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Report: WikiLeaks Sought Files From Guccifer 2.0

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Journalist Emma Best told BuzzFeed News that WikiLeaks wanted access to Guccifer 2.0’s data.

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Twitter DMs obtained by BuzzFeed News show that in the summer of 2016 WikiLeaks was working to obtain files from Guccifer 2.0—a hacker whom The Daily Beast has identified as a Russian intelligence officer.

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