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"Slow Horses,” Apple's TV highly acclaimed espionage drama returns for season three.

#GaryOldman returns to lead the Slough House team for a third season of #AppleTVPlus's #SlowHorses.

Slow Horses is a darkly humorous espionage drama that follows a dysfunctional team of British intelligence agents who serve in a dumping ground department of MI5 known un-affectionately as Slough House.

Slough House is an administrative purgatory for MI5 service rejects who have bungled their job but have not been sacked. Those consigned there are known as "slow horses”

In season three, a romantic liaison in Istanbul threatens to expose a buried MI5 secret in London. When Jackson Lamb and his team of misfits are dragged into the fight, they find themselves caught in a conspiracy that threatens the future not just of Slough House but of MI5 itself.

Oldman stars as Jackson Lamb, the brilliant but misanthropic leader of the spies, who end up in Slough House due to their career-ending mistakes as they frequently find themselves blundering around the smoke and mirrors of the espionage world.

The ensemble cast also includes Kristin Scott Thomas, Jack Lowden, Saskia Reeves, Rosalind Eleazar, Christopher Chung, Freddie Fox, Chris Reilly, Samuel West, Sophie Okonedo, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Kadiff Kirwan and Jonathan Pryce.

Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù joins the season three cast as Sean Donovan, the former head of security at the British embassy in Istanbul, along with Katherine Waterston who plays Alison Dunn, an MI5 agent who uncovers a dark secret at the heart of the agency.

Adapted from Real Tigers, the third novel in the Mick Herron spy series, the six-episode third season of Slow Horses season three will begin streaming via Apple TV+ on Wednesday 29th November.

Slow Horses is produced for Apple TV+ by See-Saw Films and adapted for television by Will Smith (Veep).

Jamie Laurenson, Hakan Kousetta, lain Canning, Emile Sherman, Douglas Urbanski, Gail Mutrux, Will Smith, Jane Robertson and Graham Yost are executive producers on the series. Season three is directed by Saul Metzstein.

Apple TV+ previously announced a fourth season is set to be adapted from the fourth novel, Spook Street.

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#UNPGA #UNODC #USSecretService #RishiSunak #CsabaKorosi #BritishIntelligence

Clemency on all charges for my bandmate Kosuke Mikami because I had the drugs delivered to him so he could hold them for me when we have band practice — he's holding right now and you can't raid him nor arrest him.

I made Kosuke a Secret Agent and he got the hookup — they're letting him manufacture.

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The Rabbit Hole is complex but compelling and the deeper you dig the more dangerous the warren becomes. Kiefer Sutherland manages to hold it all together and whilst not exactly realistic it is thrilling and deserves a comfortable four stars for entertainment … if you can hear what they are saying. Odds on you’ll binge at least some of it and rest assured you’ll get lost in the rabbit holes more than once. It’s a must see but it is also a must read for espionage aficionados. It’s based on a play of the same name published in 2006 by David Lindsay-Abaire. The play is a suspenseful, cloak and dagger affair about a corporate espionage expert who hits the big time and applies his skill sets to win the USA for some ne’er-do-wells. You will be forgiven if the name Trump springs to mind when watching this.

If you liked Bill Fairclough’s epic fast fact based complex spy thriller Beyond Enkription in The Burlington Files series about Pemberton’s People in MI6 you should like this no matter what the format. In real life, Fairclough was one of Pemberton’s People in MI6 and worked with the CIA, real SAS Rogue Heroes and other ungentlemanly officers as explained in a news article dated 31 October 2022 available from TheBurlingtonFiles website. Once you are irretrievably immersed or stuck in the Rabbit Hole you should enjoy it just as you did The Burlington Files and vice-versa.

#BritishIntelligence #CIA #Espionage #FaireSansDire #FBI #BeyondEnkription #FSB #GCHQ #GRU #Infiltration #Intelligence #KGB #MI5 #MI6 #NATO #NSA #Police #Risk #Security #Spies #Spooks #Subversion #Surveillance #SVR #TheBurlingtonFiles #BillFairclough #JamesBond #BetterThanBond #HarryPalmer

I was tagged by @thisonesatellite ♥♥

last song: I am incredibly boring and I don’t really listen to music unless I’m in the car w/the hubs and he has his phone plugged in. Last song was probably something off the new Fall Out Boy album. 

last show: Rabbit Hole with Kiefer Sutherland. Man, if you were a fan of 24, you’d love this show. It was a whole lot of what the fuck is happening???? Until it all wrapped up in the last episode. 

last movie: Fast X! I love ott action movies and we’ve loved the FatF saga ever since the first one. This one was great and Jason Momoa was a fantastic villain. 

currently watching: At this very moment? Hubs is watching the Playstation showcase from earlier today lol (We’re also trying to finally catch up on our One Chicago shows, New Amsterdam, and The Rookie) 

currently reading: Does fic count? lol I’m trying to read more books, especially ones related to how trauma affects the brain. Right now I’m reading The Boy Who Was Raised As A Dog by Bruce Perry. 

current obsession: Besides Stucky? Currently hyperfocused on finding out anything and everything about the surgery I might have to have which involves breaking my pelvis and screwing it back together. So, fun times! 

I have not had the mental energy to check tumblr much lately to know who has or who hasn’t been tagged in this, so I’ll just wave my magic wand and tag anyone who wants to do it! ♥

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British Intelligence | 1940 | Espiã Fascinadora

Durante a Segunda Guerra, a espiã Helene von Lerber chega a Londres para viver com a família de um oficial de alto escalão britânico. Lá, ela encontra o mordomo Valdar, também um espião, e o ajuda a descobrir os planos secretos britânicos.

Data de lançamento: 29 de janeiro de 1940 (mundial) Direção: Terry O. Morse Música composta por: Heinz Eric Roemheld Produção: Bryan Foy Produtora: Warner Bros. Entertainment

During World War I, Franz Strendler, a master German spy has cost the British dearly. In desperation, they send for their best agent, currently undercover in Germany. Pilot Frank Bennett (Bruce Lester) is sent to pick him up, but the Germans are forewarned and Bennett is shot down. Luckily, he survives and is rescued by friendly soldiers. While recovering in a hospital, Bennett is tended by a pretty nurse, Helene Von Lorbeer (Margaret Lindsay). He tells her he loves her, but she informs him she is leaving, and they will not see each other again. However, after Bennett falls asleep, she kisses him on the cheek.

Von Lorbeer turns out to be a spy herself. She is recalled to Germany to receive a high honor sent personally by the Kaiser and to undertake a new mission. Posing as a refugee named Frances Hautry, she infiltrates the London household of Arthur Bennett (Holmes Herbert), a cabinet minister, and, coincidentally, Frank's father. She takes her orders from Valdar (Boris Karloff), the butler. However, unbeknownst to her, he is a British double agent. Valdar later secretly reports to Colonel Yeats (Leonard Mudie), the head of British Intelligence.

When Bennett's secretary, also a German spy, taps out a secret message in code on her typewriter, Yeats is present and recognizes it. Since only Hautry is also in the office at the time, he sets a trap for her. A captured spy named Kurz seemingly escapes from the British and flees to Hautry's bedroom. She hides him in her closet, but then betrays him when Yeats and his men show up. Afterwards, she tells Valdar that she knew "Kurz" was an imposter.

Frank Bennett unexpectedly shows up, his squadron and others having been recalled to London for some reason. He is surprised to find his former nurse there and under a different name. Hautry is forced to reveal that she is loyal to the British. However, Valdar overhears their conversation.

That night, the British cabinet meets in Bennett's home. It is the moment Valdar has been waiting for. He forces Hautry at gunpoint down in the cellar, where he has set a bomb to blow the house up under cover of a Zeppelin bombing raid. Hautry tells Valdar that she had no choice but to make up a story to allay Frank's suspicions. Convinced when she shows him the award she was given, Valdar finally reveals that he is Strendler.

Fortunately, Valdar has been under surveillance. Yeats and his men rush to the cellar door. When Valdar escapes through the coal shute, Hautry unlocks the door and informs Yeats about the bomb. Valdar rushes to his hideout to transmit the stolen British plans for the spring offensive, pursued by the British, but, ironically, a Zeppelin bombs the location and kills him and his confederates before he can send his information.

Directed by Terry O. Morse Produced by Bryan Foy (uncredited) Written by Anthony Paul Kelly (play) Lee Katz (screenplay) Starring: Boris Karloff Margaret Lindsay Music by H. Roemheld Cinematography: Sid Hickox Edited by Thomas Pratt Production company : Warner Bros. Distributed by Warner Bros. Release date: January 29, 1940 Running time: 60 min. Language: English

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Worked out fine I think 😅 #hitler #worldwar2 #enigmafact #britishintelligence #nazis #ww2facts #redosnap #reddit https://www.instagram.com/p/CHzhh7WBVMF/?igshid=gveatl1nixqh

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Codename: Madeleine / Callsign: Nurse / Unit: Cinema #sixfanarts Noor Inayat Khan was a British-Indian undercover wireless operator, the first female operator to work in German occupied France during WWII. She was betrayed by double agents in her cohort and was executed in Dachau concentration camp in 1944. She served four years in the Special Operations Executive and attained the rank of Assistant Section Officer, and was posthumously awarded the George Cross. #noorinayatkhan #ww2 #britishintelligence #secretagent #codename #morsecode #taptaptap #overandout #spygames #warhero #ink #watercolours #blackandwhite #yycarts #yycdrawings #thespywhocameinfromthecold https://www.instagram.com/p/B_Jxfl4JPS8/?igshid=9vr4qg69o86a

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We love James Bond and were thrilled to get our hands on some of the new Bond stamps from @royalmailofficial! The new film may be postponed, but it’s a great time to find out more about Bond author Ian Fleming and the real life experiences which inspired the novels and one of the most well-known fictional characters in history. Ian Fleming's Inspiration is currently in production and coming soon, Ian Fleming and SOE's Operation Postmaster and Ian Fleming’s Secret War are available now 😍📚💌 • #Bond #SpecialEdition #Books #BooksToRead #Stamps #StampCollection #RoyalMail #Reading #BondJamesBond #007 #JamesBond007 #IanFleming #Recommended #Inspiration #BritishIntelligence #WW2 #PenAndSword #Bookstagram #PenAndSwordBooks #SOE https://www.instagram.com/p/B99FVNVn0rK/?igshid=1kcrpqm77on0t

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#Declassified #Documents Online :

#TwentiethCentury #BritishIntelligence on #Gale 

Via  @GaleEMEA #History #TBT #UK #Intelligence #Military #Libraries 

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Jason Gleaves the UFO Umbrella space and beyond

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Birth Anniversary..! Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby..! 1 January 1912..! #KimPhilby was a high-ranking member of #BritishIntelligence who worked as a double agent before defecting to the #SovietUnion in 1963..! He served as both an #NKVD and #KGB operative..! https://www.instagram.com/p/BsFzfBggPLaq9EP2hM8v5FRDkjvZGkVb5cpCN80/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1eas91yy1ii6h

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Lavrov Points to Likely British Intelligence Role in Skripal Poisoning

The widespread skepticism of the novichok story coming fifteen years after Tony Blair's UK government joined the Bush 43 Administration in lying its way to war over Saddam Hussein's alleged awesome chemical weapons arsenal is spreading far beyond alternative media and Russian outlets, vindicating the doubts expressed in Parliament by Labour opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn. The same Corbyn who is likely to succeed the incompetent, flailing Theresa May and who has been smeared as a Kremlin stooge via photoshopped graphics of him wearing a Russian-style hat in front of Red Square on the taxpayer funded BBC program Newsnight.

Moscow is also building its case that the British government has violated its 1963 and 1968 Parliament-ratified treaty obligations under the Vienna Conventions and relevant articles, denying a Russian citizen in distress, Yulia Skripal, access to consular assistance. Regardless of whether or not Yulia has asked to speak to her embassy and relatives (and an army of pro-NATO Twitter trolls are insisting as of this hour that she has not) while being denied phone access by hospital or law enforcement officials, it's apparent that a UK court hearing convened last month on the incapacitated Skripals' behalf, covered by Australian journalist John Helmer but largely ignored by MSM, (deliberately?) disregarded public facts and Russian media reporting.

Russian media reports at that time and since clearly demonstrated that the Skripals relatives in Moscow were seeking to contact the victims. and find out about their status in a hospital through their country's Embassy in Kensington. Adding to the mystery and signs of possible British Scotland Yard or GCHQ intelligence tampering with cyber forensics was the reported login to Yulia's VKontakte (Russian version of Facebook) account three days after she allegedly fell into a coma and was hospitalized from alleged nerve agent poisoning. -- JWS

FROM EIR DAILY ALERT

Lavrov Points to Likely British Intelligence Role in Skripal Poisoning

April 2, 2018—The issue of likely British intelligence involvement in the poisoning of former Russian GRU colonel, turned British double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia is increasingly coming to the fore.

Speaking at a press conference this morning in Moscow, TASS reported, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov pointed out that British intelligence, “or the government,” were clearly the beneficiaries of the poisoning of Skripal and his daughter.

“There are other explanations besides the ones, which our Western colleagues trumpet that only the Russian trace can be considered to be the final verdict,”

Lavrov said. He cited experts who observe that the whole poisoning affair “may be advantageous for Britain’s special services, which are known for their ability to act with a license to kill.” Moreover, he emphasized,

“this can be also beneficial to the British government which found itself in an inconvenient situation” after failing to negotiate favorable terms for Britain’s exit from the European Union.

“Leaders of a whole number of countries are asking questions,”

the Foreign Minister stated, and

“Britain, I think, will not manage to avoid answering these questions, because they are already only too obvious and it’s only too obvious that our British colleagues have lost their sense of reality.”

From London, Russian Ambassador Alexander Yakovenko similarly charged that London’s refusal to share information on the poisoning has led Moscow to “strongly suspect” that London was the actual perpetrator of the crime. In an interview with Russia’s NTV “Weekly Results” news program, as reported by RT, Yakovenko explained that while Russia has no direct proof, the British government’s behavior constitutes “strong circumstantial evidence in support of this theory.”

Ambassador Yakovenko also pointed out that in order for Theresa May to win support from both the population and the Parliament, she needed a “serious provocation,” and came up with a particularly “savage” one, so as to claim a leading role in the Western campaign to “contain” Russia. But, Moscow will not allow London to escape the legal consequences of its actions, Yakovenko warned. “They will have to give answers,” and bear full responsibility for their actions.

British Empire War Plans Already Backfiring

From LaRouchePAC.com April 2, 2018 The Russian Embassy in London sent a list of 14 questions to the British Foreign Office which, in themselves, demonstrate the total fraud of the British declaration of Russian guilt for the nerve agent attack on two Russian citizens in Salisbury. Among the questions: Why has the U.K. presented no evidence; why have they broken several international laws and protocols to prevent access to the victims; what antidotes did the U.K. have on hand for the nerve agent, and how did they obtain them; do they have a control agent of the so-called Novichok; has the U.K. developed the agent themselves?

But also included in the list of questions is the revelation, not previously known, that the French are deeply involved in the investigation. Why, the Russians ask, and on what grounds? What U.K. legislation or international protocols allow for the French to be engaged in an attack on Russian citizens on U.K. soil, and what have the French been given access to?

Similar lists of questions went to the French Foreign Ministry and to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).

These are questions which can and must be taken up by all interested parties -- and it can be definitively stated that every person on Earth is an interested party when the British are provoking a conflict between nuclear powers.

President Trump has continued to say nothing against Russia since the scam was launched, including in his rally in Ohio last week, while he held a long productive phone call with Putin without mentioning the phony charges against Russia. Although he did allow his administration to take the drastic measures against Russian diplomats and to close Russia's consular facility in Seattle, the war-party spokesmen in both political parties and in the press are furious that he won't personally join in the hysteria against Russia.

The Chinese took note of Trump's personal silence, while Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lu Kang called on Russia and the U.S. to resolve the issue: "Russia and the U.S. are influential countries in the world, who share big responsibility for the world's peace and security. We hope they will appropriately solve the dispute via dialogue based on equality and mutual respect."

The absurdity of the British accusations, claiming certainty with absolutely no evidence, in a manner which pushes the world into an existential crisis, comes at a time that President Trump is emphasizing the destructive results of an earlier British scam -- Tony Blair's launching of the Iraq war based on similar lies, provoking destruction across Southwest Asia and the mass exodus from the multiple war zones, leaving millions homeless and aggravating the economic crisis in Europe with a mass refugee crisis. George W. Bush and Barack Obama swallowed the British lies gladly, willing to commit crimes against humanity to prove their allegiance to the Mother Country.

Not so President Trump, who repeatedly points to the $7 trillion wasted in these illegal and unjustified regime-change wars, killing thousands while the U.S. physical economy was rotting. He could (and should) add that speculators in London and on Wall Street were simultaneously looting additional trillions from the real economies of the western nations.

India is increasingly working directly with China and Russia on productive investment projects, both among themselves and in third countries, especially in Africa. The work is being integrating through the international New Silk Road project initiated by Xi Jinping, and long promoted by Lyndon LaRouche.

On October 10, 2009, Lyndon LaRouche delivered an address to the Seventh Annual Session of the Rhodes "Dialogue of Civilizations" Forum in Greece, defining an agreement of the "Four Powers" -- Russia, the United States, China, and India -- as the necessary combination required to end the global economic destruction unfolding across the West. These four great nations, he said, must "agree, as a group of countries, to initiate and force a reorganization of the world financial and credit system -- under those conditions, with long-term agreements, of the same type that Franklin Roosevelt had uttered before his death, in 1944, under key nations, the intention of Roosevelt all these years later, could have been realized, and we could do that, today."

This insight, and this program, is even more urgent today, but it is also more possible, due to the New Silk Road paradigm sweeping the world, and the potential that President Trump will carry out his intention to work with Putin and Xi Jinping to achieve this new paradigm. All patriots, and all citizens of the world, must act to this end.

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Saturday Night Cigars Addendum: Documentary on Laurence Of Arabia- last night we finished the 1963 movie and tonight we watch the documentary on the real man. Great biography! #parris #alexindia #alexindiapalace #laurenceofarabia #britishintelligence #wwi #worldwarone #british #britishempire #1914 #1918 #cigars #saturdaynightcigars (at Aledo, Texas)

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British Controlling Hand in Russiagate Exposed

Steele is the author of the dossier which alleges that, among other unproven charges, Russian President Putin has videos of Trump in a romp with prostitutes in a Moscow hotel, making Trump subject to "compromat" blackmail.  Nunes, the Chair of the House Permanent Subcommittee on Intelligence (HPSCI) released his committee's memo on February 2.  It shows that top officials of the FBI and the Department of Justice (DOJ), including Director James Comey and DOJ officials Sally Yates and Rod Rosenstein, approved the use of the Steele dossier, which they knew was a fraud, to obtain a warrant on October 21, 2016 from the super-secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (set up under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act -- FISA), to spy on Carter Page, who had been an adviser to the Trump campaign. 

The filing with the FISA court was renewed three times.  In using the dossier in their filing, the FBI/DOJ officials did not tell the court that Steele had been paid by the Clinton campaign to produce the anti-Trump report, nor that Steele was also getting paid by the FBI.  Neither did they report that Steele had been terminated by the FBI when it was discovered he had unauthorized contact with the press, as he was trying to sell his report to U.S. media.  It is a felony to misrepresent evidence in a petition to the FISA Court.

As whistleblower Bill Binney described it, the Nunes' memo proves that the FBI knowingly used "paid propaganda" produced by one campaign "to go after another campaign" in their filing.  Binney, a former top official in the National Security Agency, was targeted and persecuted by the FBI, and is therefore very familiar with their modus operandi.  Disgraced former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe told the committee in December 2017 that "no surveillance warrant would have been sought...without the Steele dossier information."  Fired former FBI Director Comey, who also approved the applications to the FISA Court, told a Congressional hearing in June 2017 that the Steele dossier was "salacious and unverified" -- yet, knowing this, he signed off on the use of the Steele dossier in the FISA court filing! 

It is not just this intelligence, released by Nunes, which has produced howls of protest from the anti-Trumpers, from the Democratic leader of the HPSCI Adam Schiff, and media such as The New York Times, Washington Post and CNN.  John McCain, who presented the dossier to Comey in December 2016, accused Nunes and others involved in exposing DOJ/FBI corruption as "doing Putin's work for him."  What they legitimately fear is that the Nunes' memo represents what Binney called "a crack" which opens a view into the "corruption in the 'secret government'."  Nunes said he is working on "Phase 2", which purportedly will look into the role of Obama State Department personnel in collaborating with Steele.  One target of Nunes is Jonathan Winer, the Obama State Department's special envoy to Libya, who is suspected of being an intermediary between Steele and Clinton political operative Cody Shearer, who drafted his own anti-Trump dossier.  Steele used the Shearer dossier to "corroborate" his own findings, producing a two-page handwritten summary which he submitted to the FBI.

Some of this area of investigation has already been covered in a letter and a memo by Senators Grassley and Graham, who are calling for a criminal investigation of Steele's communications with the FBI, according to a February 6 article in The Atlantic magazine.  The article refers to the senators alleging that "Clinton associates" in the State Department "were feeding Mr. Steele's accusations" against the Trump campaign, which challenges the credibility of the claim that Steele was a "neutral source" seeking evidence of "Russian meddling/Trump collusion."

The investigation of Winer exposes another tentacle of British subversion of U.S. policy.  From 2014 to 2016, Steele was providing intelligence reports to Winer on Russia and the coup against the elected Yanukovic government of Ukraine.  Winer, who became a friend of Steele during previous investigations, passed these on to the State Department's Europe bureau, meaning they were received by Victoria Nuland, the neocon Deputy Secretary of State who played a hands-on role in coordinating the coup against  Yanukovic, in conjunction with "pro-democratic" forces, including killer gangs of neo-Nazis.  Nuland said U.S. agencies spent over $5 billion to organize the coup.  Lifting the cover off this operation, involving Steele and the Obama State Department, will not just shed light on the British role in orchestrating an anti-Russian policy, destroying Ukraine in the process, while imposing punitive sanctions against Russia, but also explains why the election of Trump caused so much hysteria in London and in Obama circles -- he had pledged to end the "regime change" policies, such as that run against Ukraine, and instead to cooperate with Russia and Putin.  

British Intelligence, the FBI and the Dodgy Dossier

One sign of involvement of the highest levels of British intelligence was the deployment this week of a Foreign Office attorney to a London High Court hearing, where a deposition of Steele was held.  Steele is being sued by Aleksej Gubarev, who is accused by Steele of "hacking" Democratic Party emails during the campaign, supposedly on behalf of the Kremlin.  Steele did not show for the deposition, but his lawyer argued that he should not be forced to testify, as the deposition might "require the disclosure of sensitive information which could endanger U.K. national security interests and personnel."  The Foreign Office attorney was present to make sure that such "sensitive information" was not disclosed!

Another sign was a revealing article in The Washington Post on February 7, about Steele, titled "Hero or hired gun? How a former British spy became a flashpoint in the Russia investigation."  The Post, despite being one of the leaders in the anti-Trump campaign, revealed that Steele was guided by the former chief of MI6, Sir Richard Dearlove, who headed MI6 from 1999 to 2004.  The article states that Dearlove and a former British Ambassador to Moscow and associate of Steele, Sir Andrew Wood, steered him to the FBI.  

According to the story, Steele and his partner went to Dearlove "for guidance", as they claimed to be "rattled" by what they were discovering about Trump and Russia while compiling the "dodgy dossier".   Dearlove was responsible for an earlier "dodgy dossier" -- that is, the lying report on Iraq's "weapons of mass destruction", which was used by then-Prime Minister Tony Blair to bolster arguments, in collaboration with George W. Bush, Cheney and the neocon unilateralists, for launching the second Iraq war, which toppled Saddam Hussein, devastated Iraq, and led to the creation of ISIS.  Dearlove said "he advised Steele and Burrows [Steele's partner] to work discretely with a top British government official to pass along information to the FBI."  He praised Steele, whose expertise he described as "superb."

One striking omission in the Post's article was its failure to mention the role of Robert Hannigan in launching the targeting of Trump and Putin.  Hannigan was the Director of the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), which the {Guardian} described as the "principle whistleblower" of the Russian-Trump connection, which it allegedly discovered in the summer of 2015.  Hannigan personally passed the evidence compiled by the GCHQ to CIA Director John Brennan in June 2016.  It was then that Brennan launched a "major inter-agency investigation," which included the FBI and the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper.

Steele's first memo was completed on June 20, 2016, and his first meeting with an FBI official was on July 5, just weeks before Trump received the Republican nomination. Thus, before Obama's intelligence apparat of Comey, CIA Director Brennan and Director of National Intelligence Clapper declared on January 6, 2017 that there was unassailable evidence that Russia meddled in the election, and Trump colluded with the Russians, it was GCHQ which initiated the fake narrative of Russiagate.  This was to be used as an "insurance policy", should Trump win, as admitted in a text message to his FBI attorney mistress by FBI operative Peter Strzok, who was part of the inter-agency investigation. 

Threats to Trump as RussiaGate Implodes

The British were reacting to Trump's pledge to work with Putin, rather than to provoke him, as this prospect represented an existential threat to the imperial, geopolitical doctrine of a unilateral world, under London/Wall Street control.  The hundreds of pages of text messages sent between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page provide a glimpse of this hysteria, as the two wrote about plotting against Trump going on in "Andy's office," a reference to former Deputy Director of the FBI, Andrew McCabe.

Strzok described himself as "riled up" over the possibility that Trump might win, referring to him as "a f**king idiot....What the f**k happened to our country?"   Page responded by describing Trump as a "loathsome human being."  Both worked for a while on special counsel Robert Mueller's team, until the Justice Department's Inspector General released the texts, and Strzok was removed.  He also played a lead role in the investigation of Hillary Clinton's violation of national security, by using an unsecured private email server when she was Secretary of State.  She was eventually given a slap on the wrist, with Strzok advising Comey to weaken the language in his finding, so as to avoid the possibility of a felony charge against her.  During this time, Strzok admitted to Page that they have found "no there there" in the Trump investigation, meaning that no evidence exists to back the charges of meddling and collusion!

With the story of Russiagate falling apart, defenders of the FBI and CIA are resorting to blatant threats against the President.  Philip Mudd, a former CIA counterintelligence official, who in August 2017 told CNN that "this government is going to kill this guy", referring to Trump, lashed out against the Nunes' memo on CNN on February 2.  Parroting the line of Congressional Democrats about the memo, he said it is an attack on the FBI's "ability to conduct an investigation with integrity....The FBI people are ticked...You think you can intimidate the director?  You better think again, Mr. President."  He added, "I know how the game is played.  We're going to win."

CNN host Wolf Blitzer responded, "You don't want the FBI angry at you," followed by Gloria Borger, CNN's chief political analyst blurting out, "Trump is playing a dangerous game."  It should be noted that CNN just hired Josh Campbell, a former top aide to Comey, to join their team, while NBC television hired John Brennan to provide "commentary." 

Not to be outdone, The Washington Post ran an op ed by Eugene Robinson on February 5 titled "Trump has picked a fight with the FBI.  He'll be sorry."  Writing about the sordid history of FBI persecution of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., who was a target for harassment and threats from the FBI from the mid-1950s until his assassination in 1968, Robinson warns, "Presidents don't win fights with the FBI.  He'll be sorry."  While the FBI and the CIA were involved in the cover-up of the assassinations of both President John F. Kennedy and King, Lyndon LaRouche has reported on the role of the British as the authors of key assassinations in U.S. history, including the murders of Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln, William McKinley, Kennedy and King.

Which brings us back to the British role in Russiagate, and the prophetic insights of the LaRouches.  In the Executive Intelligence Review published on January 20, 2017, the day of Trump's inauguration, Helga Zepp LaRouche wrote, "What is spectacular about the operation against Trump, however, is that British intelligence and its American counterparts, which have operated for decades as spooks in the shadows, have now been forced to expose themselves openly. The essentially dilettantish operation—conducted by Steele, the man in charge of exposing the corruption in FIFA and the principal MI6 agent in the affair of Litvinenko’s murder (whose death he and the Brits blame on Putin's FSB operatives)—revealed the direct intervention of the British Empire, for which the term 'globalization' is only a synonym, into the internal affairs of the United States."

In April of that year, as it was becoming clear that the anti-Trumpers intended to remove Trump through impeachment, the 25th Amendment, or even murder, Lyndon LaRouche stated that "No British institution has the right to meddle in American affairs. Obama is an example of this evil. Mankind has to learn to fight, to shut down things that are wrong. The British Empire is wrong.... People must have the guts to do what must be done. The time has come to crush this thing. Get this nation and other nations to agree to that."  

The revelations of the last weeks on the British role behind the regime change operation in the U.S. demonstrate that some people are finally showing "the guts to do what must be done."