Enter Stefen Halper, whose name has cropped up numerous times as one of the “informants” (i.e. spies) run against the Trump campaign in 2016. He made contact on behalf of the FBI/CIA with George Papadopoulos, Carter Page, and Sam Clovis. We’ve all been assured that such actions against American citizens were all on the up and up.
There’s another problem though. Halper is a conman and a liar who had no business being used by U.S. intelligence agencies as a source for anything.
The FBI informant who made contact with members of the Trump campaign has made allegations of Russian spy infiltration at the University of Cambridge that people involved in the matters have called “false” and “absurd.”
A Russian academic who worked at Cambridge with the informant, Stefan Halper, said he made “false allegations” about her interactions with former national security adviser Michael Flynn at an event the Cambridge Intelligence Seminar (CIS) hosted in February 2014.
Halper’s claim in December 2016 that Russians infiltrated CIS has also been called “absurd” by Christopher Andrew, the official historian for MI5 and head of CIS, the Financial Times reported.
While the above excerpt is from a May 2018 article, no evidence to further support Halper’s crazed accusations has come forth. The fact that the FBI/CIA were using such a person to target a presidential candidate is kind of a big deal. You’d think exposing Halper for who he is would have been the kind of story any self-respecting journalist would love to break. You’d be wrong though, as numerous publications and networks did everything in their power to protect Halper and continue to do so today.
The story of NBC’s involvement in that is laid out by Svetlana Lokhova.
She was born in Russia so she’s instantly really scary and must be working for Putin, but in reality, she’s just a longtime historian at Cambridge University and a British citizen. She’s also the woman Halper falsely accused of having an affair with Michael Flynn.
According to NYT, Halper, who was not identified by name in the report, “was alarmed by the general’s apparent closeness with a Russian woman who was also in attendance.” Halper’s complaints prompted a person close to him “to pass on a warning to the American authorities that Mr. Flynn could be compromised by Russian intelligence.”
But Lokhova said Halper’s assessment of her interaction with Flynn was inaccurate.
She also suggested on Twitter that Halper was a source for journalists who investigated stories about her interactions with Flynn. Her Twitter post linked to a March 18, 2017 article published by The Wall Street Journal, which made the first allegations about Flynn’s encounter with Lokhova.
That assertion was based on a single public dinner with Flynn, which even the Washington Post investigated and found there was nothing there. No affair occurred and it was the only interaction between Flynn and Svetlana to ever happen.
TheDCNF has also confirmed that Washington Post columnist David Ignatius looked into the allegations but did not run a story. On Wednesday, Ignatius published a column defending Halper as a “middleman” in a justified investigation of the Trump campaign.
There was no Russian conspiracy and Flynn talking for a few minutes with a Cambridge historian was not actually him being brought under Russian control. Halper, needing to smear Flynn though, spread the rumor in...
