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EXCLUSIVE: In Closed-Door Testimony, Papadopoulos Identified Alleged Spy in Trump Campaign

Former Trump campaign adviser also told lawmakers FBI asked him to wear a wire to record Maltese professor in London

By Ivan Pentchoukov

January 16, 2019 Updated: January 16, 2019

George Papadopoulos, the former foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, revealed during a closed-door interview with congressional lawmakers in Washington the name of the man he believes was a spy working within the campaign, according to a transcript of the testimony reviewed by The Epoch Times.

During a day-long session with lawmakers on the House Judiciary and Oversight committees on Oct. 25, 2018, Papadopoulos, under penalty of perjury, detailed a series of what he described as “strange” interactions with a member of the Trump campaign. The timing and content of that person’s communications led Papadopoulos to suspect that the person was covertly working on behalf of U.S. intelligence.

Papadopoulos previously hinted in public statements and interviews that he knew of a spy in the Trump campaign, but never revealed the person’s name. Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson also has said the FBI had a “human source” inside the campaign.

When asked about the person who Papadopoulos alleged is a spy, another former Trump campaign member told The Epoch Times that he has no such suspicions about the man in question. The Epoch Times was unable to verify the allegation made by Papadopoulos and is withholding the name he provided to Congress. In this article, we refer to him as Person A.

“My interactions with [Person A] were quite strange. You know, he would call me on private numbers and kind of ask me where I’m sitting, or where I’m living at the moment,” Papadopoulos said.

Asked on Jan. 16 by this reporter if he’s still suspicious about the person, Papadopoulos said he is “definitely suspicious of him.”

The alleged spy began contacting Papadopoulos around the time that Papadopoulos met with the foreign minister of Greece in May 2016. Although he isn’t named in the testimony, Nikos Kotzias was Greece’s minister for foreign affairs at the time. The meeting with Kotzias was significant because Papadopoulos claims it was the only time he told anyone directly that Russia was in possession of thousands of Hillary Clinton’s emails, a rumor he learned from Maltese professor Joseph Mifsud.

While it’s alleged that Papadopoulos also told Australian diplomat Alexander Downer about the emails, Papadopoulos denies the claim, asserting that he doesn’t remember sharing that information with Downer. Papadopoulos told lawmakers that Kotzias was “a bit shocked” when he learned of the rumor.

“My understanding, as far as I remember, was he was like, this isn’t something that should be talked about. So, that was it,” Papadopoulos said.

The alleged spy then re-emerged months later, in September 2016, asking Papadopoulos to attend a meeting between the Greek foreign minister and two senior Trump campaign members. Papadopoulos told lawmakers that “it made no sense to me why this person would want me to join a meeting with the Greek foreign minister, Michael Flynn, and Jeff Sessions, unless he potentially was informed of what I told the Greek foreign minister myself.”

“So then, I tell the Greek foreign minister, Oh, hey, this information. And then [Person A], all of a sudden, sometime later on in the fall, apparently there’s a meeting between the foreign minister of Greece and Jeff Sessions and Michael Flynn. And [Person A] not only wants talking points from me about this meeting, but he also wants me to attend. And he also tells me that it’s very important for you to attend and that I’m doing my best to get you in this meeting,” Papadopoulos said.

Papadopoulos learned about the alleged existence of the Clinton emails during a meeting with Mifsud in London on April 26, 2016. Papadopoulos would later lie to the FBI that he wasn’t part of the Trump campaign when the meeting occurred. He served a 14-day prison sentence for that offense last year, as a result of prosecution by special counsel Robert Mueller.

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