Ronan Farrow on the Black Cube Whistleblower Who Helped Him
, in which the journalist details how Black Cube spies monitored him as he was working on his reports about sexual misconduct allegations against Harvey Weinstein, published in the fall of 2017.'s website, Farrow writes about how he learned in October 2017, while reporting on sexual-assault accusations against Weinstein, that the movie producer had hired the private intelligence agency "to surveil his accusers and the journalists trying to tell their stories.
How did Farrow find that whistleblower or double agent? He recounts talking to two men "close to the Black Cube operation" who promised to send him documents that would "disprove any claims that Black Cube had followed accusers or reporters." That email contained what Farrow called an "extensive record of Black Cube’s work for Weinstein," including their first contract and a revision, which "directed the spies to 'provide intelligence which will help the Client’s efforts to completely stop the publication of a new negative article in a leading NY Newspaper,' a reference to reporting on Weinstein by the Times.
Farrow recalled how his editors asked him to try to learn more about the new inside source, whom they called Sleeper. "Sleeper1973 is possibly a Woody Allen reference," Farrow says he wrote to his editors, a reference to his father's 1973 film. And he adds in the book excerpt about the double agent: "Someone with a dark sense of humor, then. "
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