A Cambridge professor was paid over $1 million by the FBI between 1991 and 2017 for his assistance to the U.S. Intelligence Community (USIC), according to recently published de-classified documents.
The documents reveal that the FBI used a Confidential Human Source (CHS) by the name of Halper to investigate potential ties between Russia and Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
A 2016 payment request of $5,000 revealed that Halper had been “integral in the Crossfire Hurricane investigation,” while a $25,000 payment request from the same year was labelled as being “for services performed on the Crossfire Hurricane / Typhoon investigations”.
“Crossfire Hurricane” was a counterintelligence investigation into potential links between Russian intelligence and members of Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, with Crossfire Typhoon being a sub-operation that formed part of the wider Crossfire Hurricane investigation.
The report stated that the CHS had provided the FBI “with unique access to targets who are very difficult to gain access to” and had been “more than willing” to do “whatever [he] could do in order to assist the FBI in its mission”.
