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WaPo: 'During a dinner Flynn attended, Halper and Dearlove were disconcerted by the attention the then-DIA chief showed to a Russian-born graduate student who regularly attended the seminars, according to people familiar with the episode.' (1) russiagate.co.uk/home/the-postc…
'Both the student and a Defense Department official traveling with Flynn have denied that anything inappropriate occurred. In late 2016, Dearlove and Halper resigned as conveners of the intelligence seminar, expressing concern that it could be a target of manipulation from... (2) 
...the Kremlin because it received funding from a donor linked to Russia. Andrew, the founder of the program, called the allegation “absurd” in an interview with the Financial Times.' washingtonpost.com/politics/cambr…
NYT: 'According to people familiar with Mr. Flynn’s visit to the intelligence seminar, the source was alarmed by the general’s apparent closeness with a Russian woman who was also in attendance... (4)
'The concern was strong enough that it prompted another person to pass on a warning to the American authorities that Mr. Flynn could be compromised by Russian intelligence, according to two people familiar with the matter.' (5) nytimes.com/2018/05/18/us/…
SUMMARY: 2014: British academic shows a postcard to @GenFlynn. 2016: Reported to US authorities. 2017-2018: Salacious press reports across a number of news outlets. Source: Stefan Halper. THE END
