But there were a lot of loose threads out there: A former FBI lawyer at a bizarre London think tank, a meeting at a university used as a CIA training ground, a mysterious professor named Mifsud who worked at that university, a blonde woman play-acting as Putin’s niece, a Russian think tank vet named Timofeev, a British reporter with close ties to Downing Street, two diplomats who were probably CIA agents, an Israeli diplomat who introduced me to his girlfriend who was an Australian intelligence officer.
