Quite a yarn about a pro-Assad conspiracy theorist who believed he was corresponding with a Russian agent. In fact, Paul McKeigue was corresponding with the very organization he was trying to surveil and defame, @CIJAOnline, which posed as said agent. bbc.com/news/stories-5…
.@CIJAOnline has collected documentary evidence of the regime's war crimes -- including its chemical weapons attacks -- and is the target of a coordinated disinformation campaign. 
To give a flavor of the kind of stuff McKeigue and his cohort have been peddling, he amplified this nonsense to account for the regime's 2018 Douma chemical weapon attack -- all based on a "dream" an anti-Semitic crank had after eating a pizza (no, really):
The worst of revelations, however, is that McKeigue instructed "Ivan," his assumed Russian agent, to spy on journalists, academics. He connived with the Russian state-run Ruptly, then invited "Ivan" to spy on a Ruptly journalist who undermined the conspiracist narrative re Douma:
This expose is awash with McKeigue trafficking in the usual smears about war crimes investigators and NGO workers being Western intelligence operatives. But he was putting this across to (again) someone he believed to be a Russian intelligence operative:
And note, too, who McKeigue's associates are: Piers Robinson, who was fired from Sheffield University for peddling conspiracy theories about Syria; David Miller, now under police investigation for hate crimes; and Vanessa Beeley, who drives this around Damascus:
.@CIJAOnline's statement about this sting operation and what it uncovered: cijaonline.org/news/2021/3/26…
Ah, yes, and then there's this intriguing tidbit:
https://twitter.com/im_PULSE/status/1375373720676663297
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