Is there more than meets the eye with the professor at the center of the Trump-Russia probe? Or less

[DonViejo]

Is there more than meets the eye with the professor at the center of the Trump-Russia probe? Or less?

By Griff Witte and Karla Adam November 4

BERLIN – His affiliations were a roll call of institutions whose very names suggest power, influence and global reach: the London Academy of Diplomacy, the London Center of International Law Practice, the Euro-Mediterranean University.

His titles had a loftiness to match: president, director, and according to his online biography, “founding father of the term ‘Academic Diplomacy.’ ” But in the plea agreement unsealed last week as part of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation into Russian influence on last year’s U.S. presidential election, he is simply and mysteriously “the professor.”

Joseph Mifsud, the man who, according to court papers, offered himself as a bridge between the Trump campaign and the highest echelons of the Kremlin, has spent his career trading one impressive-looking business card for the next.

To George Papadopoulos, the Trump foreign policy aide who liaised with Mifsud, the Maltese academic may have appeared to be just the sort of man needed to cut through the impenetrable fog of Moscow power structures.

But a review of Mifsud’s credentials and connections reveals plenty of fog there, as well.

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[Vinnie From Indy]

1. Misfud is most likely an amoral snake who sells whatever access he has

for money and more power.

[sharedvalues]

2. He is a CLASSIC spy.

More likely a classic cut-out. But Russian intelligence uses people like this all the time. It is almost guaranteed he got money from Russia.

The headline of this article should be “The Professor acted like a classic Russian agent. What’s behind the scenes?”