Former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos said Friday that The New York Times’ report on an informant for U.S. intelligence was with the CIA, not the FBI as the newspaper claimed.
The Times reported that in 2016, the FBI sent a woman named Azra Turk, who posed as a Cambridge University research assistant, to question Papadopoulos, who was at that point working on the Trump campaign. She met him at a London bar, where she asked him directly if the Trump campaign was working with Russia.
“I agree with everything in this superb article except ‘Azra Turk’ clearly was not FBI. She was CIA and affiliated with Turkish intel. She could hardly speak English and was tasked to meet me about my work in the energy sector offshore Israel/Cyprus which Turkey was competing with,” Papadopoulos tweeted on Friday.
He told Fox News the day before that he “immediately thought she was an
He told Fox News the day before that he “immediately thought she was an
