READ: Letter from 51 Intel Officials Falsely Claiming Hunter Biden Laptop was Russian Disinformation in 2020

THE “DIRTY 51” LETTER AND THE COORDINATION WITH THE BIDEN CAMPAIGN Background Three days before the final 2020 presidential debate, 51 intelligence community (IC) officials in coordination with the Biden campaign, released a public statement/letter falsely claiming that a New York Post report about Hunter Biden’s laptop (with evidence of the Biden family’s shady foreign dealings) had “all the classic earmarks” of Russian disinformation. Joe Biden referenced the letter during the presidential debate to rebut President Trump’s criticisms about “the laptop from hell.” Polls have shown that many voters would not have voted for Biden if they knew that the content of the laptop was true. Many believe this was election interference. This infamous letter (aka the “Dirty 51” letter) was also seized upon by liberals and the media to discredit any information from the laptop. On June 4, 2024, Hunter Biden laptop was authenticated by the FBI in federal court. The laptop deniers don’t care the FBI proved them wrong in court. Below are: – Timeline of events, including the coordination between the Biden campaign and intelligence officials to give Biden a “debate talking point to push back on President Trump on this issue.” – Transcript of the infamous letter. – Video of Biden mentioning the letter during the debate.

TIMELINE OCTOBER 14 – 15, 2020 ● New York Post reveals the existence of Hunter Biden’s laptop with evidence about the Biden family’s corruption and foreign deals – Smoking-gun email reveals how Hunter Biden introduced Ukrainian businessman to VP dad . – Hunter Biden emails show leveraging connections with his father to boost Burisma pay . – Emails reveal how Hunter Biden tried to cash in big with Chinese firm .

OCTOBER 17, 2020 ● Biden campaign coordinates with Blinken and Morell – Antony Blinken (then Biden campaign advisor – now Secretary of State) contacted former CIA acting director Michael Morell to discuss the New York Post’s reporting. – Morell began the process of drafting the statement. – Morell contacted several former intelligence officials to help write the statement, solicit cosigners, and help with media outreach. —(per Judiciary Report, pages 2-11 | Archive)

OCTOBER 19, 2020 ● Morell coordinates with Brennan – An email exchange between Morell and former CIA Director John Brennan made abundantly clear that Morell’s intentions were to “give the [Biden] campaign, particularly during the debate on Thursday, a talking point to push back on [President] Trump on this issue.” —(per Judiciary Report, page 11 | Archive) ● Morell sends the CIA the finalized letter for review He calls it a “rush job,” and quickly secured its approval. —(per Judiciary Report, page 23 | Archive) ● Morell and Nick Shapiro work with the Biden campaign to release the letter to the media Shapiro is a former Deputy Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor at the CIA. —(per Judiciary Report, page 36 | Archive) ● Shapiro sends email with the public statement/letter to Politico’s Natasha Bertrand —(per Judiciary Report, page 42-43 | Archive)

OCTOBER 19, 2020 ● Politico’s Natasha Bertrand publishes the story and the letter, falsely calling the Hunter Biden laptop and emails Russian disinformation Politico: Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say | Archive Subtitle: More than 50 former intelligence officials signed a letter casting doubt on the provenance of a New York Post story on the former vice president’s son. More than 50 former senior intelligence officials have signed on to a letter outlining their belief that the recent disclosure of emails allegedly belonging to Joe Biden’s son “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” The letter, signed on Monday, centers around a batch of documents released by the New York Post last week that purport to tie the Democratic nominee to his son Hunter’s business dealings.

OCTOBER 22, 2020 ● Biden cites the 51 spies’ letter during the second and final presidential debate Debate transcript: TRUMP: [1:35:50] If this stuff is true about Russia, Ukraine, China, other countries, Iraq. If this is true, then he’s a corrupt politician. So don’t give me the stuff about how you’re this innocent baby. Joe, they are calling you a corrupt politician – BIDEN: Nobody’s calling me — TRUMP: They’re calling it the laptop from hell. [CROSSTALK] … BIDEN: [1:36:20] There are 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what he’s accusing me of is a Russian plan. They have said that this has all the characteristics — four, five former heads of the CIA, both parties, say what he’s saying is a bunch of garbage. Nobody believes it except him and his good friend, Rudy Giuliani. TRUMP: You mean the laptop is now another Russia, Russia, Russia hoax? You got to be kidding me – Video:

● JUNE 4, 2024 FBI confirmed in court that Hunter Biden’s “laptop from hell” is real and not Russian disinfo during Hunter Biden’s gun trial.

TRANSCRIPT OF THE NOW-DEBUNKED LETTER FROM 51 INTEL OFFICERS Letter published by Politico Three Days Before the Debate & the 2020 Election | Archive Public Statement on the Hunter Biden Emails October 19, 2020 We are all individuals who devoted significant portions of our lives to national security. Some of us served in senior positions in policy departments and agencies, and some of us served in senior positions in the Intelligence Community. Some of us were political appointees, and some were career officials. Many of us worked for presidents of both political parties. We are all also individuals who see Russia as one of our nation’s primary adversaries. All of us have an understanding of the wide range of Russian overt and covert activities that undermine US national security, with some of us knowing Russian behavior intimately, as we worked to defend our nation against it for a career. A few of us worked against Russian information operations in the United States in the last several years. Perhaps most important, each of us believes deeply that American citizens should determine the outcome of elections, not foreign governments. All of us agree with the founding fathers’ concern about the damage that foreign interference in our politics can do to our democracy. It is for all these reasons that we write to say that the arrival on the US political scene of emails purportedly belonging to Vice President Biden’s son Hunter, much of it related to his time serving on the Board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma, has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation. We want to emphasize that we do not know if the emails, provided to the New York Post by President Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, are genuine or not and that we do not have evidence of Russian involvement — just that our experience makes us deeply suspicious that the Russian government played a significant role in this case. If we are right, this is Russia trying to influence how Americans vote in this election, and we believe strongly that Americans need to be aware of this. There are a number of factors that make us suspicious of Russian involvement. Such an operation would be consistent with Russian objectives, as outlined publicly and recently by the Intelligence Community, to create political chaos in the United States and to deepen political divisions here but also to undermine the candidacy of former Vice President Biden and thereby help the candidacy of President Trump. For the Russians at this point, with Trump down in the polls, there is incentive for Moscow to pull out the stops to do anything possible to help Trump win and/or to weaken Biden should he win. A “laptop op” fits the bill, as the publication of the emails are clearly designed to discredit Biden. Such an operation would be consistent with some of the key methods Russia has used in its now multi-year operation to interfere in our democracy – the hacking (via cyber operations) and the dumping of accurate information or the distribution of inaccurate or misinformation. Russia did both of these during the 2016 presidential election – judgments shared by the US Intelligence Community, the investigation into Russian activities by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, and the entirety (all Republicans and Democrats) on the current Senate Intelligence Committee. Such an operation is also consistent with several data points. The Russians, according to media reports and cybersecurity experts, targeted Burisma late last year for cyber collection and gained access to its emails. And Ukrainian politician and businessman Adriy Derkach, identified and sanctioned by the US Treasury Department for being a 10-year Russian agent interfering in the 2020 election, passed purported materials on Burisma and Hunter Biden to Giuliani. Our view that the Russians are involved in the Hunter Biden email issue is consistent with two other significant data points as well. According to the Washington Post, citing four sources, “U.S. intelligence agencies warned the White House last year that Giuliani was the target of an influence operation by Russian intelligence.” In addition, media reports say that the FBI has now opened an investigation into Russian involvement in this case. According to USA Today, “…federal authorities are investigating whether the material supplied to the New York Post by Rudy Giuliani…is part of a smoke bomb of disinformation pushed by Russia.” We do not know whether these press reports are accurate, but they do suggest concern within Executive Branch departments and agencies that mirrors ours. It is high time that Russia stops interfering in our democracy. Signed by, Jim Clapper Former Director of National Intelligence Former Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Former Director of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Former Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency Mike Hayden Former Director, Central Intelligence Agency Former Director, National Security Agency Former Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence Leon Panetta Former Director, Central Intelligence Agency Former Secretary of Defense John Brennan Former Director, Central Intelligence Agency Former White House Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Advisor Former Director, Terrorism Threat Integration Center Former Analyst and Operations Officer, Central Intelligence Agency Thomas Finger Former Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analysis Former Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Research, Department of State Former Chair, National Intelligence Council Rick Ledgett Former Deputy Director, National Security Agency John McLaughlin Former Acting Director, Central Intelligence Agency Former Deputy Director, Central Intelligence Agency Former Director of Analysis, Central Intelligence Agency Former Director, Slavic and Eurasian Analysis, Central Intelligence Agency Michael Morell Former Acting Director, Central Intelligence Agency Former Deputy Director, Central Intelligence Agency Former Director of Analysis, Central Intelligence Agency Mike Vickers Former Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Former Operations Officer, Central Intelligence Agency Doug Wise Former Deputy Director, Defense Intelligence Agency Former Senior CIA Operations Officer Nick Rasmussen Former Director, National Counterterrorism Center Russ Travers Former Acting Director, National Counterterrorism Center Former Deputy Director, National Counterterrorism Center Former Analyst of the Soviet Union and Russia, Defense Intelligence Agency Andy Liepman Former Deputy Director, National Counterterrorism Center Former Senior Intelligence Officer, Central Intelligence Agency John Moseman Former Chief of Staff, Central Intelligence Agency Former Director of Congressional Affairs, Central Intelligence Agency Former Minority Staff Director, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Larry Pfeiffer Former Chief of Staff, Central Intelligence Agency Former Director, White House Situation Room Jeremy Bash Former Chief of Staff, Central Intelligence Agency Former Chief of Staff, Department of Defense Former Chief Counsel, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Rodney Snyder Former Chief of Staff, Central Intelligence Agency Former Director of Intelligence Programs, National Security Council Chief of Station, Central Intelligence Agency Glenn Gerstell Former General Counsel, National Security Agency David B. Buckley Former Inspector General, Central Intelligence Agency Former Democratic Staff Director, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Former Counterespionage Case Officer, United States Air Force Nada Bakos Former Analyst and Targeting Officer, Central Intelligence Agency Patty Brandmaier Former Senior Intelligence Officer, Central Intelligence Agency Former Deputy Associate Director for Military Affairs, Central Intelligence Agency Former Deputy Director of Congressional Affairs, Central Intelligence Agency James B. Bruce Former Senior Intelligence Officer, Central Intelligence Agency Former Senior Intelligence Officer, National Intelligence Council Considerable work related to Russia David Cariens Former Intelligence Analyst, Central Intelligence Agency 50+ Years Working in the Intelligence Community Janice Cariens Former Operational Support Officer, Central Intelligence Agency Paul Kolbe Former Senior Operations Officer, Central Intelligence Agency Former Chief, Central Eurasia Division, Central Intelligence Agency Peter Corsell Former Analyst, Central Intelligence Agency Brett Davis Former Senior Intelligence Officer, Central Intelligence Agency Former Deputy Director of the Special Activities Center for Expeditionary Operations, CIA Roger Zane George Former National Intelligence Officer Steven L. Hall Former Senior Intelligence Officer, Central Intelligence Agency Former Chief of Russian Operations, Central Intelligence Agency Kent Harrington Former National Intelligence Officer for East Asia, Central Intelligence Agency Former Director of Public Affairs, Central Intelligence Agency Former Chief of Station, Central Intelligence Agency Former Analyst, Central Intelligence Agency Don Hepburn Former Senior National Security Executive Timothy D. Kilbourn Former Dean, Sherman Kent School of Intelligence Analysis, Central Intelligence Agency Former PDB Briefer to President George W. Bush, Central Intelligence Agency Ron Marks Former Officer, Central Intelligence Agency Twice former staff of the Republican Majority Leader Jonna Hiestand Mendez Technical Operations Officer, Central Intelligence Agency Emile Nakhleh Former Director of the Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program, Central Intelligence Agency Former Senior Intelligence Analyst, Central Intelligence Agency Gerald A. O’Shea Senior Operations Officer, Central Intelligence Agency Served four tours as Chief of Station, Central Intelligence Agency David Priess Former Analyst and Manager, Central Intelligence Agency Former PDB Briefer, Central Intelligence Agency Pam Purcilly Former Deputy Director of Analysis, Central Intelligence Agency Former Director of the Office of Russian and European Analysis, Central Intelligence Agency Former PDB Briefer to President George W. Bush, Central Intelligence Agency Marc Polymeropoulos Former Senior Operations Officer, Central Intelligence Agency Former Acting Chief of Operations for Europe and Eurasia, Central Intelligence Agency Chris Savos Former Senior Intelligence Officer, Central Intelligence Officer Nick Shapiro Former Deputy Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor to the Director, Central Intelligence Agency John Sipher Former Senior Operations Officer, Central Intelligence Agency Former Deputy Chief of Russian Operations, Central Intelligence Agency Stephen Slick Former Senior Director for Intelligence Programs, National Security Council Former Senior Operations Office, Central Intelligence Agency Cynthia Strand Former Deputy Assistant Director for Global Issues, Central Intelligence Agency Greg Tarbell Former Deputy Executive Director, Central Intelligence Agency Former Analyst of the Soviet Union and Russia, Central Intelligence Agency David Terry Former Chairman of the National Intelligence Collection Board Former Chief of the PDB, Central Intelligence Agency Former PDB Briefer to Vice President Dick Cheney, Central Intelligence Agency Greg Treverton Former Chair, National Intelligence Council John Tullius Former Senior Intelligence Officer, Central Intelligence Agency David A. Vanell Former Senior Operations Officer, Central Intelligence Agency Winston Wiley Former Director of Analysis, Central Intelligence Agency Former Chief, Counterterrorism Center, Central Intelligence Agency Kristin Wood Former Senior Intelligence Officer, Central Intelligence Agency Former PDB Briefer, Central Intelligence Agency In addition, nine additional former IC officers who cannot be named publicly also support the arguments in this letter.

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