Stefan A. Halper | |
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 Halper in 2010 | |
| Born | June 4, 1944 |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Stanford University (BA) University of Oxford (PhD)[1] University of Cambridge (PhD)[1] |
| Occupation | Professor |
Stefan A. Halper (born June 4, 1944) is an American foreign policy scholar and retired senior fellow at the University of Cambridge where he is a life fellow at Magdalene College.[2][1] He served as a White House official in the Nixon, Ford, and Reagan administrations, and was reportedly in charge of the spying operation by the 1980 Ronald Reagan presidential campaign that became known as "Debategate". Through his decades of work for the CIA, Halper has had extensive ties to the Bush family.[3] Through his work with Sir Richard Billing Dearlove, he had ties to the British Secret Intelligence Service, MI6.
Halper acted as an FBI informant during the bureau's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections. A subsequent Inspector General report later named Halper as a "confidential human source", reporting on the conversations of officials within the Trump campaign.[4][5]
- ^ a b c "People". The Cambridge Security Initiative. May 17, 2016. Retrieved December 24, 2021.
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biowas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Greenwald, Glenn (May 19, 2018). "The FBI Informant Who Monitored the Trump Campaign, Stefan Halper, Oversaw a CIA Spying Operation in the 1980 Presidential Election". The Intercept. Retrieved May 23, 2018.
- ^ Harnden, Toby (May 20, 2018). "Cambridge don Stefan Halper named in Donald Trump spy row". The Times. Retrieved May 28, 2018.
- ^ Porter, Tom (May 20, 2018). "Who is Stefan Halper? Cambridge professor named as FBI's Russia probe secret source". Newsweek. Retrieved May 28, 2018.