* The contents of the cable and exactly how it reached the FBI remain classified information. In a series of Twitter posts, and in a subsequent book, Papadopoulos maintained that Downer and Thompson were Australian spies working to discredit Trump. He also claimed Downer secretly recorded their conversation. Nothing has emerged to support those claims, and Downer denied recording him. The claims also seem inconsistent with the fact the Australians did nothing with the information until after WikiLeaks released the Clinton-related emails.