7/7/2023 0 Comments Alien invasion 2017 hoaxThe author of the Orbis report has one more advantage: He knew that what he was writing was unverifiable. Steele) decided to write fiction, or collected enough gossip to fill a 30-page report, or a combination of the two. There are two possible explanations for the fly-on-the-wall claims of the Orbis report: Either its author (who is not Mr. It claims to know more than is knowable as it recounts sordid tales of prostitutes, “golden showers,” bribes, squabbles in Putin’s inner circle, and who controls the dossiers of kompromat (compromising information). ![]() It reports information from anonymous “trusted compatriots,” “knowledgeable sources,” “former intelligence officers,” and “ministry of foreign affairs officials.” The report gives a fly-on-the-wall account of just about every conceivable event associated with Donald Trump’s Russian connections. The Orbis report makes as if it knows all the ins-and-outs and comings-and-goings within Putin’s impenetrable Kremlin. Despite the greater openness of contemporary Russia, we are back to Kremlinology to learn how Putin’s kleptocracy works. Outside researchers must grasp for flimsy straws to write their scholarly articles and books. They recite their tales of who is up and who is down to those foolish enough to listen. Russians and Russian experts are gossip junkies. Both insiders and outsiders must look for subtle signs and signals. With the brief exception of the early to late 1990s, Russia has had a non-transparent system of rule that deliberately reveals little about itself. I have written and co-authored reports for the State Department, Congress, and the intelligence community so I sort of know how these things work. Petersburg officials in the early 90s but do not remember meeting then deputy mayor, Vladimir Putin. I personally witnessed the creation in the early 90s of Russia’s giant energy concerns in the offices of the oil minister. I have a wide circle of friends and acquaintances in Russia, and I follow the Russian press regularly. My first visit was in 1965 shortly after Nikita Khrushchev’s removal. I have visited Russia as a scholar, as the head of a multi-year petroleum legislation project, and as a business consultant close to one hundred times. I have studied Russia and the Soviet Union professionally since the mid-1960s. Trump is right: The Orbis dossier is fake news. ![]() President-elect Trump has dismissed the dossier’s contents as false as has the Kremlin. intelligence community purportedly has examined the allegations but have not confirmed any of them. That the dossier comes from former British intelligence officers appears, at first glance, to give it weight especially with Orbis’ claim of a “global network.” The U.S. The PDF file of the 30-page typewritten report alleges that high Kremlin officials colluded with Trump, offered him multi-billion dollar bribes, and accumulated compromising evidence of Trump’s sexual escapades in Russia. The poor grammar and shaky spelling plus the author’s use of KGB-style intelligence reporting, however, do not fit the image of a high-end London security company run by highly connected former British intelligence figures. A Christopher Steele, a director of London-based private intelligence company, Orbis, purportedly prepared the dossier under contract to both Republican and Democratic adversaries of then-candidate Trump. ![]() (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)Ī former British intelligence officer, who is now a director of a London private security-and-investigations firm, has been identified as the author of the dossier of unverified allegations about President-elect Donald Trump’s activities and connections in Russia, according to the Wall Street Journal. ![]() Mr Steele has been named as the man who compiled the intelligence dossier on US President-elect Donald Trump, alleging that Russian security forces have compromising recordings that could be used to blackmail him. Intelligence, the company run by former intelligence officer Christopher Steele, on Januin London, England. LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 12: Journalists gather outside the headquarters of Orbis Business.
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