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Former Trump adviser claims CIA agent linked to Turkish intel approached him in 2016

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George Papadopoulos, a foreign policy aide on the 2016 campaign team of US President Donald Trump, said a woman who met with him in 2016 to ask him about the team’s alleged ties with Russia was a CIA agent linked to Turkish intelligence, not an undercover FBI employee, as claimed by media reports, the Sputnik news agency reported.

“I agree with everything in this superb article except ‘Azra Turk’ clearly was not FBI. She was CIA and affiliated with Turkish intel. She could hardly speak English and was tasked to meet me about my work in the energy sector offshore Israel/Cyprus which Turkey was competing with”, Papadopoulos tweeted on Thursday.

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