Spy games

Less there than meets the eye, and so much more.

Apparently, Christopher Steele — the former SIS (MI6) officer and author (in part) of the salacious dossier on Donald Trump — is in hiding somewhere. The only people who know where that is are Britain’s SIS (MI6) and Security Service (MI5), the FBI and CIA, the FSB (former KGB) and the managers of his secret Swiss bank account and the Swiss federal finance police. It’s a good guess that his trusted neighbor who is taking care of his cat is actually out of the loop. The cat may know, but isn’t meowing the info.

In the meanwhile, Chris should be renting his 1.5 million pound home to someone who will be sending monthly checks to that Swiss bank. Of course the bank doesn’t talk — except to the Swiss investigators. At any rate, Chris and his three children are most likely hunkered down somewhere trying to avoid the press — in its many forms — to say nothing of the various political operatives who might have their own obscure, and perhaps nefarious, agendas.

Neutral observers are trying to decipher the meaning of Chris Steele’s admission in a court filing that the Trump dossier was unverified. (Washington Times, 4/25/17).  This statement was in defense of a defamation suit in a London court brought by one Aleksej Gubarev, the CEO of XBT Holdings. How did he get into the act you may ask? The quick answer is that Mr. Gubarev was identified as a “rogue hacker” in Steele’s 35-page dossier. Obviously, Aleksej Gubarev believed he was “defamed,” for he insisted he was neither a “rogue” nor a “hacker”.