A Russian-born historian says FBI informant Stefan Halper is to blame for casting a spotlight on her as a Russian infiltrator at Cambridge University and misrepresenting her relationship to Gen. Michael Flynn, Svetlana Lokhova told The Daily Caller.
Halper, the mole at the center of the "SpyGate" scandal involving Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, raised concerns about the interactions between Flynn and Lokhova, a Russian-born historian and researcher, at a February 2014 intelligence seminar at Cambridge, The New York Times reported last week.
Halper's concerns in 2014 set into a motion a series of events that cast Flynn as being compromised by a Russian spy - Lokhova.
Three years later, Flynn would resign as Trump's national security adviser for not informing the administration of his contacts with Russians during the campaign.
"Stef Halper, who is currently under investigation for his activities, has been revealed by (The New York Times) as the source of the false allegations about me and General Flynn,” Lokhova, who has British citizenship, told The Daily Caller.
Lokhova recently told the BBC that she is "absolutely not" a spy for Russia.
"In Britain, I am now being accused of being a Russian spy. In Russia, some think I am a British spy. And I am neither. I am just a historian who writes about an area that has become incredibly politicized," Lokhova told the BBC.
It all started at that February 2014 Cambridge Intelligence Seminar (CIS), where Flynn, then chief of the Defense Intelligence Agency, was the keynote speaker.
Halper - along with two other CIS officials - would resign from the forum two years later over concerns that the group had been infiltrated by Russian spies. Halper called it an "unacceptable Russian influence on the group."
CIS founder Christopher Andrew in 2016 called Halper's assertion "absurd."
However, a former KGB officer told The Telegraph in 2016 that the concerns were valid but irrelevant.
"It is possible (they have targeted CIS) but it is not very important," Oleg Gordievsky told The Telegraph then.
"Cambridge is just small pin point. … They are always not very organized as they are very poorly paid and therefore they are not dangerous. They would use publishing or creative industries to infiltrate, it is very possible they might be doing this."
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