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*'''9 March.''' DOJ oversight personnel conducting a minimization review (minimization is the process of masking  identities of US persons incidentally collected while monitoring foreign surveillance targets) of FBI [[FISA abuse]]s learn that the FBI disclosed raw FISA information to private contractors.<ref>FISC Judge Collyer, Memorandum Opinion &  

*'''9 March.''' DOJ oversight personnel conducting a minimization review (minimization is the process of masking  identities of US persons incidentally collected while monitoring foreign surveillance targets) of FBI [[FISA abuse]]s learn that the FBI disclosed raw FISA information to private contractors.<ref>FISC Judge Collyer, Memorandum Opinion &  

Order, Apr. 26, 2017, pp. 83 - 89.</ref><ref>[https://www.themarketswork.com/2018/01/15/the-uncovering-section-702-about-queries-independent-contractors-a-new-narrative/ The Uncovering – Section 702 “About” Queries, Independent Contractors & a New Narrative], January 15, 2018 by Jeff Carlson, CFA.</ref><ref>[https://exposefacts.org/institutional-lack-of-candor-fisa-violations/ Institutional Lack of Candor – FISA Violations] A primer on recent unauthorized activity by the Intelligence Community, January 24, 2018. Demand Progress.</ref>

Order, Apr. 26, 2017, pp. 83 - 89.</ref><ref>[https://www.themarketswork.com/2018/01/15/the-uncovering-section-702-about-queries-independent-contractors-a-new-narrative/ The Uncovering – Section 702 “About” Queries, Independent Contractors & a New Narrative], January 15, 2018 by Jeff Carlson, CFA.</ref><ref>[https://exposefacts.org/institutional-lack-of-candor-fisa-violations/ Institutional Lack of Candor – FISA Violations] A primer on recent unauthorized activity by the Intelligence Community, January 24, 2018. Demand Progress.</ref>

 

*''Reuters'' reports: {{Quotebox|The FBI eavesdropped on meetings involving Russian intelligence personnel in New York City, including a suspected spy posing as a trade representative, by hiding recorders in binders containing supposedly confidential information about the energy sector, U.S. prosecutors said.<br>The hours of covert recordings from 2013 were disclosed in papers filed in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday in the case of Evgeny Buryakov, a Russian citizen who U.S. prosecutors say posed as a banker while participating in a [[Cold War]]-style spy ring.<br>...According to prosecutors, in April 2012, Sporyshev met an undercover FBI employee posing as an analyst at a New York energy firm at an oil and gas industry conference.<br>Over the next two years, they met to discuss the industry and other economic and political issues, prosecutors said, with Sporyshev providing gifts and cash for information.<br>In 2013, the FBI employee began providing Sporyshev with the binders containing purported industry analysis he wrote, supporting documents, and “covertly placed recording devices,” prosecutors wrote.<ref>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-usa-espionage/fbi-penetrated-new-york-based-russian-spy-ring-using-hidden-recorders-idUSKCN0WB2NM</ref>}}

*Coincidentally the same day ''Reuters'' reports on the story of a Russian spy, Evgeny Buryakov, convicted with the help of a confidential informant (later identified as Trump advisor [[Carter Page]]). {{Quotebox|FBI eavesdropped on meetings involving Russian intelligence personnel in New York City, including a suspected spy posing as a trade representative, by hiding recorders in binders containing supposedly confidential information about the energy sector, U.S. prosecutors said.<br>The hours of covert recordings from 2013 were disclosed in papers filed in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday in the case of Evgeny Buryakov, a Russian citizen who U.S. prosecutors say posed as a banker while participating in a [[Cold War]]-style spy ring.<br>...According to prosecutors, in April 2012, Sporyshev met an undercover FBI employee posing as an analyst at a New York energy firm at an oil and gas industry conference.<br>Over the next two years, they met to discuss the industry and other economic and political issues, prosecutors said, with Sporyshev providing gifts and cash for information.<br>In 2013, the FBI employee began providing Sporyshev with the binders containing purported industry analysis he wrote, supporting documents, and “covertly placed recording devices,” prosecutors wrote.<ref>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-usa-espionage/fbi-penetrated-new-york-based-russian-spy-ring-using-hidden-recorders-idUSKCN0WB2NM</ref>}}

*'''11 March.''' DOJ press release announces: "Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and John P. Carlin, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, announced that Evgrny Buryakov, a/k/a “Zhenya,” pled guilty today to conspiring to act in the United States as an agent of the Russian Federation, without providing prior notice to the Attorney General...The FBI obtained the recordings after Sporyshev attempted to recruit an FBI undercover employee (“UCE-1”) [UCE-1 = Carter Page] who was posing as an analyst from a New York-based energy company. In response to requests from Sporyshev, [Carter Page] provided Sporyshev with binders containing purported industry analysis written by [Carter Page] and supporting documentation relating to [Carter Page's] reports, as well as covertly placed recording devices."<ref>https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/evgeny-buryakov-pleads-guilty-manhattan-federal-court-connection-conspiracy-work</ref>

*'''11 March.''' DOJ press release announces: "Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and John P. Carlin, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, announced that Evgrny Buryakov, a/k/a “Zhenya,” pled guilty today to conspiring to act in the United States as an agent of the Russian Federation, without providing prior notice to the Attorney General...The FBI obtained the recordings after Sporyshev attempted to recruit an FBI undercover employee (“UCE-1”) [UCE-1 = Carter Page] who was posing as an analyst from a New York-based energy company. In response to requests from Sporyshev, [Carter Page] provided Sporyshev with binders containing purported industry analysis written by [Carter Page] and supporting documentation relating to [Carter Page's] reports, as well as covertly placed recording devices."<ref>https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/evgeny-buryakov-pleads-guilty-manhattan-federal-court-connection-conspiracy-work</ref>