Labels

'RUSSIA GATE': DECLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS RELEASED

This is probably the first in a series of posts triggered by FBI Director Kash Patel turning over to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan nearly 700 pages of once-secret documents after President Donald Trump ordered them declassified. The documents are pertaining to the infamous Russia Gate scandal, in which the Obama FBI in conjunction with the so-called "Five Eyes group" of Anglo-Saxon intelligence agencies conspired to spy on and derail the (first) Trump presidential campaign in 2015. Initially started and thought up by Hillary Clinton -- at the time Trump's rival for the presidency -- newly declassified documents show informant Stefan Halper was motivated in part by "monetary compensation" and was paid nearly $1.2 million from FBI over three decades. Dig in! 


In a recent post (link) on a book titled "Swiftboating America" (link) by Hans Hahncke, we brought to mind former Trump campaign aide, George Papadopoulos who wrote the first book on Russia Gate, also known by its official FBI code name, Operation Crossfire Hurricane, or the Russia-Russia-Russia hoax, or by its legal label, 'the Robert Mueller investigation'. His book, "Deep State Target" (bookfinder)  reads like a thrilling spy novel, but is nevertheless real life. And now we have the original documents. 

John Solomon of Just The News now writes: 

[The documents] provide the most extensive portrait yet of former FBI informant Stefan Halper, a Pentagon consultant and academic who, along with retired British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, was used by bureau agents to build the Crossfire Hurricane case against Trump and his advisers.

The memos confirm Halper was the source of one of the most sensational bogus claims to land in the FBI's probe in summer 2016: that Flynn had left a 2014 foreign meeting alone with Russia scholar Svetlana Lokhova when he was a three-star general leading the Defense Intelligence Agency.

FBI agents ultimately deemed Halper's account to be "not plausible" and "not accurate", but the bureau proceeded to investigate Flynn, kept paying Halper and continued to vouch for his veracity as a confidential human source codenamed "Mitch," the memos show.

For instance, a March 2017 memo showed the FBI's Validation Management Unit wrote that it "assesses it is likely Halper is suitable for continued operation, based on his or her authenticity, reliability, and control.”

That memo makes no mention in its unredacted portions of the concerns about the account Halper gave about Flynn and Lokhova, which were confirmed in a memo from William Barnett, the FBI agent who handled the retired Flynn’s case in 2016 and 2017.
Paid more than $1 million

The new FBI records also show Halper was paid $70,000 by the FBI between August 2016 and the start of February 2017 — a time period spanning his activation as an informant targeting the Trump campaign and then the 2016 election and Trump’s inauguration. The FBI records also showed that the bureau had paid Halper “$1,181,064.44” from 1991 into early 2017.

You can read the FBI's declassified records on Halper here:




- More on the Steele dossier, Robert Mueller, Operation Crossfire Hurricane, George Papadopoulos, Hillary Clinton - 
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular Posts