Friday, May 17, 2019

Real Characters episode 9 Let's start at the Beginning


                It is 2002, and Nellie Ohr has accepted a job with the MITRE Corporation.  Nellie’s husband Bruce works for the Department of Justice.  At work Nellie meets a man named Marin Halper.  Marin’s father is a CIA spy that teaches at the Cambridge Intelligence Institute in London, England.  Nellie and Marin hit it off as Marin is interested in Nellie being fluent in Russia and having a lot of knowledge about Russian culture and political infrastructure.  After six years, Nellie Ohr decides that six years is enough time working for Mitre and leaves the company.  As she leaves the company, she is unaware that her new friend and co-worker is going to get her involved in the greatest scandal in American history.

                The year is now 2014.  Richard Dearlove has just gotten off the phone with the most powerful man in the world.  Dearlove was the chief of MI6 from 1999-2004.  Even though he is no longer the head of British spies, he still stays involved in international affairs.  One of his former employees, Christopher Steele, had made quite an impression on him.  Dearlove has spoken publicly of Steele’s superb work and how he is the go to man on all things Russian in the commercial sector.  Steele has garnered notoriety in his work on exposing the FIFA corruption so he is no longer a MI6 agent as anonymity is paramount for a spy.  His faith in Steele, however, is not relevant right now.  For now, he has to help his friend Barak Obama with a pest of his.  Dearlove picks put up the phone and calls Stephen Halper.

                Halper picks up the phone and says, “Hello Richard, good to hear from you.”

                “Nice to talk with you as well.  How are you?”

                “It’s going well.  I just got a new co-teacher.  He was a member of Russian intelligence and is very close with Vladimir Putin.  His name is Vyacheslav Trubnikov.  He provides my students with the non-western side of the story.  I really think it gives my class a more well rounded approach. How are things with you?”

                “Well, I just got off the phone with the United States President Obama.  He has asked me to take care of a little problem he has?”

                “Oh really?  Well you know how much I support the US president.  What can I do?”

                “I need you to invite an army general Mike Flynn to your conference.”

                “Alright, I can do that.  Why is he a person of interest?”

                “He’s been very critical of Iran and undermining President Obama’s deal with Iran and selling them Uranium.” 

                “Alright, well you know all we have to do with an American is have them talking with Russians.”

                “Yea, so can you introduce him to your co-teacher?”

                “No, I don’t want to drag his name in the mud.  I have a Russian student named Svetlana Lokhova.  I’ll put them at the same table and then call her a Russian asset.”

                “Do you know if her student visa is in good standing?  If not, we can use that to paint her as a Russian asset.  May help our case.”

                “No, she’s lived in England for over a decade.  Her standing as an English women is well documented.”

                “Alright, so we’ll just whisper it.”

                “Yea, funny you said that.  I worked with another Russian named Vladimir Sarkov.  He has written extensively about how to manipulate the media.  He says ‘Russians interferes in your brains, we change your conscience, and there is nothing you can do about it.’ So yea, we can make this Russian immigrant to England a Russian asset with his help.”

                “Excellent.  I hope you don’t mind but I’d like to come personally to make sure that the whispers go international about Flynn conspiring with Russians.”

                “That’s fine by me; it would be nice to catch up with you.”

                Halper extends the invitation to Flynn and he accepts it.  The plan goes off perfectly and Lokhova spends a lot of time in the English media complaining about how she is not a Russian asset and barely spoke with Flynn.  People not close with Halper or Dearlove confirm that there was barely any interaction between Flynn and Lokhova but that doesn’t stop the American media and Democrats from spewing seeds of doubt in the American consciousness. 

                Halper finds that he’s having trouble funding his Cambridge conference.  He was compensated for setting up Mike Flynn with Dearlove.  That, however, has dried up.  His phone rings and he doesn’t recognize the number but he answers nonetheless.  The voice comes back in a thick Russian accent and says “Hello Mr. Halper.”

                “Hello, who is this?”

                “My name is not important.  I am part of the oligarchy for Russia.  I hear great things from my colleagues Sarkov and Trubnikov about you.”

                “I appreciate that, I’ve truly enjoyed teaching with them.”

                “I would like you to continue with your conference.”

                “Me too, but you know you have to pay the bills.”

                “That is precisely why I’m calling.  I’d like to help you with those bills.”

                “That would be great, thank you.”

                “Just remember that mother Russia helped you and we may call on you for help.”

                “Of course.  I know how to show gratitude to those who help me in my time of need.  I’m not one to forget.”

                “Excellent”

                The Russian oligarch gets Halper the money so he can continue with his Cambridge Conference. The oligarch meets with Vladimir Putin, who he’s close with.  Putin says, “Is it done?”

                “Yes, it is done.  We have our assets Sarkov and Trubnikov in London.  They can continue to meet with western intelligence and sew disinformation as we deem fit.”

                “Excellent, good work.  I know Vladimir (Sarkov) and Vyacheslav (Trubnikov).  They are very good friends of mine and are loyal to me.  I know they will not fail if we need them.

 

                Meanwhile back in America, Donald Trump is quickly rising through the ranks in the Republican primary.  President Obama has ordered his intelligence agencies to find out everything they can on him.  The first place they look is the surveillance they have on foreign people.  Usually, If an American is caught up in a conversation or other kinds of surveillance with a foreigner that is being watched, the American’s name is masked so they aren’t linked to foreign collusion or criminal activity merely for talking with someone not from the United States.  Since the intelligence agency knows that said American is going to be on Donald Trump’s campaign, they ask President Obama if they can unmask the name.

                “Yes, unmask it, leak it to the press and then destroy him,  I want everyone associated with Trump to be scrutinized so severely and made an example of so that nobody will want to work with him for fear of our wrath.  I’m the most powerful man in the world and they will feel the awesome pressure and might of the United States government if they dare help that uncouth orange man.”

                “Will you protect us if this comes out sir?”

                “Of course I will.  When we succeed, Hillary Clinton will become president and all this goes away.  Trust me, if you help me and Hillary, neither one of us will forget it.”

                “Very good sir.  The man’s name is Carter Page.”

                “Thank you” Obama says as he ends the call. 

                President Obama calls Richard Dearlove and says, “Mr. Dearlove”

                “Yes Mr. President”

                “I’m afraid I’m going to have to ask you to ruin another opponent of mine’s life.”

                “Any enemy of yours is an enemy of mine sir.  I’m happy to help.”

                “His name is Carter Page.”

                “Well given that Mike Flynn only lasted 27 days with what we did to him, I’m going to recycle the same strategy.”

                “Works for me.”

                Dearlove calls Halper and says, “I have another victim for us.”

                “I’m listening”

                “His name is Carter Page.”

                “Alright, have him come.  I’ll talk to my Russian friends and see who we can get to set him up without implicating a real Russian intell guy.”

                “Alright, just let me know the date as I will be personally attending again.”

                Halper speaks with his Russian co-teachers and Sarkov tells him, “We know this Carter Page.”

                “Really?  In what context?”

                “He worked with the FBI and came to Russia to spy on two men.  He befriended them and then reported everything back to the FBI.”

                “Interesting, would you like to return the favor?”

                “Very much so yes.”

                Dearlove arrives at the campus and says, “Alright, I’m afraid this Carter Page thing may not be enough.  We need to destroy Donald Trump.”

                Sarkov says, “We know much about Donald Trump”

                Trubnikov chimes in, “Yes, he come to Moscow for Miss Universe pageant.  Very gross stuff.  Pay prostitute to pee on him.  We have tapes of it.”

                Sarkov opines, “And his lawyer, Michael Cohen he come to Prague to meet with two of our men.  Bondarev was one of them I believe, yes.  He talk to them about hacking into the DNC e-mails and Clinton server to get bad information about her.  They try to use against her in the election.   Very bad things.”

                Halper says, “Wow, if this is true, then we need to tell the CIA and FBI about this.”

                Dearlove says, “Yes, but we can’t say it came from you two.” Referring to Sarkov and Trubnikov “are you aware of what a parallel construction is?”

                Trubnikov says, “I am not.”

                “It’s when you have a source that people may not believe.  Instead of ignoring the information you have them tell it to someone that is a reliable source and have him disseminate the information to intelligence organizations so that way it’s to be believed.”

                Halper says, “I’m afraid we don’t have time to get this information vetted.  We need to bypass the intelligence agencies and take this right to the state department and FBI.”

                Dearlove says, “I can ask President Obama if he has any suggestions.”

                Halper says, “No, we should involve him as little as possible.  We need to give him plausible deniability.  We have substantial contacts between us.  I’m sure we can think of someone.”

                Dearlove said, “I got someone.  One of my former MI6 agents is an FBI informant.  His name is Christopher Steele.  The Americans trust him because of his superb work on the FIFA corruption scandal.”

                Halper says, “Excellent, so that’s the person that’s going to infiltrate the FBI.  I can talk to the head of the CIA, John Brennan as he employs me and we are very close.”

                Sarkov said, “It should come from multiple avenues.  Do we know anyone in the state department?”

                Halper thinks for a moment and utters, “I do actually.  My son worked with a woman named Nellie Ohr.  Her husband is the 4th highest member in the US Department of Justice.”

                Dearlove says, “Alright call her, see if she’ll help us.”

                Halper calls Nellie Ohr and after pleasantries tells her their plan.  Nellie says, “This is actually a good time for you to call.  I work for a company called Fusion GPS right now.  It’s headed by Glenn Simpson who wrote an article in the Wall Street Journal entitled How lobbyist help Ex-Soviets Woo Washington in 2007.  Hillary Clinton and the DNC has just paid us to do dig up negative information on Trump.  Your sources can help us”

                “2007 is a long time ago.”

                “Yes, but it ages well.  He has used it to undermine the election of Bob Dole in favor of Bill Clinton and against John McCain against Barak Obama.”

                “Bob Dole was before 2007.”

                “I know, the article was talking about how it started back then.”

                “Interesting, can you arrange for me to meet with Mr. Simpson to discuss this.”

                “Yea, that shouldn’t be a problem.”

                “That’s great but we do need someone from the state department to talk to our source Steele.”

                “Hold on, let me get Bruce, see what he says.”

                After filling in her husband Bruce, Bruce shrugs his shoulders and pronounces, “I’ll talk to some people, see what I can do.”

                Bruce Ohr goes into work and starts asking around about Christopher Steele.  An employee says, “Christopher Steele? I know him”

                The employee’s name is Kathleen Kavalec. She is the Assistant Secretary of State.  Bruce says, “Really?”

                “Yea, when I was in the US embassy in Moscow, he was working there as an MI6 agent.”

                “Is he credible”

                “Well, I don’t know him well but nothing really red flagged when I was in Moscow.”

                Victoria Nuland, Kavalec’s superior, overheard the conversation.  She chimed in, “What is this about, Bruce?”

                “He wants to meet with the FBI to share troubling information about Donald Trump.”

                “I’ll authorize it” said Nuland, “Send Agent Gaeda to London to meet with him, see what he’s got.”

                While Bruce Ohr is talking to Nuland and Kavalec, Halper calls Carter Page and invites him to Cambridge for the conference.  Page agrees and Brennan, Dearlove and Halper conspire to set him up to be a Russian asset.  John Brennan personally calls Steele and says, “I just want to make sure that you know your role in this.”

                “I do, I take Trubnikov and Sarkov’s information and tell Glenn Simpson of Fusion GPS so that he can put it in his dossier.  I then present the Dossier to the FBI as if it’s my own so they won’t vet it and will believe it.  Then, I need to start calling media outlets and John McCain’s chief of staff and give them the dossier so they can keep feeding it to the FBI so they will think it’s verified and won’t feel the need to vet it independently.”

                “Perfect, thank you Chris”

                “No problem sir”

                This meeting happens on July 29, 2016.  Two FBI officials, the lead investigator into Donald Trump’s collusion Peter Strzok and FBI Lawyer Lisa Page have been e-mailing each other about how they hate Donald Trump and want to stop him from becoming president.  The texts also implicate that the White House is running the operation and talks about a joint effort by the intelligence community to get Donald Trump.  Brenan calls FBI director Jim Comey and says, “Jim, we need a distraction.”

                “I agree.  I’m going to go to the office tomorrow to formalize things.  With the information your man Steele has given us, there is enough to open up a formal investigation into Donald Trump and whether or not he colluded with Russia.”

                The next day, the FBI officially opened up Crossfire Hurricane.  Brennan also was putting the finishing touches on setting up yet another person audacious enough to work for Donald Trump named George Papadopoulos.  He had an Israeli contact of his, Charles Tawil, give him $10,000 cash for writing a Mediterranean energy paper.  Halper has sent agents to Dulles airport for a 2AM landing of Papadopoulos plane to seize the money and arrest him for carrying more than the minimum limit need to declare when coming back internationally.  Unfortunately for Brennan, Papadopoulos left the money in Greece with a lawyer.   They arrest him anyway calling it a probably cause arrest but never reveal what it is. 

                It is now October and Brennan calls Steele and says “You’ve done good work in getting this information through many different mouths.  I would like you to meet with the state department too though.”

                “Alright, I worked with the Assistant Secretary of State in Moscow.  I can smooth talk her.  I’ll arrange a meeting”

                “Please do”

                Steele calls Kathleen Kavalec and says, “Kathy, long time no speak.  How are you doing?”

                “I’m well, Chris, how are you?”

                “I’ve been knee deep in this crazy scandal with Presidential nominee Donald Trump and the Russians.”

                “Yes, I’ve heard”

                “Can we meet to discuss this?”

                “Sure”

                Just like Steele had done several times, he lays out all the information about Trump colluding with the Russians from the pee tapes to Cohen in Prague.   Kavalec says, “And how did you come up with this information?”

                “I have two Russian sources”

                “And they are?”

                “Trubnikov and Vladimir Sarkov”

                Kavalec writes these names down in notes she’s taking.  As Steele is talking, she is checking a data base of travel logs because he seems unsure about when two people arrived in the United States.  When they get to the Cohen information, she says, “Did Cohen pay these men?”

                “Yes”

                “Do you have any wiring information to Russia that we can substantiate?”

                “No, Cohen paid them through the Russian consulate in Miami”

                Kavalec types some keys and then puts a bracket on her note about the payments and puts, “It’s important to note there is no Russian Consulate in Miami.”

                Steele continues, “Please expedite this information to the proper authorities.  The FBI, CIA, DOJ everyone.”

                “I understand”

                “It’s imperative this gets out before the election.”

                “And why’s that?”

                “The American people need to know.  It’s your duty as an American.  If this gets out after the election in a month, it’ll be too late.”

                Kavalec writes in her notes that this information seems more politically motivated than intelligence oriented due to his insistence it gets out before the election.  She types up the notes she has handwritten and forwards them to the FBI.  10 days later, the FBI gets a FISA warrant on Carter Page.  They withheld all of Kavalec’s suspicions from the court.

 

                November 8, 2016, despite all of Brennan, Strzok, Halper, Trubnikov, Sarkov, Dearlove etc.’s efforts, Donald Trump is elected President of the United States.  A month later, Dearlove, Halper and Peter Martland ,who played a more minor role in attacking Trump, resign from the Cambridge Conference citing it’s due to unacceptable Russian influence.  This is a common Russian strategy known as ‘Scorched Earth.’ They harm themselves to try to harm their opponents more.  Now anyone associated with the conference is guilty of Russian collusion.  They, however, are free from scrutiny.  Another Russian, Ayn Rand spoke of this in her book Fountainhead, a student was aware of various students cheating in a class.  The student was one of the cheating students but that didn’t stop him from reporting one cheater to the teacher.  The teacher then put every student in the class under intense scrutiny.  Every student, that is, except the one student that informed her of the scheme.  Now, while everyone else had to honestly study for the test, he could continue to cheat above any suspicious eyes.

 

                Glenn Simpson is nervous.  He never expected his dossier to get so much traction and scrutiny.  Before, it was just to help a Democrat win an election.  Now that this time they failed, it was being used for FISA warrants, entrapment operations and the spying on a United States President.  Simpson thought that if the Russians could infiltrate this far into government and put an albatross around the most powerful man in the world’s neck, then what would they do to him?  He told himself to toe the line and not double cross the Russians because he feared what would happen to him if he did.  Later he would be called into a Senate Judiciary Committee.  He willingly gives up that he was aware of a human asset inside the Trump campaign.  He is talking about Halper and doesn’t feel worried about him because he’s not Russian.  When it gets to the other Russian sources, he clams up and his lawyer tells him he doesn’t have to answer the question.  Although he tells the committee that the source heard the same information that Steele was telling him in the dossier, he fails to mention that both Steele and the human source were getting the information from the same source.

                On May 1, 2017 Adam Lovinger is looking at payment records.  He works for the Pentagon and comes across something suspicious.  He goes into his superior’s office and says, “I found out that a Cambridge professor by the name of Stephen Halper got a million dollars to write a defense department foreign policy report.  That seems like a lot of money for a report.”

Lovinger also mentions a suspicious company.  What Lovinger doesn’t know is that the company is headed by a close friend of Chelsea Clinton’s.  Lovinger is summarily fired and his security clearance is revoked.  The Pentagon and Department of Justice do everything in their power to ensure that he doesn’t work at another government position again.  This takes a toll on his wife and three kids but luckily they have good friends who help him out financially until he can get back on his feet.  Lovinger found out what many have; don’t mess with the Clintons because they own the intelligence agencies of the United States and won’t hesitate to unleash their power on anyone that opposes them.  Donald Trump managed to win an election and survive a two year special counsel headed by those loyal to her.  Still her minions are looking to impeach him.  Will the government ever be rid of Clintonistas and have them replaced with people that have the guts to fulfill one of President Trump’s campaign promises to lock her up?  Time will tell.  Though, before we get there it appears that the US sanctions against Sarkov were not a sufficient deterrent for colluding with the CIA,FBI and British intelligence to take down and spy on the President.  Perhaps they will be locked up first or they will get away with it.  The clock is ticking, all those involved are nervous as their roles are revealed.  The FBI classified the Kavalec memos in late April 2019 but enough of it got out to destroy the entire Trump collusion narrative and expose the real collusion of the CIA and Britain with Russians to get Donald Trump.  Looks like Sarkov practiced what he taught.  He got into the brains and consciousness of the American public and there was nothing the most powerful man in the world, President Donald Trump, could do about it. 

 

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