Excerpt:[themarketswork] Halper had previously invited Carter Page to attend a July 2016 symposium held at Cambridge regarding the upcoming election. The speaker list was notable:
Madeleine Albright (former U.S. Secretary of State)
Vin Weber (Republican Party strategist and former Congressman). Ambassador Peter Ammon (German Ambassador to the UK). Sir Richard Dearlove (former head of MI6). Bridget Kendall (BBC diplomatic correspondent and the next Master of Peterhouse College). Sir Malcolm Rifkind (former Defence and Foreign Secretary).
Rifkind from the MOD, Kendall at BBC, and Sir Richard.... all working for the same employer.
Page attended the symposium just four days after his July 2016 Moscow trip. Page met with Halper during the London visit. Page’s Moscow trip would figure prominently in the Steele Dossier...
Halper also requested ‐ and attained ‐ a meeting with another, unknown, Trump Campaign member on September 11, 2016 ‐ two days before the Papadopoulos meeting.
Halper "offered to help the campaign" but did not mention the Papadopoulos meeting to the second staffer ‐ nor the staffer meeting to Papadopoulos.
Curiously, despite the offers of campaign help, on November 3, 2016, Halper publicly stated that Clinton would be the best option for US-UK relations.
Not so "curious" if you've already been recruited as a plant.
One other particularly interesting note.
Halper has connections to the UK Intelligence firm Hakluyt through Jonathan Clarke, with whom he has co-authored two books. You can find a June 2004 video of the pair discussing their first book here.
Jonathan Clarke is the U.S. Representative ‐ Director U.S. Operations for Hakluyt. Clarke is a fairly public figure ‐ but it was quite difficult to locate references to his association with Hakluyt.
Given the lengthy association between Halper and Clarke, I expect we will find additional ties between Halper, other members of Hakluyt and members of British Intelligence.
....making the electronic monitoring piece somewhat easier.
Halper’s association with former MI6 Head Richard Dearlove ‐ via their previous positions at Cambridge Intelligence Seminar ‐ is already known.
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