Remember that Maltese professor who met up with Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos in London in 2016 and told him the Russians had "dirt" on Hillary Clinton? Well, the "dirt" emerged, but the Maltese professor with Kremlin links Joseph Mifsud has gone underground... or worse. Buzzfeed writes:
His biography disappeared from one university where he taught and he quit his job at another university. His email and cell phones went dead. And politicians, colleagues, and journalists can't find him.
Neither can Anna, his 31-year-old Ukrainian fiancé, who says he is the father of her newborn child. And her story, snatched from the pages of a John le Carré novel, offers a glimpse at the human collateral damage of an intelligence operation in which the mysterious Mifsud was allegedly a central figure. [...]
BuzzFeed News first contacted Anna in October. She refused to talk then, saying her relationship with Mifsud was private. According to WhatsApp messages she later shared, she told the professor about BuzzFeed News’ attempt to speak to her — and in his very last WhatsApp message to Anna, Mifsud asked her not to talk to journalists.
Anna says Mifsud went dark right after he became a media fixation last October and hasn't even reemerged since the birth of their baby this year.
Anna and her trail of digital communications are now the source of new insights about Mifsud and his contacts, like Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
“He said, ‘I have dinner with Lavrov tonight. Lavrov is my friend. Lavrov this, Lavrov that,’” Anna said. “He even show me picture with Lavrov.”
Russia’s Foreign Ministry didn’t respond to a request for comment.
Of course, we all remember Donald Trump's Oval Office buddy, Lavrov, at left.
Oh, and …
In a series of WhatsApp messages sent in May 2017, Mifsud also told Anna he was in Saudi Arabia at the same time as President Donald Trump’s visit, and in Sicily, Italy, for the G7 Summit.
Well, there's some interesting intel.