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<\/a>\nBy Ian Miles Cheong
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New chat logs between alleged Democratic National Committee hacker Guccifer 2.0 and a Playboy\u00a0centerfold model\u00a0surfaced today via Wikileaks on Twitter, throwing more fuel on the conspiracy theories<\/a> surrounding murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich. The Twitter conversation, conducted via direct messages, purports to reveal Rich as the primary leaker of the DNC e-mails that proved highly disruptive during the 2016 presidential election.\u00a0There is no substantiation to these claims.<\/p>\n (U.S. officials have alleged that Guccifer 2.0 is the creation of Russian hackers seeking to interfere with American politics. Guccifer 2.0 has denied being a Russian front).Robbin Young, who posed fully nude for Playboy in the 1980s, is the one who\u00a0released the chat logs. She says on her website<\/a> that she followed Guccifer 2.0 on Twitter following the DNC leaks. \u00a0She considers him to be a \u201chero and a friend.\u201d<\/p>\n For a period of two weeks, Young and Guccifer 2.0 shared flirty messages and \u201cdiscussed\u201d politics. The conversations, as seen in the publicized logs<\/a>, are\u00a0effusive, intimate and conspiratorial,<\/p>\n As Young talked about politics, Guccifer 2.0 inundated the model with heart emoji spam and compliments about her appearance in broken English.<\/p>\n \u201cEverything i want to do now is look at u again and again,\u201d wrote Guccifer 2.0. \u201cI\u2019m impressed u can combine both ur beauty and wisdom.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI wish we could have a date,\u201d wrote the seemingly lovestruck hacker.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m single and don\u2019t date anyone, so I pray that someday we WILL enjoy a date. I would love to talk to you, kiss you passionately, make love to you, and snuggle safely in your arms,\u201d Young responded. She shared erotic poetry with the alleged hacker, which he says made him \u201chard.\u201d He requested private pictures of the model.<\/p>\n In direct messages\u00a0dated August 25, 2016, Guccifer 2.0 mentioned having a whistleblower at the DNC, and said he was looking for a \u201cperson of trust who can be a guarantee in case anything happens.\u201d<\/p>\n When Young suggested trusting Julian Assange, Guccifer 2.0 called him \u201cunsafe\u201d and that he \u201cmay be connected with Russians\u201d despite being his hero.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019d like to find a journalist who can do an investigation and teel [sic] the real story of his life and death,\u201d he said, and revealed that the whistleblower he was referring to was none other than a person named \u201cSeth.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI suppose u know who I\u2019m talking about,\u201d he said, adding that he felt sorry about the murdered DNC staffer\u2019s parents and that he wished for journalists to uncover the truth of his murder.<\/p>\n In the days after, the two shared more mutual conversations with advice on staying safe before promptly ceasing.<\/p>\n Robbin Young<\/p><\/div>\n Seth Rich, a 27-year-old mid-level DNC staffer, was shot and killed\u00a0in the early morning of July 2016 in Washington DC, while he was walking home from a bar and talking with his girlfriend on his mobile phone. Rich\u2019s killers left his watch and wallet untouched on his body.<\/p>\n Rich\u2019s murder has for months been the subject of unsubstantiated conspiracy theories suggesting that he was involved in the leak of DNC secrets, and that he was killed by the Clintons to ensure his silence. Assange himself has suggested that Rich died as a result of his alleged role as a source for Wikileaks. While there is no substantiation to any of these theories, Rich\u2019s\u00a0murder remains unsolved despite a large reward being offered for information that leads to the killers\u2019 apprehension.<\/p>\n And despite Guccifer 2.0\u2019s implications to Robbin Young that Rich was the DNC leaker, nothing in the chat logs substantiate the claim in any way whatsoever. The conspiracy theories were already widespread<\/a> by that time. The only thing certain is that Guccifer 2.0, an entity that surfaced in the wake of the leaks, had already inserted himself into the narrative.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/i><\/div>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/i><\/div>\n<\/i><\/div>\n<\/i><\/div>\n<\/a>