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Anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks released a set of documents allegedly showing CIA espionage on candidates in Frances 2012 presidential elections. <\/p>\n
The seven pages of documents appear to be classified orders for intelligence operatives to gather information regarding candidatespolitical strategies and internal communications. WikiLeaks release of the documents comes amid growing tensions between Trump and the intelligence community over leaks of classified information that have portrayed people close to Trump in a negative light. <\/p>\n
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All major French political parties were targeted for infiltration by the CIAs human (HUMINT) and electronic (SIGINT) spies in the seven months leading up to Frances 2012 presidential election, a press release from WikiLeaks states. <\/p>\n
The revelations are contained within three CIA tasking orders published today by WikiLeaks as context for its forth coming CIA Vault 7 series. Named specifically as targets are the French Socialist Party (PS), the National Front (FN) and Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) together with current President Francois Hollande, then President Nicolas Sarkozy, current round one presidential front runner Marine Le Pen, and former presidential candidates Martine Aubry and Dominique Strauss-Khan. <\/p>\n
Analysts in CIAs Office of Russian and European Analysis (OREA) closely watched the Oct 9th and Oct 16th Socialist primaries and will be closely monitoring the April 22nd and May 6th 2012 Presidential elections. Of particular interest is President Sarkozy, the Socialist Party (PS), and other potential candidates plans and intentions for these elections, one of the three CIA orders released by WikiLeaks states. <\/p>\n
Instructions for CIA operatives, according to the documents, included documenting French presidential candidates political strategies, views of the U.S. and sources of political funding. <\/p>\n
This is a developing story, check back for updates. <\/p>\n
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