Thursday, May 24, 2018

The Skripal Affair and the Steele Dossier

Yesterday Reuters released a story about a video statement read by Yulia Skripal. Craig Murray speculates, "Yulia Skripal and the Salisbury WUT," that the statement was written by her British handlers and then translated into Russian for her to present, but that the actual captions stuck to the original English; hence the discrepancies between her statement in Russian and that which was quoted in the media (Murray speaks Russian).

What's interesting about Murray's piece -- it's sort of a "Where are we now with the whole Skripal affair?" -- is that it does appear that Sergei Skripal was involved in the production of Christopher Steele's anti-Trump dossier:
The government slapped a D(SMA) notice on the identity of Pablo Miller, Skripal’s former MI6 handler who lives close by in Salisbury and who worked for Christopher Steele’s Orbis Intelligence at the time that Orbis produced the extremely unreliable dossier on Trump/Russia. The fact that Skripal had not retired but was still briefing on Russia, to me raises to a near certainty the likelihood that Skripal worked with Miller on the Trump dossier.

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