Thread by @RealSLokhova

Lokhova 'blames Halper for dragging her into the collusion affair to the point where she is beginning to despair that she can extricate herself undamaged.' Times, June 2018
thetimes.co.uk/article/svetla…

'Lokhova believes that malevolent tips originating from Halper were behind a series of news reports that raised questions about her ability to access Russian intelligence archives and exaggerated the extent of her contacts with Flynn.'

The Guardian wrote of her “trusted access to Russian spy agency records” and quoted one Russian historian as claiming that “getting into the actual GRU [Russian military intelligence] archive is basically impossible”. When Lokhova complained at the implication she must have had

insider access to Russian intelligence, The Guardian published a “clarification”, noting that “there is no suggestion that Lokhova has ever worked with or for any of the Russian intelligence agencies”.

She should be preparing a big publicity push for her book; instead she is closeted away, begging me not to publish the name of her baby, the name of her partner, or anything else that might lead the American media to her door. When her name was first linked to Flynn, she says..

..a couple of US reporters told her: “‘We’re not after you, we want to get Flynn.’ So why should my name be plastered across the newspapers?” That was just the beginning. As the Russia collusion storm gathered pace, she was widely reported to have received emails from Flynn

signed “General Misha” (the Russian nickname for Michael; “He never called himself General Misha,” Lokhova says); she supposedly sat next to him at the Cambridge dinner (“Look at the photos. I was sat quite far from him”; Flynn invited her to Russia “He never invited me to Russia

“They were throwing all sorts of things at me — love, sex, money. Obviously, I reject them all,” she says. “I just want to add that I’ve never been interviewed by any authorities and clearly if there were any doubts about who I am and what I do, I would have been [interrogated].

I should be able to go on with my research without having my life turned upside down. Instead I’m still having to explain myself, while Halper is in hiding.” She has made formal complaints about Halper’s behaviour to Magdalene College and to her constituency MP, and has written

..to Theresa May.
“Either I’m a Russian spy and there are genuine concerns, or Halper is crazy and a liar,” she says. .