Interview Transcript of Christopher Wylie (April 25, 2018)
http://docs.house.gov/meetings/IG/IG00/CPRT-116-IG00-D084.pdf
Pages 152-155
MR. WYLIE: So after Cambridge Analytica got set up, so in the spring of 2014, Palantir staff started showing up in the office…One of the things that I found slightly disconcerting about that, which is why it sticks in my head, was that we were all instructed that when we were
dealing with anybody from Palantir on the staff list, they had pseudonyms. So they had fake names, and that there was at least one time where I saw a staff member being paid in cash. I'm not sure exactly what that was.
REP. SCHIFF: So it wasn't clear why they were
there or what they were doing, and they had these pseudonyms?
MR. WYLIE: Yes. So some of the emails I have
are from the personal accounts, personal email
accounts, of staff members, and then some of the emails I have come from pseudonyms, but some of the emails they signed off on their actual name and forgot that they were using a pseudonym….
REP. SCHIFF: But any guess as to what the
deal was? Was this an effort to avoid foreign
nationals working on a British campaign or any reason? I mean, is there any rational expression for why all of the skullduggery?
MR. WYLIE: So I don't – I shouldn't
speculate. I don't think I should speculate.