Fanis and Kera are in their flat
in London where they live. They
frequently travel around the world as Kera is an international Chinese art
dealer and Fanis is her trusted bodyguard and cousin. At first look, Kera doesn’t seem to be an
expert in Chinese antiquities with her olive skin and long wavy jet black hair
with large breasts. Fanis and Kera are
both Greek but Kera became fascinated with Chinese culture and had moved to
Beijing for a year to become fluent in Mandarin so she could pursue a career
related to China. She is fluent in
Mandarin, Greek and English. Although
Fanis could only work in English, he is proficient in Russian, Italian, Spanish
and Greek as well. While watching TV,
Fanis sees a Republican congressman from California, Devin Nunes on Laura
Ingraham’s show. He talks about how in
2017, he and other upper level house intelligence members were briefed by the
FBI that General Mike Flynn didn’t lie to them.
He continues that upon hearing this information, he notified the highest
levels of the DOJ. In response to
Ingraham’s question on what Comey had mentioned to him on the topic, Nunes
replies that Comey’s memo has been classified at the highest level so he’s not
allowed to see it. This is odd considering
as a member of the House intelligence community and a member of the ‘Gang of 8’
it is Nunes’ job to be briefed on sensitive information. Fanis gives a quizzical look at the TV
sparking his cousin Kera to ask, “What are you pondering now?”
“Why is Nunes bringing this
up? I mean, I know that Flynn was
pressured into pleading guilty to lying to the FBI for a conversation he had
with the Russian ambassador and his attorney Sidney Powell is trying to fight it
because she uncovered all this exculpatory information that the government
withheld. We’ve known all this for a
while though so I don’t understand why this is coming up again. Something must have happened.”
“Flynn decided to withdraw his
guilty plea.”
“Why wouldn’t he do that when he
hired Sidney Powell?”
“I don’t know but he just made
it official.”
“Well, good he’s fighting back.”
“Yea”
“I don’t care which target ends
up getting over on these libelous, scandalous, treacherous deep state assholes
but I hope one of them gets them.”
“I think you’re mixing him up
with Trump.”
“No, Trump was just another
victim of the larger picture that they weaponize the DOJ, FBI and CIA against
political opponents. They did it against
Bob Dole, John McCain, Mike Flynn, Donald Trump, Boris Johnson and Mitch
McConnell among others. It’s always the
same assholes for the ones since 2014.”
“We’re on the move.”
“Where are we going?”
‘Manchester”
“Oh, not too far then.”
When they arrive in Manchester,
they check into a hotel and then head to pub for beers before heading to bed. The next day, Kera heads to meet her
client. Fanis waits outside and sees
other security personnel. He walks over
and introduces himself to a man who’s wearing a suit. He responds back, “My name is Walter.”
“Nice to meet you.”
“Likewise, I see you’re
American.”
“Yes, I am.”
“Do you support your president?”
“Very much so and now that Boris
Johnson is your prime minister, it appears England has come to their senses as
well.”
“Given the status of your
Democrat party, I almost don’t think you have a choice.”
On the way to Manchester, Fanis
had read up on the Mike Flynn case.
“Yea, but we’re beginning to fight back.
Mike Flynn pulled no punches in his motion to withdraw his plea deal.”
“I’m not sure how you can pull
no punches in a legal document.”
“He wrote that he was
withdrawing the plea because of bad faith, vindictiveness and breach of plea
agreement.”
“It actually says
‘vindictiveness?”
“Yup”
“I feel your description is
accurate then.”
“Thank you”
“Does the brief back it up at
all?”
“It’s very clear. It starts with the accusation that he
falsified a FARA filing because he omitted that officials from Turkey provided
supervision and direction of the Turkey project.”
“It was my understanding that he
was arrested for lying to the FBI.”
“That’s what he pled to upon
intense pressure and threats of the government attacking his family.”
“Sounds more socialist.”
‘Unfortunately, Obama’s
government was pretty close to socialism.”
“How did it proceed from stating
the charge?”
“It mentions that the
government’s sentencing memorandum doesn’t contain any statement asserting
Turkey provided supervision and direction over the contract or project at
issue.”
“They were unable to keep their
story straight.”
“The judge piled on opining that
there was no evidence, not even in hearsay statements from Turkish clients or
Flynn’s business partners directed or controlled by the Turkish
government. They mention names like
Alpetkin, Inova, Fig and Sphere. I don’t
know who those people are but given that the conclusion is they never mentioned
Turkey coordinating anything, it doesn’t really matter.”
“What would be the motivation to
go after Flynn? Simply because he had a
desire to work for the Trump campaign?”
“No, it started in 2014. It was because he was very outspoken against
the way Obama weaponizes the DOJ and government against political
opponents. He was also very vocal about
being against the Iran deal, which was supposed to be Obama’s legacy. He ended up being a target of the very thing
he was protesting against.”
Kera finishes her deal and exits
the meeting room. Fanis utters good bye
to the security guard and leaves with Kera.
They head to a pub to celebrate Kera closing the sale as it was a very
expensive item. After a couple pints of
beer, they leave the bar and head back to the hotel. While walking, Fanis’ jerks his head to the
side to a scream of ‘help.’ Fanis
hurries over to find a woman mounted by a knife-wielding man. The woman is crying and looks scared with the
man’s hand over her mouth. Fanis yells
out, “Hey! Get off her.”
He hopes that’s all it’ll take
for the man to scurry off but instead he gets up and faces Fanis brandishing
the knife. Fanis had already taken out a
knife he carries and has it tucked against his arm shielding it from his
opponent. “Get the fuck out of
here. This doesn’t concern you.”
“It does now.”
Kera states in Greek, “I’ll meet
you back at the hotel” and Fanis just nods in agreement.
Kera hurries off while Fanis
stares back at the assailant. The man
charges Fanis and Fanis bends down and when the attacker got close, Fanis
wrapped his arms around the guy’s leg and snapped his body up catapulting him
over Fanis’ head flipping on his back.
The knifemen hops to his feet and sprints at him again. This time Fanis falls to the side and sticks
his right leg out. When the sprinting
man got to his leg, Fanis used his left leg to kick at the back of his legs
tripping him onto his stomach. Fanis
rolled over and jammed his three inch knife into the back of the man’s
knee. As Fanis gets to his feet, he
hears the man he just stabbed scream. As
he glances over at the girl, she realizes she’s standing and watching. Fanis turns to his opponent and steps with
his left and kicks the man in the temple and his body goes limp as he is no
longer screaming. Fanis puts the knife
away and asks, “Are you okay”
The girl smiles, “I am now.”
Fanis sizes her up. She is 5’8” with straight blond hair and an
hourglass shaped hips with curves that impress.
He detects a Russian accent, so he asks her in Russian, “What’s your
name?”
The blond responds, “Azra”
Fanis nods and switches to
English, “What happened?”
“I was out for a walk and he
just jumped me. I was on my way to a
dinner at my professor’s house.”
“It’s kind of cold to be
walking.”
“You were weren’t you?”
“Yes, I was.”
“I know you were with a girl,
but do you mind walking me to the dinner?
I’m a little scared to be alone right now.”
Fanis calls Kera and she answers
immediately, “I’m fine if that’s why you’re calling?”
“Are you back at the hotel?”
“Not yet. Did you save the damsel in distress?”
“Yes, I did.”
“Good for you.”
“How far from the hotel are you?”
“I’ve been power walking because
I also am a little nervous about being alone after what happened. I’m almost at the hotel.”
“Alright, I’m going to keep the
ear piece in. Stay on the phone and let
me know when you get home.”
“Will do but you should say bye
so the woman you rescued thinks you have her undivided attention.”
Fanis laughs and Kera
giggles. “Alright, I’ll see you when I
get back to the hotel. Good bye.”
“Bye” she replies in a tone that
suggests she thinks he’s going to get lucky that night.
Fanis articulates to Azra that
he will walk her home. She starts speaking
Russian and Fanis interrupts, “I don’t speak Russian. I just know like 10 conversational words.”
Azra gives him a confused look
and then shrugs her shoulders, “Okay”
Fanis inquires, “I know this is
a strange question but do you read the Daily Caller?”
“I’m not sure I’ve heard of it.”
“There was an interesting
article entitled, ‘Cambridge academic reflects on interactions with Spygate
figure.”
Azra seems uninterested, “Oh
yea? I don’t know it. This isn’t exactly something you talk about
on a first encounter.”
“Yea, I’m weird.”
“I like weird. We can talk politics if you like. It’s definitely different from all the other
conversations I have when I first meet someone.”
“Are you familiar with Richard
Dearlove?”
“Yes, he used to be the head of
MI6.”
“Looks like you know your
English news as well as America’s.”
“Well, Dearlove came up in
American news too.”
“How so?”
“You know how England and
America are close allies and share military.
There’s an old expression that if England has two stealth bombers and
America has 5, the reality is they both have seven.”
Azra laughed, “Yea, that’s
definitely true.”
Fanis notices Azra constantly
looking at him from the side of her eyes.
They arrive at the house and she rings the doorbell. Fanis announces, “Well, you’re here, I’m glad
I could help.”
“Please come in for dinner.”
“I can’t impose.”
“I’ll vouch for you. It’s the least I can do.”
The door opens and Fanis sees
the owner of the house. He explains, “I
was just leaving.”
Azra rushes to him and puts her
hands on his chest, “No no, Chris, this man saved me from an attacker. Please, I’d like for him to join us.”
“I don’t have a problem with
that.”
“Are you sure there’s enough
food?” posed Fanis
“Plenty; please join us.”
“Alright, thank you” Fanis
extends his hand, “I’m Fanis”
“Chris”
“Nice to meet you.”
“Pleasure is all mine I’m sure.”
Fanis sits at dinner, “So what
do you do?” Chris asks
“I’m a bodyguard.”
“Oh that’s exciting.”
“And yourself?”
“I teach at Cambridge.”
“Wow nice. You must be very smart. Are you familiar with Stefan Halper? I believe he teaches there.”
Chris frowns quickly and then
looks up, “That name isn’t too familiar but there are a lot of professors at
Cambridge. I’m sure I’ve run into him on
campus but no we are not too familiar.”
“Yea, it’s a big school.”
“How do you know him?”
“Well, as you may have been able
to ascertain based on my accent, I’m an American. I’ve been tracking the travesty that is what
our government has done to General Mike Flynn.”
“What would that be?”
“Well in 2014, Halper invited
Flynn to a dinner. He also invited this
Russian woman named Svetlana Lokhova.
When questioned, everyone at the meeting says there was nothing inappropriate
with their interactions and a man confirmed that he drove Lokhova home
alone. Yet, Halper claimed that Flynn
had an affair with her and even called her a Russian agent. This is odd because she’s a dual citizen of
the UK and has lived in London since 1998.”
“Sounds like this Halper isn’t a
good character.”
“Oh no. it wasn’t just him
though. He is well connected as he’s
close friends with Richard Dearlove, who you know was the head of MI6 here in
England.”
“Yes, I am familiar with him.”
Chris’s voice now took a dire tone.
“I mean, I’m a Trump supporter
so I don’t like Dearlove because he vouched for his former employee Christopher
Steele to the head of the CIA John Brennan, which started this whole Russian
collusion fiasco hoax that has plagued America the last four years.”
There was another man at the
dinner who spoke for the first time, “It is always interesting to get the
perspective of a non-British person about our country. The American opinion is especially intriguing
as they appear to know so much.”
“Ah, you’re implying that
Americans are arrogant. Given the
smugness of the English and your constant interaction with you neighbors on the
other side of the channel, it appears arrogance is what you’re used to.”
The entire table burst out in
laughter as they agreed. “That’s true”
Chris confesses
“But, Halper is an American so
I’m attacking a fellow American. I mean
our Pentagon paid him a million dollars through the Office of New Assessment to
write studies on Russia, China and Afghanistan.”
Azra’s face brightened with a
charming smile, “Wow, I’m Russian, I wish someone gave me a million dollars to
write about my birth country.”
“Better be careful. Someone may use you one day like they did
with Lokhova.”
“You don’t know the
context. You just have her story.”
“Yea, but she is suing Dearlove
and Halper so hopefully she’ll get justice.”
Chris queries, “Why was Halper
paid so much and how did you come across this information?”
“There was a whistleblower names
Adam Lovinger who found it. He worked at
the Pentagon. Not only did he find that
the payment was made for four papers but Halper never wrote the papers yet
still got the money.”
Azra wrapped her arms around
Fanis, “Can we stop talking about stuffy stuff.
Why don’t you tell the story about how you were my knight in shining
armor.”
Fanis didn’t react, “It was
curious that the Democrats were so upset if anyone says Eric CIaramella, the
Ukraine whistleblower’s name, but nobody cared that Lovinger was suspended
without pay for his blowing the whistle on Halper. Very curious indeed.”
The man that hadn’t introduced
himself pronounced, “I’m Richard by the way.
I’m not sure if I said that.”
“Oh, I think we can stop with
the pretenses. You are Richard Dearlove,
he is professor Chris Andrew, the one that invited Lokhova to the dinner.” He
turns to the girl next to her, “And you, my dear, are Azra Turk. I’m not the first Greek you hit on in order
to get information. I believe you were
introduced by Halper as ‘Putin’s niece’ to my fellow countrymen George
Papadopoulos.”
Azra let go of Fanis and put her
head down. There was a moment of silence
and Richard broke it, “There was a lot of pressure by our friends across the
pond at that time. All that is in the past now.
Perhaps we should just enjoy our dinner.”
“Is it though? Mary McCord was working in the Trump White
House on the National Security Council (NSC).
She quit and is now working for Adam Schiff with the impeachment hearing. McCord also happened to be Mueller’s chief of
staff after John Carlin, who was on the Mueller probe. She also worked for Michael Atkinson who was
the head of the NSC where Eric Ciaramella or the whistleblower came out
of. Just to bring this full circle, she
targeted Mike Flynn as well in an intelligence briefing in 2016. Flynn, Trump, Impeachment, is all the same
scandal and everyone here is involved.
My only question is what do you want with me? I’m not involved in American politics at
all.”
“Do you really not know?” Azra
asked
“No, I mean I also can’t figure
out why you used your real names. Well,
Azra is a fake name but the same fake name you gave George Papadopoulos…..Wait,
Boris Johnson is the new Prime Minister.
Glenn Simpson and his partner wrote a Russian collusion piece for the Guardian
just like they did with the dossier. The
only difference is that this time they didn’t put someone else’s name on
it. I don’t have anything to do with
Boris Johnson either though.”
Richard scolded, “Don’t make the
mistake of thinking we’re fools.”
“Like you did with me?”
“Let me ask you something as
your American arrogance is exhausting my patience. If you know who we were, why did you come
inside?”
“It’s not going to hurt my
profession if you accuse me of colluding with Russians.”
“Not you perhaps but is there
another reason?”
Fanis gave a shocked
expression. This was the first time
where his willful ignorance on why Kera needed a bodyguard could get her in
trouble. He took another bite of his
food and got up. “Thank you for
dinner. It was surprisingly lovely as
English cuisine has a bloody bad reputation.
You’re hospitality was impeccable but I’m afraid I must go now.”
He was met with half smiles by
the other three people and Fanis scurried out of the house. Before he left, Dearlove called out, “Are you
curious on who you stabbed?”
The second that the girl told him her name; he knew he
was being tricked. He purposely didn’t
speak Russian with her because he thought that would be ammunition for whatever
they were setting him up for. On the
way, he suspected that the attack was staged but before making an accusation
like that, you needed to be sure and he wasn’t.
“He was a rapist, he deserved it.” He fired back.
“You’re not a big fan of Stefan
Halper.”
“I thought I made that clear.”
“Well, considering you stabbed him, I
don’t think he’s too fond of you either” Dearlove grinned before ending with,
“Have a good night.”
Fanis left and went to the hotel. When he went inside, Kera shouted, “So did
you fuck her?”
“No, she was trying to honeypot
me.”
“Oh, you’re too paranoid. I can’t believe you fucked that up.”
“No, cuz, you don’t understand”
Fanis then explained to her everything that happened.
Kera sighed, “Did you say
anything about me?”
“No, I spent the whole time
talking about how I knew who they were.”
“Good.”
“I know I don’t really ask about
your business but why is it bad if you are linked to Russia and that I would
have colluded with Russians?”
“I’ll make you a deal. I’ll answer that if it comes out.”
“You’re not a public figure.”
“No, I’m not.”
“And you hate what Boris Johnson
stands for.”
“I’m not as opposed to the PM as
I am to your president.”
“Kera…”
“Pelosi handed over the articles
today. I wonder why she waited so long.”
Kera mused
“She was waiting for new
evidence to emerge. It just came out.”
“The lawyer named Les something.”
“Yea, they think they got a
bombshell because he has handwritten notes on Ritz Carlton stationary. It’s all helter skelter but it talks about
how he needs to put a package together, go to DC and do his magic to cut deal
with a Victoria and Joe.”
“Whoever they are”
“Maybe, Victoria Nuland and Joe
Pietnka.”
“It’s possible but I saw those
notes. They are barely legible and that
plan doesn’t seem too damning.”
“Yea, if that’s the smoking gun
that they have against Giuliani and Trump with the quid pro quo, I’m not
impressed. President Trump never
associated with the lawyer either so it’s still hearsay.”
“It just seems like he wrote
down stuff the Democrats wanted him to.’
‘Yea, like the black ledger,
which has already been proven to be a hoax.”
“I guess we’ll find out with the
impeachment trial.”
“How are you feeling right now?”
“I’m fine.”
“Are you drunk from the pub?”
“I wasn’t even drunk when we
left, let alone now that I’ve eaten.”
“I think I want to drive back to
London now”
“Alright”
They pack up the car and head
towards London. There was an awkward
silence in the car and Fanis ended it with, “I can’t believe the Democrats
think we’re stupid and after getting exposed with the Russian collusion,
they’re trying it again.”
“Many people still believe it.”
“Yea, but now they’re saying the
Russians hacked Burisma so any damning information about Hunter and Joe Biden,
they’re going to blame the Russians and Trump for.”
“It would be a good cover.’
“Except the CEO of Area 1, the
company that alleges the hack, has been working for several 2020 Democrat
candidates for president.”
“I wouldn’t imagine they would
work for Trump. They’re trying to remove
him from office.”
“I’m just saying they’re
biased.”
“They were hired by them to do a
job.”
“No, they’re not being paid for
it. They are helping Warren and Booker
for nothing. They confirmed in the
election contribution records that the amount that the candidates are giving
Falkowitz, the Area 1 CEO, is the same amount he had donated shortly before.”
“That is suspicious”
“Then you know there are trolls
that checked his twitter history. He
sent a message on July 15, 2017 ‘@Dalperovitch, are you in Aspen this week?”
“Wow, very scandalous” Kera
remarked sarcastically
“Dimitri Alperovitch is the CEO
of Crowd Strike who investigated the DNC servers when they pretended to get
hacked.”
“Not sure I remember hearing
that.”
“Not confirmed but they did
pretend. Why else did they not want to
give their servers to the FBI after getting hacked?”
“Because they’re the FBI. They have a reputation of blackmailing
people.”
“So do hackers.”
“Possibly; not sure who’s worse”
She responded before giggling.
“The date is interesting.”
“Why? A year after Crossfire
Hurricane?”
“No, it was a year before Adam
Schiff got caught meeting with Christopher Steele at the same conference in
Aspen. It’s an annual event on computer
security. It just happens to be filled
with anti-Trump people.”
“Did you see Congressman Brian
Mast in the house hearing on Soleimani?”
“He just wanted to know which
name of those who died in Iraq that is posted in the capitol was not reason
enough to kill Soleimani. Nobody seemed
to come up with a name.”
Yea, the moderator made it much
worse by calling him out of order.”
“Yes, because being quiet for
two minutes and 30 seconds is way out of order” Fanis retorted sarcastically before
continuing, “But I give him credit for sticking up for himself against the chairman and to the guy that yielded him an extra minute because that shut up
the chairman.”
They switched to more light
hearted conversation. When they arrived
at their flat, Fanis went straight to bed as the drive exhausted him. Kera stayed up and appeared deep in the
thought as she seemed to be trying to figure something out.
