A conga line of Cambridge crackpots pushed the Russiagate hoax.
How many people associated with your old school are central figures in an effort to subvert an American presidential election? Zero, probably, unless your old school is the University of Cambridge in the UK.
At least six members of the Cambridge community are intricately woven into the Trump-Russia collusion yarn; four of them did a fair share of the spinning themselves.
The Cambridge Six
CHRISTOPHER STEELE
This crumpet-eating schmuck took $168,000 (American) from Hillary Clinton and untold thousands more from Obama’s FBI to smear Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in 2016. In conversations with DOJ collaborator Bruce Ohr, he professed to having a deranged anxiety about Trump becoming president of the United States. Instead of seeking emotional therapy and minding his own business, he endeavored to avenge King George’s honour for the loss of the colonies by trying to blow up the country.
Steele graduated from Cambridge in 1986 and spent the next 22 years at MI6 preparing for his next career as director of Orbis Business Intelligence, a smear operation in the vein of his pal Glenn Simpson’s Fusion GPS.
RICHARD DEARLOVE
Dearlove supervised Steele for several years as the head of British spy agency MI6. In the early fall of 2016, he facilitated the transmittal of the execrable Steele Dossier to the FBI through a top UK government official. In his country, they call back-stabbing allies like him “Sir.” We call him a putz.
Dearlove’s connections with Cambridge are many. A 1966 graduate, he has since held many titles at the University, including Master of Pembroke College and President of the College Boat Club, whatever that means.
Along with CIA spy Stefan Halper, he co-convened the weekly meetings of the Cambridge Intelligence Seminar, attended by like-minded, haughty conspiracy theorists. They smoke pipes, drink tea and read Ian Fleming novels, from what can be gathered. He and Halper quit at the height of the Red Scare, citing – you guessed it – Russian interference in the Seminar.
STEFAN HALPER
Dual US/UK citizen Halper is a Senior Fellow at Cambridge and head of its political studies department. A longtime CIA asset, in apparent service to Obama’s government in 2016 he tried to infiltrate the Trump campaign by making overtures to Trump associates Sam Clovis, George Papadopoulos and Carter Page. He set up Page at a Cambridge seminar and unsolicitedly badgered Papadopoulos in an attempt to get him talking about non-existent Russian spies. He is rumored to be the source of an accusation that American hero General Michael Flynn conspired with an ethnic Russian Cambridge research assistant at a conference that Flynn attended at his invitation. Nicknamed “the Walrus” for his tremendous girth, he’d be a contender at the annual 4th of July Coney Island Hot Dog Eating Contest if we ever let him take part in a patriotic American tradition again.
Curiously, Halper’s invitation-only July 2016 Cambridge event was attended by Rinat Akhmetshin, a “former” Russian intelligence officer with acknowledged ties to the Clinton campaign. Akhmetshin had attended the Trump Tower meeting with Donald Trump, Jr. a month earlier as part of the Russia/Hillary/Fusion GPS contingent. What a coincidence!
ANDREW WOOD
Another stiff we’re supposed to call “Sir,” Wood – descended from a long line of dense vegetation – admits that, at Christopher Steele’s direction, in November of 2016 he advised U.S. Senator John McCain of the details of the Clinton campaign’s Steele Dossier. He arranged for McCain associate David Kramer to receive a copy of the dossier, which Kramer then distributed to 12 entities, including Obama’s State Department and numerous media outlets. He had been in contact with Steele regarding the smear document since August of 2016.
A Cambridge graduate, Wood was a longtime diplomat with extensive experience in Russia.
RICHARD CLAYTON
An underreported episode in the Democrat Party’s Trump-Russia fiasco, the Alfa Bank affair involved a team of conspiracy-minded anti-Trump zealots who in the summer of 2016 claimed to have uncovered a suspicious link between a Trump Tower computer server and a Russian bank. These self-described altruistic cyber warriors managed to get the FBI to investigate the idiotic theory, which it did, reporting to the New York Times on October 31 that the link involved spam emails from a marketing firm having nothing to do with the Trump campaign.
Although all of the acknowledged cyber experts worked at American universities and business firms, they mysteriously chose to forward a “white paper” to cybersecurity researcher Richard Clayton at … the University of Cambridge. Clayton told Slate magazine that the anti-Trump cyber theorists were likely onto something. Even though they weren’t.
SVETLANA LOKHOVA
A dual Russia/UK citizen, Lokhova was a Cambridge post-graduate student in Stefan Halper’s department in 2014 when American hero General Michael Flynn, then Obama’s Defense Intelligence Agency Director, attended one of the Halper-Dearlove Cambridge Intelligence Seminars. She had little interaction with Flynn, and met him briefly in the public setting. She describes Halper as “a lurking presence with a horrible aura” who “hated all Russians.” She states that Halper circulated rumors that she was a Russian spy, though in January 2016 Halper invited her to his wife’s birthday party. There is no indication whatsoever that she is a Russian spy.
For whatever storied history Cambridge may lay claim to, its current crop is abundantly and embarrassingly stocked with conspiratorial crackpots who caught red fever in 2016 and deigned themselves qualified to do something about it. The first word in the ancient Cambridge English Dictionary oughte be Anti-American.