Did ‘Crazy Miss Cokehead’ cost sacked Trump aide his job?
A MEETING with an AngloRussian banker dubbed ‘Crazy Miss Cokehead’ has been linked to the dismissal of one of President Trump’s aides, sources said last night.
Svetlana Lokhova spoke to Michael Flynn at the Cambridge Intelligence Seminar, a gathering of former intelligence officials at Cambridge University in 2014. Moscow-born Miss Lokhova showed the President’s former national security adviser a number of historic Russian documents – including an ‘erotic postcard’ Stalin sent to a woman in 1912. It is said the two remained in contact afterwards and swapped messages on an unclassified channel.
The meeting supposedly caused alarm among British and US intelligence officials, who see it as evidence that Mr Flynn was behaving in a ‘worrisome’ manner.
The disclosure came as it emerged that Mr Flynn is willing to give evidence over Russia before Congress in exchange for immunity. However, the Senate Intelligence Committee said it was ‘not receptive’ to a deal.
Mr Flynn was forced out as Mr Trump’s national security adviser after less than a month for lying about his conversations with the Russian ambassador to the US.
He is now offering to give potentially explosive evidence about whether or not the Trump team colluded with Russia to win the President the US election.
Mr Flynn and Miss Lokhova, a Cambridge graduate and historian, are said to have been introduced to each other at the end of the dinner. At the time Mr Flynn was director of the Defense Intelligence Agency under President Obama and had access to highly classified information.
What alarmed intelligence officials was that Miss Lokhova appears to have gained rare access to previously classified Soviet era material in Moscow, the Guardian reported. Mr Flynn did not tell the US authorities about his meeting with Miss Lokhova, who used to work at the London branch of Russia’s state-controlled Sberbank.
She has previously declined to comment on the claims.
In 2015, she was awarded a £3.2million payout after winning an employment tribunal case in London against Sberbank CIB for sex discrimination and harassment. The hearing was told her bosses branded her ‘Crazy Miss Cokehead’ and forced her out of her £750,000-a-year job as an equity salesman. The tribunal ruled that she had suffered ‘disgraceful’ harassment and victimisation.
Price Floyd, a spokesman for Mr Flynn, said the meeting between him and Miss Lokhova was an ‘incidental contact’.
No one from the FBI was available for comment.
‘Classified Soviet era material’