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Discover multinational #InfluenceOperations at work. See how #Iran and #Venezuela can use state-sponsored media outlets, social media influencers, proxies, surrogates, and political activists in the #AlexSaab influence campaign. Read full report: bit.ly/3EPYPhv 1/8 
Insikt Group® identifies four phases of a multiyear influence campaign centered around indicted Alex Saab, the alleged financier and special agent to Iran for the Nicolás #Maduro regime. The Alex Saab timeline shows significant events from indictment to postponed trial. 2/8
Saab, an alleged conduit of Hezbollah operations extending into Latin America, is a Colombian and Venezuelan businessman wanted by Colombian law enforcement since 2018. Maduro appointed him a special envoy to Iran after a corruption designation (by OFAC). 3/8
"We continue to make progress but we still have a ways to go" on countering domestic terrorism, John Cohen, in @DHSgov's Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A), tells @gwupoe & @NCITE_COE
"In some respects, the threat is more volatile than it was in June" per @DHSgov's Cohen, citing the consumption of online content placed by foreign intelligence services as well as terrorist and extremist groups
Narratives being placed online by these foreign intelligence services, other threat actors are "rapidly finding their way into the mainstream media ecosystem" per @DHSgov's Cohen
HAPPENING NOW: Senate Intelligence Committee's Hearing on Worldwide Threats
"We look to our intelligence agencies to provide their best & most objective analytic judgments" per Chairman @MarkWarner "...free of bias, & not “shaded” in any way to fit a particular policy or agenda"
"We look to our intelligence agencies to provide their best & most objective analytic judgments" per Chairman @MarkWarner "...free of bias, & not “shaded” in any way to fit a particular policy or agenda"
"We're going to need to discuss the situation in #Afghanistan" per @MarkWarner, in introductory remarks...
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"It's the one time a year where the American public & the members of Congress here in the Senate get an unvarnished presentation by an apolitical intelligence community of the real national security threats" per Vice Chair @marcorubio
