>>6402924 (pb)

That's the problem. Dmitri's father, Michael, had NO HISTORY of a NUCLEAR SCIENCE EDUCATION when he somehow was able to tag along with a Soviet/Russian Salt II team tour of U.S. Defense facilities around in the early 1990s. His real background was in math and computer sciences. He was pulling the wool over someone's eyes. Or maybe the Soviet-Russians were running him.

Then a short time after that Salt II trip, Michael meets with U.S. government officials in New England or Canada and somehow receives a U.S. Passport within 24 hours! The story is that he purloined the former Soviet "Crown Jewels" of cyber-security and received his passport/citizenship in return. The question still remains, at least in some minds, whether Michael was "dangled" with paste gems just to get his foot in the door of the U.S. IC cyber-security.

Michael was able to leverage himself to the very tippy top and became the IC's foremost "expert" on cyber-security. Meanwhile, son Dmitri makes his way to the U.S., gets involved in some shady car dealership huckle and along the way becomes a FBI criminal informant.

A decade goes by and suddenly "Crowdstrike" formed by father and son becomes the IC's "go to" expert in the field. Problem is that that CS had a record of bungling their hacking services in the Ukraine (for the U.S.) and did a woeful job in estimating Russian military components across the border.

There was a comparison made of CS's work in the Ukraine and the investigation performed for the DNC (the FBI wasn't allowed access to the "hacked" servers. We know the rest, Cyrillic fingerprints, "Cozy" and "Fuzzy Bear" and the fact that the infamous 17 Agency (heh…17) intelligence assessment that "the Russians hacked" (SR didn't download) the DNC was SOLELY based on this shady and slip-shod company Crowdstrike.