Remember the names:
Stefan Halper
Joseph Mifsud
Alexander Downer
I know the first name, but who are the other two?
Mifsud
http://www.businessinsider.com/where-is-joseph-mifsud-professor-in-russia-probe-2018-3
Downer
https://thepoliticalinsider.com/alexander-downer-clinton-foundation/
Alexander Downer Alexander John Gosse Downer AC (born 9 September 1951) is a former Australian politician and diplomat who was leader of the Liberal Party from 1994 to 1995, Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1996 to 2007, and High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 2014 to 2018.
Todays revisions and additions:
- @Jack, JD: (#1379) Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. Mentioned in a conversation with Democrat House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi in Q drop #1379. (See Jack, JD, NP, Twitter).
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- Crossfire Hurricane: (#1400) Purported name of the early Russia/Trump investigation begun even before the drunken Popadopoulus meeting with the professor in London which Peter Strzok was dispatched to investigate. The words were taken from the Rolling Stones' 1986 single "Jumpin' Jack Flash."
I was born in a cross-fire hurricane However, the Rolling Stones had actually used the term Crossfire Hurricane in other lyrics as early as 1968. (See FBI, George Papadopoulos, PS, Peter Strzok).
And I howled at the morning driving rain
But it's all right now, in fact, it's a gas
But it's all right. I'm Jumpin' Jack Flash
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- Alexander Downer: (INFO) Alexander John Gosse Downer AC (born 9 September 1951) is a former Australian politician and diplomat who was leader of the Liberal Party from 1994 to 1995, Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1996 to 2007, and High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 2014 to 2018. Downer had drinks in London with George Popadopoulos who told him he had a contact (Maltese Professor Joseph Mifsud) who had connections to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Downer passed on this braggadocio information to intelligence operatives, supposedly instigating the Russia/Trump investigation. (Thanks to FreeQ weston for the question). (See Joseph Mifsud).
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- Foxconn: (#1410) Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., trading as Foxconn Technology Group, is a multinational electronics contract manufacturing company headquartered in Tucheng, New Taipei, Taiwan. Today, it is the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer and the fourth-largest information technology company by revenue. The company is the largest private employer in China and one of the largest employers worldwide. Its founder and chairman is Terry Gou. It manufactures or assembles consumer electronics and appliances for over 700 customer companies, the largest of which is Apple Inc., but also includes HP, Lenovo, Samsung, Sony, HP, Microsoft, GE, CISCO, and dozens of other name brands, as well as hundreds of Chinese brands. It currently produces approximately 60% of the worlds consumer electronic devices. (See Android, Apple, Samsung, X10)
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- GEC: (INFO) The Global Engagement Center is charged with leading the U.S. governments efforts to counter propaganda and disinformation from international terrorist organizations and foreign countries. The Secretary of State established the Global Engagement Center (GEC) in April 2016 pursuant to President Barack Obamas Executive Order #13721. The GEC was subsequently codified into law by 114th Congress (2015-2016) in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which defined its mission as being to lead, synchronize, and coordinate efforts of the Federal Government to recognize, understand, expose, and counter foreign state and non-state propaganda and disinformation efforts aimed at undermining United States national security interests. The legislation originated as bipartisan bills introduced into both the House and the senate entitled Information Warfare Act, that was renamed and incorporated into the final bill. The Washington Post and the International Business Times reported that after the 2016 U.S. presidential election, worries grew that propaganda spread and organized by the Russian government swayed the outcome of the election, and representatives in the U.S. Congress took action to safeguard the National security of the United States by advancing legislation to monitor incoming propaganda from external threats. (Thanks to FreeQs No_Doll_I and Bigg Red).
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- Gina Haspel: (#1381) Gina Cheri Haspel (née Walker; born October 1, 1956) is an American intelligence officer currently serving as the Acting Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) since April 26, 2018, while still holding the official title of Deputy Director. She became Acting Director following Mike Pompeo's resignation to become United States Secretary of State and has been nominated by President Donald Trump to become the official CIA Director. If confirmed by the Senate, she will be the first female CIA Director; she is the second female Deputy Director of CIA. Haspel joined the CIA in January 1985 as a reports officer.[1][14] She held several undercover overseas positions, for many of which she was station chief. (See CIA, Mike Pompeo).
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- JD, @Jack: (#1379) Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. Mentioned in a conversation with Democrat House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi in Q drop #1379. (See @Jack, NP, Twitter).
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- Jim Jordan: (#1391) Rep. Jim Jordan (R) Ohio 4, member of the Freedom Caucus, potential candidate for Speaker of the House to replace Paul Ryan, signer of letter to President Trump requesting he order the DOJ and FBI comply with Congressional document requests and subpoenas.
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- Joseph Mifsud: (INFO) Professor Joseph Mifsud, a Maltese citizen, and an instructor at the University of Scotland, was supposedly the academic who in a drinking meeting in a pub with a minor Trump Campaign advisor George Popadopoulos bragged had connections to high-ranking officials in the Russian government, including the Kremlin's foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov and through him to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Mifsud said, 'I have dinner with Lavrov tonight. Lavrov is my friend. Lavrov this, Lavrov that,'" Website news organization Buzzfeed cited Mifsuds erstwhile girlfriend. "He even show me picture with Lavrov." Despite the claim, there is no evidence as of yet proving Mifsud and Lavrov ever met, or that the former professor has any ties to the Russian government. Mifsud has apparently quit his teaching post and disappeared. (Thanks to FreeQ westin for reminding me). (See Alexander Downer).
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- Pickle, The Pickle Factory: (#1359) Now nailed down to single correct meaning by Q, so all other suggested possible definitions of Pickle are being dropped from the Q LexiQon as Red Herring rabbit holes. Q says "Think Pickle Factory" in Q drop #1394, Q confirmed that the reference Pickle was intended to indicate the fact that the CIA has been nicknamed the Pickle Factory since at least 1963, when that name was cited in print. The CIAs intelligence briefings sent to the president were called pickles, derived from the acronym "PICL", which stood for "President's Intelligence Check List," (pronounced "pickle"), which was developed for President Kennedy in June 1961. Since these were prepared largely by the CIA, the joking appellation "The Pickle Factory" was soon coined for their source. In 1965, the PICL was replaced by the Presidents Daily Briefing (PDB), a much duller acronym, but the "Pickle Factory" stuck for a few years in the press and is still referred to occasionally by some insiders by this old appellation. (Thanks to FreeQ Steven W.).(See C_A, CIA, [C]lowns [I]n [A]merica, Clowns).
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- SIS: (#144) two possibilities:
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- Secret Intelligence Service, the UKs MI6.
- Special Intelligence Service, a defunct NAZI-specialist part of FBI that was rolled into the CIA. (Thanks for both entries above to FreeQ Cboldt).
- Signal Intelligence Agency: The Signal Intelligence Service (SIS) was the United States Army codebreaking division, headquartered at Arlington Hall (former campus of Arlington Hall Junior College for Women, founded 1927 to 1942, on Arlington Boulevard in Arlington, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C.). It was a part of the U.S. Army Signal Corps so secret that outside the office of the Chief Signal officer, it did not officially exist. SIS was an early predecessor to the modern National Security Agency (NSA) and later appropriated by the National Security Council who reappointed the resources into the modern NSA.(Thanks to FreeQ truthluva). (See NSA).
- X10: (#1410) File name of image showing palletized packages of items with yellow shipping tape along with another image of thousands of workers at Foxconn. The Helio X10 is an alternative processor (to Snapdragon processors) used on low to midrange Android cellular phones, including some made by Sony, Oppo, Xiaomi, Meizu, HTC, and ZTE, among others. All of these phones are made in China by Foxconn. Q posted an Anons theory prior to posting these images that the elite "cabal" needed what they thought would be a "secure" means of communicating, and that these Android phones might be the solution they chose, but Q posted some cold weather London images which showed these, too, were compromised and plane photos showing theyd been tracked from production to delivery. Images were apparently associated with a Las Vegas distribution point. (See Foxconn, Las Vegas, LV).
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43488581
Step forward, mystery professor Joseph Mifsud of the London Academy of Diplomacy, originally from Malta, who mixed with Britain’s foreign secretary and ex-CIA people, but who also helped connect Team Trump with the Russians.
A Newsnight investigation into Mifsud has thrown new light on to the enigmatic don and his circle, who include a Kremlin trusty and a third man, Dr Stephan Roh, a wheeler-dealer who bought a British nuclear firm which suddenly started coining millions of dollars.
Mifsud left a job at the University of Malta under something of a cloud in 2007, then led a new university in Slovenia.
In Riyadh he worked for a think-tank run by former head of Saudi intelligence Prince Turki al Faisal, introducing an ex-CIA operative at a seminar.
In April 2016 in the run-up to the American election, Trump foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos says Mifsud told him that the Russians had “dirt” on Hillary Clinton in the form of thousands of emails, according to court documents.
This Maltese Professor May Hold The Key To When The FBI Really Began Surveilling The Trump Campaign
The leaks to the Washington Post did more than potentially expose the sources identity: it confirmed the existence of a top-secret intelligence source. That confirmation proves significant because it establishes that Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpsons August 22, 2017, testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, saying the FBI had a source within the Trump campaign (or Trump organizationmore on that shortly), was accurate.
The Australian diplomat was Alexander Downer, whom many believe prompted the FBI to open the investigation into Russian collision in July 2016, when he told the FBI that an intoxicated Trump foreign policy advisor named George Papadopoulos had bragged that the Russians possessed thousands of stolen Hillary Clinton emails. (Andrew McCarthy questions that theory in his weekend National Review Online column, tracing its origins to a January 2018 New York Times article that infers the FBI learned of Papadopoulos boast from Downer or the Australians, but McCarthy notes that there is no solid confirmation that this happened.)
The New York Times first revealed late last year it was at a boozy night in May 2016, at Londons Kensington Wine Rooms, that Mr Trumps then foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos told Mr Downer Russia had dirt on Mr Trumps political rival Hillary Clinton.
Within hours of opening an investigation into the Trump campaigns ties to Russia in the summer of 2016, the FBI dispatched a pair of agents to London on a mission so secretive that all but a handful of officials were kept in the dark, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.
Their assignment, which has not been previously reported, was to meet the Australian ambassador, who had evidence that one of Donald J. Trumps advisers knew in advance about Russian election meddling.
After tense deliberations between Washington and Canberra, top Australian officials broke with diplomatic protocol and allowed the ambassador, Alexander Downer, to sit for an FBI interview to describe his meeting with the campaign adviser, George Papadopoulos. The FBI agents summarised their highly unusual interview and their report helped provide the foundation for a case that became the probe headed by special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating allegations of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
Mr Trump has repeatedly slammed the probe as a witch hunt.
Mr Papadopoulos became one of Mr Muellers first scalps, pleading guilty to lying to officials.
He is co-operating with Mr Muellers investigation.
The FBI codenamed their probe Crossfire Hurricane, a reference to lyrics in a Rolling Stones song.
Crossfire Hurricane began exactly 100 days before the November 8, 2016 presidential election won by Mr Trump.
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has carefully attempted to repair his relationship with Mr Trump after the leaders had a fiery phone call about a refugee deal a week after the president moved into the White House.
18) At the end of the previous post, #Qanon noted:
Next [1/2].
I was waiting for 2/2 to drop before posting this thread but it has not dropped yet.
Link to the story on yesterday's Senate Intel hearing.https://t.co/orjLajl3Gc— Praying Medic (@prayingmedic) May 17, 2018