Thread by @RealSLokhova

Notorious CIA/FBI Halper who set up @GenFlynn and I is still being protected by the government. There are 243 references to Halper in the IG report, but he is referred to as "Source 2". I am going to unmask Halper by tweeting out what he did as per IG report. Please retweet.

"Halper was closed by the FBI in 2011 for "aggressiveness toward handling agents as a result of what [Halper] perceived as not enough compensation" and "questionable allegiance to the [intelligence] targets" with which Halper maintained contact. However, Halper was re-opened 2

months later by Case Agent 1, and was handled by Case Agent 1 from 2011 through 2016 as part of Case Agent l's regular investigative activities at an FBI field office. The FBI conducted human source validation reviews on Halper in 2011, 2013, and 2017. Case Agent 1 told the OIG

that Halper can be "mercurial" and explained that Halper was closed for cause in 2011 because the former FBI handler, although very skilled, was "not the right match" for Halper, which resulted in interpersonal conflict. Case Agent 1 said that when he reopened Halper, he told

Halper that this was the "last opportunity" and that the FBI would not tolerate the issues that had arisen in the past. According to Case Agent 1, since that time Case Agent 1 has not experienced any aggressiveness, and has not seen any indication that Halper has questionable

allegiances to intelligence targets. Instead, Case Agent 1 described Halper as willing to assist the FBI "without any hesitation." He added that Halper has never given Case Agent 1 any reason to doubt the veracity of Halper's reporting. Case Agent 1 and SSA 1 both told the OIG

that nothing happened in the Crossfire Hurricane investigation to suggest that the concerns leading to Halper's closure for cause in 2011 had any impact on Crossfire Hurricane.

Crossfire Hurricane Team's Initial Meeting with Halper on August 11, 2016
Halper's involvement in the Crossfire Hurricane investigation arose out of Case Agent l's pre-existing relationship with Halper. Case Agent 1 told the OIG that when he arrived in Washington, D.C. in early

August 2016 to join the Crossfire Hurricane team, he had never previously dealt with the "realm" of political campaigns. He said he lacked a basic understanding of simple issues, for example what the role of a "foreign policy advisor" entails, and how that person interacts with

the rest of the campaign. Case Agent 1 said he proposed meeting with Halper to ask these questions because Case Agent 1 knew that Halper had been affiliated with national political campaigns since the early 1970s. Case Agent 1 also believed Halper might have information about,

and potentially may have met, one or more of the Crossfire Hurricane subjects. Case Agent 1 told the OIG that he did not know at the time he proposed the meeting that Halper had been invited to join the Trump campaign. SSA 1 told the OIG that he did not know about Halper, or know

that Case Agent 1 was Halper's handler, prior to Case Agent 1 proposing the meeting, which SSA 1 approved.
On August 11, 2016, Case Agent 1, Case Agent 2, and a Staff Operations Specialist (SOS) met with Halper. Case Agent 1 told the OIG that the plan going into the meeting was

to talk generally with Halper about Russian "interference in the election, what [Halper] may know, and...to bring up Papadopoulos." Case Agent 1 added that the team used media reports concerning the release of emails and allegations of Russian hacking to frame the discussion.

The Electronic Communication (EC) documenting the meeting states that the investigative team told Halper they were "assigned to a project" concerning Russian interference in the Presidential campaign. Case Agent 1 said they did not tell Halper that there was an open investigation

or who the subjects were. Case Agent 1 also said they did not tell Halper about any specifics, including the information the FBI had received from the Friendly Foreign Government (FFG) that led to the opening of the investigation.

Case Agent 1 told the OIG that the team asked Halper about Papadopoulos, but Halper said he had never heard of him. The EC documenting the meeting reflects that Halper agreed to work with the Crossfire Hurricane team by reaching out to Papadopoulos which would allow the Crossfire

Hurricane team to collect assessment information on Papadopoulos and potentially conduct an operation.
Case Agent 1 told the OIG that Halper then asked whether the team had any interest in an individual named Carter Page. Case Agent 1 said that the members of the investigative

team "didn't react because at that point we didn't know where we were going to go with it" but asked some questions about how Halper knew Carter Page. Halper explained that, in mid-July 2016, Carter Page attended a three-day conference, during which Page had approached Halper

and asked Halper to be a foreign policy advisor for the Trump campaign. According to the EC summarizing the August 11, 2016 meeting, Halper said he/she had been "non-committal" about joining the campaign when discussing it with Carter Page in mid-July, but during the August 11,

2016 meeting with the Crossfire Hurricane team, Halper "stated that [he/she] had no intention of joining the campaign, but [Halper] had not conveyed that to anyone related to the Trump campaign." Halper further stated he/she "was willing to assist with the ongoing investigation

and to not notify the Trump campaign about [Halper's] decision not to join." Halper also told the Crossfire Hurricane team that Halper was expecting to be contacted in the near future by one of the senior leaders of the Trump campaign about joining the campaign.
In addition,

Halper told the Crossfire Hurricane team that Halper had known Trump's then campaign manager, Manafort, for a number of years and that he had been previously acquainted with Michael Flynn. Case Agent 1 told the OIG that "quite honestly...we kind of stumbled upon [Halper] knowing

these folks."
He said that it was "serendipitous" and that the Crossfire Hurricane team "couldn't believe [their] luck" that Halper had contacts with three of their four subjects, including Carter Page.

Follow-up Crossfire Hurricane Team Meeting with Halper on August 12, 2016
The next day, August 12, 2016, Case Agent 1, Case Agent 2, and the SOS met with Halper again. During the August 12, 2016 meeting, Halper provided additional information about the role of a foreign policy

advisor in a presidential campaign. Case Agent 1 described this portion of their conversation as "more of a generic question, like what is the foreign policy advisor doing" and who does that person report to? Case Agent 1 said that the Crossfire Hurricane team was not interested

in the Trump campaign's "policies or any of their positions," but more generally just needed to understand the role of a foreign policy advisor.
During the August 12, 2016 meeting, Case Agent 1, Case Agent 2, and the SOS also told Halper that the FBI was interested in Carter Page

and asked whether Halper would be willing to contact Carter Page for a private meeting, as a follow-up to their meeting in July 2016. The investigative team told Halper that, because the Trump campaign appeared interested in recruiting Halper, Halper was in a perfect position to

directly ask Carter Page about media reports regarding links between the campaign and Russia. The team also discussed with Halper plans regarding Papadopoulos. As discussed below, Halper ultimately met with three members of the Trump campaign on behalf of the FBI—Carter Page,

George Papadopoulos, and a high-level campaign official who was not a subject of the investigation—and the FBI consensually monitored Halper's conversations with each of these individuals.