Papadopoulos Hints He Was Target of Foreign Intelligence Operation

Papadopoulos Hints He Was Target of Foreign Intelligence Operation
Former advisor to US President Donald Trump's election campaign, George Papadopoulos and his wife Simona Mangiante Papadopoulos arrive at US District Court in Washington on Sept. 7, 2018. Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images
Petr Svab
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George Papadopoulos, once a campaign adviser to Donald Trump, is hinting that he was a target of an intelligence operation that put him at the center of an FBI investigation.

In a series of tweets late on Sept. 10, Papadopoulos detailed his suspicions about a meeting with Alexander Downer—then-Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom—that occurred several months before the 2016 U.S. presidential election. He expressed a belief that Downer was sent to the meeting by somebody, perhaps British intelligence.