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. So while Times staff members may vote, they are not allowed to endorse or campaign for candidates or political causes. So he's going to pop up in all sorts of different places. Erik Prince, founder of private security contractor Blackwater and brother of former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, recruited a former British spy in 2016 to professionalize the undercover operatives at Project Veritas, the conservative sting video shop run by James O'Keefe, The New York Times reports, citing documents and people involved in the subsequent operations to discredit perceived "deep state" enemies of former President Donald Trump inside the U.S. government. Erik Prince, Betsy DeVos's brother, is also deeply steeped in far-right militancy. GOLDMAN: It's not clear they're actually being trained in firearms training. In that deposition, Mr. OKeefe defended the groups undercover tactics, saying they were part of a long tradition of investigative journalism going back to muckraking reporters like Upton Sinclair. 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. zoneId = 'Array'; Now, this couple weren't really the committed Democrats they presented themselves as, right? Several of them confirmed their donations. These were videos of - you know, in one case, Democrats or people working for the government who were - you know, it seemed like they were slow rolling the president's agenda or trying to thwart it or using - they were part of, you know, the DSA, the Democratic Socialists of America. But when I learned about Beau and Sofia last year - there's a website, Project Veritas Exposed. While the state is currently solidly Republican, Mr. Seddon and Ms. Gore believed it was in danger of turning toward the Democrats, as Colorado has. 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. But the effort is a glimpse of a vigorous private campaign to try to undermine political groups or individuals perceived to be in opposition to Mr. Trumps agenda. Prince declined to comment. According to its latest publicly available tax filing, Project Veritas received $8.6 million in contributions and grants in 2018. - not one expose every year. 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. Read more about the operation and its cast of characters at The New York Times. DAVIES: That's the Government Accountability Office. And, you know, eventually she starts using this to meet other prominent Democrats in the state. Ms. Jorge, 25, did not respond to email addresses associated with her Liberty University account. You know, I think part of Mr. O'Keefe's motto - I think it's important for him to have regular and consistent content - right? If Judge Johnson concludes he lacks jurisdiction to hear the case in Wyoming, Princes attorneys say the suit should be transferred to the Southern District of New York, where The Intercept is based. I'm Dave Davies, in for Terry Gross, who's off this week. And that one was made public. GOLDMAN: These were videos - you can find them on Project Veritas', you know, website or on YouTube now. So I thought to myself, why are they giving money to these people, these Democratic politicians? It's not clear, though, if any of that was actually used in a way that thwarted anybody's candidacy or damaged their political reputation. Mr. It's not clear to us why Prince decided to help Project Veritas. In 2016, Republican operatives believed they had obtained deleted Hillary Clinton emails from the dark web, and sought Mr. Princes assistance to authenticate them, an episode investigated by Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel in the Trump-era Russia inquiry. And that was their logo. [I] was a Wyoming resident for many years, he told Brietbart. 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. The Times previously reported that, in 2016 and 2017, Mr. The companys principal office is listed as being at the Prince familys ranch in Wapiti, though the mailing address is a property in Virginia. When a muckraking news site published a story alleging private security contractor and Blackwater founder Erik Prince had offered his services to a Russian mercenary firm, the connections to Wyoming were not obvious; the state was never mentioned in the piece. Private property rights are a major cornerstone to how Wyoming operates, but so is prioritizing a rural, quiet lifestyle - ultimately, the former won out in Sublette County. Months later, in June 2019, a report said we are expecting a big haul, including new lines of intelligence on the Republican side of the house.. DAVIES: That's an airport in Cody, Wyo. The whole thing was completely - was really weird. Blackwater Worldwide founder Erik Prince is considering a Republican primary challenge to Wyoming Senator John Barrasso, a senior member of the Senate GOP leadership team, in a race that could pit the party's establishment against insurgents inspired by allies of President Donald Trump. 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. This is FRESH AIR. The Intercept, however, has stood behind its reporting and has described the suit as an improper attempt to learn the identity of its sources. A former British spy and Republican mega-donor Erik Prince, a founder of the private military contractor Blackwater (now rebranded as "Academi) and brother to former U.S. Education Secretary. Im not ashamed of the methods that we use or the recordings that we use, he said. And the operatives had to give a - you know, had to give a cover story under duress. Their names are Beau Maier and Sofia LaRocca, and they're in Las Vegas for a Democratic primary debate. All rights reserved. Prince to help him secure funding is just one of the new details about Mr. Seddons operation revealed in documents obtained by The Times and interviews with people familiar with his plans. At the time, Prince was exploring the possibility of mounting a Republican primary challenge to incumbent U.S. Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo. Well, that and - by the way, at some point - I don't know the time period. Drawing on information from three unnamed sources, The Intercept reported Prince met with a top official from Russias Wagner Group at an undisclosed location earlier this year and offered his mercenary forces to support the firms operations in Libya and Mozambique.. This espionage operation was aimed at perceived enemies of Trump and included a planned sting operation against former national security adviser H.R. GOLDMAN: Yeah, I would say an active - sure, an active player in certain parts of Trump's world, yeah, or conservative - the conservative world. And Prince comes up in the special council report - Robert Mueller's report. Wapiti resident Erik Prince is one of several people associated with a Wyoming-based effort to infiltrate political campaigns and get "dirt" to sabotage candidates. ', 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. I mean, this is - you know, he no doubt sees them as a conservative ally, like other conservative networks. 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. GOLDMAN: Beau does. Part of it involved a rented, rather large house in Georgetown in Washington, D.C., right? Princes parents, Elsa Prince and the late Edgar Prince, bought the 940-acre Double E Ranch in the Wapiti Valley in the early 1990s. Mr. Seddon wrote that Ms. Jorge copied a great many documents from the file room, and Mr. OKeefe bragged that the group would be able to get a ton more access agents inside the educational establishment.. This is FRESH AIR. And her picture wasn't her name GOLDMAN: It was a fake name, Maria. And so we're all familiar with that, I think, to some extent. Citing his ties to the state, his attorneys opted to file Princes defamation case against The Intercept in Wyomings U.S. District Court in May. DAVIES: They targeted ACORN. zoneId = '3'; However, the story quoted a former U.S. Treasury official who suggested simply making an offer to assist Wagner might have violated current U.S. sanctions in place against the Russian firm. 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. The former Navy SEAL gained fame for the supporting role his Blackwater firm played in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but the security contractor became infamous when its employees killed 14 Iraqi civilians and wounded 17 others in Baghdad in 2007. We rely on our journalists to be independent observers. You know, she used that to hobnob with people. Prince might have approached for money for Mr. Seddons venture besides Ms. Gore. 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. if( width > 480 ){ He passed away recently. I know that, you know, one of the first instances of his association with this - or maybe the first instance of his association - was in an Intercept article in which O'Keefe had posted a picture of himself firing a pistol with a silencer on Instagram. And it all kind of went south when the Post exposed it. And, I mean, they were both active, but she was literally, you know, infiltrating these Democratic groups. The training was done by a guy - a lot of the training was done by a guy named Richard Seddon, S-E-D-D-O-N. Who is he? One February 2019 report said that a new undercover will be joining the team and tasked with targeting Mr. Harshman. Presiding Judge Johnson, who is based in Cheyenne, has himself signaled some uncertainty about whether Wyoming is the right place for Princes case to be heard; in early November, Johnson asked the parties to submit additional briefs on either transferring the case to another district or delving further into the issues related to jurisdiction. He's a reporter for The New York Times. Erik Prince, founder of the private military firm Blackwater, helped raise money for a political-intelligence operation run by Richard Seddon, a former British spy. O'Keefe did not respond to the substance of the Times' report but did accuse the newspaper of running a "smear piece" on Project Veritas. This is FRESH AIR. During a meeting in a Las Vegas suburb last April of employees of Ms. Gores organization, the Wyoming Liberty Group, Mr. Seddon pitched a proposal to build a website where other so-called preppers could buy their own supplies and communicate with each other in the event of what he called a Black Swan moment a major terrorist attack, another pandemic or a civil war. GOLDMAN: Yeah, and the Justice Department prosecuted a number of individuals. GOLDMAN: To my understanding, there was a disagreement in how Project Veritas should be run. It's a conservative organization. But they thanked us for bringing, you know, putting some sunlight on this. Did it help, you know, Project Veritas raise more money? Published October 16, 2017. And they would find people, and they would go out with them. 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. You know, a big question about the stories that you've described is, is this activity illegal, what the couple did in Wyoming, you know, presenting themselves as - dishonestly as active Democrats in order to get information? A spokesman for Mr. GOLDMAN: I was going to say, you know, talking to Republicans, moderate Republicans, I mean, moderate - these guys are pretty conservative, by the way - when we're describing it as moderate Republicans they were targeting. DAVIES: Let me reintroduce you again. But it was not her real name. And Glenn Beck, Beau's uncle, gave a toast. Prince is separately under investigation by the Justice Department on unrelated matters, according to people familiar with the case. His attorneys allege the outlet is trafficking in lies, showed an obvious and intentional disregard for the truth and effectively made Prince out to be a traitor. That includes a pair of donations he made in March and October, in which he apparently listed his address as a post office box in Middleburg, Virginia. It's a conservative group, and they conduct undercover operations, for instance, to expose bias or what they would describe as, you know, wrongdoing primarily in liberal circles. You know, she attended that. Mr. Seddon directed an undercover operative to secretly tape the unions local leaders and try to gather information that could be made public to damage the organization, documents show. DAVIES: So how did you come upon this couple, Beau and Sofia? I have always understood him to be a resident of Northern Virginia, the lead writer of The Intercepts April story, Matthew Cole, wrote in a declaration. Was he primarily the guy who got this thing moving? 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. Do we know why? Their attorneys wrote that the story did not focus its efforts on or in Wyoming, nor would it have any reason to do so . Prince turned to Mr. Seddon to help train the Project Veritas operatives. 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. Mr. Prince recruited Mr. Seddon to join the conservative group Project Veritas to teach espionage skills to its operatives and manage its undercover operations. I don't know. After Mr. And I got swept away reporting on that and eventually was able to come back to it. And, of course, this was really weird because they work for Project Veritas. Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Thomas were on the list. WASHINGTON A British former spy recruited by Erik Prince, the security contractor close to the Trump administration, played a central role in a secretive effort to hire dozens . Amid his globe-trotting, however, Prince says he does most of his work from Wyoming and calls Park County home. There was a billionaire in - well, a very - I don't know if he was a billionaire. Erik Prince, the founder of controversial private military firm Blackwater and a supporter of former President Donald Trump, jumped into the COVID-19 business late last year with a deal to . To win his case, Prince will ultimately have to show the story was false and he may also have to prove the publication knew the story was false or showed a reckless disregard as to whether it was accurate. In more recent years, Prince has remained a mover and shaker and a controversial figure on the international stage. In apparent response to inquiries from the Tribune about the two companies ties to Wyoming, Princes revised declaration said he misidentified the names of the entities. (Photo: Gerry Broome/AP) MIDDLEBURG, Va. A cheery fire warmed the glass-walled conservatory of the Goodstone Inn in Virginia's. Mr. OKeefe and others shared social media photos of taking target practice with guns at the ranch, including one post from Mr. OKeefe saying that with the training, Project Veritas will be the next great intelligence agency. Mr. You know, Princes are pretty savvy. GOLDMAN: They were thwarting the president's agenda. met with White House and Pentagon officials. They went after a Democratic staffer in Washington. And I realized they were giving money to Democrats in Wyoming, Arizona and Colorado. Mr. OKeefe earned about $387,000. Prince a former C.I.A. DAVIES: He was at a meeting in the Seychelles, the islands in the Indian Ocean, January of 2017. Mr. Seddon was not. In 2010, Mr. O Keefe and three others pleaded guilty to a federal misdemeanor after admitting they entered a government building in New Orleans under false pretenses as part of a sting. DAVIES: Right. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. From 1986 through the present, hes made roughly 100 contributions totaling more than $630,000 to Republican causes and Congressional candidates, according to Federal Election Commission records. The next year, during a presidential debate with Hillary Clinton, Mr. Trump claimed without substantiation that videos released by Mr. OKeefe showed that Mrs. Clinton and President Barack Obama had paid people to incite violence at rallies for Mr. Trump. People have probably heard of this organization. She was doing outreach to, you know, Democratic figures in Wyoming. But "one of the most brazen operations of the campaign" was an attempt to take down H.R. You know, there seemed to be - what it showed was, you know, Prince is well-traveled and is always looking for business opportunities. How Times reporters cover politics. They had a private security firm. And, you know, they targeted somebody from the State Department, and they targeted somebody from GAO. var m3_u = (location.protocol=='https:'? We rely on our journalists to be independent observers. 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. We are speaking with Adam Goldman. One of the undercover operatives also got a job working for a consortium of wealthy liberal donors the Wyoming Investor Network which had made a strategic decision to support Republican moderate candidates over those more closely aligned with Mr. Trumps agenda, the documents say. Mr. Princes role in the effort, which has not been previously disclosed, sheds further light on how a group of ultraconservative Republicans employed spycraft to try to manipulate the American political landscape. Later that year, Mr. - and, you know, that probably in terms of, you know, Iran - not pulling out of the agreement with Iran, the JCPOA, and, you know, McMaster, you know, wanting to keep, I guess, troops in Afghanistan. document.write ('&cb=' + m3_r); And then Seddon - you know, he stays on. And it was interesting to hear some of these Wyoming Republicans, you know, thank us for our reporting, you know, being The New York Times, because Trump has, you know, vilified us. 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. 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. So while Times staff members may vote, they are not allowed to endorse or campaign for candidates or political causes. DAVIES: And then Beau and Sofia married, right? DAVIES: It was a risk because she couldn't effectively work undercover if they'd been exposed by this organization that's critical of Veritas? The scope of that investigation is unclear. And ultimately, it did blow up in their face. }else{ Regardless, Princes residency is not the real issue in the case. And so Sofia's picture was up there. As further evidence of his ties to Wyoming and the business he conducts in the state, Princes initial declaration said he owned several operating entities registered to his residence in Wapiti. Prince said he should have named a different company Moyock Medical Supplies LLC as an example of an entity he owns thats registered to his address in Wapiti. Did it expand the number of people that they had? DAVIES: Right. MATTHEW COLE: In. Prince invited Project Veritas operatives including Mr. OKeefe to his familys Wyoming ranch for training in 2017, The Intercept reported last year. And they said, well, you know, she worked for Project Veritas. One target in particular was Gov. 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. He was the one who replaced Michael Flynn after he was fired. And they admitted doing, you know - engaging in political activity while working for these government institutions, which Project Veritas asserted was, you know, wrong or even, you know - I can't remember if they said it was illegal or not. 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. Jim Mattis, then the defense secretary, rejected the idea. 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. The special counsels report said that Mr. 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. He's, you know, the private military contractor. That's how you found them, and that's what raised the question? We rely on our journalists to be independent observers. Mr. DAVIES: But Sofia was just - she was active. I mean, he - it seems that - it's our understanding that Prince introduced Seddon to Project Veritas. They make significant political contributions, right? But I don't know how close they are. A spokesman for the firm said that Alston & Bird has never contributed to Project Veritas on its own behalf, nor is it a client of ours. The spokesman declined to say on whose behalf the contribution was made. And, you know, Seddon then reached out to, you know, a family - an old friend who had worked at the FBI. He did not mention the inquiries from the Powell Tribune about his lapsed registration that preceded his vote. She was attending, you know, Democratic fundraisers. So they were looking to mine that, to exploit that territory. - 500, 1000. The website for Mr. OKeefes coming wedding listed Donald Trump Jr. as an invited guest. At the center of the scheme was an unusual cast: a former British spy connected to the security contractor Erik Prince, a wealthy heiress to the Gore-Tex fortune and undercover operatives like. And then they married last week. However, he ultimately did not challenge Barrasso in 2018 nor did he vote in those off-year elections, Prince acknowledged in Octobers revised declaration. The Powell Tribune has expanded its online content. After Mr. Gordon won a close Republican primary battle against Mr. Friess, the billionaire, in August 2018, Mr. Friess blamed his loss on Democrats switching parties on Election Day to vote for Mr. Gordon. To continue reading, you will need to either log in to your subscriber account, or purchase a subscription. 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. DAVIES: Right. Key figures in the operation are a former British spy named Richard Seddon and private security contractor Erik Prince, a staunch supporter of Donald Trump. 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. There's a long backstory there. You know, they targeted the teachers unions. GOLDMAN: The Georgetown house in D.C. was used as a base to, you know, essentially launch these undercover operations in the summer of '18, I guess, into the fall and maybe later. 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. [I] was a Wyoming resident for many years,, That same day Oct. 9, 2017 Prince obtained a Wyomings drivers license, which he touted, In early 2017, Prince reportedly welcomed James OKeefe and others from the conservative group Project Veritas, which describes itself as an army of guerrilla journalists. That February, OKeefe tweeted an image of himself taking aim with a silenced handgun amid snowy mountains, saying the team was undergoing intense training from a classified location as we make Project Veritas the next great intelligence agency. The Intercept ultimately, Other outlets, however, have continued writing about the contractor. AFT Michigan sued Project Veritas in federal court, alleging trespassing, eavesdropping and other offenses. And it would - you know, and make an enormous amount of money. There is little publicly available information about the company, but multiple Prince ventures, including Blackwater, have been based out of Moyock, North Carolina. Mr. The Intercept, however, wants the complaint dismissed. 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. So he had pitched this idea of a private security force to largely replace American troops in Afghanistan. And this website is devoted to revealing the identities of Project Veritas operatives. And, you know, these were - they were not really long-term operations. The New York Times broke the news of Princes potential run on Oct. 8, 2017, saying hed recently traveled to Wyoming to explore ways to establish residency there., The following day, Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow asked Prince whether the Times report was real or fake news, mentioning, Im not 100% positive on your connection to Wyoming.. GOLDMAN: Well, that's a great question and one we struggle with at the Times in trying to put this in context. 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