That is not what a “useful idiot” meant for the Soviets. In any case Mifsud worked for western intelligence. Who ran Mifsud is the unknown.
Mifsud was a plain intellectual professor ‘type’ until 2006/2008 and then Malta brought him in as a cabinet officer for Foreign Affairs. Roughly two years later, he’s hauled into Slovenia to be head of a university (Euro-Med University).
Then he starts to get these invitations to Moscow. After three or four years, he starts to get various invitations to European university jobs as director or instructor (differing with each group).
At some point in the 2015/2016 period, he’s a known participant of the Valdai Club, which has forums for intellectuals and political players from Europe attending. Valdai Club is mostly a group of think-tank players (going back to 2004), and sponsored by Russian private money (no one has ever proven that it’s KGB sponsored). The private money? Mostly coming from Oligarch types out of Russia, with a economic angle to things.
All of this leads back to a big-time backer of Mifsud...a German by the name of Stephan Roh. I think if one were to dig back to the 2006/2008 era, Roh was the connection to all of the Mifsud travels and ‘appointments’. Mifsud continually faced accusations after 2016 that he was a KGB-player, and that’s been a false planted suggestion for a long period of time. Even the CIA idiots will suggest this.
Mifsud simply served as an intellectual ‘tool’ to reach various business and political people, and Roh (with the Moscow players) continually used Mifsud to plant stories or suggestions.
It’s like a stupid script for a James Bond movie, that really starts off as Russians or KGB folks being the evil ones, and about halfway through the movie, it’s some oligarch or billionaire club that is really the evil characters behind the whole script.
Roh (or his think-tank companions) paid for the travels, the nice hotels, and the daily expenses of these Mifsud ‘adventures’. I think in the end, he woke up and realized how deep he was, and no real exit existing. His usefulness came to an end.