{"id":34076,"date":"2020-10-30T14:38:59","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T18:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=34076"},"modified":"2020-10-30T14:43:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T18:43:31","slug":"look-at-how-the-fake-russiagate-was-really-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=34076","title":{"rendered":"Look at how the fake Russiagate was really started!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Key Steele Dossier Source Revealed As Alcoholic Disgruntled Russian PR Exec In Cyprus<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>Just days before the election, but certainly still dismissed from coverage by the very networks that for years peddled the hoax, the final nail has gone into the Steele dossier coffin.<\/p>\n<p>Already widely debunked, including by no less than\u00a0Special Counsel Robert Mueller who the Steele dossier advocates put all their hopes in only for their delusion to eventually be shattered, a key source for many of its claims has been revealed by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/russian-in-cyprus-was-behind-key-parts-of-discredited-dossier-on-trump-11603901989\"><em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a>\u00a0to be<strong>\u00a0a disgruntled Russian PR executive living in Cyprus<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/olga1.png?itok=fp6fAJPv\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/olga1.png?itok=fp6fAJPv\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/olga1.png?itok=o43cEq5D 1x\" type=\"image\/png\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1280px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/olga1.png?itok=o43cEq5D 1x\" type=\"image\/png\" media=\"all and (min-width: 480px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/olga1.png?itok=o43cEq5D 1x, https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/olga1.png?itok=o43cEq5D 2x\" type=\"image\/png\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1024px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/olga1.png?itok=o43cEq5D 1x\" type=\"image\/png\" media=\"all and (min-width: 768px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/olga1.png?itok=fp6fAJPv 1x\" type=\"image\/png\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"caption caption-img\" role=\"group\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/olga1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"421\" height=\"405\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"61a27c4a-3c1a-4033-a6c3-cbc5ef254644\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><figcaption><em>Olga Galkina, image via Facebook<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>40-year old Olga Galkina\u00a0<strong>&#8220;stood as the dossier\u2019s most important contributor,&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0WSJ reported, after she was tapped by her old school friend and Steele\u2019s employee, Igor Danchenko, to dig up dirt of Trump&#8217;s dealings in Russia using the &#8220;vast network of people&#8221;\u00a0from her various jobs in and out of the public sector.<\/p>\n<p>Described as a public-relations executive, she\u00a0&#8220;fed notes&#8221; to Danchenko for the dossier, including many of its most central claims. And of course behind all of this was\u00a0British spy Christopher Steele, himself\u00a0paid\u00a0by Fusion GPS, and behind this\u00a0the DNC itself.<\/p>\n<p>They knew each other since the 8th grade in Perm, as the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/russian-in-cyprus-was-behind-key-parts-of-discredited-dossier-on-trump-11603901989\">WSJ details<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr. Danchenko told the FBI that a school friend, referred to in heavily redacted FBI notes as &#8220;Source 3,&#8221;\u00a0had provided him with information for Mr. Steele\u00a0<strong>&#8220;across a wide range of topics,&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>stood as the dossier\u2019s most important contributor<\/strong>. The former high-ranking U.S. national-security official told The Wall Street Journal that the source in question was Ms. Galkina.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It was Galkina who claimed\u00a0Trump\u2019s former lawyer Michael Cohen secretly contacted Russian intelligence in Prague to establish compensation for DNC hackers in the summer of 2016.\u00a0<strong>Crucially she had fed Steele&#8217;s team the name of her own Cyprus-based employer Webzilla as being behind the hack<\/strong>\u00a0under company owner Aleksej Gubarev.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1321521874208280577&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Fkey-steele-dossier-source-revealed-alcoholic-disgruntled-russian-pr-exec-cyprus&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1321521874208280577\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"ad__wrapper-element\"><\/div>\n<p>At the very time Galkina was feeding Danchenko the information she was locked in an ugly dispute with her employer (the parent company of Webzilla)\u00a0which\u00a0<strong>she was intent on taking down<\/strong>. A mere eight months after starting at Webzilla in Cyprus, the company was forced to contact Cypriot police over her erratic and even dangerous behavior, which included frequently showing up to work late and drunk while making threats.<\/p>\n<p>The WSJ notes that its reporters have reviewed the police statement, which\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/russian-in-cyprus-was-behind-key-parts-of-discredited-dossier-on-trump-11603901989\">revealed further<\/a>: &#8220;The manager told police that an acquaintance of\u00a0<strong>Ms. Galkina had told him he would face deep trouble, including possible death, unless he paid \u20ac10,000 ($11,740) in compensation<\/strong>, according to the statement, which was confirmed by a Cypriot official and a person who attended its recording.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is here that the report emphasizes the crucial timeline:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In November 2016, Ms. Galkina was fired.\u00a0<strong>Weeks later, she implicated Webzilla and Mr. Gubarev in the hacking, according to people familiar with the matter.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thus the &#8220;damning&#8221; information on Trump and associates which triggered a special counsel investigation and what was literally multiple years of 24\/7 media Russiagate hysteria originated with a deeply disgruntled executive that was let go after a lengthy and messy fight that even saw local police get involved at one point.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-1&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1321722814882349057&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Fkey-steele-dossier-source-revealed-alcoholic-disgruntled-russian-pr-exec-cyprus&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1321722814882349057\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>If you have five minutes<\/strong>\u00a0for an illustration on how disinformation\u00a0<em>actually<\/em>\u00a0works, read this\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2017\/03\/how-the-explosive-russian-dossier-was-compiled-christopher-steele\">March, 2017\u00a0<em>Vanity Fair<\/em>\u00a0article<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0on Steele&#8217;s sources and compare to what we now know.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the punchline:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/sources%20vf_0.png?itok=MRFexsmT\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/sources%20vf_0.png?itok=MRFexsmT\" data-link-option=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/sources%20vf_0.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"126\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"afef8dda-630b-4d1f-a94e-ff50776e105d\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By 2018 polls showed that a whopping over 80% of Democrats bought into the key claims that collectively made up\u00a0&#8216;Russiagate&#8217;. The Steele Dossier was of course the major driver that kicked it all off.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/Election%202.png?itok=rNg2nyUr\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/Election%202.png?itok=rNg2nyUr\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/Election%202.png?itok=ZDZ1MHhu 1x\" type=\"image\/png\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1280px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/Election%202.png?itok=ZDZ1MHhu 1x\" type=\"image\/png\" media=\"all and (min-width: 480px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/Election%202.png?itok=ZDZ1MHhu 1x, https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/Election%202.png?itok=ZDZ1MHhu 2x\" type=\"image\/png\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1024px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/Election%202.png?itok=ZDZ1MHhu 1x\" type=\"image\/png\" media=\"all and (min-width: 768px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/Election%202.png?itok=rNg2nyUr 1x\" type=\"image\/png\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/Election%202.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"286\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"3798f692-9626-4b5f-b74c-3e904cc9036f\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In light of the revelation, journalist\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarkAmesExiled\/status\/1321521874208280577\">Mark Ames<\/a>\u00a0put\u00a0it best&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So the Steele Dossier that kicked off 4 years of Russiagate hysteria among the US ruling class\u00a0<strong>was cooked up by two Russian alcoholics from Perm<\/strong>.\u00a0<em>Gogolesque<\/em>\u00a0does not begin to describe the grotesque credulity &amp; stupidity of the American elites.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/key-steele-dossier-source-revealed-alcoholic-disgruntled-russian-pr-exec-cyprus\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/key-steele-dossier-source-revealed-alcoholic-disgruntled-russian-pr-exec-cyprus<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Steele Dossier Source Revealed As Alcoholic Disgruntled Russian PR Exec In Cyprus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}