An American company that allegedly paid an indicted FBI informant accused of lying about Joe Biden and his son’s business dealings has ties to former President Donald Trump, according to a report.
Economic Transformation Technologies (ETT), the company, paid Alexander Smirnov, the once-FBI informant, $600,000 in September 2020, a February court filing states, reported The Guardian.
This hefty payment was made “in exchange for a stake in an Israel-based crypto trading platform” that Mr Smirnov was trying to launch, the Wall Street Journal reported in February.
The document also notes that months prior, in June, Mr Smirnov first began telling “fabrications” to the agency. Mr Smirnov has since been charged for these lies.
If you read Ian Fleming or John le Carre you imagine every agent having years of training and using all sorts of tricks to cover their tracks.
As I wrote that I realized what the problem was. Trump didn’t read le Carre; the closest he got to understanding spy tradecraft was Secret Squirrel.
https://youtu.be/-S_F9U9gNEQ
Smiley’s People? He sounds like a great guy. I’ve never met him before.
Cute.
If you like spy books, try Dan Fesperman. ‘The Warlord’s Son’ is about the run up to the Afghan invasion.