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Ties That Bind – Stefan Halper, Joseph Mifsud & Alexander Downer (& Papadopoulos)
Ties that bind ^ | 5/10/2018 | Jeff Carlson, CFA

Posted on 05/14/2018 2:12:59 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie

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1 posted on 05/14/2018 2:12:59 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Mifsud vanished in early November 2017, shortly after the Papadopoulos story broke.

I’ve found four different meetings between Papadopoulos and Mifsud:

March 14, 2016 – First known meeting. Papadopoulos met Mifsud in Italy approximately one week after officially joining the Trump team.

March 24, 2016 – Papadopoulos, Mifsud, Olga Polonskaya and unknown fourth party met in a London cafe.

April 18, 2016 – Mifsud introduced Papadopoulos to Ivan Timofeev, an official at a state-sponsored think tank called Russian International Affairs Council.

April 26, 2016 – Mifsud claims to have met with high-level Russian government officials who have “dirt” on Clinton. Papadopoulos told the FBI that Mifsud said “the Russians had emails of Clinton” and “they have thousands of emails.”

Although the common story is that Mifsud is a Russian Agent, many ties seem to lead back to UK Intelligence.

Julian Assange put out a Twitter Thread noting the connection between Mifsud and UK Intelligence.

Disobedient Media has done a series of articles on Mifsud’s strange background – or lack thereof:

All Russiagate Roads Lead To London As Evidence Emerges Of Joseph Mifsud’s Links To UK Intelligence.

A Conversation With Chris Blackburn On The Contradictions Surrounding Mifsud.

Chris Blackburn Discusses Legacy Press Coverage Of Joseph Mifsud.

Chris Blackburn had this to say:

If Mifsud is a genuine Russian asset, he has been enabled by the United States’ most trusted allies. His relationship with senior intelligence and political leaders in Europe should constitute one of the greatest security breaches in decades.

I don’t have enough information to make a determination on Mifsud at this point, but I suspect ties with British Intelligence will prove accurate.

Mifsud was just the opening salvo directed at young Papadopoulos.

https://www.themarketswork.com/2018/05/10/ties-that-bind-stefan-halper-joseph-mifsud-alexander-downer-papadopoulos/


2 posted on 05/14/2018 2:29:48 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

October, 2017–Mifsud goes missing.


3 posted on 05/14/2018 2:30:22 PM PDT by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: tired&retired
In late-July 2016, Australia’s ambassador to the U.S., Joe Hockey, told his American counterparts about Downer’s claims about the Papadopoulos conversation. The Aussies sat on the information for two months but revisited the Papadopoulos information after WikiLeaks released emails stolen from the Democratic National Committee.

That leak occurred on July 22, 2016. The FBI opened its counterintelligence investigation on July 31, 2016. Peter Strzok, the FBI’s deputy chief of counterintelligence at the time, oversaw the investigation.

Strzok texts suggest he was in London on August 3, 2016:


4 posted on 05/14/2018 2:33:36 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

“Disobedient Media”. I like that!


5 posted on 05/14/2018 2:36:48 PM PDT by Eagles6
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To: tired&retired

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.


6 posted on 05/14/2018 2:40:11 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: tired&retired

keep shining a light on the Swamp. great stuff.


7 posted on 05/14/2018 2:49:34 PM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: tired&retired

“How Papadopoulos got the position remains unknown.” He was rewarded the position when the FBI mole targeted him when he wormed his way into the Trump Campaign. Classic Black Ops by The CIA and FBI. I always thought Brennan was the ‘fixer’ in all of this. Who was his boss, Jarret, Clinton or Obama himself? Pure speculation of course, but the tapestry is woven and about to be displayed.


8 posted on 05/14/2018 3:01:29 PM PDT by richardtavor
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To: MAGAthon

Stefan Halper’s father in law was Ray Steiner Cline (June 4, 1918 – March 16, 1996) an official at the United States Central Intelligence Agency best known for being the chief CIA analyst during the Cuban Missile Crisis.


9 posted on 05/14/2018 3:11:55 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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Here is an interesting tidbit about Halper's father in law, Ray Cline: (he was also the guy who told Kennedy about the Russian missiles in Cuba)

When Egyptian anti-aircraft batteries along the Suez Canal pounded the IAF in the first days of the October 1973 War. At the time, in the summer of 1970, however, when "Israel complained to Washington that the Egyptians had breached the agreement, Ray Cline, the head of the State Department intelligence unit…told the White house that the Israeli complaint was baseless.

When Israeli Ambassador Yitzhak Rabin told his military attache, General Eli Zeira, what had happened, Zeira immediately asked Tel Aviv to send him a photographic interpreter and a set of aerial photographs showing the Egyptian deployment. These duly arrived in Washington and Zeira was summoned to the White House, where he laid out the evidence before President Nixon. Nixon, angry with Cline, then ordered the Pentagon to remove its veto on several categories of weapons the Israelis had asked for during the preceding months."

10 posted on 05/14/2018 3:19:38 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: richardtavor

“He was rewarded the position when the FBI mole targeted him when he wormed his way into the Trump Campaign.”

He was supposedly brought in by Sam Clovis, former Air Force pilot, Iowa Republican. Doesn’t seem like a guy that would be manipulated by a worm. I don’t know.


11 posted on 05/14/2018 3:53:32 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Great article. I read it when Dan Bongino linked to it. The more visibility, the better...thanks for posting it.


12 posted on 05/14/2018 4:03:24 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

There’s more on Halper here:

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/05/11/the-insurance-policy-the-ec-the-2016-fbi-counterintel-operation-and-the-mysterious-informant-who-originated-brennans-ec/

The short version:

So, what did [Halper] do?

Simple, his job was to locate then dirty-up anyone he could convince: 1) to meet with him; 2) engage in his requests; and 3) engage contacts he set up. Halper was setting up a classic operation to use unknown “useful idiots” to give the appearance of Russian allies/actors.

Halper provided the underlying imaging, the optics needed for the “EC” referral; which Brennan then used to trigger James Comey; who originated the FBI Counterintelligence Operation.

The fraudulent origin, in combination with the October FISA warrant needed for surveillance gathering, would drive the insurance policy that Peter Strzok described to Lisa Page.


13 posted on 05/14/2018 4:08:47 PM PDT by Clioman
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To: tired&retired; MadMax, the Grinning Reaper; piasa

Interesting.


14 posted on 05/14/2018 4:14:47 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: lizma2

I was talking about once the framers saw him with the campaign, they recognized his youthful exuberance and saw him as a potential target. All supposition of course based on the few articles that i have read about him. Had he not been able to “worm himself” into a position, (more important to him than anyone in the campaign thought apparently), he would not have been a target. Spys like Brennan would know how to spot targets for compromise. His weakness was his youth and his need to feel important. It is not surprising that they set him up in a bar.


15 posted on 05/14/2018 4:59:38 PM PDT by richardtavor
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Also remember that popodaupolis wanted the trump campaign to contact Putin.....sessions shot the idea down quickly.

Just think if the trump campaign had contact with Putin or his allies....

This whole ordeal is just sickening and I seriously doubt the real truth will ever see the light of day


16 posted on 05/14/2018 5:42:30 PM PDT by SPRINK
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sordid details ping!


17 posted on 05/14/2018 6:45:37 PM PDT by bitt (t)
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Ping


18 posted on 05/14/2018 8:14:44 PM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie
On May 4, 2016, Papadopoulos gave an interview to the London Times

Just how does a 24yo a month into this job get an interview w/ the Times of London?


19 posted on 05/15/2018 4:10:04 PM PDT by nicollo (I said no!)
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He was a patsy. Chosen specifically for his youth and inexperience.


20 posted on 05/15/2018 4:55:53 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is what I read in the papers.)
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