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We're speaking with New York Times reporter Adam Goldman, one of a team of Times reporters who've been writing about an effort by conservatives to train operatives in undercover operations to infiltrate progressive groups, unions and the offices and campaigns of Democratic and moderate Republican candidates and elected officials. DAVIES: Right. And then on a parallel but different track, you know, Sofia is trying to make her way through the Young Democrats of Wyoming, the Wyoming Democratic Party, you know, building her bona fides as an eager, young Democrat. if (document.mmm_fo) document.write ("&mmm_fo=1"); They also did the secret interviews at the airport in Cody in the - at the Prince hangar. This includes participating in marches or rallies in support of a movement or giving money to, or raising money for, any political candidate or election cause. And I think the Intercept geolocated that photo and determined it was Erik Prince's ranch. And that was their logo. GOLDMAN: I believe that O'Keefe has interacted with Trump. Back in December, county commissioners approved a rezoning request for a multi-billionaire to develop an exclusive guest ranch in the southernmost part of the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem. Along with gathering intel, Maier and LaRocca sought to bait individuals associated with Better Wyoming into making statements they could secretly record and hand over to their clients. And he was pitching that plan, but it never got anywhere. At the time I signed my [September] declaration I believed Jones Creek and CMNS to be Wyoming entities, but I have subsequently learned they are not; I believe they are Delaware entities, Prince wrote in the document, which he signed from California. Prince, saying he lied about the circumstances of his meeting with a Russian banker in the Seychelles in January 2017. DAVIES: Right. Erik Prince decides that Project Veritas needs something new. Those contentions have become a key point of early proceedings in the case. Its among a number of issues and motions that will have to be sorted out before a judge or jury would consider the accuracy of The Intercepts April article. Blackwater founder Erik Prince arranged for political activist James O'Keefe's conservative group Project Veritas to receive more than one round of "training in intelligence and elicitation. Good stuff, Mr. Seddon wrote back. You know, was it effective? Prince declined to comment. DAVIES: He was at a meeting in the Seychelles, the islands in the Indian Ocean, January of 2017. For example, Rolling Stone published an investigative piece in October asserting Prince participated in a plan to dampen turnout among Black voters in the 2016 election. Friday crash claims lives of Powell sisters, Powell resident now leads open lands organization, Authorities say they caught Cody man selling meth, Game and Fish plan set for aquatic invasive species threat, 128 South Bent StreetPowell, WY 82435 Ms. Jorge was eventually exposed and kicked out of the campaign office. Did it expand the number of people that they had? Connor Wroe Southard. For example, a 2017 meeting he attended with a crown prince of the United Arab Emirates and an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin became a part of the impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump, whom he has served as informal adviser. And as I was reporting this, somebody said, well, you know, her picture, you know, she's on that website. Regardless, Princes residency is not the real issue in the case. But before the parties get to the lawsuits merits, The Intercept is contending, among other arguments, that Wyoming is not the right place for the case to be heard. The list included John Cox, then the director of the Wyoming Department of Workforce Services, and Scott Talbott, then the director of the Wyoming Game and Fish Department. if (!document.MAX_used) document.MAX_used = ','; And as part of this effort, Richard Seddon was brought on to handle training and really professionalize Project Veritas' undercover operations. DAVIES: Right. And, of course, that was an entree into a larger circle of prominent Democrats. Using a different alias the next year, the same undercover operative infiltrated the congressional campaign of Abigail Spanberger, then a former C.I.A. And the operatives had to give a - you know, had to give a cover story under duress. Their attorneys wrote that the story did not focus its efforts on or in Wyoming, nor would it have any reason to do so . - 500, 1000. Erik Prince, a political novice and former Navy SEAL who made a fortune in contracting security services to the U.S. Military, said in an interview with Breitbart that he will announce in the coming weeks whether he will challenge Barrasso in the Republican primary. The authoritative record of NPRs programming is the audio record. I don't know. Mr. He's a reporter for The New York Times. We are speaking with Adam Goldman. In 2016, a Project Veritas operative infiltrated Democracy Partners using a fake name and fabricated rsum and made secret recordings of the staff. And we're speaking with New York Times reporter Adam Goldman. The Defense Department didn't go for it. DAVIES: Now, one of the more well-known operations - because, well, you reported on this - was an effort to embarrass Trump's national security adviser, H.R. Did you receive the spare camera yet?. He's a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times. That's how you found them, and that's what raised the question? And we've written about that. Mr. OKeefe and his group have taken aim at targets over the years including Planned Parenthood, The New York Times, The Washington Post and Democracy Partners, a group that consults with liberal and progressive electoral causes. The McMaster operation was aborted after he, unrelated to Project Veritas, resigned under pressure from Trump. GOLDMAN: In some instances, they were on, you know, these social - these dating apps, right? For instance, Princes 2014 memoir said he splits his time between homes in Virginia and Abu Dhabi, where he pursues a variety of business ventures.. In particular, you know, Sofia targeted a employee with the GAO. We'll talk more about his stories on undercover operations by conservatives to infiltrate Democratic and progressive groups after a short break. Mr. Ledeen said "someone she trusted" contacted her to help with the McMaster operation. In more recent years, Prince has remained a mover and shaker and a controversial figure on the international stage. Erik Prince conducts business around the globe, but in a pending lawsuit, he says he does the bulk of his work from Wyoming. She was attending, you know, Democratic fundraisers. He was dismayed, three former Project Veritas employees told the Times, with "O'Keefe's desire to produce quick media content rather than to run long-term infiltration operations." "Somebody who had his calendar conveyed to me that he goes to Tosca all the time," she said, and she passed the information on to a man she believed to be a Project Veritas operative with a fake name. How Times reporters cover politics. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. People have probably heard of this organization. So O'Keefe's Instagram photo, you know, led people to realize that, you know, Prince had played a role, at least in letting Project Veritas use the ranch for training. Over the past year and a half, The New York Times has reported on an effort by conservatives to train operatives in undercover spy techniques to infiltrate progressive groups, political campaigns, unions and the offices of Democratic and moderate Republican elected officials. DAVIES: What did you learn about how Beau and Sofia met? Prince might have approached for money for Mr. Seddons venture besides Ms. Gore. Did it expand their operations? But her picture was on this website. It is, instead, an entity dedicated to a specific political agenda.. DAVIES: Adam Goldman is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times. Erik Prince, founder and CEO of Blackwater Worldwide, in 2008. Mr. Halderman was copied on several messages providing updates about the Michigan operation, and in one message, he gave instructions to Ms. Jorge. WASHINGTON Erik Prince, the security contractor with close ties to the Trump administration, has in recent years helped recruit former American and British spies for secretive intelligence-gathering operations that included infiltrating Democratic congressional campaigns, labor organizations and other groups considered hostile to the Trump agenda, according to interviews and documents. His contributions to the 2022 Whitney Biennial, on view through Sept. 5 three fanciful portraits of Erik Prince, the financier and founder of the private security firm Blackwater depict a. Sofia makes a contribution - a small contribution to a woman she had befriended who ran, unsuccessfully, for the Wyoming state legislature. And, you know, Seddon then reached out to, you know, a family - an old friend who had worked at the FBI. DAVIES: Did any of them have opinions about whether these two had done damage? Was he primarily the guy who got this thing moving? Comments ( 40) Last week, the New York Times reported that Erik Prince is considering running to represent Wyoming in the United States Senate. One of the former spies, an ex-MI6 officer named Richard Seddon, helped run a 2017 operation to copy files and record conversations in a Michigan office of the American Federation of Teachers, one of the largest teachers unions in the nation. GOLDMAN: They were thwarting the president's agenda. And they - you know, I think they - it seemed like they were seeking revenge. And then I started Googling them and doing some research on them. At the time, Ms. Spanberger was running to unseat a sitting Republican congressman in a race both parties considered important for control of the House. DAVIES: Right. [CDATA[ They were undercover conservative operatives, the paper discovered, who had been trained at a ranch belonging to Blackwater founder Erik Prince by a former MI6 officer with ties to the right-wing . Prince noted he owned a home in Wyoming and had been connected to the state since 1992. And they - the purpose for - they themselves will launch this undercover operation and then, you know, secretly record you - audio, video - and then make a video out of it and, you know, expose what they describe as wrongdoing. But (laughter) this seemed to be the training out in Wyoming. And then Mark Mazzetti, you know, my colleague, who just is an extraordinary journalist, we - you know, we managed to suss out what was going - we think - to a great degree what was going on in Wyoming and these other states. document.write ('&cb=' + m3_r); If you already have a web account, but need to reset it, you can do so by clicking here. The parties are currently awaiting a ruling from Judge Johnson, who could choose to allow the case to proceed in Wyoming; permit some more limited fact-gathering about the appropriate jurisdiction; transfer the case to New York; or throw it out entirely. (Last week, Trump pardoned the four Blackwater guards who were convicted of crimes in connection with the killings in Baghdad.). The companys principal office is listed as being at the Prince familys ranch in Wapiti, though the mailing address is a property in Virginia. This couple, Beau and Sofia - they spent real time and effort trying to ingratiate themselves with Democrats and progressives. Last week, our guest, reporter Adam Goldman, co-authored a story about a couple who ingratiated themselves with Democrats in Wyoming, often making substantial political contributions to ensure their access to valuable information. Park County records show he also skipped Augusts primary election, but Prince said he had intended to vote in Wyoming this year. Prince said he learned he wasnt registered when I went to cast my early vote for the general election in late September. And as the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press summarizes, New York provides absolute protection from forced disclosure of materials received in confidence by a professional journalist, including the identity of a source.. Attorneys for the outlet say The Intercept has no particular connection to the state and Princes ties are uncertain. - where you have people in your organization who aren't who they say they are, you know, collecting intelligence, if that's what you want to call it. Mr. They've targeted CNN. She and Mr. But I didn't reveal that I knew Beau and Sofia had lived at that house at the time because we were working - concurrently, we were working on this larger story about them. But in a pending lawsuit, Prince asserts the April 13 story from The Intercept was false, defamatory and aimed at Wyoming. Because of the article, Prince says his reputation and professional opportunities within Wyoming suffered, along with his business interests and reputation in general. What was going on there? DAVIES: You know, the other thing that I wanted to just clarify to the extent I can is how much of a driving force Erik Prince was in this. As education secretary, Ms. DeVos has been a vocal critic of teachers unions, saying in 2018 that they have a stranglehold over politicians at the federal and state levels. #Veritas pic.twitter.com/4IFvjKurGK, In the pending defamation case, Princes attorneys have cited that reporting as evidence The Intercept knew Prince did his business from Wyoming, going as far as to allege the articles unstated focus was on Princes reputation and livelihood in Wyoming., The Intercept attorneys, however, pointed to past statements from Prince and records indicating he lives in Virginia. Mr. Seddons role in the teachers union operation detailed in internal Project Veritas emails that have emerged from the discovery process of a court battle between the group and the union has not previously been reported, nor has Mr. Princes role in recruiting Mr. Seddon for the groups activities. In a YouTube video, Mr. OKeefe described the lawsuit as frivolous and pointed to a portion of the deposition in which David Hecker, the president of AFT Michigan, said that one of the goals of the lawsuit was to stop Project Veritas from doing the kind of work that it does., Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, said in a statement: Lets be clear who the wrongdoer is here: Project Veritas used a fake intern to lie her way into our Michigan office, to steal documents and to spy and they got caught. He passed away recently. And, you know, typically they would have a male individual working for Project Veritas who would accompany these women on these dates as sort of, like, security. You know, again, as when Barbara Ledeen, the staffer for the Senate Judiciary Committee, which was run by Chuck Grassley, you know, was trying to find Hillary Clinton's missing emails, and Prince gets involved in that, too. We're still trying to fully understand how Project Veritas, which is founded by James O'Keefe, actually came into contact with Erik Prince. Although he owns a home in Wapiti, Prince is not generally known as a Wyoming businessman. The document is dated December 2018 and said that Mr. Talbott was another of the names of corrupt individuals from Marti.. Adam Goldman, welcome back to FRESH AIR. They went after a Democratic staffer in Washington. GOLDMAN: Well, they - you know, they - Beau is from Cody, Wyo., so he had some Wyoming roots. And it all kind of went south when the Post exposed it. Jim Mattis, then the defense secretary, rejected the idea. They targeted The Washington Post. I think Trump pardoned at least one. Several of them confirmed their donations. So it was a fascinating moment in time last year when I realized what I suspected Beau and Sofia were doing. document.write ("&loc=" + escape(window.location)); Prince, Mr. Seddon and other topics, but he called his group a proud independent news organization that is involved in dozens of investigations. They had a - someone came to the Post. And, you know, and he is - you know, he's an international businessman. And he comes from a wealthy, conservative family in Michigan, right? Why did they want to embarrass him and get him out of the government? You know, there was one exercise, I believe, where they had a cop - you know, a local cop who was there. Prince registered to vote in Park County back in 1992, but that registration lapsed after he failed to vote in the countys 2002 elections, according to county records. Both operations were run by Project Veritas, a conservative group that has gained attention using hidden cameras and microphones for sting operations on news organizations, Democratic politicians and liberal advocacy groups. He's a former British intelligence officer who served in Washington, D.C., and in Pakistan and eventually leaves the British Secret Intelligence Service and develops some relationship with Erik Prince, a security contractor, and ends up being director of field operations at the conservative group known as Project Veritas. She was doing outreach to, you know, Democratic figures in Wyoming. But we were unaware of that. Copyright 2021 NPR. Their reporting on the department won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. Prince submitted his own declaration to presiding U.S. District Judge Alan Johnson in September, disputing The Intercepts reporting and laying out some of his bona fides as a Wyomingite. contractor who is best known as the founder of the private military firm Blackwater and whose sister, Betsy DeVos, was Mr. Trump's education secretary has drawn. Mr. Seddon was a longtime British intelligence officer who served around the world, including in Washington in the years after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. We rely on our journalists to be independent observers. According to Prince, the tech adviser determined that the emails were not authentic.. GOLDMAN: Erik Prince is the well-known founder of Blackwater, the security contractors who were involved in the massacre in Iraq. So he's going to pop up in all sorts of different places. Were just trying to hold them accountable for this industrial espionage.. Prince is under investigation by the Justice Department over whether he lied to a congressional committee examining Russian interference in the 2016 election, and for possible violations of American export laws. DAVIES: What are Erik Prince's contacts or associations with Donald Trump and the Trump family? Given Mr. Princes extensive personal and professional ties to Wyoming, it is certainly plausible that some or all of [The Intercepts] sources to the extent they exist at all were located in Wyoming, Princes legal team wrote. And it would - you know, and make an enormous amount of money. In 2017, Prince invited O'Keefe and Project Veritas employees to his family's Wyoming ranch and arranged for an unnamed former British MI6 officer to provide training for the group, The . Wagner which The Intercept described as a semi-private military force that operates in countries or conflicts where the Russian government seeks plausible deniability for its activities reportedly turned down Princes offer. Mr. McMaster. He'll be back to talk more about his stories on undercover operations by conservatives to infiltrate democratic and progressive groups after this short break. DAVIES: This is FRESH AIR. Princes parents, Elsa Prince and the late Edgar Prince, bought the 940-acre Double E Ranch in the Wapiti Valley in the early 1990s. The financial document also listed the names of others who gave much smaller amounts to Project Veritas last year. Mr. You know, they were angry too, right? DAVIES: They'd gotten formal training in this. Princes attorneys responded that, if the judge has any doubts about Wyoming being the appropriate venue for the case, they should be allowed to learn the identity of The Intercepts confidential sources. DAVIES: So he is the guy who hires this British spy, Richard Seddon, to train operatives to, you know, gather intelligence from, you know, Democrats and progressives. His uncle is the conservative commentator Glenn Beck. document.write ("'><\/scr"+"ipt>"); ', Death toll keeps rising in Greece's deadliest train crash, US Attorney General Merrick Garland testifies before Senate Judiciary Committee, Lineup announced for this years Capitol Hill Block Party, There's no shortage of salt for NYC roads, Temple University students march and protest to demand better safety. The Trump Foundation gave $20,000 to Project Veritas in 2015, the year that Mr. Trump began his bid for the presidency. Prince turned to Mr. Seddon to help train the Project Veritas operatives. This is FRESH AIR. James OKeefe, the head of Project Veritas, declined to answer detailed questions about Mr. Blackwater founder Erik Prince used the rise of Donald Trump to stage an unlikely comeback that apparently included funding spy training for far-right propagandist James O'Keefe and his Project. One February 2019 report said that a new undercover will be joining the team and tasked with targeting Mr. Harshman. met with White House and Pentagon officials. The life of Erik Prince has been a complicated globe-trotting journey complete with extensive mercenary activities, spying on American citizens, brokering arms deals with despotic regimes and essentially taking advantage of any situation he can in order to line his personal pockets. An attorney for The Intercept reportedly told Princes lawyer in the spring the piece was one in a series of planned articles concerning Mr. Princes activities, though it has not published any further pieces to date. And in the end, you know, O'Keefe would release them and, you know, make a big deal out of them. They'd been recruited and trained in an operation led by a former British spy and security contractor Erik Prince, an avid supporter of Donald Trump. I believe he was involved in an effort to battle pirates in Somalia. [I] was a Wyoming resident for many years, he told Brietbart. Erik Prince doesn't live in the state, he's from the same party as the incumbent, Sen. John Barrasso, and he's best known for founding a private security firm, Blackwater, that was kicked out of . What's interesting about that Instagram post - and you can see it yourself, it's still out there - they like to describe themselves as journalists. He is not registered in Park County or [Wyoming] presently, unless he is not going by Erik Dean Prince and has changed his name, Park County Elections Deputy Pat Cole said in a Sept. 17 email; he said Prince hadnt voted in Wyoming since 2000. But then they got reversed stung by the Post, which was quite a moment. And, of course, this was really weird because they work for Project Veritas. Last year, the group received a $1 million contribution made through the law firm Alston & Bird, a financial document obtained by The New York Times showed. GOLDMAN: Well, as we started reporting on Erik Prince and Richard Seddon, I became deeply interested in learning who, in fact, was working for this organization. And so I was able to piece that together. Prince and Mr. Seddon met in August 2018 with Susan Gore, a Wyoming heiress to the Gore-Tex fortune, Ms. Gore became the projects main benefactor. The two men had known each other since Mr. Princes days running Blackwater, and shared an affinity for guns and the American West. So we had never seen something like that. GOLDMAN: She was very active. Mr. Seddon and Ms. Gore did not respond to messages. And ultimately, it did blow up in their face. 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