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Svetlana Lokhova

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Aug 10

Walter Giardina’s Role in the “Russia Hoax”

Giardina, recently fired by Kash Patel, is a veteran FBI special agent who has been implicated in several key aspects of the Get Trump op, aka the Russia Hoax Conspiracy.

Documentary evidence and whistleblower accounts show Giardina played an active role in advancing politically charged investigations of Donald Trump and his associates.

Involvement with the Steele Dossier
The Steele dossier was funded by Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign and the DNC. Giardina was as an early conduit for this dubious document within the FBI. According to Senate investigators, Special Agent Giardina was “an initial recipient of the Steele Dossier” inside the FBI and even falsely claimed internally that this Clinton-funded “smear sheet” was corroborated as true. The Steele dossier’s claims were obviously false and manufactured by Clinton. Giardina’s "validation" gave the fake Clinton material unwarranted credibility in the FBI’s Trump-Russia probe. Giardina helped promote the Steele dossier’s use in investigations and surveillance. The FBI relied on Steele’s allegations and related media reports in initiating and expanding the Trump- Russia “investigation”-the witch-hunt.

Participation in Launching the Trump-Russia Probe (Crossfire Hurricane)

The FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into Trump’s campaign, codenamed Crossfire Hurricane, officially opened in July 2016. Giardina was reportedly “significantly involved” in Crossfire Hurricane from the start, placing him at the heart of the investigation’s origins. Whistleblower evidence indicates he brought a partisan zeal to the effort: Giardina “openly stated his animosity toward President Trump” and even expressed personal motivation to investigate Trump, going so far as to say he’d pursue the case “even if it meant false predication”.

Role in the Mueller Investigation and Records Destruction

Giardina was part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team (2017–2019), which "investigated" the fake Trump-Russia collusion allegations. Giardina received an award for his part in the Mueller witch-hunt (see attached).

Whistleblower accounts and documents show that Giardina continued to act in ways that demonstrate his anti-Trump bias and obstruction during this period. Giardina “electronically wiped the laptop he was assigned while working for Mueller,” violating standard protocol for preserving federal records. This unauthorized data wipe potentially destroyed government files and evidence – a fact serious enough that it was reported to the DOJ Inspector General. The deletion of his laptop data aligns with a disturbing pattern on Mueller’s team: for example, FOIA disclosures reveal that lead prosecutor Andrew Weissmann “deleted all of the data on his government phone” multiple times (often by entering the wrong password until the device auto-wiped). Mueller’s investigators “destroyed federal records" which is a crime.

Giardina’s laptop wiping was an obstruction of oversight – preventing Congress or inspectors from later reviewing what he was doing on the case.

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Svetlana Lokhova

@RealSLokhova

Aug 8

In late summer 2015, a man arrived at Cambridge University to join a summer course in intelligence studies, ran by my professor Chris Andrew.
His name was Alan Kohler and he was an FBI liaison with London. He previously been to Cambridge and gave presentations about FBI counter-intelligence work /1

So it wasn’t Kohler’s first visit to Cambridge but this time he came for a whole summer and joined a course for students-a course he could teach himself. I asked him why, he said he wasn’t interested in working for the FBI anymore, and wanted to pursue an academic career. He asked my advice about how to pursue a PhD, and I explained how. I took his story at face value. Why would a senior person at the FBI lie? /2

He spent a long time around Cambridge that late summer and autumn of 2015, attending lectures and visiting the archive. He also offered to help me with my book on 1930 espionage, interpreting the archival FBI documents from the era. Then he left but kept in touch with our study group /3

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Svetlana Lokhova

@RealSLokhova

Jul 20

Betrayed by the FBI—My Fight for Justice
For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad (Luke 8:17)
On Friday, March 14, 2025, the Chief Law Enforcement Officer of the United States, President Donald Trump, made a historic appearance at the Department of Justice. He told his audience that “the American
people have given us a mandate…and a far-reaching investigation is what they are demanding into the corruption of our system. We will expel the rogue actors and corrupt forces from our government. We
will expose their egregious crimes… and severe misconduct… It's going to be legendary.” In his speech, President Trump demanded “full and complete accountability” from those who perpetrated the
Russia Collusion Hoax.
Just as I have done in this book, President Trump’s newly appointed team at the DOJ and FBI will “expose…the egregious crimes and severe misconduct” of Russiagate. President Trump said that We must be honest about the lies and abuses that have occurred. A
corrupt group of hacks and radicals within the ranks of the American government obliterated the trust and goodwill built up over generations. They weaponized the vast powers of our intelligence and law enforcement agencies to try to thwart the will of the American people. They spied on my campaign, launched one hoax
and disinformation operation after another, broke the law on a colossal scale, persecuted my family, staff, and supporters, raided my home, Mar-a-Lago, and did everything within their power to prevent me from becoming the President of the United States…but I stand before you today to declare that those days are over and they are never going to come back.
President Trump pledged to “restore the scales of justice” and insisted that those responsible for past DOJ “wrongs and abuses” would be held to account. Specifically, this includes former key figures from the
FBI and the Department of Justice—James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, and others—who spearheaded the 2016 Trump-Russia investigation code-named “Crossfire Hurricane.” This also includes
Democratic Party operatives, campaign officials for Hillary Clinton, and their lawyers who funded the now-discredited Steele dossier.
President Trump recently underscored the importance of firing FBI Director Comey in a speech at the DOJ, stating: It was a great honor for me to fire James Comey, a great, great honor. There was no better day. A year later, they said that actually saved the administration; because a level of corrupt things that we learned
after that turned out to be that they were doing—really bad things. He was a terrible person, did terrible things, and persecuted people, and all in the guise of being an angel. But he wasn’t an angel.
New FBI Director Kash Patel made it clear that "The FBI is entering a new era—one that will be defined by integrity, accountability, and the unwavering pursuit of justice. There will be no cover-ups, no missing documents, and no stone left unturned— and anyone from the prior or current Bureau who undermines this
will be swiftly pursued. If there are gaps, we will find them. If records have been hidden, we will uncover them. And we will bring everything we find to the DOJ to be fully assessed and transparently disseminated to the American people as it should be. Patel has stated that officials who abused their power must be called
out by name, and that Americans deserve full transparency to judge for themselves. This ethos aligns perfectly with President Trump’s insistence that no wrongdoing be hidden from the public.
On March 25, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order for immediate declassification of materials related to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation. The President has instructed the Attorney General to make declassified materials available to the public immediately.

Vindication But Still No Justice
“It’s frightening. Imagine being spied on by your own government— and that spy then fabricates a bunch of lies about everyone,” said Representative Devin Nunes, then the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, after President Trump declassified FBI files in 2021, revealing that the Bureau’s spy Stefan Halper lied about me and General Michael Flynn. “This is evidence that should have come out nearly four years ago,” Nunes continued. “We should have seen what they were doing and how they were running spies into the campaign.”
My experience serves as a warning for the entire nation. As an innocent bystander—a mother, scholar, and historian—I was thrust into the “Spygate” scandal. Stefan Halper, a longtime FBI informant with CIA ties, deliberately and falsely accused me of being a Russian
intelligence agent who ensnared General Michael Flynn, a decorated top U.S. intelligence official. Halper knew his allegations were utterly false. They were manufactured to order, allowing the FBI leadership to
launch an investigation as part of the wider “Clinton Plan” to win the election by smearing Trump.
Yet for years, those false accusations hung over my life and still do. With the willing help of the media pushing Halper’s lies, my career at the University of Cambridge was destroyed, my reputation tarnished, and my personal life disrupted—all because of lies. Worse still, FBI documents show that, from the start, the Bureau knew there was no evidence to substantiate his claims. Yet they did nothing to correct the
record, allowing “current and former intelligence officials” to leak the false narrative to the press and sustain their sham investigation. The FBI paid Halper large amounts of taxpayer money and protected him.
They have never publicly disavowed his story, never investigated him and continued using him even after it became clear that he had blatantly lied. I have yet to receive any justice or compensation.
But this foreword is not just about my vindication; it’s about what my case reveals on a larger scale. My ordeal shows how easily truth can fall victim when powerful figures in government and media conspire to promote a false narrative. This was no isolated error—it was a
symptom of a deep malaise within the FBI and part of a broader conspiracy to mislead the American public. So far, nearly $90 million in public funds have been squandered investigating and reinvestigating
events, without punishing blatant FBI misconduct. No one has been held accountable—yet.
My nightmare is a microcosm of a national scandal. Officials abused their power, leaked lies to the press and an innocent person was collateral damage. The truth was nearly lost amid a politically charged
hoax. My vindication is more than a personal victory; it is the exposure of corruption, and a warning of what happens when law enforcement and political operatives betray the public trust. With righteous indignation, I present the facts of this case—facts that prove beyond any doubt that I was innocent all along, and that those who smeared me knew it from the beginning.

The FBI Knew the Truth but Allowed the Lie to Spread for 9 Years
In the FBI’s files—now declassified—are records that completely exonerate both me and Gen. Flynn from Halper’s lies. The Washington Field Office investigated the salacious rumor linking Gen. Flynn and
me, finding “nothing derogatory” about either of us, confirming no evidence of inappropriate contact or misconduct. A formal FBI closing memorandum in January 2017—kept secret until 2020—concluded
there was no basis for the allegations. In other words, the Bureau always knew that I was innocent. Yet, incredibly, the truth was kept hidden from the public while a false narrative exploded in the media.
Instead of promptly debunking the lie, the FBI allowed it to fester and spread.
On November 10, 2016, just two days after Donald Trump’s election victory, President Obama took the extraordinary step of warning President-elect Trump not to hire Michael Flynn as his National Security Adviser—ostensibly citing concerns over Gen. Flynn’s
“Russian contacts.” The FBI had already been investigating Gen. Flynn since August 2016 and cleared him. It is likely that elements of the intelligence community had Gen. Flynn in their sights from the
moment he first spoke to Donald Trump in 2015. President Obama’s warning rested on a debunked rumor that his high-level officials knew was fabricated. By endorsing this hoax at such a pivotal moment, he
effectively gave a presidential-level seal of approval to the false Gen. Flynn-Russia narrative.
By January 4, 2017, the FBI’s Washington Field Office had drafted the internal memo recommending shutting down its investigation into Gen. Flynn. Yet Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok—citing the
“7th floor” referring to the top FBI leadership, that is, Comey and McCabe—intervened, ordering, “Don’t close RAZOR.” CROSSFIRE RAZOR was the FBI codename for the Flynn investigation. This top- down move halting the formal closure recommended by line agents is
pivotal: it kept Gen. Flynn under investigation even with nothing to pursue. The entire investigation was a political hit.
In an orchestrated campaign, major newspapers published sensational false stories that appeared in early 2017 suggesting Gen. Flynn had been compromised by a Russian-born woman—me—at a 2014 Cambridge University academic dinner. These headlines were entirely false, and the FBI had the evidence disproving this salacious tale, yet it
never corrected the record. Despite having both the evidence and an obligation to disclose it, the FBI made no public statement to clear my name—only silence.
Even more troubling, we now know that FBI leadership had these exonerating facts in hand even as Congress and the country were engulfed in “Russia Collusion” hysteria. Representative Devin Nunes, who led a congressional inquiry into the Russia probe, revealed that the FBI withheld critical information about the false Lokhova-Flynn story. Nunes said this information should have been turned over to Congress in 2017—but it was not. The false narrative therefore persisted unchallenged, actively fed by elements within the FBI.
Senior figures at the Bureau, the Department of Justice, and the press did nothing to correct it. This was not an oversight; it was a conscious choice to conceal the truth, with devastating consequences. By allowing a lie about me to take on a life of its own, the FBI not only violated my rights and reputation but also fueled a broader deception that misled the American people for years.
In his capacity as Chair of the House Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunes had access to the raw intelligence. Having reviewed the evidence, he has publicly stated that there was spying on the Trump
Campaign, specifically targeting Gen. Flynn. There are two elements to this: firstly, the material obtained by surveillance—Halper’s lies framing Gen. Flynn—and secondly, the supposed justification for this
surveillance—the baseless suggestion that Russian intelligence had compromised the then–Head of the Defense Intelligence Agency.
Nunes’ testimony confirms what many suspected and further underscores the FBI’s misuse of its powers for partisan political purposes.

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Svetlana Lokhova

@RealSLokhova

Apr 28

This was declassified by Pres Trump in first term.
Biden's FBI re-classified it for 69 years to 2091, prior to the Mar-o-Lago raid
Pres Trump now declassified the document of Halper's meeting with FBI
Let's compare to see what they tried to hide
L: Classified R: Unclassified

These three pages were completely gone from the FBI Crossfire Hurricane files.
Now that Pres Trump declassified the documents, we can see they show how Halper lied about Gen Flynn (Crossfire Razor) and Carter Page (Crossfire Dragon), used Cambridge University as the base for his operations and organized a hit on Papadopolous (Crossfire Typhoon)

There is another Halper meeting with the FBI on August 12, 2016
The Biden FBI classified this document in May 2022, prior to the Mar-o-Lago Raid, for nearly 70 years. We were not supposed to see it
Pres Trump has now declassified the document.
L: Classified R: Unclassified

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Svetlana Lokhova

@RealSLokhova

Apr 16

Chronology of the Clinton Plan.
July 6, 2016: FBI snitch, CIA ops and political dirty tricks guy Stefan Halper gives a speech at Cambridge, says the only way Hillary can win is to distract from her email server problems by getting the media to focus negatively on Trump. /1

July 11-12, 2016
Steven Schrage, a CIA-connected pupil of dirty operative “professor” Halper, holds a conference at the University of Cambridge.
Present are: Hillary proxy Madeline Albright, former MI6 head Richard Dearlove, Carter Page, Australian ambassador Alexander Downer. /2

At the July 11, 2016 conference with Albright, Carter Page, Dearlove, Downer, Halper repeated what he said on July 7–that the only way Hillary can win is by distracting from her email server scandal by getting media to go negative on Trump. At the same conference, former head of MI6 Dearlove stated that Donald Trump was a risk to national security. /3

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Svetlana Lokhova

@RealSLokhova

Apr 14

Hello, America!

Let me introduce (or re-introduce) myself.

My name is Svetlana. I was born in Soviet Union and emigrated to England aged 18. I am a British citizen. I am a historian, teacher and author.

I studied at the University of Cambridge, achieved BA (Hons), MA, MPhil and was a PhD candidate specialising in European History when my life was turned upside down.

I am an ordinary person who got dragged into extraordinary events.

In a quiet English university town, a bunch of old intelligence operatives were plotting how to stop Donald Trump, the disruptor/change candidate.

(To be continued.)

In 2014, I was a postgraduate student at Cambridge University. I was teaching Modern European History and doing my PhD research.
A distinguished visitor came to Cambridge: Head of Defense Intelligence Agency LTG Michael Flynn. I was invited, together with other students, to attend a talk given by @GenFlynn followed by a formal dinner. The dinner was hosted by former head of British intelligence, the Master of Pembroke college Richard Dearlove. My professor Christopher Andrew told me to attend. He wanted me to show my historical research to Gen Flynn.
(To be continued)

The Cambridge dinner was a formal affair, senior people talked, students sat there quietly until told to speak. Towards the end of the dinner my professor asked me to show Gen Flynn a historical document I discovered in the archives: a postcard that young Joseph Stalin, then a revolutionary on the run, sent to his comrade to say he arrived safely in Sweden after his escape from
Siberia. The document was intercepted by the Tsarist secret police, and later when Stalin rose to power, ended up in his archive. It was a so-called cognitive dissonance: someone we know of as very powerful previously being on the run from the secret police.
(To be continued)

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