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Trump Aide George Papadopoulos Had Extensive Secret Contact With Putin Ally, May Have Met Putin
Seth Abramson - Twitter Thread...
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rump Aide George Papadopoulos Had Extensive Secret Contact With Putin Ally, May Have Met Putin in Athens in May of 2016
/1 On May 27, 2016, Vladimir Putin traveled to Athens, Greece. This video of his arrival includes some key footage.
/2 The man Putin met on the tarmac—as seen in this May 27, 2016 photo—was Panos Kammenos, the Greek Defense Minister and an ally of Putin.
/3 Kammenos' Institute for Geopolitical Studies—has an MoU with Putin's Russian Institute for Strategic Studies.
/4 RISS is "the public face of Putin’s vast intelligence apparatus," and helped orchestrate Russia's interference in the 2016 U.S. election.
/5 Beyond the damning official connection between Kammenos and Putin, much has been written on ties between the two: http://www.businessinsider.com/putin-is-making-greeces-nazi-problem-worse-2015-3 …
/6 Panos Kammenos was a key foreign contact for George Papadopoulos during the 2016 presidential election, and they met and spoke regularly.
/7 Kammenos was repeatedly quoted in Greek media discussing how close Papadopoulos was to Trump and how key he was to Greece-U.S. relations.
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1/8 Athens daily Kathimerini says Papadopoulos was in Athens two months after joining Trump's team on March 21, 2016.
/9 In this photo—posted by Papadopoulos on social media—we see the Trump NatSec aide meeting with Prokopis Pavlopoulos, President of Greece.
/10 The meeting, which occurred at Pavlopoulos' presidential mansion in Athens, is the highest-level foreign meeting Papadopoulos ever had.
/11 If the timeline Kathimerini provided is accurate, Papadopoulos was in Athens at the same time—the week of May 23rd, 2016—that Putin was.
/1 On May 27, 2016, Vladimir Putin traveled to Athens, Greece. This video of his arrival includes some key footage.
/2 The man Putin met on the tarmac—as seen in this May 27, 2016 photo—was Panos Kammenos, the Greek Defense Minister and an ally of Putin.
/3 Kammenos' Institute for Geopolitical Studies—has an MoU with Putin's Russian Institute for Strategic Studies.
/4 RISS is "the public face of Putin’s vast intelligence apparatus," and helped orchestrate Russia's interference in the 2016 U.S. election.
/5 Beyond the damning official connection between Kammenos and Putin, much has been written on ties between the two: http://www.businessinsider.com/putin-is-making-greeces-nazi-problem-worse-2015-3 …
/6 Panos Kammenos was a key foreign contact for George Papadopoulos during the 2016 presidential election, and they met and spoke regularly.
/7 Kammenos was repeatedly quoted in Greek media discussing how close Papadopoulos was to Trump and how key he was to Greece-U.S. relations.
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1/8 Athens daily Kathimerini says Papadopoulos was in Athens two months after joining Trump's team on March 21, 2016.
/9 In this photo—posted by Papadopoulos on social media—we see the Trump NatSec aide meeting with Prokopis Pavlopoulos, President of Greece.
/10 The meeting, which occurred at Pavlopoulos' presidential mansion in Athens, is the highest-level foreign meeting Papadopoulos ever had.
/11 If the timeline Kathimerini provided is accurate, Papadopoulos was in Athens at the same time—the week of May 23rd, 2016—that Putin was.
read the rest at twitter there are like 30 updates on this thread lots of articles and photo evidence in support of the reporting..
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