"There is an old maxim for which I can't find attribution: "He who holds Stirling, holds Scotland." Stirling is smack between the Scottish Highlands and Lowlands, on the Central Belt of Scotland - the country's heart. The saying may once have referred to Stirling Castle, but one might wonder if it means something more today. The University of Stirling, eighth largest in Scotland, is built on the grounds of a different castle."
"You may also know this as the school which employed Professor Joseph Mifsud, the Russian agent who told Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos that Russia had Hillary Clinton emails. You probably read reporting on Mifsud's mid-2017 disappearance. If you haven't, check out the detailed profile on this archived page and the University of Stirling's student newspaper online. Read them while you can;"
Stirling occupies a central geographic and symbolic position between the Scottish Highlands and Lowlands. The University of Stirling is the country's eighth-largest university, founded in 1967 and reorganized in 2016 into four faculties and two schools, including the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. The Faculty of Arts and Humanities includes the London Academy of Diplomacy. Professor Joseph Mifsud was employed by that institution and later informed Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos that Russia had Hillary Clinton emails. Mifsud disappeared in mid-2017. Online profiles and records about Mifsud have been intermittently scrubbed and taken offline, creating unanswered questions about institutional transparency.
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