Leonard Benardo
Leonard Benardo is a regional director for Eurasia at the Open Society Foundations, an organization founded by philanthropist George Soros. He has been implicated in recent allegations regarding the dissemination of information that contributed to the Trump-Russia narrative, particularly through emails that were reportedly hacked by Russian agents in 2016. These communications suggest that Benardo and others were involved in a strategy to link Donald Trump with Russian interference in the U.S. elections, a plan that has drawn significant scrutiny as part of the ongoing investigations into the origins of the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane probe.
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Included in the annex is a 2016 letter from Leonard Benardo, who worked for the Soros-founded philanthropic network Open Society Foundations and had business in Moscow in the 1980s.
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United Kingdom:
Leonard Benardo, senior vice-president at Open Society Foundations, referred to a Clinton foreign policy adviser in an email.
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Croatia:
Leonard Benardo is a senior vice president at Soros's foundation who allegedly sent emails detailing the strategy against Trump.
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United States:
Leonard Benardo, vice president of the George Soros backed Open Society Foundation, wrote about demonizing Putin and Trump.
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United States:
Leonard Benardo was the regional director for Eurasia at the Open Society Foundations.
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