{"id":7255,"date":"2019-03-13T12:26:09","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T12:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/?p=7255"},"modified":"2020-06-09T15:20:15","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T15:20:15","slug":"cia-investigations-on-ties-between-the-trump-organization-and-the-russian-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/cia-investigations-on-ties-between-the-trump-organization-and-the-russian-government\/","title":{"rendered":"CIA Investigations on Ties Between the Trump Organization and the Russian Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Background<\/h3>\n<p>In November of 2016, based on various media reports, I requested the following from the CIA:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><strong>&#8230;any\/all reports on investigations by your agency into the unacknowledged ties between the Trump Organization or the Trump Company and the Russian Government or proxies of the Russian Government.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>It took until March of 2019, for the CIA to give what is called the &#8220;GLOMAR RESPONSE&#8221;. 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