Posted on 03/23/2021 6:41:09 PM PDT by bitt
Stefan Halper's story of Flynn trip with Russian woman deemed 'not plausible … not accurate.'
Five days before the FBI formally opened the Michael Flynn probe in summer 2016, a confidential informant alleged to agents that Donald Trump's national security adviser had left a 2014 foreign meeting alone with a Russian woman. Agents ultimately deemed the account "not plausible" and "not accurate" but proceeded to investigate Flynn anyway, newly declassified documents show.
FBI confidential human source (CHS) reports show Stefan Halper, an academic who long worked for the bureau as a trusted informant, was the original source of a story that Flynn had left a 2014 event in Cambridge, England, with the Russian scholar Svetlana Lokhova while he was still the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency.
The story was later leaked to the news media and became the focal point of a defamation lawsuit by Lokhova that is now on appeal. It also was listed in FBI documents as part of the reason the bureau opened a counterintelligence probe of Flynn.
Robert Luskin, a lawyer for Halper, did not return an email seeking comment Monday. Flynn and Lokhova did not immediately return calls or emails seeking comment.
The memos show Halper offered the Lokhova story during his first Russia collusion debriefing on Aug. 11, 2016, shortly after Donald Trump had accepted the Republican presidential nomination and days before the bureau opened an investigation codenamed Crossfire Razor focused on whether Flynn was wittingly or unwittingly aiding Moscow.
"The CHS relayed an incident s/he witnessed when CROSSFIRE RAZOR (CR) spoke at [redacted name of Cambridge event]. The CHS was unsure of the date, but noted
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Excellent ETL!
And damning.
Our goose is cooked.
The crew is back and wedged in very tight.
doubts my azzz... they KNEW!
There was Oleg Deripaska...
Bullcrap. Still lying I see.
They knew the entire time it was BS. He was targeted because he knew about their Russiagate crimes in the 2016 election and because he let Trump know the FBI was wiretapping him at Trump Towers.
Effing liars.
It was typed on Steele’s computer and entirely a work of fiction. There was no Russian source.
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