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PUTIN LED SCHEME TO AID TRUMP, REPORT SAYS U.S. Intelligence Agencies Describe a Web of Leaks and Propaganda By MICHAEL D. SHEAR and DAVID E. SANGER
SAM HODGSON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
President-elect Donald J. Trump received a report from intelligence agencies on Friday about Russian attacks on the election.
Ethics Office Has Hands Full With a Cabinet of Millionaires By ERIC LIPTON and STEVE EDER
WASHINGTON — Rex W. Tillerson owns more than $50 million of Exxon Mobil stock, has earned an annual salary of $10 million and holds a range of positions — from director at the Boy Scouts of America to the managing director of a Texas horse and cattle ranch. But Mr. Tillerson is prepared to resign from all those posts, sell all his stock and put much of his money into bland investments like Treasury bonds if he becomes secretary of state, according to an “ethics undertakings” memo he filed this week with the State Department. And, if he returns to the oil industry in the next decade, he could lose as much as $180 million. The nine-page ethics letter detailing Mr. Tillerson’s commitments is the first of hundreds that
will be made public in the coming weeks by members of Presidentelect Donald J. Trump’s cabinet and other top political appointees, presenting a historic test of the federal government’s ability to identify conflicts of interest — and figure out ways to avoid them. Mr. Trump has selected what would be the wealthiest cabinet in modern American history, filled with millionaires and billionaires with complicated financial portfolios. Mr. Tillerson is worth at least $300 million, but is hardly the richest among them: Wilbur L. Ross Jr., the commerce secretary nominee; Betsy DeVos, the education secretary nominee; and Steven T. Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary nominee, each hold assets estimated at more than a Continued on Page A11
WASHINGTON — President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia directed a vast cyberattack aimed at denying Hillary Clinton the presidency and installing Donald J. Trump in the Oval Office, the nation’s top intelligence agencies said in an extraordinary report they delivered on Friday to Mr. Trump. The officials presented their unanimous conclusions to Mr. Trump in a two-hour briefing at Trump Tower in New York that brought the leaders of America’s intelligence agencies face to face with their most vocal skeptic, the president-elect, who has repeatedly cast doubt on Russia’s role. The meeting came just two weeks before Mr. Trump’s inauguration and was underway even as the electoral votes from his victory were being formally counted in a joint session of Congress. Soon after leaving the meeting, intelligence officials released the declassified, damning report that described the sophisticated cybercampaign as part of a continuing Russian effort to weaken the United States government and its democratic institutions. The re-
‘Russia’s goals were to undermine public faith in the U.S. democratic process, denigrate Secretary Clinton, and harm her electability and potential presidency. We further assess Putin and the Russian government developed a clear preference for President-elect Trump.’ ‘Moscow’s influence campaign followed a Russian messaging strategy that blends covert intelligence operations — such as cyberactivity — with overt efforts by Russian government agencies, state-funded media, third-party intermediaries, and paid social-media users or “trolls.” ’ ‘We assess Moscow will apply lessons learned from its Putin-ordered campaign aimed at the U.S. presidential election to future influence efforts worldwide, including against U.S. allies and their election processes.’
BORDER WALL Donald J.Trump
allowed that Mexico would not be paying up front, but “we’re going to get reimbursed.” PAGE A13 ‘IT IS OVER’ Vice President Jo-
seph R. Biden Jr. cut off many objections as Congress validated Electoral College results. PAGE A9
NEWS ANALYSIS
Moscow’s Goals, Strategy and Use of ‘Trolls’ Excerpts of findings about Russian influence on the 2016 election, compiled by the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National Security Agency:
port — a virtually unheard-of, real-time revelation by the American intelligence agencies that undermined the legitimacy of the president who is about to direct them — made the case that Mr. Trump was the favored candidate of Mr. Putin. The Russian leader, the report said, sought to denigrate Mrs. Clinton, and the report detailed what the officials had revealed to President Obama a day earlier: Mr. Trump’s victory followed a complicated, multipart cyberinformation attack whose goal had evolved to help the Republican win. The 25-page report did not conclude that Russian involvement Continued on Page A11
Ploy Was Not a One-Off By SCOTT SHANE
The intelligence agencies’ report on the Russian intervention in the American presidential election portrays it as just one piece of an old-fashioned Sovietstyle propaganda campaign. But it was a campaign made enormously more powerful by the tools of the cyberage: private emails pilfered by hackers, an internet that reaches into most American homes, social media to promote its revelations and smear enemies. What most Americans may have seen as a one-time effort — brazen meddling by Russia in the very core of American democracy — was, the report says, only part of a long-running information war that involves not just shadowy hackers and pop-up websites, but also more conven-
tional news outlets, including the thriving Russian television network RT. The election intervention to damage Hillary Clinton and lift Donald J. Trump was the latest fusillade in a campaign that has gone on under the radar for years. For the three agencies that produced the report — the C.I.A., the F.B.I. and the National Security Agency — this is a heartstopping moment: They have just told their new boss that he was elected with the vigorous, multifaceted help of an adversary, the thuggish autocrat who rules Russia. “Putin and the Russian government aspired to help President-elect Trump’s election chances when possible by dis-
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Gunman in Airport Attack May Have Heard Voices, Officials Say He Helped Topple a Dictator. Here He’s a Face in the Crowd.
This article is by Lizette Alvarez, Richard Fausset and Adam Goldman.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Federal law enforcement officials said they were investigating whether the gunman who opened fire on Friday at the airport in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., killing five people and wounding eight, was mentally disturbed and heard voices in his head telling him to commit acts of violence. According to a senior law enforcement official, the gunman, identified as Esteban Santiago, 26, walked into the F.B.I. office in Anchorage in November and made disturbing remarks that prompted officials to urge him to seek mental health care. Mr. Santiago, appearing “agitated and incoherent,” said “that his mind was being controlled by a U.S. intelligence agency,” the official said. Other officials said it was too early to tell whether Mr. Santiago, who was captured in the airport, had been inspired by terrorist groups, including the Islamic State. The officials said he had viewed extremist materials on the internet. Shortly after 1 p.m. Friday, the
By DIONNE SEARCEY
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People fled Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on Friday after a man opened fire. suspect, who had been an airline passenger, pulled a semiautomatic handgun out of his bag and opened fire in a crowded baggage claim area in Terminal 2, officials said. The shooting spurred a scene of
panic and confusion that played out on live television as scores of travelers burst out of the terminal and onto the tarmac, running and seeking cover, at times in response to erroneous rumors of follow-up attacks.
David Fogarty, a carpenter from Key West, was heading to Cancún, Mexico, on vacation when the people around him suddenly began running toward the gates. Continued on Page A14
Every public housing complex in America is filled with individual tales of struggle and survival. This is the story of a dapper man in a black fedora who lives in unit 16G in the Bronx. His name is Souleymane Guengueng, and he brought down a murderous African dictator. In the 1980s, Mr. Guengueng was one of numerous people imprisoned and tortured during the brutal reign of President Hissène Habré in Chad, a landlocked country in central Africa. When he was released from prison after two and a half years, Mr. Guengueng began a quest for justice, meticulously recording the testimonies of survivors and the relatives of those who had been killed at the direction of Mr. Habré. He wound up with records detailing the abuse and murder of more than 700 people. Human rights advocates collected his accounts and used them as critical pieces of evidence to pursue criminal action against Mr. Habré. The legal case was not an easy one. Finding a
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NATIONAL A8-14
BUSINESS DAY B1-7
Indian Point to Close by 2021
Video Shows Vulnerability
Big Jump in Hourly Wages
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has said the nuclear power plant poses too great a PAGE A16 risk to New York City.
The taped beating of a mentally disabled man reinforces how widespread PAGE A8 abuse of disabled people is.
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Newark Archbishop Is Installed
Rare Art of Bookbinding
The Labor Department, in its closely watched monthly employment report, said that job growth had slowed but that earnings rose in 2016 at the fastest PAGE B1 clip since the recession.
Prison Riots Shake Brazil
Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin, the new Newark archbishop, cited a “chasm between life and faith.” PAGE A16
Donald Vass has been mending books in the Seattle area for 26 years, but his craft is a fading one. PAGE A8
With 93 killed in six days in its prisons, and beheadings among the horrors, PAGE A4 Brazil faces a new crisis.
SPORTSSATURDAY D1-6
Turkey and Post-9/11 Parallels
Coach as a Cult Figure
Turkey’s crackdown since a coup attempt is not so different from what the U.S. saw after 9/11, scholars say. PAGE A7
Nothing about the Giants’ first-year coach, Ben McAdoo, goes unnoticed on social media. PAGE D1
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Souleymane Guengueng was jailed by Chad’s dictatorship. court to prosecute a head of state proved difficult. For more than 16 years, the case bounced between nations and continents, with Mr. Guengueng offering his personal plea for justice to anyone who would listen. In May, in Dakar, Senegal, where Mr. Habré had lived in exile, the dictator was finally convicted. Next week, a court there will hear his appeal. On the day of the guilty verdict, a defiant Mr. Habré, wearing dark glasses and with his head wrapped in white scarves as though he were bracing for a Continued on Page A6
THIS WEEKEND
Deal Near in VW Inquiry The carmaker could pay more than $2 billion to settle federal criminal charges that it cheated on diesel emissions tests. PAGE B1
EDITORIAL, OP-ED A18-19
Michael J. Morell
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