Hitting a remarkable new low, even for itself, British intelligence today launched its most preposterous attempt yet to poison the possibility of success for the small steps underway to restore some channels of U.S.-Russian collaboration. Today’s gambit involved planting an “exclusive” story in London’s Guardian claiming that someone inside the Kremlin has leaked “top-secret” documents which “suggest” that President Putin, with “his spy chiefs and senior ministers all present,” had personally signed a decree ordering Russian agencies to do everything necessary to get Donald Trump elected President of the United States, because that would induce “social turmoil” in the U.S..
British intelligence no longer bothers to even pretend their concoctions are true. “Western intelligence agencies” are “understood to have carefully examined” the alleged Kremlin documents, whose author “appears to be” so-and-so; “the papers … seem to represent a serious … leak;” independent experts “say they appear to be genuine;” etc.
The Guardian breathlessly writes that “Putin has repeatedly denied accusations of interfering in western democracy. The documents seem to contradict this claim. They suggest the president, his spy officers and senior ministers were all intimately involved in one of the most important and audacious espionage operations of the 21st century: a plot to help put the `mentally unstable’ Trump in the White House.”
Not for nothing did Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov dismiss this latest story as “a great pulp fiction,” and Trump spokeswoman Liz Harrington call it “disgusting… fake news, just like RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA was fake news…. It’s fiction.”
The cast of characters publicly associated with this “case of the leaked Kremlin documents” are the same assets used in Sir Richard Dearlove’s MI6 “Steele Dossier” operation. Luke Harding, a well-known liar intimately involved in pushing that first, infamous dossier, led the pack of three Guardian journalists who signed the story. Vouching for the authenticity of the “Kremlin documents” is another key player in the Steele Dossier caper, former UK ambassador to Russia Sir Andrew Wood,” who describes them as “spell-binding.” [!]
If the U.S. Congress and media were not such fools for any British trap that comes their way, this would be dismissed as a British adolescent schoolboy plot.
