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DARK ARTS

An Arsenal of Trickery

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MOSCOW — Deep in the Rus-sian countryside, the grass swaysin a late-summer breeze. In thedistance, the sun glistens off thegolden spires of a village church.It is, to all appearances, a typicallyRussian scene of imperturbablerural tranquillity.

Until a sleek MIG-31 fighter jetsuddenly appears in a field, itsmuscular, stubby wings spread-ing to reveal their trademark redstar insignia. A few moments lat-er, a missile launcher pops up be-side it.

Cars on a nearby road pull over,the drivers gaping in amazement

at what appear to be fearsomeweapons, encountered so un-expectedly in this serene spot.And then, as quickly as they ap-peared, the jet and missile launch-er vanish.

“If you study the major battlesof history, you see that trickerywins every time,” Aleksei A. Ko-marov, the military engineer incharge of this sleight of hand, saidwith a sly smile. “Nobody everwins honestly.”

Mr. Komarov oversees militarysales at Rusbal, a hot air balloon

company that also provides theMinistry of Defense with one ofRussia’s lesser-known militarythreats: a growing arsenal of in-flatable tanks, jets and missilelaunchers, including the MIG inthe field.

At a factory behind high con-crete walls not far from here,workers toiling in secret with littlemore than sewing machines andgreen fabric are churning out theultimate in soft power: decoysthat appear lifelike from as closeas 300 yards and can pop up andthen vanish in mere minutes.

As Russia under PresidentVladimir V. Putin has muscled its

Decoys in Service of an Inflated Russian MightBy ANDREW E. KRAMER

An inflatable MIG-31 fighter jet made by Rusbal, which also makes inflatable tanks and missile launchers to draw enemy fire.JAMES HILL FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

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President Vladimir V. Putin of Russiaoutlined a strategy to appease Olympicofficials after reports of state-sponsoreddoping. PAGE B8

SPORTSTHURSDAY B8-12

Russia’s Latest Olympic BidA Justice Department report criticizedthe city’s police department for biasagainst African-Americans in its use offorce and during traffic stops. PAGE A13

NATIONAL A13-19

Bias Cited in San Francisco

WASHINGTON — Stung by afierce backlash from Donald J.Trump’s ardent supporters, fourRepublican members of Congresswho had made headlines for de-manding that Mr. Trump leave thepresidential race retreated quietlythis week, conceding that theywould still probably vote for theman they had excoriated just daysbefore.

From Senator John Thune ofSouth Dakota, the only member ofthe Republican leadership in ei-ther chamber who had disavowedMr. Trump, to RepresentativeScott Garrett of New Jersey, whois in a difficult re-election fight, thelawmakers contorted themselvesover Mr. Trump. Some of themwould not mention him by name,preferring instead to affirm theirsupport for the generic “Republi-can ticket,” still grasping for amiddle ground.

They said that if Mr. Trumpwould not make way for his run-ning mate, Gov. Mike Pence ofIndiana, to lead the party after therelease of a recording on Fridayshowing Mr. Trump braggingabout groping women, they hadlittle choice but to vote for theirembattled nominee. But the col-lective about-face owed less to hisrefusal to exit a race in which bal-lots are already being cast than tothe fury his supporters unleashedat the defectors at rallies and onsocial media.

And Mr. Trump himself escalat-

TRUMP REGAINSSOME WHO LEFT OVER RECORDING

G.O.P. LAWMAKERS YIELD

Bending to a VenomousBacklash From His

Supporters

By JONATHAN MARTIN

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In the final weeks of a dizzyingpresidential campaign, Donald J.Trump is suddenly embracing anunlikely ally: The document-spilling group WikiLeaks, whichRepublicans denounced when itpublished classified State Depart-ment cables and Pentagon secretsabout the wars in Iraq and Af-ghanistan.

Mr. Trump, his advisers, andmany of his supporters are in-creasingly seizing on a trove ofembarrassing emails from HillaryClinton’s campaign that Wiki-Leaks has been publishing — andthat American intelligence agen-cies said Friday came largely fromRussian intelligence agencies,with the authorization of “Russia’ssenior-most officials.”

The Trump campaign’s willing-ness to use WikiLeaks is an ex-traordinary turnabout after yearsof bipartisan criticism of the orga-nization and its leader, Julian As-sange, for past disclosures ofAmerican national security intel-ligence and other confidential in-formation.

The accusation that Russianagents are now playing an almost-daily role in helping fuel Mr.Trump’s latest political attacks onMrs. Clinton raises far greaterconcerns, though, about foreigninterference in a presidential elec-tion.

With the White House weighingits next move — from possiblesanctions to covert, retaliatory cy-beraction — President Vladimir V.Putin of Russia insisted onWednesday that his nation wasbeing falsely accused. “The hyste-ria is merely caused by the fact

Leaked EmailsAbout ClintonHearten Rival

Trump Team Seizes OnWikiLeaks Trove

This article is by Patrick Healy,David E. Sanger and Maggie Ha-berman.

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Donald J. Trump was emphaticin the second presidential debate:Yes, he had boasted about kissingwomen without permission andgrabbing their genitals. But hehad never actually done thosethings, he said.

“No,” he declared under ques-tioning on Sunday evening, “Ihave not.”

At that moment, sitting at homein Manhattan, Jessica Leeds, 74,felt he was lying to her face. “Iwanted to punch the screen,” shesaid in an interview in her apart-ment.

More than three decades ago,when she was a traveling busi-nesswoman at a paper company,Ms. Leeds said, she sat beside Mr.Trump in the first-class cabin of aflight to New York. They hadnever met before.

About 45 minutes after takeoff,she recalled, Mr. Trump lifted the

armrest and began to touch her.According to Ms. Leeds, Mr.

Trump grabbed her breasts andtried to put his hand up her skirt.

“He was like an octopus,” shesaid. “His hands were every-where.”

She fled to the back of the plane.“It was an assault,” she said.

Ms. Leeds has told the story toat least four people close to her,

Two Women Say Trump MadeUnwanted Advances Long Ago

By MEGAN TWOHEYand MICHAEL BARBARO

“His hands were everywhere,”Jessica Leeds said.

GEORGE ETHEREDGE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

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REGISTERING VOTERS Storm-torn Florida gets more time. PAGE A13

ADVERSARY Judicial Watch has focused on the Clintons since 1994, andhas more than 20 active lawsuits involving Hillary Clinton. PAGE A17

HAZLETON, PA. In a city built by European immigrants, immigrationhas become the defining political issue. PAGE B1

NATHANIEL BROOKS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

An energy developer has promised to pay voters if a wind-farm project is approved. Page A13.Vermont Voters Get a Cash Offer

Jury selection has taken weeks asprosecutors prepare to retry PedroHernandez, above, in the 1979 disap-pearance of Etan Patz, 6. PAGE A20

NEW YORK A20-23

A Retrial Gears Up, SlowlySnapchat’s parent has selected MorganStanley and Goldman Sachs to lead themost eagerly awaited new internet stockoffering in more than a year. PAGE B1

BUSINESS DAY B1-7

Snap Picks Bankers for I.P.O.

The rapper Lil Wayne, who just re-leased “Gone ’Til November,” his prisonjournals, sat down to discuss his frus-trations and inspirations. PAGE C1

ARTS C1-8

Setbacks, Move Aside

Gail Collins PAGE A25

EDITORIAL, OP-ED A24-25

Rowan Blanchard of “Girl Meets World”fame uses social media to overcome thechild-star stereotype. PAGE D1

THURSDAY STYLES D1-8

Coming of Age

The scandal engulfing WellsFargo toppled its chairman andchief executive on Wednesday, asJohn G. Stumpf announced his de-parture from the company, effec-tive immediately.

The move was a swift and stun-ning fall for an executive whosebank made it through the 2008 fi-nancial crisis relatively un-scathed, only to be undone by asham-account sales scandal thatpervaded its community bankingdivision and percolated under thesurface for years.

It was an extraordinary mo-ment even in the banking indus-try, which has been bedeviled bycriticism and regular scandalssince the financial crisis. Despitethe industry’s many troubles, rel-atively few banking chiefs havestepped down under outside pres-sure.

But Wells Fargo’s transgres-sions were unusually blatant andstraightforward, which contribut-ed to the still-mounting public out-cry. This time, there were no exot-ic financial instruments, compli-cated trades or complex mortgagetrickery. The bank’s misdeedswere fundamentally simple: Un-der intense pressure to meet ag-gressive sales goals, employeescreated sham accounts using thenames — and sometimes, the ac-tual money — of the bank’s realcustomers. And in some cases the

Bank’s LeaderExits AbruptlyAmid Scandal

By MICHAEL CORKERYand STACY COWLEY

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Jack Greenberg was the last survivingmember of a civil rights legal teamassembled by Thurgood Marshall. Hewas 91. PAGE B12

OBITUARIES B12-13

A Legal Force for Civil Rights

WASHINGTON — An Ameri-can warship stationed off thecoast of Yemen fired cruise mis-siles on Thursday at radar instal-lations that the Pentagon said hadbeen used by Yemeni insurgentsto target another American war-

ship in two missile attacks in thelast four days.

The American strikes were thefirst direct attack by the UnitedStates against Yemen’s Houthirebels, members of an indigenousShiite group with loose connec-tions to Iran who are fighting theYemeni government. The strikeswere approved by PresidentObama, said Peter Cook, the Pen-

tagon spokesman, who warned ofmore to come if American shipswere fired upon again.

“These limited self-defensestrikes were conducted to protectour personnel, our ships and ourfreedom of navigation in this im-portant maritime passageway,”the Pentagon said in a statement.“The United States will respond toany further threat to our ships and

commercial traffic.”Until Thursday, the Obama ad-

ministration had tried to navigatea treacherous course in Yemen,publicly pushing for a peace dealwhile quietly providing militarysupport to a Saudi Arabia-ledbombing campaign against therebels since last year. Yet the maingoal of the administration has of-

American Warship Fires Missiles at 3 Yemeni Rebel InstallationsBy MATTHEW ROSENBERG

and MARK MAZZETTI

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A massacre highlights a growing crisisin Afghanistan’s armed forces, whichface casualties from a revitalized Tal-iban and problems recruiting. PAGE A4

INTERNATIONAL A4-12

Afghanistan’s Depleted Forces