Привет от Стила

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В новом номере New Yorker - длинная статья о Кристофере Стиле: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/12/christopher-steele-the-man-behind-the-trump-dossier

Автор - Джейн Майер, одна из лучших журналистов-расследователей, которая писала в 2016 про Тони Шварца, соавтора The Art of the Deal, и его роли в создании имиджа Трампа как удачного бизнесмена, а в 2017 - про Роберта Мерсера и его роль в создании Трампа как удачного политика.

Как и другие рассказы про Кристофера Стила, статья подтверждает его безупречную репутацию разведчика и эксперта по России. Когда он заведовал русским отделом MI-6, результаты его работы активно использовались ЦРУ и появлялись в том числе в докладах американскому президенту.

The British Secret Intelligence Service is highly regarded by the United States, particularly for its ability to harvest information from face-to-face sources, rather than from signals intelligence, such as electronic surveillance, as the U.S. often does. British and American intelligence services work closely together, and, while Steele was at M.I.6, British intelligence was often included in the U.S. President’s daily-briefing reports. In 2008, Michael Hayden, the C.I.A. director, visited the U.K., and Steele briefed him on Russian developments. The following year, President Obama visited the U.K., and was briefed on a report that Steele had written about Russia. Steve Hall, a former chief of the C.I.A.’s Central Eurasia Division, which includes Russia, the former Soviet states, and the Balkans, told me, “M.I.6 is second only perhaps to the U.S. in its ability to collect intelligence from Russia.” He added, “We’ve always coördinated closely with them because they did such a great job. We’re playing in the Yankee Stadium of espionage here. This isn’t Guatemala.”

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В статье упоминается также о том, что британцы прослушивали подозрительные контакты российских спецслужб с представителями Трампа и передали эту информацию в ЦРУ.

Robert Hannigan, then the head of the U.K.’s intelligence service the G.C.H.Q., had recently flown to Washington and briefed the C.I.A.’s director, John Brennan, on a stream of illicit communications between Trump’s team and Moscow that had been intercepted. (The content of these intercepts has not become public.)

По словам Джона Бреннана, бывшего директора ЦРУ, он передавал всю такую информацию ФБР.

There were things that happened, meetings that took place between individuals on the Russian side and on the U.S. side that raised my concerns about collaboration related to the election. I didn’t know what was motivating some people, but I certainly was concerned. And anything that we had that involved U.S. persons, anything that the CIA collected or had information about involving U.S. persons, we immediately shared it with the FBI, because it’s their responsibility to pull those investigative threads.
So I was aware, contemporaneously, of some things that were going on, which again caused me to furrow my brow and say, “What's this all about?” But I didn’t follow it up. I was confident that the FBI would be able to do its job.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/interview/john-brennan/

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