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 The GRU was also in contact through the Guccifer 2.0 persona with  a former Trump Campaign member In early August 2016, Twitter's suspension of the Guccifer 2.0 Twitter account. After it was reinstated, GRU officers posing as Guccifer 2.0 wrote via private message, "thank u for writing back  do u find anyt[h]ing interesting in the docs i posted?" On August 17, 2016, the GRU added, "please tell me if i can help u anyhow it would be a great pleasure to me." On September 9, 2016, the GRU—again posing as Guccifer 2.0—referred to a stolen DCCC document posted online and asked "what do u think of the info on the turnout model for the democrats entire presidential campaign,"  responded, "pretty standard." The investigation did not identify evidence of other communications between and Guccifer 2.0.


 * 3.

In order to expand its interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the GRU units transferred many of the documents they stole from the DNC and the chairman of the Clinton Campaign to WikiLeaks. GRU officers used both the DCLeaks and Guccifer 2.0 personas to communicate with WikiLeaks through Twitter private messaging and through encrypted channels, including possibly through WikiLeaks's private communication system.


 * a. WikiLeaks's Expressed Opposition Toward the Clinton Campaign

WikiLeaks, and particularly its founder Julian Assange, privately expressed opposition to candidate Clinton well before the first release of stolen documents. In November 2015, Assange wrote to other members and associates of WikiLeaks that "[w]e believe it would be much better for GOP to win Dems+Media+liberals woudl [sic] then form a block to reign in their worst qualities.  With Hillary in own GOP will be pushing for her worst qualities., dems+media+neoliberals will be mute.  She's a bright, well connected, sadisitic sociopath."

In March 2016, WikiLeaks released a searchable archive of approximately 30,000 Clinton emails that had been obtained through FOIA litigation. While designing the archive, one WikiLeaks member explained the reason for building the archive to another associate: