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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>

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*Coincidentally the same day ''Reuters'' reports on an "undercover FBI employee" who helped the FBI catch Russian spies. The "undercover FBI employee" is 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>}}

*Coincidentally the same day ''Reuters'' reports on an "undercover FBI employee" who helped the FBI catch Russian spies. The "undercover FBI employee" is 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>}}