Exhibit 870 ยท Open letter
Public Statement on the Hunter Biden Emails (open letter of 51 former intelligence officials)
we do not know if the emails, provided to the New York Post by President Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, are genuine or not and that we do not have evidence of Russian involvement
Seven-page statement signed by former officials including a former DNI, three former CIA directors and a former Secretary of Defense. It says the emails 'has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation' and adds that the signers do not know whether the emails are genuine and 'do not have evidence of Russian involvement.' It was issued by private individuals, not an agency.
- Source
- Signatories (former senior national security and intelligence officials), first published by Politico
- Date
- 19 October 2020
- Quoted from
- Statement, page 1, paragraph 5
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000175-4393-d7aa-af77-579f9b330000
- Archived
- https://web.archive.org/web/2020/https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000175-4393-d7aa-af77-579f9b330000
- Accessed
- 2026-11-09
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- Count of 51 signers is from secondary sources and from Executive Order 14152; not hand-counted.