FBI Informant Fed Media Lies to Smear Flynn, Defamation Lawsuit Alleges

Then-Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn testifies before a committee hearing on 'Current and Projected National Security Threats to the United States' at the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington on March 12, 2013. JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images

Cambridge academic Stefan Halper, who was de facto outed as an FBI informant, is being sued for allegedly spreading lies to media about a supposed relationship between retired Gen. Michael Flynn and Halper’s Russian-born former colleague, Svetlana Lokhova.

Lokhova is a Cambridge graduate and UK-based historian with a focus on documenting Russian espionage during the Soviet era.