2017 Wikileaks Released CIA Documents Showing CIA Involvement in the 2012 French Presidential Election
WikiLeaks started teasing the release of "Vault 7" in early February 2017 with a series of cryptic tweets.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vault_7#cite_note-5">[5]</a></sup> On 16 February 2017, WikiLeaks released CIA documents describing how the CIA monitored the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_French_presidential_election" class="mw-redirect" title="2012 French presidential election">2012 French presidential election</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Daily_Beast_6-0" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vault_7#cite_note-Daily_Beast-6">[6]</a></sup> The press release for this leak stated it was published "as context for its forthcoming CIA Vault 7 series."<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vault_7#cite_note-7">[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vault_7
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