Posted on 04/20/2020 5:28:47 PM PDT by bitt
The Senate Judiciary Committee released a declassified transcript of FBI source Stefan Halper’s conversation in September 2016 with George Papadopoulos.
The transcript shows that Halper name-checked several former Russian intelligence officials who he has met throughout his storied career.
The former Cambridge professor plied Papadopoulos with questions about the Trump campaign’s possible collusion with Russia and WikiLeaks.
It wasn’t long into his conversation with George Papadopoulos at a prestigious social club in London weeks before the 2016 election that FBI confidential informant Stefan Halper mentioned his links to several retired Russian spies.
“I have a lot of friends in Russia,” Halper told Papadopoulos during their conversation, which occurred over drinks, and which the FBI recorded.
“My point is that,” Halper said, “the Russians can be very helpful to us at this time and we’ve got some great information coming out.”
Halper, a former Cambridge professor, rattled off the names of the Russians, Vyacheslav Trubnikov, Leonid Shebarshin, and Yuri Traughtoff, according to a transcript of the secretly recorded conversation released on Thursday.
Halper was not bluffing about his friendship with at least one of the ex-Russian spies. He has collaborated with Trubnikov, the former head of Russia’s foreign intelligence service, the SVR. Halper hosted Trubnikov at two intelligence seminars at Cambridge in 2012 and 2015, and interviewed the former Kremlin insider for a 2015 study on China-Russia relations he did for the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment (ONA).
Halper’s goal in bringing up his Kremlin links was to get Papadopoulos to reveal whether he or the Trump campaign were working with the Russian government or involved the WikiLeaks release of Democrats’ emails, according to the Justice Department inspector general’s (IG) report on the FBI’s Trump-Russia probe.
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When they make a movie about Halper, it will be called: “The Walrus Who Love Me.”
Did Hillary and McCain know about Russian Spies and British Spies when they were paying for the junk dossier?
Halper’s goal in bringing up his Kremlin links was to get Papadopoulos to reveal whether he or the Trump campaign were working with the Russian government
Halper's goal went far beyond that. He was seducing Papadopoulos with all of his connections and resources, playing on his desire to be a big player in the Trump Campaign. “the Russians can be very helpful to us at this time and we’ve got some great information coming out.” He wanted Papadopoulos to accept and feed "Russian" information from the FBI into the Trump Campaign. This was the kind of "insurance" that would have destroyed Trump, but Trump didn't want anything to do with it.
“FBI Informant”
“Informant” suggests an insider was giving up dirt on the organization. Halper was an outsider trying to shovel dirt into the organization.
This is interesting- Stefan Halper has collaborated with Trubnikov...
Trubnikov is described in another thread as a “close confidant” of Evgeny Primakov...
Primakov was tight with Saddam Hussein’s red-headed General al Dhouri/Dhuri, the guy who after Saddam’s death swore, along with his sons and Iraqi intel followers, an oath of allegiance to ISIS founder Zarqawi.
Primakov was the guy in charge of cleaning out WMD evidence during the runup to the invasion of Iraq, and it was his convoy that the US scratched up as the Russians slipped into Syria just ahead of our troops in early 2003.
Primakov is also a link to Hezbollah:
Dangerous liaisons: covert “love affair” between Russia and Hezbollah
AIA ^ | Michel Elbaz http://www.axisglobe.com/hezbollah1.htm
Posted on 1/9/2006, 8:20:47 PM by Tailgunner Joe
Slimeball...Halper
... Primakov`s appointment to the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry in January, 1996, brought drastic changes in Moscow’s foreign policy. The pro-western orientation of his predecessor gave way to the revival of traditional Soviet diplomacy. The main manifestation of the change was the process of rapprochement between Russia and the Arab world, India and Iran.
Concurrently, Primakov continued to define the goals of the Russian intelligence services. His close confidant, Vyacheslav Trubnikov, was appointed to lead the SVR (Sluzhba Vnesnei Razvedki), and coordinated all actions with his patron throughout his tenure in the office. Primakov has continued nurturing all of the initiatives and projects that he started as head of the SVR. Several months after he had replaced the previous Foreign Minister, he started to seek contacts with Hezbollah. In December, 1997, the Russian ambassador to Israel, Michail Bogdanov, admitted during an interview that Moscow constantly keeps in touch with Sheikh Nasralla`s subordinates. According to him, the contacts are kept primarily through the Russian embassy in Beirut. Bogdanov noted: “our cooperation with the organization is meant to encourage restraint. Less then a month before this interview, Primakov had visited Beirut. While he was conducting official meetings with Lebanese government figures, his attendant, Viktor Posovaluk, secretly met with the leaders of Hezbollah, including its General Secretary’s deputy, Naim Kassem. Later in Moscow, during his meeting with journalists, Posovaluk called Hezbollah a “national liberation organization”.
He came back to Lebanon in May, 1998, and again unofficially met with Naim Kassem., Posovaluk was conducting the contacts with Hezbollah on behalf of the Russian Foreign Office until he died in the summer of 1999. All this time he was the Russian President’s special envoy to the Middle East and a deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. Incidentally, he also managed contacts with representatives of the Taliban. ... -————
Dangerous liaisons: covert “love affair” between Russia and Hezbollah
AIA ^ | Michel Elbaz http://www.axisglobe.com/hezbollah1.htm
Posted on 1/9/2006, 8:20:47 PM by Tailgunner Joe
Anyone who doesn’t worry about the traitors among us, and the barbarians at the gate, is either naive or not paying attention.
It's possible Halper may have been dangling names to see if Papadopoulos took the bait.
Halper ping.
Oh the hum drum pedestrian life of a lowly Cambridge professor!
Thanks for the ping. Clearly Halper was trying to set Papadopoulos up. All he needed was a nibble knowing the conversation was being recorded and could be edited later. Dirty cops. Brennan was orchestrating it all working with the WH.
Did we ever get Al Douri, the Red Head? As far as I recall, he was the top member of the 25 Cards who never got caught or killed though I recall one airstrike was mentioned that might have gotten him in the late 2004-09 period when he joined ISIS (which he literally founded out of Saddam’s planned post-war guerrilla force movement against an occupying America.
Primakov and Hezbollah. That is very interesting news. I will forward to my rabbi and others.
thanks
I don’t think we ever got AL Dhouri but he is bound to be really old now. He had sons though who also swore the bayat to Zarqawi.
Halper hosted Trubnikov at two intelligence seminars at Cambridge in 2012 and 2015, and interviewed the former Kremlin insider for a 2015 study on China-Russia relations he did for the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment (ONA).
And if other story's accurate, Trubnikov was close to Primakov.
Unfortunately that link from 2006 is dead now
Primakov is deceased now but still held in high esteem as of 2015:
Russian Navy First Project 23560 “Leader Class” Destroyer Will Be Named Yevgeny Primakov
12/7/2015, 8:33:23 AM · by sukhoi-30mki · 11 replies
Navy Recognition ^ | 07 December 2015
According to Russian daily newspaper Kommersant, President Vladimir Putin signed a decree to perpetuate the memory of Yevgeny Primakov, according to which the first ship of the future Project 23560 “Leader Class” destroyer under development for the Russian Navy will be named after the academician. According to the document published by Vladimir Putin: “taking into account the contribution of Primakov in the formation of Russian statehood and economic reforms, it recommended that the government consider installing a memorial plaque on the house where he lived, and requested the establishment of a scholarship. One vessel built for the Russian Navy will...
Ah, remember the “Wise Men” thing from the Iraq War? IIRC Jimmy Carter and Mandela were on board...so was Primakov :
A New, Improved Global Test
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The New York Sun ^ | November 29, 2004 | BENNY AVNI
The next feud between America’s freedom and democracy hawks and old United Nations diplomats will likely develop this week with the release of a much-anticipated report. Ordered by Secretary-General Annan, it was prepared by a panel of 16 former world movers and shakers now in their 70s, who will undoubtedly be hailed at Turtle Bay as wise men, and derided elsewhere as has-beens. Men who held previous posts like Russian foreign minister and Saddam champion Yevgeny Primakov, British U.N. envoy David Hannay, or current Arab League chief Amr Moussa, are not going to excite anyone looking for fresh insights into...
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1/31/2005, 12:48:39 PM · by MikeEdwards · 1 replies · 607+ views
CFP ^ | January 31, 2005 | CFP
Did United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan hightail it to Moscow to check in with his handpicked UN reform man Yevgeny Primakov within weeks of William Safire’s New York Times expose on alleged scandal in the Oil-For-Food Program? The first of Safire’s groundbreaking Oil-For-Food investigative stories ran in mid-March, 2004. Here’s Annan’s Moscow itinerary as documented by The Russian Federation: “Annan arrived in Moscow on Sunday, April 4, 2004 where he had an early working dinner with Evgeni (sic) Primakov, former Prime Minister of the Russian Federation.” On the following day, Annan visited the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, where...
Annan met with UN reform pointman Yevgeny Primakov in Moscow when Oil-For-Food scandal broke
1/31/2005, 12:26:08 PM · by UpHereEh · 508+ views
Canada Free Press ^ | January 31, 2005 | Judy McLeod
Did United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan hightail it to Moscow to check in with his handpicked UN reform man Yevgeny Primakov within weeks of William Safire’s New York Times expose on alleged scandal in the Oil-For-Food Program? The first of Safire’s groundbreaking Oil-For-Food investigative stories ran in mid-March, 2004. Here’s Annan’s Moscow itinerary as documented by The Russian Federation: “Annan arrived in Moscow on Sunday, April 4, 2004 where he had an early working dinner with Evgeni (sic) Primakov, former Prime Minister of the Russian Federation.” On the following day, Annan visited the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, where...
RUSSIAN AGENTS CLEANING HOUSE IN BAGHDAD(March 23, 2003)
10/28/2004, 8:47:37 AM · by focusandclarity · 7 replies · 534+ views
Junk Yard Blog ^ | March 23, 2003 | Posted by Chris Regan
Russian intelligence agents are holding daily meetings with Iraqi officials in Baghdad, and may be interested in gaining control of Iraqi secret service archives if Saddam Hussein’s regime falls, the newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta reported Friday. The newspaper said the archives could be highly valuable to Russia in three major areas: in protecting Russian interests that remain in a postwar Iraq; in determining to what extent the Saddam regime may have financed Russian political parties and movements; and in providing Russia access to intelligence that Iraqi agents conducted in other countries. ...The report speculated that the archives were a key topic...
Russia: “We won’t say ‘Nyet’ in the UN” (Russian Official Makes Secret 2003 Visit to Iraq)
10/28/2004, 8:32:42 AM · by focusandclarity · 1 replies · 288+ views
The Greatest Generation ^ | February 23, 2003 | Staff
“Margelov also tried to explain a secretive recent mission to Baghdad by former Russian Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov. Primakov’s trip was meant to apply pressure on Saddam to comply with international inspectors, Margelov said.” Russian Official:Country Will Back Second U.N. Resolution While Moscow has said it wants more time for inspections to work in Iraq, a Russian lawmaker visiting Capitol Hill Wednesday said that doesn’t mean the country would object to a U.S.-backed resolution authorizing force. Mikhail Margelov, chairman of the foreign affairs committee in the Russian Parliament’s upper house, defended the need to give weapons inspectors more time, a...
Saddam turned down last-minute Russian call to go
4/11/2003, 5:56:10 PM · by Land_of_Lincoln_John · 6 replies · 130+ views
Yahoo! India ^ | Saturday April 12, 2003 | Clara Ferreira-Marque
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The veteran Kremlin envoy pleaded with Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein to step down only three days before the U.S. big guns opened up on Baghdad. The Iraqi strongman heard Yevgeny Primakov out, patted him on the shoulder...and then walked out of the room without another word. Saddam’s defiant answer to Russia’s last-minute top-secret mission to stave off the U.S.-led offensive against Iraq emerged late on Friday from Primakov, a former Russian prime minister and old friend of Iraq who had known Saddam for years. Primakov, 73, said President Vladimir Putin sent him on the make-or-break mission on...
And right before the Iraq regime fell Saddam gave Primakov a medal...
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