However, the Clintons have been very prominent figures for many years. Is it possible they simply have good relationships with the firms most likely to take part in the Skolkovo project?
“It might explain part of the American participation, but it does not mention the Russian participation,” Schweizer said. “There’s no reason why a guy named Viktor Vekselberg, who is the Russian overseeing this initiative, who is a Putin oligarch, there’s reason for him to be a Clinton Foundation donor – or a gentleman who was in charge of the nuclear cluster at Skolkovo.
“There’s no reason for him to donate to the Clinton Foundation absent the fact that she is the secretary of state steering this technology project,” he said.
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Schweizer said it took about two years for the U.S. Army to figure out what Russia was really doing through this program designed to build trust and cooperation between the two nations.
“In 2011-2012, the U.S. Army does a study and comes to the conclusion that a lot of what’s going on in Skolkovo has military application, that, in fact, there’s a hyper-sonic cruise missile and other weapons being developed at what is supposed to be a civilian technology city,” Schweizer said.
It didn’t stop there.
“Then you had the FBI come a year later, which sends a letter to companies involved in this and said you should know that the ultimate purpose of this is for them to get access to classified technologies that can be applied for military purposes,” Schweizer said.
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Schweizer said he’s less concerned about Russia directly using U.S. technology against America than he is about the Russians being willing to sell what they have to rogue nations and terrorist groups, just as it has assisted Iran and North Korea with nuclear programs.
In addition to the military intelligence gathered, Schweizer said Skolkovo has developed a sinister reputation for something else.
“Skolkovo was identified, beginning back in 2011 by cyber security experts as a main area of cyber attack by Russia, that they were launching cyber attacks and engaging in cyber crimes directed at Ukraine and other targets,” Schweizer said.
He said if Russia is involved in the hacking of Democratic Party institutions, it’s possible it’s origins lie in Hillary Clinton’s reset strategy.
“It is not inconceivable at all that a tech initiative that Hillary Clinton launched and oversaw as secretary of state is now the location of hackers who are hacking into sites in the United States,” Schweizer said.