to get? Wyoming is not the place for security contractor Erik Prince to sue a New York-based publication, a federal judge says. Erik Prince, founder of private . WASHINGTON Erik Prince, the security contractor with close ties to the Trump administration, has in recent years helped recruit former American and British spies for secretive. DAVIES: Do we know of connections between Project Veritas and James O'Keefe and Trump, Donald Trump or the Trump family? I knew something was off immediately. DAVIES: He was at a meeting in the Seychelles, the islands in the Indian Ocean, January of 2017. James OKeefe, the head of Project Veritas, last year at a White House social media summit. DAVIES: Adam Goldman is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times. GOLDMAN: Well, I think it was - our latest story revealed, you know, at least one person who had been working for the Democrats thought that Sofia likely might have gotten some damaging information about Democratic efforts to help, you know, moderate Republicans. 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. And Glenn Beck, Beau's uncle, gave a toast. Prince to help him secure funding is just one of the new details about Mr. Seddons operation revealed in documents obtained by The Times and interviews with people familiar with his plans. You know, there seemed to be - what it showed was, you know, Prince is well-traveled and is always looking for business opportunities. Prince has previously been involved in trying to find dirt on Democratic politicians. Whether any Trump administration officials or advisers to the president were involved in the operations, even tacitly, is unclear. 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. GOLDMAN: You know, individuals - we're not exactly sure who was behind this effort - but it's clear that they believe that, you know, H.R. Erik Prince, founder of private security contractor Blackwater and brother of former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, recruited a former British spy in 2016 to professionalize the undercover operatives at Project Veritas, the conservative sting video shop run by James O'Keefe, The New York Times reports, citing documents and people involved in the subsequent operations to discredit perceived "deep state" enemies of former President Donald Trump inside the U.S. government. They - you know, there's a wide range of targets, and many of them have been exposed. if (document.MAX_used != ',') document.write ("&exclude=" + document.MAX_used); He was leading training. McMaster. It is, instead, an entity dedicated to a specific political agenda.. The special counsels report said that Mr. And as the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press summarizes, New York provides absolute protection from forced disclosure of materials received in confidence by a professional journalist, including the identity of a source.. We are speaking with Adam Goldman. Mr. WASHINGTON A British former spy recruited by Erik Prince, the security contractor close to the Trump administration, played a central role in a secretive effort to hire dozens . Trump, of course, wanted to pull out. Im not ashamed of the methods that we use or the recordings that we use, he said. Where we're not - what we hadn't really seen was an actual British spy, somebody trained in clandestine activities, launching a secret operation using undercovers with false - basically false cover stories to infiltrate political circles, gather information and collect it for whatever purpose, I guess, because ultimately, as our story says, this appeared to be a paper play. 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