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1. 2018

   Jade Helm 15Government & Intelligence

   Michael Hayden, a former director of the NSA and CIA, says Russian bots and trolls helped inflame the Jade Helm panic to test their ability to dominate 'the information space,' and that Abbott's monitoring order signaled to them that such campaigns could work. Some Texas observers push back that the fears were homegrown and merely echoed by Russian accounts.

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