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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Emily Atkinson

Brexit website ‘linked to Russian hackers’ leaked former MI6 spy chief’s emails

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A website that published leaked emails from leading figures involved in Brexit has links to Russian hackers, according to Google.

The website - called “Very English Coop d’Etat” - claimed to have published emails from the former head of the MI6 Richard Dearlove, prominent Brexit campaigner Gisela Stuart, pro-Brexit historian Robert Toombs and several campaigners for the UK’s departure from the EU.

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