No this headline is not about Christopher Steele’s dodgy dossier about Trump being a puppet of Putin; Steele has moved on in life. His new 86-page dossier is not “Russia Russia Russia,” but “China China China,” and the target is British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
According to the Daily Mail, Steele’s new fantasy tale is titled “China’s Elite Capture,” including such claims as:
Huawei is “Beijing’s strategic asset” being “used for state spying.”
Politicians, academics and other “elites” in the U.K. were targeted by China in an attempt to secure their support for Huawei’s integration into Britain’s technology infrastructure, to be “full-time agents” or “useful idiots.”
The dossier was not provided in this article nor in others in the British press. Steele’s firm Orbis Business Intelligence, which authored the fake report on Trump and Putin, authored this report as well, with Steele identified as one of the authors along with former diplomat Arthur Snell.
The day before this leak, Steele’s cohort, former MI6 chief Richard Dearlove, went on Sky News to declare his total support for a fraudulent story about COVID-19 coming from the Wuhan lab.
A Huawei spokesman told the Mail: “We categorically refute these unfounded allegations, which do not bear scrutiny and are regrettably the latest in the long-running U.S. campaign against Huawei.” Calling it a “U.S. campaign” is rather absurd at this point.
The Daily Mail reports that “those identified in the report issued statements strenuously denying the claims, dismissing them as ‘bizarre’ and like a ‘conspiracy theory.’ Huawei categorically dismissed the dossier, saying its findings had ‘no basis in fact.’”
The Mail writes: “The dossier, seen by the Daily Mail, is not being formally published, and does not contain corroborating evidence of some of its claims. It allegations include:
“Politicians, academics, and other ‘elites’ were targeted by Huawei, a front for Chinese intelligence, with the intention of making them either ‘useful idiots’ or ‘full-time agents’;
“A covert ‘manipulation’ campaign was coordinated by Chinese authorities on the ‘dark web’ for more than two years;
“Britain’s spies fear a cell set up in the U.K. to monitor Huawei will not prevent the Chinese from spying on communications;
“There is evidence that a ‘state actor’ sought to hack the cell’s activities by offering up £600,000 to ‘guns for hire’ on the dark web;
“Huawei is ‘closely linked to the Chinese Communist Party and is instrumental in its plans to gain a greater say in global affairs’;
“China’s ‘main objectives’ are to establish a presence in the U.K.’s critical national infrastructure, including power — such as the nuclear power station at Hinkley Point — and telecoms with Huawei.”
The report names several British Lords and Ladies as targets of the operation, including some who worked for Huawei. But the target of the operation is clearly Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who thus far has refused to give in to the massive anti-Huawei campaign, coming from many sources including leading Tories. Last week Johnson told the press that he would not be “pulled into Sinophobia.” The timing of its leak may well be due to Johnson’s historic declaration last week of the adoption of a Roosevelt-style “New Deal” for the U.K., while firing Mark Sedwill, a top asset of British intelligence, as national security adviser and head of the civil service.
The report claims it was commissioned and paid for by an American filmmaker named Andrew Duncan. Last year, Duncan purchased 300 tickets for anti-China Hong Kong protesters to demonstrate at a Brooklyn Nets game with the Chinese.
