I don't think so. I would note that the M5S is working with the Northern League.
It is important to remember who put Papadopoulos in contact with Mifsud in the first place. GP says that he informed the London Center for International Law Practice (LCILP) that he was leaving to join the Trump campaign. The LCILP recommended that GP visit Rome and Link University. They even paid his way despite the fact that he was leaving. It appears the website for the LCILP is down. It seems like a front organization attached to UK/US intelligence. CTH provides the following timeline:
♦June 2015 Papadopoulos reaches out to Corey Lewandowski for job in Trump Campaign.
♦Sept. 2015 Papadopoulos again reaches out to Corey Lewandowski.
♦Sept. 30, 2015, Michael Glassner informs Papadopoulos campaign not currently hiring foreign policy advisers. Papadopoulos goes to work for Carson campaign.
[Note: Carson’s campaign is run by Barry Bennett; a DC political consultant partnered with Dick Cheney’s daughter Mary Cheney “BKM Strategies” (Yes, that Dick Cheney).
♦Early Feb. 2016 Papadopoulos leaves Carson campaign.
♦Early Feb. 2016 Papadopoulos joins London Center for International Law Practice (LCILP)
♦March 2, 2016, Papadopoulos emails Trump campaign again, looking for role.
♦March 3, 2016, Sam Clovis sets up interview with Papadopoulos.
♦March 6, 2016, Sam Clovis interviews Papadopoulos.
♦Mid March, 2016, Papdopoulos travels to Rome as part of LCILP role. During visit Papadopoulos introduced to Joseph Mifsud. Mifsud introduced as professor for London Academy for Diplomacy, London England.
♦March 17,2016, Papadopoulos returns to London.
♦March 21, 2016, President Trump names Papadopoulos amid list of foreign policy advisors, with focus on energy sector.
♦March 24, 2016, Papadopoulos meets Mifsud in London. Mifsud accompanied by Olgya Polonskya who Mifsud introduced as former student/Putin niece. [sketchy]
♦March 31, 2016, Trump campaign foreign policy team meeting, Washington DC. Trump International Hotel. [famous table photograph with Papadopoulos, Sessions, Trump]
♦Early April, 2016, Mifsud continues contact w/ Papadopoulos via email. Ms. Polonskya also emailing Papadopoulos; however, later discovered Mifsud actually writing Polonskya emails. Papadopoulos returns to London, U.K.
♦April 11, 2016, Mifsud emails Papadopoulos about his upcoming travel to Russia. Suggests meeting for following day, April 12.
♦April 12, 2016, Papadopoulos and Mifsud meet at Andaz Hotel in London, U.K. This meeting is in advance of Mifsud traveling to Russia.
♦April 18, 2016, Mifsud emails Papadopoulos from Russia. Introduces Ivan Timofeev.
♦April 25, 2016, Mifsud returns to London after stopover in Rome.
♦April 26, 2016, Papadopoulos and Mifsud meet again at Andaz Hotel in London, U.K. During meeting Mifsud claims Russians “have dirt” on Hillary Clinton; “emails of Clinton”; and “thousands of emails”.
♦May 6, 2016, Papadopoulos gets call from Christian Cantor (Israeli Embassy) wanting to introduce his ‘girlfriend’ Erika Thompson (Australian Embassy aide to Ambassador Alexander Downer). They meet at a London Pub.
[NOTE: Mueller cites the content of May 6, 2016, meeting as communicating “clinton emails” from Papadopoulos; however, Mueller conflates and falsely attributes the content material of this Erika Thompson meeting. Mueller attributes content to Ambassador Downer meeting with Papadopoulos on May 10, 2016. Conflation appears intentional]
♦May 6, 2016, Following initial meeting Papadopoulos gets email from Erika Thompson suggesting meeting with her boss, Australian Ambassador Alexander Downer.
♦May 10, 2016, Papadopoulos meets Ambassador Downer at the Kensington Wine Rooms in London, England. MEDIA CLAIM: “Downer met with George Papadopoulos, where Papadopoulos — having been introduced through two intermediaries, Christian Cantor and Erika Thompson — mentioned that Russians had material on Hillary Clinton.” Both Papadopoulos and Downer refute their May 10th meeting discussed Clinton emails. Papadopoulos notes that Ambassador Downer is recording their conversation.
♦May 11, 2016, Ambassador Downer files notes to Australian government about the content of the conversation and the outlook of the Trump campaign foreign policy.
♦July 2016, Alexander Downer decided to inform the United States Embassy in London, England about his conversation with Papadopoulos, upon the release of the Democratic National Committee’s e-mails by WikiLeaks on July 22, 2016.
♦July 26, 2016, Mueller says (pg 89, fn465) Australia informs U.S. government of Papadopoulos statements about Clinton emails.
♦July 31, 2016, A few days after receiving notification from Australia, the U.S. intelligence “EC” [Electronic Communication (possibly authored by Peter Strzok)] is used to begin FBI counterintelligence operation “Crossfire Hurricane.”
♦August and Sept., 2016, U.S. intelligence officials use FBI/CIA operatives (ie. spies), including a woman named Azra Turk (alias), together with FBI/CIA operative informant Stefan Halper to coordinate multiple operations against Trump campaign.
However that turns out, it's clear LCILP is of key significance. I am able to get to their website, but it has been stripped of any useful information. However, I did find an archive of Misfud's profile on their site:
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Joseph Mifsud is the honorary Director of the London Academy of Diplomacy and the former President of EMUNI. He was elected President of the Euro-Mediterranean University by European and Mediterranean, Rectors and Presidents of Universities in November of 2008 after the Paris Summit established Emuni and Euro-Mediterrranean higher education and research as one of the priority projects of the Union for the Mediterranean. He is a full professor at the University of Stirling and an Honorary Professor at the University of East Anglia.
Joseph has lectured extensively throughout the world on international relations, public administration and management, public private partnerships, diplomacy and euro-mediterranean studies in Europe, Russia, Africa, USA and throughout the Mediterranean region. He has worked in a number of European and International Universities as Guest Professor, International Director and International Adviser. He has attended and chaired conferences on higher education, intercultural studies and research in Europe, USA, Russia, the Mediterranean and the Gulf. He has also been invited as a keynote speaker by the EU Parliament, the European Council, the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly, the Union of the Mediterranean and many of the the major schools of Management, Security Studies, International Studies and Diplomacy around the world.
Joseph has also served prominently in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Malta especially in relation to the Commonwealth and in the Mediterranean including the hosting of the Euro-Arab summit in Malta. He has also worked for the Ministry of Education in Malta as Chief Advisor between 1996 and 1998 and as Malta’s representative to the Council of Europe in Education and at Unesco where he has also organised major Ministerial and institutional meetings on pan-meditarranean intercultural dialogue. He was also vital to the EU accession of Malta, being in charge of the establishment of the European Programmes Unit. He has served as Head of Department, and as a member of the Senate of the University of Malta and was also Malta’s representative to the Bologna Follow Up Group.
Joseph has attended and presented papers at the European University Association (EUA) and European Universities and Higher Education Institutions. He sits on a number of Boards in higher education and diplomacy, both in Europe and in the Commonwealth. He is a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) and of the Valdai Group. He is also the author of a number of contributions on higher education, public and private adminstration and on Diplomacy in the Mediterranean and has recently produced the chapter on higher education and research in the Mediterranean published by the Mediterranean Annual in Spain. He has also been the convener of the London Diplomatic Forum organised every week in London and the organiser of Rome Diplomatic Week.
Joseph is also one of the key contributors to the Moroccon Centre of Strategic Studies based in Rabat. Joseph is considered to be the founding father of the term ‘Academic Diplomacy’. His current research interests focus on the EU especially accession and enlargement, the OAS and EU relations, FDI and Diplomacy, and Diplomacy and Security, the Commonwealth, the GCC, Development, Management and Strategic Studies in the Maghreb and Mashrek regions, EU – Russia Relations, and the workings of the Organisation of American States. He is also focusing on a number of countries/regions out of Europe – the Gulf, the Middle East and North Africa, Angola, Kazakhastan, Vietnam and Myanmar. The London, Rome and Washington diplomatic journals have run features of his work in the January and February editions of 2015.
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Contact Number: +44 (0) 7468 586644
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As I'm looking into what has been scrubbed from the web about LCILP, the name of Nagi Idris of the Saudi law firm of Garoub & Associates is coming up as linked to both LCILP and Link Campus University:
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Director London Centre of International Law Practice
Qualifications: LLB (Hons)
Location: London, UK
Biography
Nagi is a senior international lawyer and Fellow of the International Bar Association, with over 19 years of legal consultancy experience. He received his LLB (Hons) from the University of Khartoum, and attended the CPE Conversion Law Course at the City University London. He also obtained international practice diplomas from the International Bar Association and the College of Law of England and Wales in International Arbitration, International Capital Markets, International Mergers and Acquisitions, International Business Organisations and International Joint Ventures. He holds a diploma in linguistics from the Chartered Institute of Linguists and the Islamic Finance Qualification from the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment. Nagi previously served as a senior Legal Consultant at Peter Dovey & Co Solicitors and other organisations where he advised on international contracts, such as international infrastructure development, education and healthcare management and international commercial law. Nagi has a particular interest in the area of international law and dispute resolution – including: boundary disputes, international investment disputes and international energy law. He is a Member of the Society of International Economic Law and the Human Rights Institute, the Arbitration Committee, the Oil and Gas Law Committee, the Water Law Committee, the War Crimes Committee, and the Arab Regional Forum of the International Bar Association. He is also a member of the Sudanese Bar Union and the Chartered Institute of Linguists. Nagi is also a visiting professor at LINK Campus University in Rome, Italy.
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Your post also notes Misfud's connection to the London Academy of Diplomacy, which is affiliated with the University of East Anglia under one Nabil Ayad, who seems to specialize in training diplomats for working in the Middle East, rather similar in background to Nagi Idris. Ayad also shows up at Link Campus University with Idris in March 2017 for a G7 international forum under the auspices of the Italian G7 presidency; his affiliation there is listed as "The Academy for Diplomacy and International Governance, Loughborough University".