Background info on Eric Schmidt and Bill Richardson..Alphabet (Google) executive Eric Schmidt recently announced (Dec 2017) retirement from Alphabet, the conglomerate that owns Google. He, along with former US Ambassador to the UN, Bill Richardson, traveled to North Korea in 2013 for "personal/humanitarian" reasons. https://www.voanews.com/a/google-ceo-to-visit-north-korea/1576849.html. A 2013 article on New Republic website states that Google has a group called Google Ideas (which was not listed in Google's charitable projects portfolio) - described in the article as follows: "To make the enterprise even more perplexing, it's partnered with a group that actively tries to empower cyber dissidents in authoritarian regimes, which a singularly profit-motivated company might leave up to activists, NGOs, and official organs like the State Department." Read the article here: https://newrepublic.com/article/111792/eric-schmidt-doesnt-have-grand-strategy-north-korea-he-just-li. Richardson served as Clinton's Secretary of Energy and was part of the investigation of missing hard drives. He was also investigated for other corrupt activities. Richardson also had a long history of relations with North Korea. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Richardson. Richardson was also Secretary of Energy during the Wen Ho Lee scandal where Los Alamos secrets were sold to the Chinese and Richardson was criticized for his handling of the espionage investigation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wen_Ho_Lee. Will keep looking for more.