Thursday, May 24, 2018

FBI Informant Stefan Halper Accused Of Making ‘False’ And ‘Absurd’ Allegations About Russian Infiltration At Cambridge

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 hosted in February 2014.

Halper told the Financial Times that he was resigning from CIS because of "Unacceptable Russian influence on the group." The evidence of Russian penetration was scant, with news reports citing a nearly $2,700 contribution to CIS from a Russia-based company called Veruscript.

Halper made contact with Trump campaign advisers Carter Page, George Papadpoulos and Sam Clovis during the campaign to gather intelligence about their involvement with Russia.

A historian and Russian intelligence researcher at Cambridge, Svetlana Lokhova, told TheDCNF that Halper is behind allegations made about her and Flynn during the retired general's visit to Cambridge in 2014, when he served as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.

"Stef Halper, who is currently under investigation for his activities, has been revealed by as the source of the false allegations about me and General Flynn," said Lokhova, who was born in Russia and has British citizenship.

The New York Times reported Friday that Halper was the first to raise concerns about interactions Flynn had with Lokhova at a dinner for CIS, a forum for former intelligence officials.

Lokhova declined Tuesday to comment about Halper beyond her short statement.
 

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