“Has anyone seen Joseph Mifsud anywhere”
I’d like to know too .....Just one question: Who told Mifsud to tell Papadopolous that “the Russians” had dirt on Hillary?
I suspect it was Stefan Halper. At first I considered Christopher Steele as his control officer since Steele was reported separated from MI6, offering plausible deniability - sort of the appearance of a rogue operation if uncovered. But as the intricacy of the whole off shore intel operation emerged, and the smell of Halper intruded, I changed my guess.
It appeared last summer that Joseph Mifsud had resurfaced and right where he was expected to be - the Link Campus in Rome. Apparently that sighting has not been confirmed. My thought at the time was that Mifsud had 'disappeared' to protect the myth of Crossfire Hurricane that the counterintel operation began in July of 2016; obviously Mifsud's involvement extended back at least to early Spring.
Mifsud's involvement was not rogue. Italian intel became involved in trying to set up an orphan server in the US that would imply a direct connection between the Russians and the Trump campaign. Their unwitting dupe got wise to them and it has caused great embarrassment and a shakeup in the Italian foreign office.
In places it appears the coup cabal was the gang that couldn't shoot straight. The fate of FBI agent Pientka and contract agent Mifsud may countermand that view.