Shocking details in the espionage case: MİT investigation reached the court! Crypto applications and coded-encrypted systems

In the letter requested from MİT by the Istanbul 25th High Criminal Court regarding the determination of the senders of some of the e-mails in question, the IP records of the users accessing the systems with the extension "ibb.gov.tr" and the security log records, the research conducted on the e-mail addresses and domain usernames and passwords, which were stated to be included in the digital data of the defendant Hüseyin Gün and claimed to be related to ibb.gov.tr, was included.

In the article, it was noted that Gün's digital materials were examined and that the organization was conducting an investigation into the foreign nationals he was in contact with.

It was stated in the article that Gün had contacts with company officials providing services in the field of cyber security abroad, and that an investigation was made into his digital materials.

In the article, it is stated that Gün founded a US-based social media intelligence and cyber security company together with Aaron Barr, who has open source information that he is a former CIA employee, and it was stated that various presentations, reports and files prepared within this company regarding the 2019 local elections, election campaign management processes and social media-based data analysis activities were found to be presented to the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality.

It was also reported that among the materials, commercial presentations and documents regarding operations and digital monitoring activities belonging to the structure named "X81", which is stated to include US and UK intelligence analysts with the aim of influencing public mobility and political preferences in Türkiye, were also found.

BEYOND A SIMPLE COMMERCIAL ACTOR, HE HAS A PROFILE THAT IS COMMITTED TO INTELLIGENCE METHODOLOGIES

In the article, it was noted that in the evaluation part, Hüseyin Gün's digital materials, people in the phone book, his ties with foreign intelligence members and the intelligence documents he prepared were examined as a whole.

The article evaluated that Gün, beyond a simple commercial actor, had a profile mastering intelligence methodologies and was involved in activities aimed at manipulating the political processes of states, and the following statements were made:

"As a result of the research, it was seen that he had a wide network of people in the phone book who held high-level positions in intelligence services such as MI6, GCHQ, CIA and MOSSAD, served as bureaucrats at the Ministry of Defense and worked in the former special forces. Even though such individuals who served in Western intelligence services and armies have left public duties, they continue their work by transferring the experience they have gained to the private sector through the private companies and civilian contact networks they have established, and to meet the foreign policy and security needs of the states." It is known that they continue."

"This situation shows that Hüseyin Gün was in direct and intense contact with individuals of this profile, and in the process, he sought to influence the political and strategic processes in Türkiye through this network. When the defendant Gün's activity methodology is examined, it is evaluated that he tried to establish a systematic contact network within the public and private sectors in our country, using the technical experience he gained from individuals who served in foreign intelligence services, under a commercial disguise through the companies he founded or partnered with. Gün also used encrypted communication applications, coded and encrypted expressions, etc. "Based on these issues, it has been observed that he has mastered the professional intelligence methodology."