Was the Panama Papers ‘Leak’ a Russian Intelligence Operation?

As I wrote on Monday, ever since I started reading about the Panama Papers ‘leak’ something kept rubbing me the wrong way. From the absence of any well known, politically powerful Americans on the list, to the anonymous nature of ‘John Doe’ as whistleblower and the clownish reporting from Soros and USAID affiliated organizations, the whole thing stunk from the start.
The first plausible theory I came across attempting to explain the strangeness of it all was proposed by Craig Murray, and it basically went something like this. The leaker is a real whistleblower, but he placed the information in the wrong hands, therefore the organizations and journalists reporting on the story were not giving us the whole truth. Here’s some of that theory from the post, Are Corporate Gatekeepers Protecting Western Elites from the Leaked Panama Papers?
Whoever leaked the Mossack Fonseca papers appears motivated by a genuine desire to expose the system that enables the ultra wealthy to hide their massive stashes, often corruptly obtained and all involved in tax avoidance. These Panamanian lawyers hide the wealth of a significant proportion of the 1%, and the massive leak of their documents ought to be a wonderful thing.

This post was published at Liberty Blitzkrieg on Apr 8, 2016.