This was a textbook Russian espionage operation, presumably run by Moscow’s Foreign Intelligence Service, the SVR. Here, Mifsud served as a cut-out, offering plausible deniability as the Kremlin assessed if Papadopoulos was worth the SVR’s time-which obviously he was. Here “the Russian MFA” is merely a pleasant fiction covering the tracks of the SVR. It’s safe to assume that the Russian female and the “diplomat” were SVR representatives too, since spies-not legitimate diplomats-handle this sort of sensitive matter for Moscow.http://
But the timeline laid out in the filings by prosecutors comes to an abrupt halt on July 22, 2016. That is the day Wikileaks began publishing the hacked Democratic National Committee emails. Beyond a vague reference to Papadopoulos’ efforts through “mid-August” to set up meetings between Russian and Trump officials, the Papadopoulos-Russia communications detailed in the documents don’t pick up again until Oct. 1, 2016. Former federal prosecutors tell TPM that just because such communications aren’t documented in the charges doesn’t mean they don’t exist. “It’s certainly plausible he has, going forward, more information about what people are saying about these emails that came out,” Nick Akerman, a former federal prosecutor who worked on the Watergate investigation, told TPM. http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/mueller-papdopoulos-timeline-wikileaks-emails
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This was a textbook Russian espionage operation, presumably run by Moscow’s Foreign Intelligence Service, the SVR. Here, Mifsud served as a cut-out, offering plausible deniability as the Kremlin assessed if Papadopoulos was worth the SVR’s time-which obviously he was. Here “the Russian MFA” is merely a pleasant fiction covering the tracks of the SVR. It’s safe to assume that the Russian female and the “diplomat” were SVR representatives too, since spies-not legitimate diplomats-handle this sort of sensitive matter for Moscow.http://
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But the timeline laid out in the filings by prosecutors comes to an abrupt halt on July 22, 2016.
That is the day Wikileaks began publishing the hacked Democratic National Committee emails.
Beyond a vague reference to Papadopoulos’ efforts through “mid-August” to set up meetings between Russian and Trump officials, the Papadopoulos-Russia communications detailed in the documents don’t pick up again until Oct. 1, 2016.
Former federal prosecutors tell TPM that just because such communications aren’t documented in the charges doesn’t mean they don’t exist.
“It’s certainly plausible he has, going forward, more information about what people are saying about these emails that came out,” Nick Akerman, a former federal prosecutor who worked on the Watergate investigation, told TPM.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/mueller-papdopoulos-timeline-wikileaks-emails
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