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Broidy Tried to Hire Ex-CIA Official to Drum Up Business Inside the Spy Agency

Douglas Wise, who had also served as deputy director of the DIA, says the top Trump fundraiser asked him to 'hand out cards' at CIA headquarters

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Oct 08, 2020
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UPDATED: A senior former U.S. intelligence official says that former top Republican fundraiser Elliott Broidy, indicted Thursday on an illegal foreign lobbying charge, tried to recruit him in 2017 to drum up CIA business from inside the spy agency’s headquarters.

Broidy owns Circinus Worldwide, a global security firm stocked with former intelligence offi…

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