To: Beave Meister
I call these individuals the Cambridge Four. Strangely, all four were linked through that sleepy British academic town thousands of miles from the alleged ground zeroes of Russiagates conspiracies, Moscow and DC. In addition to the central Spygate figure Halper, they include the central source of Russiagates fake conspiracy theories, Christopher Steele; former MI6 Director Sir Richard Dearlove; and Halpers and Dearloves partner in a Cambridge Intelligence Seminar linked to titillating but false tales of a Russian spy seducing Trumps top national security advisor. . .The Cambridges Fours final member, Christopher Andrew, seemed the least likely to become involved. He initially called some of Halpers Russia conspiracy theories absurd. Yet by early 2017 he published an articlethat helped legitimize false allegations against Trumps team and even implicated his own student. . .Halpers long-time FBI handler Steve Somma, who personally saved Halpers FBI career after Halpers firing in 2011, was quickly reassigned to Crossfire Hurricane despite Somma telling the DOJs Inspector General that he lacked a basic understanding of simple [campaign] issues. . . .It is also worth noting that Flynns lawyer, Sydney Powell, has accused Pentagon official James Baker of making the leak a charge a Pentagon official denied and of coordinating with Obamas Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, on what she called a kill shot on Flynn. Baker leads the Pentagons Office of Net Assessment (ONA), which reported paying Halper $411,575 while he surveilled Trumps team. ONA claims this enormous sum more than the annual salary of the President of the United States was paid to Halper for fairly normal, largely publicly-sourced, reports to this office. I always found it strange that Halper profusely thanked me for introducing him to Carter Page, even after Page was accused of being a Russian spy. The disclosure that some of these payments started around the time Halper met Page, provided me with a theory on why he was so grateful. . .
20 posted on
08/09/2020 4:23:58 PM PDT by
Fedora
To: kabar
21 posted on
08/09/2020 4:25:09 PM PDT by
Fedora
To: Fedora
Andrew's not really a surprise, his relationship with MI5 is an open secret:
Andrew produced two studies in collaboration with two defectors and former KGB officers, Oleg Gordievsky and Vasili Mitrokhin. The first of these works, KGB: The Inside Story was a scholarly work on the history of KGB actions against Western governments produced from archival and open sources, with the critical addition of information from the KGB defector Gordievsky. His two most detailed works about the KGB were produced in collaboration with KGB defector and archivist Vassili Mitrokhin, who over the course of several years recopied vast numbers of KGB archive documents as they were being moved for long storage. Exfiltrated by the Secret Intelligence Service in 1992, Mitrokhin and his documents were made available to Andrew after an initial and thorough review by the security services. . .The Cambridge Intelligence Seminar, chaired by Andrew (and founded by his late mentor Harry Hinsley), convenes regularly at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Active and former senior members of various intelligence services around the world participate in the discussions, with most participants made up of Andrew's graduate students, fellow historians and other academics. At these meetings, detailed analysis of various past and present intelligence affairs is discussed under the Chatham House Rule, with the confidence that it will not be attributed to a person or organisation.[4] Andrew is on the editorial board of Journal of Intelligence and Terrorism Studies. . .In February 2003, Andrew accepted the post of official historian for the Security Service MI5, being mandated to write an official history of the service due for their centennial in 2009. This appointment which entailed Andrew's enrolment into the Security Service drew criticism from some historians and commentators. In general, these criticisms drew heavily on the suggestion that he was too close to MI5 to be impartial, and that indeed his link with the Service (formalised with his privileged access to the defectors Gordievsky and Mitrokhin) made him a "court historian" instead of a clear-eyed and critical historian.[6] Persistentif unfoundedrumours that Andrew was "MI5's main recruiter in Cambridge" have done little to quieten critics. . .:
Christopher Andrew
22 posted on
08/09/2020 4:30:01 PM PDT by
Fedora
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