Mattathias Schwartz, who tried to fuck me out of the initial Buma leak out of Senate Judiciary, has a story today that reveals Peter Thiel was an FBI informant:
Charles Johnson, a longtime associate of Thiel's and a notorious figure in the far-right movement that Thiel has subsidized for a decade, told Insider in a statement that he helped recruit the billionaire as an informant by introducing him to Buma.
A source with knowledge of Thiel's relationship to the FBI, whose identity is known to Insider but who insisted on anonymity, corroborated Johnson's account, telling Insider that Johnson brokered a relationship between Thiel and Buma. Insider was able to confirm through an additional source that the FBI added Thiel to its formal roster of registered informants.
Another source close to Thiel told Insider that while they could not confirm that Thiel was a CHS, Thiel did speak to Buma occasionally. The source said that any assistance Thiel might have provided to the FBI should be understood as part of Thiel's gradual distancing of himself from Trump and the broader MAGA movement, which has vigorously criticized the FBI and other federal law-enforcement agencies.
Charles has additionally provided me with a statement describing his activities as the source identified as “Genius” in the Buma leaks.
My name is Charles Carlisle Johnson and for a number of years I was a confidential human source codenamed Genius.
I worked on new technologies, especially satellites and genetics and facial recognition, and on sovereign wealth funds and foreign interference in American elections.
I did this work at great expense, both financial and stress, and enjoyed every bit of it. Family members of mine had served in the intelligence community and as undercovers and I suppose you could say I wanted to prove my mettle. To be honest I like the danger of it. I want to change the world for the better even if it means that doing so might mean I am no longer in it. I lived for this work.
Unfortunately I was unceremoniously terminated as a CHS along with other CHSes handled by Special Agent Johnathan Buma because my work was “too good.” I take this as a high compliment, especially as material I provided went directly to the President.
I am coming forward now for several reasons.
1. The bond between confidential human source and handler is a sacred one. See the films The Courier, Farewell, and the Green Prince for more details.
2. During that time I recruited several CHSes, including the Philosopher aka Peter Thiel. I did this because I was instructed to help the FBI deal with compromised billionaires, especially in the tech world. There are a lot! Indeed many venture funds double effectively as fronts for foreign intelligence.
The recent revelations that Elon Musk stopped a military advance that would have ended the Ukrainian war earlier really offended me. The Russian use of food as a weapon is a war crime and several of my portfolio companies and friends are deployed in Ukraine.
Johnathan Buma and I stopped Elon Musk from giving billions in inflated stock to Igor Kurganov, a Russian poker player backed by the Chinese mob. We leaked that information to then Wall Street Journal reporter Rob Copeland.
The news of Elon Musk’s ties to the Ukrainian mob and to Russian intelligence has made me convinced we did not do enough.
Founders Fund has continued to back a series of con men rather than be a responsible venture firm, including leading a round into Neuralink.
Either Peter Thiel is unable or unwilling to fix this problem at Founders Fund.
I’d love to chat with the SEC about being a whistleblower here.
3. I believe strongly that the CHS system needs to be reformed and that the era of the in person federal informants may be drawing to a close and that many of the handlers of informants as well as informants themselves have been compromised by foreign intelligence.
4. I am prepared to testify privately or publicly before any body about what I saw and experienced. I enjoyed the work immensely and would happily help a reformed FBI as long as I can for as long as I am needed in any capacity I am needed.
In no other country in the world is my story possible. Nathan Hale probably never said “I regret that I have but one life to lose for my country” but I certainly believe it.
This certainly sheds new light on all the right-wing anons throwing around “fed” allegations, doesn’t it? I think what’s going on there is just that most of that stuff is Israeli.