The FBI ran a secret operation to discredit corruption allegations against the Biden family as “Russian disinformation,” including allegations that Hunter Biden accepted money from Ukrainian interests in exchange for influence, according to intelligence documents declassified by the Trump White House.A newly released summary report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence says the covert counterintelligence operation, code-named “Round River,” began ahead of the 2020 election around December 2019, notably during President Donald Trump’s first impeachment proceedings on Democrat-initiated charges that he coerced Ukraine into digging up damaging information about his 2020 presidential opponent Joe Biden.The operational summary, publicly released on Wednesday by the White House Government Transparency Task Force, reveals that Round River’s mission was to retroactively “red flag” intelligence reporting dating back to at least 2015 on the Biden family being compromised by Ukrainian cash.
According to the document, the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force on Russia “unofficially” formed a group of analysts to gather “any/all derogatory information previously reported by confidential human sources (CHSs) on Joseph Biden corruption and other Ukraine related-topics,” including Ukrainian energy firm Burisma Holdings, Hunter Biden, and Ukrainian interference in the 2016 presidential election.“The team of analysts had administrative accesses to all reporting and drafted intelligence products that were later added to each CHS file to show the reporting was deemed Russian disinformation,” the ODNI summary says.
