Claim

2016 US election influence campaign INVOLVES RT

Clapper describes a sophisticated propaganda campaign mounted by RT, which he characterizes as a government propaganda arm.

Episode
EP 65 — PSYOP
Origin
Attributed
Confidence
98% (extractor score, not a fact score)
Speaker
James Clapper
Attributed source
US intelligence community assessment

Transcript evidence

“A very, I think, sophisticated, slick propaganda campaign mounted by RT which of course is a government propaganda arm.”

James Clapper · offsets 43245–43364

Read the official transcript

Extraction provenance

Model gpt-5.6-luna · prompt 1.5.19 · schema 1.5.19 · 2026-09-13T06:26:26.173275+00:00

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