{"id":3558,"date":"2021-07-11T11:23:20","date_gmt":"2021-07-11T11:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mediateka.online\/learnrussian\/spooked-review-expose-of-murky-world-of-private-spies-is-a-dodgy-dossier-itself.html"},"modified":"2021-07-11T11:23:20","modified_gmt":"2021-07-11T11:23:23","slug":"spooked-review-expose-of-murky-world-of-private-spies-is-a-dodgy-dossier-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mediateka.online\/learnrussian\/spooked-review-expose-of-murky-world-of-private-spies-is-a-dodgy-dossier-itself.html","title":{"rendered":"Spooked review: expos\u00e9 of murky world of private spies is a dodgy dossier itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barry Meier brings distasteful characters and episodes to light but is happy to leave out that which does not suit his aims<\/p>\n<figure id=\"a1f49931-976b-4c17-97f3-0d0db693e0de\" class=\"dcr-13udsys\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c2236738317a5cbe49da23c607c26dca5b8ffaa7\/0_246_4000_2401\/master\/4000.jpg?width=445&amp;quality=45&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;dpr=2&amp;s=92ea866a3864e1a9a4e2ca769da04c39\" alt=\"Christopher Steele, the former UK intelligence officer.\" height=\"1200\" width=\"2000\" class=\"dcr-1989ovb lazyload\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Christopher Steele, the former UK intelligence officer.\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c2236738317a5cbe49da23c607c26dca5b8ffaa7\/0_246_4000_2401\/master\/4000.jpg?width=445&amp;quality=45&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;dpr=2&amp;s=92ea866a3864e1a9a4e2ca769da04c39\" height=\"1200\" width=\"2000\" class=\"dcr-1989ovb\"><\/noscript> Christopher Steele, the former UK intelligence officer. Photograph: Tolga Akmen\/AFP\/Getty ImagesChristopher Steele, the former UK intelligence officer. Photograph: Tolga Akmen\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-1m34hpq\">When Christopher Steele\u2019s dossier about Donald Trump\u2019s connections to Russia was published by BuzzFeed News, the salacious part got more attention than anything else.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"caa98c1c-7856-4ab2-9ee1-57eb4a293b76\" class=\"dcr-1mfia18\">Trump told chief of staff Hitler \u2018did a lot of good things\u2019, book says<\/figure>\n<p id=\"sign-in-gate\">\n<p class=\"dcr-1m34hpq\">But there was something else several reporters thought was much more intriguing: a description of a meeting between Carter Page, a Trump aide, and Igor Sechin, a longtime Putin collaborator and head of the Russian energy giant Rosneft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1m34hpq\">The dossier reported that Sechin \u201cwas so keen to lift personal and corporate western sanctions imposed on the company, that he offered PAGE\/TRUMP\u2019s associates the brokerage of up to a 19% (privatised) stake in Rosneft in return. PAGE had expressed interest and confirmed that were TRUMP elected US president, then sanctions on Russia would be lifted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1m34hpq\">As the Mueller report pointed out, the dossier was wrong about the identity of the Rosneft official Page met: it was actually one of Sechin\u2019s deputies, Andrey Baranov. The dossier was also off by half a percentage point about the size of the privatization.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1m34hpq\">But just five months after Page\u2019s Moscow meeting, Rosneft did in fact announce the privatization of 19.5% of the giant company, the largest privatization in Russian history. And Carter Page flew to Moscow the day after the deal was announced, for reasons that remain shrouded in mystery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1m34hpq\">Reuters assigned no fewer than 11 reporters to try to find out who actually purchased the shares in the company and where the financing came from. But the resulting story said the \u201cfull identity of the new owners of the Rosneft stake\u201d remained \u201ca mystery\u201d, as did \u201cthe complete source of the funds with which they bought it\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1m34hpq\">In testimony before the House intelligence committee, Page denied discussing \u201cspecifics\u201d about sanctions with the Rosneft official. But when he was asked if they discussed the privatization of the energy giant, he said Baranov \u201cmay briefly have mentioned it\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1m34hpq\">As Martin Longman wrote for Washington Monthly: \u201cWhen we try to assess whether the Steele dossier is \u2018fake news\u2019, as [Trump] insists that it is, we should keep this Rosneft deal in mind. Someone who was just making things up and didn\u2019t have real sources could never have invented something so close to the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1m34hpq\">Spooked, by the former New York Times reporter Barry Meier, identifies the Trump dossier as one of its three principal subjects. One might think Steele\u2019s correct prediction of an imminent privatization of Rosneft, and Page\u2019s confirmation that he \u201cmay\u201d have been told about it five months before it happened, would at least deserve a paragraph. But only a glancing reference to this story appears.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1m34hpq\">Asked about this omission, Meier cited an FBI report that quoted a \u201csub-source\u201d of Steele\u2019s \u201cprimary sub-source\u201d, who said there was no evidence Page had been involved in any kind of bribery scheme. Meier concluded there was no evidence that Page had done anything wrong, so he omitted the whole subject.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1m34hpq\">Another reason for the omission is that including it might have contributed to a more nuanced view of the Steele dossier. Nuance is not one of Meier\u2019s specialties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1m34hpq\">Steele was a collaborator of Glenn Simpson, a former Wall Street Journal reporter who became a private spy. The purpose of Meier\u2019s book is to prove that all private spies are evil, a clear and present danger to ethical journalists like himself. He says he wrote the book because he \u201cwanted to understand how a predatory industry was operating unchecked\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1m34hpq\">While Meier never hesitates to attack the speculations of other reporters, the author treats his own guesses as dispositive. He dismisses the idea of an incriminating tape of Trump with Moscow prostitutes because \u201cblackmail works best when only a few people know about it\u201d. If such a tape actually existed, \u201cit was unlikely it would have been the talk of Moscow\u201d. Therefore, it should have been \u201cclear from the start\u201d to Steele that there was a \u201cbasic problem with the story\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1m34hpq\">However, actual Russian experts have reached the opposite conclusion. John le Carr\u00e9, for one, told told the New York Times: \u201cAs far as Trump, I would suspect they have [kompromat] because they\u2019ve denied it. If they have it and they\u2019ve set Trump up, they\u2019d say, \u2018Oh no, we haven\u2019t got anything.\u2019 But to Trump they\u2019re saying, \u2018Aren\u2019t we being kind to you?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1m34hpq\">Meier told the Guardian the fact the tape has never become public is another reason to believe it doesn\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1m34hpq\">Spooked is both a clip job, frequently relying on other people\u2019s stories, and a hatchet job, making its subjects as unattractive as possible. Meier disparages anyone who has written a story which hasn\u2019t been confirmed by other news outlets, including a reporter for this newspaper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1m34hpq\">No detail is too small to contribute to the author\u2019s character assassinations. Simpson, he writes, \u201chad an unhealthy pallor, the apparent result of too much drinking, too little exercise or both \u2026 he appeared stiff and slightly robotic\u201d. Simpson is said to have thrown frequent parties in Washington \u201cfueled by lots of alcohol and plenty of pot\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1m34hpq\">The book does describe some genuinely loathsome activities, including the alliance between the law firm of the noted litigator David Boies and Black Cube, a private investigation company that employed former Israeli spies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1m34hpq\">Boies claimed he was unaware of his firm\u2019s deal with Black Cube, which promised a $300,000 bonus if it stopped the New York Times publishing an expos\u00e9 of Harvey Weinstein. After Ronan Farrow published details of the deal in the New Yorker, it turned out Boies was representing the Times in an unrelated libel case. The newspaper immediately cut ties.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"9551b60d-de44-425a-b3dd-804e65faf761\" class=\"dcr-1mfia18\">Harvey Weinstein hired Black Cube to block New York Times article, jury hears<\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-1m34hpq\">Meier includes dozens of other anecdotes that make private spies look very bad. But nearly all have been reported elsewhere, usually with more coherent narratives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1m34hpq\">Not surprisingly, two of the book\u2019s principal victims, Simpson and Peter Fritsch, hit back as soon as Spooked was published, alleging Meier had repeatedly asked them for help in his reporting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1m34hpq\">Meier acknowledges this at the end of his book, writing: \u201cWhile I was at the New York Times, I spoke with Glenn Simpson on several occasions though I don\u2019t recall writing anything based on our discussions.\u201d He insisted to the Guardian that the one tip he got from Simpson about the location of court documents pointed him in the wrong direction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1m34hpq\">Simpson and Fritsch also accuse Meier of an obvious conflict of interest, because an excerpt from Spooked was published in the business section of the Times, which is edited by Meier\u2019s wife, Ellen Pollock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1m34hpq\">Meier told the Guardian there was no conflict, because his wife hadn\u2019t commissioned the excerpt. That was done by one of her colleagues.<\/p>\n<p><!--noindex--><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2021\/jul\/11\/spooked-review-private-spies-steele-dossier-russia-trump-black-cube\">Source<\/a><!--\/noindex--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barry Meier brings distasteful characters and episodes to light but is happy to leave out that which does not suit his aims Christopher Steele, the former UK intelligence officer. Photograph: Tolga Akmen\/AFP\/Getty ImagesChristopher Steele, the former UK intelligence officer. 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