Reporter won’t say if ‘sexy blonde’ who targeted Papadopoulos worked for FBI
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A reporter who exposed how the FBI sent a blond bombshell to question a Trump campaign about suspected collusion with Russia won’t say if she’s actually a G-woman — fueling suspicion the woman may work for the CIA or another spy agency.
During an interview on CNN, New York Times reporter Adam Goldman didn’t answer directly when asked if the woman, who called herself Azra Turk, was “an FBI agent.”
“I’m just, what I’m gonna, I’m just gonna leave it at right now as a government investigator,” Goldman stammered.
“I use that, I use that, I use that wording for a reason, and I’m going to leave it at that.”
Goldman’s remarks prompted former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos — who was targeted by Turk during a 2016 meeting in London — to tweet Friday afternoon that he’s long believed Turk wasn’t a fed.
“As I have mentioned numerous times. She acted and looked like CIA and also had links to Turkish intelligence.”
In his memoir, “Deep State Target,” Papadopoulos described Turk as a “sexy bottle blonde in her 30s” who “isn’t shy about showing her curves — as if anyone could miss them.”
He also told members of Congress last year that she seemed willing to trade sex for information when they met for drinks in a London bar.
During his Thursday night appearance on “Anderson Cooper 360,” Goldman — who had the first of three bylines on the Times’ report — said that “at this point, nobody is providing any evidence that the FBI actually committed wrongdoing.”
“They were simply being aggressive when it came to what they say is a lawfully predicated investigation — though an extraordinary one,” Goldman said.
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