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| The Role of Human Intelligence in Spygate, Part 2: Halper and Mifsud |
| 2020-09-20 |
| [Red State] For a brief outline of human intelligence and background, see part 1 here. For all the talk of alleged links between Trump campaign officials and Russia, it was Stefan Halper who gave an interview to Sputnik TV, a Russian outlet, to discuss the upcoming American election. In that telecast, Halper gave a strong endorsement for Hillary Clinton and heavily criticized Donald Trump. Then in December 2016, after Trump had won the election, both Halper and Richard Dearlove resigned from the CIS citing "Russian infiltration" of the organization. While the FBI describes Halper as an informant, he was actually more than an informant passing on information. Instead, he actively courted three Trump campaign people, dropping himself into their lives, offering and actually paying for their travel expenses, and misrepresenting himself as eager to work for the Trump campaign. Over drinks while in London, Halper directly asked Papadopolous whether the Trump campaign had any dirt on Hillary Clinton and whether anyone in the campaign knew about the DNC hack or the Wikileaks document dump. Papadopolous told Halper that no one ever proved Russia was behind the DNC hack and suggested it could be the work of the Chinese or Israelis. Halper pushed the issue and said that any help from Russia or Wikileaks could be beneficial to the campaign. Papadopolous told Halper it would be illegal and that no one in the campaign was working with Russia or Wikileaks. Unsatisfied, Halper talked about Trump’s comment about Russia finding the 30,000 missing Clinton emails which Papadopolous passed off as a joke comment and that Trump was not encouraging Russian espionage. If Stefan Halper is well-known in DC Beltway circles, then Joseph Mifsud- the linchpin in the whole Trump-Russia collusion narrative- is the mystery man. He is often considered a "shadowy" figure in the press, but a lot is actually known about him. Mifsud hails from the small island nation of Malta. We know he taught at Stirling University in Great Britain, and the London Academy of Diplomacy and the London Center for International Law and Practice (LCILP) which was where George Papadopolous was working. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #1 human intelligence Recent events provide evidence that this is an oxymoron |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2020-09-20 10:37 |