Russian Intelligence Was Already Looking at Boris Johnson in the 1980s and Gathered a File on Him, but Concluded that "Such a Manic Self-Pearl" Was Not Suitable as a Source of Information.

In the 1980s, Russian intelligence looked closely at Boris Johnson and prepared a dossier on him. But they came to the conclusion that “such an obsessive self-promoter” was not suitable as a source of information.

In the 1980s, employees of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) compiled a dossier on Boris Johnson, the former Prime Minister of Great Britain, who at that time was still studying at Oxford, the Telegraph wrote. Details of Johnson’s file are contained in a secret report on Russian influence operations in Britain prepared by a former British intelligence officer. As follows from the dossier, Foreign Intelligence, even during Johnson’s …