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- A former KGB agent handed a thumb drive with Hunter Biden disinformation to an aide for former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at a gala event in May 2019.
- The former KGB agent also presented the same disinformation to Justice Department officials in January 2019.
- The presentation marks the earliest known instance of a Russia-linked source pushing allegations about Hunter Biden and Burisma.
A thumb drive handed by a foreign national to an aide traveling with then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in 2019 suggests that efforts by Russia-linked actors to influence the 2020 US presidential election with Hunter Biden disinformation began earlier and were broader in scope than has previously been reported.