26 Facts About Stefan Halper

Stefan A Halper was born on June 4,1944 and is an American foreign policy scholar and retired senior fellow at the University of Cambridge where he is a life fellow at Magdalene College.

Stefan Halper served as a White House official in the Nixon, Ford, and Reagan administrations, and was reportedly in charge of the spying operation by the 1980 Ronald Reagan presidential campaign that became known as "Debategate".

Stefan Halper acted as an FBI informant during the bureau's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.

Stefan Halper received a DPhil from the University of Oxford in 2001.

Stefan Halper was appointed director of American Studies at the University of Cambridge's longstanding Department of Politics and International Studies in 2001.

Stefan Halper began his United States government career in 1971 as a Special Assistant to the Director, Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention, part of the executive office of the president, serving until 1973.

Stefan Halper then served in the Office of Management and Budget until 1976, when he moved to the Ford Administration's Office of the Press Secretary as Staff Assistant for Communications.

Stefan Halper played a central role in a scandal in the 1980 election.

From 1984 to 1990 Stefan Halper was chairman and majority shareholder of the Palmer National Bank of Washington, DC, the National Bank of Northern Virginia and the George Washington National Bank.

From 1986 to 2000, Stefan Halper wrote a national security and foreign policy-focused weekly newspaper column, syndicated to 30 newspapers.

Stefan Halper has worked as a senior foreign policy advisor to various think-tanks and research institutions, including the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and The Center for the National Interest, where he is a Distinguished Fellow.

Stefan Halper has served on the Advisory Board of Directors of the Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies and contributed to various magazines, journals, newspapers and media outlets.

Stefan Halper was running the operation out of Reagan's campaign headquarters according to Reagan Administrative officials.

Stefan Halper had been the deputy director of the State Department's Bureau of Political-Military Affairs shortly before taking on the operation research assignment.

Stefan Halper was officially a campaign aide responsible for providing 24 hour news updates and policy ideas.

Stefan Halper acted as an FBI informant for Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections, and was a subject of the Spygate conspiracy theory initiated by President Donald Trump in May 2018.

Stefan Halper first met Carter Page at a symposium at the University of Cambridge organized by Steven Schrage.

Clovis's attorney said that Clovis and Stefan Halper had discussed China during their sole meeting on August 31 or September 1,2016.

On September 2,2016, Stefan Halper contacted Papadopoulos, inviting him to London and to write a paper on Mediterranean oil fields, which he did.

In May 2019, the Times reported that Page had urged Stefan Halper to meet with Clovis and that the FBI was aware of the meeting but had not instructed Stefan Halper to ask Clovis about Russia matters.

Stefan Halper filed a response to the lawsuit in which he declared that he is entitled to the qualified immunity ordinarily afforded to federal agents, "even if the lawsuit's allegations are true".

However, the report's author, Michael Horowitz, did not find any evidence that Mr Stefan Halper tried to infiltrate the Trump campaign.

Stefan Halper retired from Cambridge University in 2015, and now lives in Virginia.

Stefan Halper consults for Crossword Cybersecurity chaired by Sir Richard Dearlove, the former head of MI6.

Stefan Halper is the co-author of the bestselling book America Alone: The Neo-Conservatives and the Global Order, published by the Cambridge University Press in 2004, and co-author of The Silence of the Rational Center: Why American Foreign Policy is Failing.

Stefan Halper is a recipient of the State Department's Superior Honor Award, the Justice Department's Director's Award, and the Defense Department's Superior Honor Award.