Thread by @AgnesClackett

1/ Son of a KGB colonel, Evgeny Lebedev’s No.1 fan is Boris Johnson.

A repeat guest at his Palazzo Terranova in Umbria, a Whitehall source told the Byline Times: “The Prime Minister made it very clear that Evgeny was going to be made a lord.”

bylinetimes.com/2020/08/20/swe…

2/ When Foreign Secretary, Boris dumped his security to go on the razzle at Evgeny Lebedev’s palazzo

Is the PM a victim of sex kompromat?

A former MI6 officer said: “Johnson is compromised. No one believes he went to the palazzo just to sip orange juice”
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7…

3/ Is Evgeny Lebedev a potential security risk? “Yes,” said Special Branch in spring 2020

In June that advice, filtered through the Cabinet Office, changed to “no” Special Branch had changed their tune.

Otto English smells something in the air tonight…
bylinetimes.com/2020/07/31/lor…

4/ “MI6 was worried that Boris Johnson, when he was Foreign Secretary, was a security risk” on account of his frequent trips to Italy to attend Lebedev’s exotic parties where ‘nothing was off the menu’. 

bylinetimes.com/2019/10/22/the…

5/ Johnson’s friendship with Lebedev has long been causing disquiet in security circles -

- intelligence services are concerned about Johnson’s behaviour. “We are really worried,” they said.

Johnson becoming PM has only heightened those concerns.
bylinetimes.com/2019/10/25/spo…

6/ Along with Lebedev inexplicably being given the green light by Special Branch, Dominic Cummings was given free reign of Britain’s secret estate.

Cummings was involved in a Russian airline venture in the 1990s that attracted the attention of the KGB.

bylinetimes.com/2020/07/21/ref…

7/ Vetting used to be overseen by the MOD but now it’s been brought inside the Cabinet office - where Gove & Cummings were free to run riot.

Asked for a comment on Cummings in such a position of power, the former MI6 officer simply said: “I’m scared.” .
bylinetimes.com/2020/08/20/swe…

8/ Lebedev is, according to some of his close associates, still personally afraid of the actions Putin could deploy to control the business activities of his family.

One example of that fear was the suspect death of his dog, Vladimir.

opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocra…

9/ Who paid to make Boris PM?

Fuelled by dark money, we may never know who paid for the lavish PR splurge.

openDemocracy understands the elect Boris campaign was 1 of the largest & most lucrative contracts in Aussie PR guru Lynton Crosby’s portfolio.

opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocra…

10/ For 2 1/2 years, openDemocracy tracked dark money that’s been fuelling Brexit -

- & there’s an indication that the secretive backer(s) of Boris’s lavish PR operation may be the same, or linked to, the controversial £435,000 Brexit donation to the DUP
opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-…

Boris Johnson has been accused of presiding over a cover-up after it emerged that No 10 refused to clear the publication of a potentially incendiary report examining Russian infiltration in British politics.

Kompromat?
politicshome.com/news/article/d…

12/ THE RUSSIA REPORT Puts Johnson on the Spot.

For nine months Johnson’s colleagues, the Tory press, looked for useful idiots in the Kremlin’s plan to disrupt British democracy, & forgot the biggest – the Prime Minister himself.

bylinetimes.com/2020/07/21/the…

13/ Now we know what @BorisJohnson Govt so desperately wanted to hide

Billionaire oligarchs, Russians very close to Putin; UK politics, business & society seduced by wealth, dirty Russian money -

- UK Govt & security services caught asleep at the wheel
bylinetimes.com/2020/07/21/the…

14/ “the overall picture is one of the UK being penetrated by Russian hackers & a “muddy nexus” of criminal gangs & spies, its citizens being killed by Russian nuclear weapons & nerve agents, while the country’s security services were asleep at the wheel”
bylinetimes.com/2019/10/31/the…

The Kremlin’s lethal intent should’ve been obvious.

Senior US intelligence officials said they had been watching the pattern of suspected assassinations across the Atlantic with mounting alarm, concerned that it could spread to American shores.

buzzfeed.com/heidiblake/fro…