Craig Timberg on the Vulkan Files
The Lawfare Podcast
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🗓️ 11 April 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Document leaking has been in the news lately—and not just stories about the leaking of U.S. intelligence documents. On March 30, 2023, the Washington Post published a series of stories about the Vulkan files, an international investigative project based on thousands of pages of leaked documents from a Russian company that reveal new details about how Russian intelligence agencies seek to operate disinformation campaigns and enhance their ability to launch cyberattacks with the help of contractors.
To talk about the Vulkan files, Lawfare Senior Editor Stephanie Pell sat down with Craig Timberg, Senior Editor for Collaborative Investigations at the Washington Post, who, along with his colleague Ellen Nakashima, has bylines on these stories. They talked about how the Washington Post got involved in this investigation, what the documents revealed about Russian cyber conflict, and what Craig considered to be some of the biggest takeaways from the documents.
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| 0:29.0 | And so you have to have the capacity to receive that text message |
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| 0:41.0 | So I said, those simbanks allow you to do. |
| 0:43.0 | It allows you to really scale up your operations. |
| 0:47.0 | And in general, I'd say that that's what I think we were seeing in these documents |
| 0:51.0 | was the sort of systematizing and making more efficient things that we kind of knew the Russians were doing. |
| 0:58.0 | So that it was easier for them. So they could do more of it. |
| 1:01.0 | So they'd be more ambitious in the way they really came after Western targets. |
| 1:07.0 | I'm Stephanie Pell, senior editor at LawFair. |
| 1:10.0 | And this is the LawFair podcast, April 11, 2023. |
| 1:15.0 | Document leaking has been in the news lately. |
| 1:18.0 | And not just stories about the leaking of US intelligence documents. |
| 1:24.0 | On March 30, 2023, the Washington Post published a series of stories about the Vulcan files. |
| 1:32.0 | An international investigative project based on thousands of pages of leaked documents from a Russian company |
| 1:39.0 | that reveal new details about how Russian intelligence agencies seek to operate disinformation campaigns |
| 1:47.0 | and enhance their ability to launch cyber attacks with the help of contractors. |
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