With the resurrection of CambAnal as Emerdata and the proliferation of private intelligence “agencies” with their cutouts and overlaps with security firms, there will be more dirty tricks.
Internal Black Cube documents obtained by NBC News and interviews of sources with direct knowledge of Black Cube’s operations reveal a business intelligence company with governmental contracts and a special department for politically motivated work.
A source familiar with Black Cube’s outreach to the Kahls told NBC News that it was part of an effort to discredit Obama administration officials who had worked on the Iran nuclear deal – and, by extension, the deal itself. Black Cube sought evidence of nefarious behavior, such as financial or sexual impropriety, by the deal's architects, including Colin Kahl. Operatives hoped to obtain such evidence by befriending their targets or their targets’ associates.
The undercover campaign to discredit the Iran deal was first reported by the British newspaper The Observer and by The New Yorker.