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Undated: Backchanneling, an organizational practice in business that involves bypassing recognized or official chains of command in order to create vulnerability[clarification needed] at the level(s) skipped
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backchannel_%28disambiguation%29
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May 26: Jared Kushner discussed creating secret communications channel with Moscow – reports
Russia’s ambassador told his superiors that he and Kushner discussed ways to shield White House transition team discussions from monitoring, sources said
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/26/jared-kushner-russia-secret-communications-channel
June 6: How to Understand Kushner’s ‘Back-Channel’
Back-channels might be a regular part of government operations, but not this one.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/06/06/how-to-understand-kushners-back-channel-215232
July 24: Jared Kushner gave a confusing explanation for his alleged 'back channel' plan with Russia
President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, denied in a statement Monday that he suggested setting up a "back channel" communication line to the Kremlin that would bypass US intelligence agencies and persist after Trump was inaugurated.
But Kushner acknowledged in the statement, which came ahead of a closed-door appearance before the Senate Intelligence Committee, that he asked Russia's ambassador to the US in December whether the Trump transition team could use Russia's embassy to communicate privately with Moscow about Syria.
Scott Olson, a recently retired FBI agent who ran counterintelligence operations and spent more than 20 years at the bureau, told Business Insider in May that it was not unusual for low-level staffers to work between governments and bypass bureaucracy to exchange views and build consensus in advance of higher-level negotiations.
But what Kushner appears to have done is "substantially different, in two ways," he said.
https://www.businessinsider.com/jared-kushner-russia-back-channel-testimony-2017-7
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March 8: What We Know About Efforts to Set Up a Trump-Russia Back Channel
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/03/the-push-for-a-trump-russia-back-channel-what-we-know.html
March 8: U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller has evidence that a secret meeting in the Seychelles just before U.S. President Donald Trump took office was an effort by his campaign to establish a back channel with the Kremlin, The Washington Post has reported.
The meeting in the Indian Ocean island nation in January 2017 was between Erik Prince, a prominent U.S. military contractor who is the brother of Trump's education secretary, and Kirill Dmitriyev, the head of a Russian government-controlled wealth fund who is close to President Vladimir Putin, The Washington Post reported late on March 7.
The Washington Post said that George Nader, a Lebanese-American businessman who helped organize and attended the Seychelles meeting, has testified on the matter before a grand jury gathering evidence about possible ties between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.
The Washington Post said Nader started cooperating with Mueller's investigation as a witness in January.
https://www.rferl.org/a/mueller-reported-probing-trump-efforts-set-up-back-channel-communication-kremlin-seychelles-meeting-prince-dmitriev/29086165.html
March 8: Erik Prince fights accusations he tried to help set up Russia back channel at secret Seychelles meeting
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/erik-prince-fights-accusations-he-tried-to-help-set-up-russia-back-channel-at-secret-seychelles-meeting
August 19: Manafort Suspected of Serving as ‘Back Channel’ to Russia, DOJ Says
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s interest in former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort stemmed in part from his suspected role as a “back channel” between the campaign and Russians intent on meddling in the election, a Justice Department lawyer told a judge.
The disclosure by U.S. prosecutors came Thursday during a hearing on whether Mueller exceeded his authority in indicting Manafort on charges of laundering millions of dollars while acting as an unregistered agent of the Ukrainian government. Manafort’s lawyers say those alleged crimes have nothing to do with Mueller’s central mission -- to determine whether anyone in the Trump campaign had links to the Russian government.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-19/manafort-probed-as-back-channel-to-russia-u-s-lawyer-says
December 13: Butina admits to using NRA as Russian back channel to American conservatives
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/butina-admits-to-using-nra-as-russian-back-channel-to-american-conservatives-2018-12-13
December 20: Russia communicated with US Treasury officials through Gmail backchannel during 2016 campaign
The Russian government reportedly communicated with U.S. Treasury Department officials through a Gmail back channel as it attempted to gain financial documents about its enemies in places such as America.
BuzzFeed News, citing documents, reported that this correspondence arose during the final year of the Obama administration. The news outlet notes that this communication occurred during a time period when Moscow tried to interfere in the U.S. presidential election.
Agents from Russia asked Treasury officials for private financial documents on at least 24 dissidents, academics, private investigators and American citizens, according to BuzzFeed News.
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/422319-russia-communicated-with-us-treasury-officials-through-gmail
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