**August 9, 2016** - Flynn signs a contract on with Inovo, a Dutch firm owned by Ekim Alptekin, the chairman of the Turkish-American Business Council, appointed by Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Flynn is assigned to investigate Fethullah Gulen, a Turkish cleric who lives in Pennsylvania and was blamed by Erdogan for helping instigate a failed coup [source]. Flynn ultimately receives $530,000 before the contract terminated in November 2016.

**August 17, 2016** - Flynn begins attending classified intelligence briefings with candidate Trump [source].

**September 2016** - Flynn meets with Turkey's ministers of foreign affairs and energy, Erdogan's son-in-law, and other officials at an undisclosed New York hotel, in a meeting arranged by Alptekin. Among other topics, Flynn discusses a plan for "a covert step in the dead of night to whisk [Gulen] away" without going through the legal extradition process [source 1], [source 2].

**November 8, 2016** - Flynn publishes a lengthy op-ed entitled "Our ally Turkey is in crisis and needs our support". He states that "We need to see the world from Turkey’s perspective" and brands Gulen as "a radical Islamist". Flynn did not disclose to the publisher that he was being paid by Inovo [source].

**November 18, 2016** - Flynn accepts president-elect Trump's offer of the position of National Security Advisor.

**Nov./Dec. 2016** - Flynn allegedly meets with Austrian far-right Freedom Party leader, Heinz-Christian Strache, at Trump Tower. Strache announces weeks later that his party has signed a cooperation agreement with Vladimir Putin's ruling party. The Trump transition team later denied that the meeting occurred [source].

**December 2016** - Flynn secretly discusses relief from U.S. sanctions with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak on the same day the Obama administration announced retaliatory measures in response to interference in the presidential campaign by the Russian government [source]. Flynn later lies to the FBI about the discussions in an interview in January 2017 [source].

**January 20, 2017** - Flynn officially becomes Trump's National Security Advisor.

**January 22, 2017** - The Wall Street Journal reports that Flynn is under investigation by U.S. counterintelligence agents for his communications with Russian officials [source].

**February 2017** - Flynn is forced out of his role as NSA after The Washington Post reports that Acting Attorney General Sally Yates had warned the Trump White House in late January that Flynn had not been truthful about his contacts with Russia related to sanctions and that he was vulnerable to blackmail by Russian intelligence [source].

**March 2017** - Flynn files papers acknowledging that he worked as a foreign agent in 2016 representing the interests of the Turkish government in a dispute with the United States [source].

**Late March 2017** Flynn tells the FBI and congressional officials investigating the Trump campaign’s potential ties to Russia that he is willing to be interviewed in exchange for a grant of immunity from prosecution [source].

**April 2017** Documents emerge proving Flynn had received monetary payments directly from RT and other Russian firms while still working in the White House as National Security Adviser. This was kept a secret as he did not disclose the information at the time [source].

-Adam Mantine