FBI informant’s assistant who met George Papadopoulos was undercover

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A woman who asked George Papadopoulos point blank if President Trump’s campaign was working with the Russians at a bar in London in September 2016 was reportedly working undercover for the FBI.

The woman who said her name was Azra Turk posed as an assistant to Stefan Halper, an American professor at Cambridge University, sources told the New York Times. Halper served as an informant to the FBI to collect information for the bureau’s Russia investigation during the 2016 election cycle.

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