Jenny Town is a leading expert on North Korea at the Stimson Institute and the director of Stimson’s 38 North Program. She told an amazing tale on Monday.
In D.C., every embassy has an intelligence purpose, Town explained. People attached to the embassy will try to take the pulse of the city to gauge what policy might be in the pipeline or how policymakers felt about a particular country or event.
Within weeks, the fake Town began to reach out to prominent researchers and analysts pretending to be her. The group behind Town's clone has been tied to cryptocurrency laundering operations and influence campaigns, and has targeted other academics and researchers.
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