“The professor who met with both Page and Papadopoulos is Stefan Halper, a former official in the Nixon, Ford and Reagan administrations who has been a paid consultant to an internal Pentagon think tank: The Office of Net Assessment.” NBC just disclosed the FBI informant/spy in Trump campaign.

Mr. Cline said Mr. Halper, his son-in-law, was on a ''special staff to analyze campaign issues, just as he did in the Bush campaign, and that he was responsible for looking for booby traps and studying what Carter people were saying to look for vulnerabilities.''

He added: ''I think this is all a romantic fallacy about an old C.I.A. network. I believe I have been close enough to the intelligence community for the last 40 years that I would have discovered it. Such an effort would not have been worthwhile and I believe it was not executed.'' He added, ''That does not mean that some individual or individuals didn't do something, but there was not a deliberate effort to penetrate'' the Government.

REAGAN AIDES DESCRIBE OPERATION TO GATHER INSIDE DATA ON CARTER

I'm thinking Mr. Cline was a disinfo agent. Why the hell would the Times contact Halper's father-in-law for comment? And why would they publish his thoughts on the "old CIA network"? Damage control.

You have to wonder how far back this thing goes.

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