Operatives May Have Been Charged with Taking Trump Down as Early as 2015

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Contract data from the Department of Defense shows deep-state operatives may have been mobilized to bring down the then Trump campaign in as early as September 2015.

We recently reported that two mobile phones used by Joseph Mifsud – the professor associated with Rome’s Link University who is accused of starting SpyGate – were requested by Michael Flynn’s attorney Sidney Powell in 2019. They were reportedly in the possession of the U.S. intelligence community at the time.

We also reported that Mifsud may have been at the now-infamous Russia Today dinner in December 2015 attended by Flynn and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

We now know that another person known to be an operative for both the CIA and FBI, Stefan Halper, was awarded contracts by the Department of Defense’s Office of Net Assessment in September 2015.

It’s believed Halper was charged at that time with befriending Carter Page and George Papadopoulos – both foreign policy advisers for the 2016 Trump campaign – and setting them up with “Russian connections” so they could then be used against them.

Halper is also accused of doing the same with Gen. Flynn whom he reportedly accused of falling victim to a Russian “honeypot” scheme by having an affair with a British researcher of Russian descent who was working at Cambridge University in 2015. Flynn was head of the Defense Intelligence Agency at the time. (Both Flynn and the woman deny the allegations.)

Halper has a long history of work with the U.S. intelligence community which has reportedly brought him close to the Bush family. In the 1980s Halper was reportedly involved in a spying operation in which agents were accused of passing classified foreign policy documents from the Jimmy Carter White House to the then Ronald Reagan campaign.

He is also the son-in-law of Ray Steiner Cline who was the head CIA analyst in charge of the Cuban Missile Crisis response.

Halper’s work at ONA was ostensibly gathering and providing intelligence reports on long-term trends, risks and opportunities for the U.S. military to Defense Department leadership. His work was apparently lacking, however.

In one contract, awarded in 2012, evaluators cited several weaknesses in Halper’s proposals. “[T]here is actually not much substance to the proposal…” said one evaluator. “[W]e’ll want to advise the author to do a better job on this project,” said another.

For the contract awarded in September 2015, Halper listed former Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Trubnikov as a consultant and advisor. Trubnikov is a known Russian intelligence officer who is listed as a source by British intelligence officer Christopher Steele in the now-infamous (and debunked) Steele Dossier, the intelligence report that alleges Donald Trump had been groomed and compromised by Russian intelligence. These facts drew the attention of Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) last year.

A review of federal contracts finds Halper was paid over $1 million for work over a period of several years during the Barack Obama administration. These findings are being paid renewed attention in light of the allegations of the election interference known as ItalyGate.

Those allegations say plans to unravel the Trump presidency began under the Obama administration and was carried out with help from a close ally – Italian Prime Minister at the time Matteo Renzi.

At the time Halper was paid the contract in 2015 for his “intelligence gathering” Donald Trump had emerged as a formidable frontrunner in a field of more than a dozen Republican presidential candidates, most of whom had extensive political experience. A majority of Republican voters at the time believed he would emerge as the eventual nominee, proving forecasts from mainstream pundits that his candidacy would fade wrong.