These high level international spies all suddenly show great interest in a complete unknown and her academic research....
Uh huh.
The way they run ops is through “bump-ins” and seemingly innocuous encounters or introductions through people you trust.
As an innocent, you have no idea what’s going on.
My professor of 15 years, Christopher Andrew, introduced me to Richard Dearlove (former head of British MI6), John McLaughlin (former acting CIA Director), Alan Kohler (future FBI Assistant Director in charge of Counter-intelligence).
All suddenly wanted to see me in summer-Autumn 2015 because they “admired my historical research”.
Later, I was reported by this group as a Russian spy who had an affair with Gen Flynn.
Then Gen Flynn, and therefore the Trump campaign, was investigated and spied on through reverse targeting.