A long long time ago now, we have talked about Mancur Ojjeh and his business and sporting partnership with one of the greatest analysts and strategic and tactical minds of our time - Ron Dennis.
Ron Dennis with Mancur Ojjeh - Mclaren Racing |
Formula 1 has nothing very much to do with anything in particular when it comes to the matters in the press at the moment to do with spying, but of course it does provide a convenient, controlled venue for international 'meet-ups' under the guise of some benign activity. That's fairly obvious and it doesn't take someone 'on the inside' to realize so.
At the moment the US media is softly running stories about a circle of UK spies resigning from a Cambridge seminar group due to the 'dangerous involvement' of Russian Intelligence people with the funding of that group.
Now to cut a long story short, this is just a 'cover' to pretend that these UK spies ever held any real interest for the Kremlin. I mean, yes they held and still hold 'an' interest - but only in the way of that no one from the Kremlin ever wanted to or wants to get even within a hundred miles of these people; the Kremlin already has a low opinion of them and very little respect for them and would have zero plans or interest to 'get close to them.' If anything, the Kremlin would keep tabs on them to run very fast away from them.
Now you should be under no illusion at all that these people are dangerous.
What is clear in the hub-bub of recent disclosed matters, is that a large-scale, convoluted, tricky, and probably rather sinister deep network run by the Cambridge academia crew whose 'business' is spying - has been blown apart disastrously by the Trump Presidency.
What these spooks achieved was a massive great big FUBAR.
They're very brilliant people, you know - several of them have a range of higher degrees as long as your right arm.
Now I tell you all of this to alert you to the mischief that is perpetrated by propaganda experts in the media, who use terms and phrases in very deliberate ways in order to mislead.
The phrase you will hear over and over about Stefan Halper and Christopher Steele is that they had sources in the Russian Intelligence world. Now a 'source' is someone or somewhere that gives you good information intentionally when you ask them something, or they volunteer it because they want to assist you. A 'target' is someone from whom you attain information (which might be good, or it might not in varying degree) with out without their knowledge or agreement.
For the FBI to say such a thing as 'Steele was a reliable source' disguises firstly that he was only a conduit and NOT in fact THE ACTUAL source at all of the secret/s, but worse still - when the FBI says 'reliable source' they mean different to any independent authentic and genuine SOURCE; in that, he was also in fact an OFFICIALLY-CREDITED person (and 'source' for the purposes of their phraseology). Officially-credited means the UK government openly said to the US government that he worked for them ('at some point...').
So what we have, let's propose, is that the FBI likes to rely on reliable sources (IE they are snobs and only 'credit' sources who exist at the same stratospheric 'level' with themselves), and in this case too, that they want it to seem that Steele generated a 'credible' report from his 'sources' that might have had enough basis to establish a further 'look see' officially now by the FBI.
See - I am not a 'reliable source.' But I am an authentic and genuine one.
The problem is that when the FBI relied - relies - on some other foreign government-credited source, they must, MUST know that government is completely up-front with them. How do they know that? There is simply no such basis on which to really guarantee it. You can have 'reliable sources' and you can have authentic sources, and genuine sources with or without authentication - but you cannot trust any single one always above any other one; the ones that are good for you function appropriately for you and benefit you.
The UK has never not even one single time since the infamous 'September Dossier' benefited the USA with any of these 'secret advice/information' documents.
And now I'm suggesting to you that you also, cannot take it for granted that the words 'reliable source' are going to be of benefit to your appreciation, understanding, and eventually, use of the 'knowledge' currently being dispensed by your local friendly media.
Christopher Steele simply never had a 'source' at all. He 'could' have had a 'target,' he might have had some 'intelligence resource' to exploit but not 'a' source.
For Christopher Steele to have been being given credible beneficial information intentionally from a Russian Intelligence source, they would have had to have forgiven him and his handler Pablo Miller and MI6 - for turning Sergei Skripal into a traitor all those years before.
How does that even make sense?
It doesn't. It's a lie. All of it. All of what you are hearing in the media is a huge deception.