I can't speak to what LUKOIL's intentions were in terms of those meetings. I do know that when SCL made presentations about disinformation or attitudinal inoculation, that did not dissuade the company from continuing that relationship. The company was interested. They then received white papers that my colleagues and I had composed on the data assets and capacity of the company in the United States.
On May 29th, 2018. See this statement in context.