Flynn unmasked himself when he sat with Putin for the RT dinner. Everyone had to know he was compromised at that point. pic.twitter.com/rpxMXMCTAg
— Todd Lytle (@ToddLytle) May 21, 2020
Dots are bringing connections between the global intelligence community and events of the last several years into stark relief.
There are allegations that intelligence operatives hacked the U.S. election on Nov. 3 from various locations in Italy (including the U.S. Embassy in Rome) using military-grade technological infrastructure belonging to Italian Defense contractor Leonardo SpA, otherwise known as ItalyGate.
Part of those accusations are that President Obama, working with Italian Prime Minister at the time Matteo Renzi, conspired to unravel the Donald Trump presidency, first through the Trump-Russia investigation known as SpyGate, then through ItalyGate.
One of the central figures of SpyGate is professor Joseph Mifsud. Mifsud is allegedly the figure who first told the Trump campaign’s George Papadopoulos the Russian government was in possession of “dirt” on Trump 2016 opponent Hillary Clinton in the form of thousands of emails. That occurred in April 2016 according to Papadopoulos while Mifsud was associated with Italy’s Link University.
Mifsud was interviewed by investigators from special counsel Robert Mueller’s team in February 2017 in Washington D.C. Remarkably, despite making several statements those investigators would eventually prove to be false Mifsud was never indicted.
Mueller would indict several other figures for making false statements to his investigators, however, including George Papadopoulos himself.
In October 2019 attorney Sidney Powell, who would sign on to represent Gen. Michael Flynn in his case against FBI agents stemming from his SpyGate investigation, filed a motion to compel the U.S. government to hand over two mobile phones allegedly containing evidence proving Flynn’s innocence. Powell says those smart phones were used by Joseph Mifsud.
Even more surprisingly, Powell would allege in court documents that were subsequently unsealed that Mifsud was present at a now-infamous December 2015 dinner in Moscow organized by Russian news outlet Russia Today. A photograph taken at that dinner showing Gen. Flynn seated next to Russian President Vladimir Putting would be used to portray an inappropriate relationship between Flynn (and members of Donald Trump’s inner circle more broadly), and the Russian government.
“Mifsud was present at the RT dinner in Moscow, and it is his cell phones recently obtained by the government that are expected to confirm that he was working for ‘western intelligence,’” Powell wrote in a motion at the time.
Powell would allege that interaction along with others between Americans and prominent Russians, arose from work by CIA/FBI operatives – including Mifsud – and that those interactions were deliberately organized with so they could be used to raise suspicions about certain Americans.
Powell says the operation was known as “OCONUS LURES,” an intelligence community acronym meaning “Outside Continental U.S.” and “Spies” (plural).
Interestingly, information has been unearthed that shows former members of the FBI’s and Mueller’s investigative team (and apparently ardent Hillary Clinton supporters) Peter Strzok and Lisa Page were using such terminology in texts to each other in December 2015 – the same month the RT dinner took place and seven months before the SpyGate investigation was officially opened.