| Political business associate | Jeffrey D Gordon |
| Political | Sergey I. Kislyak |
| Start Date | 2016-07-20 |
| Notes | Mr Gordon, who served as a Pentagon spokesman from 2005 to 2009, portrayed the conversation on 20 July 2016 between himself and Mr Kislyak as innocuous and little more than a “diplomatic courtesy”. Yet it took place against a backdrop of no small political drama. Two days after the conversation, and one day after the completion of the convention in Cleveland, Wikileaks released thousands of hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee (DNC). |