Reported MI6 vetting concerns surrounding Peter Mandelson have reignited scrutiny over his foreign connections, including reported ties to Russian and Israeli-linked figures.
Source: Al Mayadeen English 27 Jul 2026
There appears to be some uncertainty in the British intelligence services about what is wrong with Peter Mandelson.
On the one hand, a former MI6 officer with undisclosed, but possibly continuing connections to the agency, claims that Peter Mandelson may actually have been a long-term Russian agent or asset.
On the other hand, the secret briefing materials produced by MI6 as part of the process of vetting Mandelson for the job of British Ambassador to the US, the most significant red flags were his connections to Israel or Zionist assets.
Is MI6 uncertain, or internally split? Or is there a distinction between the materials they produce secretly to advise government, and materials which are “leaked” by former officers to the Daily Telegraph for propaganda purposes? You can see where I am going with this. So, let’s jump right in.
The recent apparent leak to the Daily Telegraph is said to have come from Christopher Steele, who is reportedly a former MI6 officer from deep inside the River House, as MI6’s Thames-side HQ is so quaintly called in humanising TV dramas. Steele worked on the Russia Desk at a time when Russia was declining in the degree of attention that was devoted to it by the British intelligence services.
Steele joined MI6 in 1987 and was immediately posted to the Russia Desk. He retired in 2009, having been three years as head of the Desk. For all of his career in MI6, the proportion of attention given by MI6 (and British intelligence more broadly) to Foreign State Threats of which Russia was the pre-eminent example had reportedly markedly declined, according to the Intelligence and Security Committee. No wonder he thinks we are not paying enough attention. It was only after the “reunification” of Crimea with the Russian Federation in 2014 that the British intelligence services started to focus much more attention on Russia, foremost among all State Threats.
After MI6, Steele went off to Orbis Business Intelligence. His most famous role there was as the author of the dossier on the alleged relations between Trump and Russia. These were comprehensively debunked in the so called RussiaGate affair, most notably in a four part investigation by Jeff Gerth and in the relentless deconstruction of the Mueller report and the technical flaws of the initial crowdsourced claims by Aaron Maté. It is frankly amazing that even the Telegraph would have anything to do with Steele after that debacle. But here we are. According to Steele, Mandelson was considered a “privileged contact” of Russian intelligence.
Of course, it’s not insignificant that the “journalist” who wrote the story, Camilla Turner, has parents who literally run UK Lawyers for “Israel”, as the Canary has previously pointed out. Turner has been at the Telegraph for years, but it’s also important to point out that it has recently been taken over by hardline Zionists who are on record as saying staff who are not pro-”Israel” should look for other jobs.
Mandelson’s official vetting reportedly threw up five separate links of concern. These were to China’s minister of finance, Lan Fo’an, the sanctions-hit Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska and a former Israeli military intelligence general, Tamir Hayma. Another concern identified was a £1m loan Mandelson received to invest in an Israeli startup. United Kingdom Security Vetting also noted Mandelson had a “very close” relationship with another individual, who is British, that could be compromising.
But Mandelson was not the only British official to have relations with the Chinese Finance minister. Both Rachel Reeves (the Chancellor) and Keir Starmer as PM did so too.
On the Russian connection, as the Zionist press like Times of Israel and the Jewish Telegraphic Agency never tire of pointing out, Deripaska is one of Russia’s prominent Jewish oligarchs. And he is no stranger to elite Zionist networks. After all, when Mandelson met Deripaska in famously controversial circumstances in 2008, it was aboard the oligarch’s yacht as a guest of Nat Rothschild, who also reportedly played a key role in financing Deripaska’s business activities. It was aboard Rothschild’s own yacht that Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump later “discovered” the Albanian island paradise that has become so controversial in recent weeks. Nat Rothschild also famously allowed Mandelson to “rent” a “modest” farmhouse on his Wiltshire estate in England, which was one of the two addresses raided by the police when Mandelson was arrested.
But that is not all. Mandelson is perhaps best known for his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, the same financier/Zionist asset who revealed in a once secret email to Peter Thiel of Palantir that “I represent the Rothschilds”. The circles of influence and corruption are closed by the final connection. In 2018, Deripaska was allegedly involved in trafficking young women for prostitution. He was accused of raping at least one 15-year-old. Though his alleged associates were prosecuted, charges were in the end – in 2025 - not preferred against Deripaska. So the “Russian” connection to Mandelson in the vetting report, in the end, is actually a connection to Zionist influence networks, with a striking Epsteinian flavour.
Of the two specific “Israeli” connections raised by MI6, one was with the former head of the Zionist regime military intelligence agency Aman. Tamir Hayma was chief of Aman between 2018 and 2021 following a decades-long career in the occupation forces. He then transitioned to the Institute for National Security Studies, a regime-connected think tank, and reportedly spoke bi-monthly to Mandelson.
The other connection was that Mandelson, though he had declared a £1million holding in an Israeli gaming tech start-up, called Moon Active, which was behind Coin Master, had not disclosed that he had been loaned the money to buy the stake. The British resident behind the loan has not so far been identified. It would be surprising if they were not connected to the same Zionist networks in which Mandelson is embedded.
The final red flag reported by the vetting process was to another British individual. There has been very little reporting on who that individual might be. Speculating who it is is difficult because there are so many instances of Mandelsonian corruption that it is hard to tell which would have triggered warning bells in MI6. It could, of course, be Nat Rothschild, who has been central to so much of this, but equally it could be the former “Prince” now known as Andrew Mountbatten. A 2019 internal JPMorgan report flagged that Jeffrey Epstein maintained an intertwined, “particularly close relationship” with both Andrew and Lord Mandelson, creating overlapping reputational risks. Then there is Ghislaine Maxwell. In 2014, Mandelson signed on as a “founding citizen” for Terramar, an ocean conservation charity founded by the British socialite and funded by Epstein, which was later scrutinized during sex-trafficking investigations.
As can be seen from this list and from all that we know about Mandelson’s career, almost all of his multifarious connections are deeply inserted in the Epstein web or connected to Zionist influence networks. It was after Christopher Steele retired from MI6 that the agency massively increased its focus on Russia as a result of the “reunification” of Crimea with the Russian Federation. The HMG Russia Unit was created inside the Foreign Office for this purpose, and it co-operated very closely with the Russia Desk in MI6, which Steele had headed. The unit was given civilian cover and announced publicly, but as was later disclosed by the Intelligence and Security Select Committee, it was staffed by spooks from all seven then-existing British intelligence agencies. It was from there that the whole Skripal “poisoning” operation was run, as well as several other covert ops including the “Integrity Initiative” exposed in mass leaks in 2018 and indeed many covert ops in Ukraine after 2022. Given the reported connection between Steele and Skripal’s handler Pablo Miller, both of whom worked at Orbis Business Intelligence. It is reasonable to assume that Steele may have played a role in the Skripal op, at a time when he had been out of the service for nine years. So, it is not entirely clear that this latest intervention from Steele is entirely separate from the machinations emanating from spooks who currently inhabit the River House.
It is perfectly plain that the major link that Mandelson has is with Zionist intelligence-linked networks. If anyone in MI6 (or formerly in MI6) tells you differently, you will know they are ignoring the actual data held in their files and trying to treat you as a propaganda patsy. Don’t fall for it. Mandelson is a Zionist asset.
All very interesting David, but all these paid actors are only- at best- halfway up the illuminati pyramid.
When can good researchers- like you- get to the top of the pyramid to look at the Roman See/papal bloodlines; Orsini, Farnese, Colonna, Aldobrandini, Pallevicini etc...? The Jesuits- apparently in charge of the counterfeit money system known as the central banks/IMF/BIS and the three letter intelligence agencies (Jesuit controlled terrorists/murderers for the counterfeit money system)
Until the top becomes widespread knowledge, they will continue to fuck us over with their bankrupted currencies, captured Western political theatre and puppeticians like Starmer/Burnham and UN Agenda 2030 fronts/climate scams/digital ID's/counterfeit CBDC's etc...
Gruel, Britannia: Has History Ever Produced a Bigger Lapdog Than the British State?
From ruling the waves to begging for slop: How British diplomacy traded an empire for a leash and a bowl of cold porridge.
[Content Warning: This article contains explicit language, graphic political metaphors, and harsh polemical satire.]
Has human history ever produced a creature quite so spectacularly obsequious, quite so determinedly tail-wagging, as the modern British state?
History is littered with vassal states, tributary kingdoms, and nervous buffer zones, but none have ever worn their leash with such desperate, polished pride. Rome had its client kings and the Soviets had their Warsaw Pact puppets, but those poor souls at least had the decency to look sullen while taking orders. The modern British establishment, by contrast, leaps onto its hind legs, polishes its own studded collar, and publishes a White Paper explaining why being patted on the head is actually a masterstroke of sovereign diplomacy.
Gruel, Britannia! Britannia waives the rules—
Begging bowl in hand like Oliver at school!
Forget ruling the waves; modern British foreign policy is essentially Oliver Twist in a bespoke Savile Row suit, timidly stepping up to Uncle Sam’s counter with an empty tin bowl, quavering, 'Please, sir, I want some more.' Except in our tragic geopolitical remake, when Washington slaps a dollop of unseasoned porridge into our bowl, Whitehall does not revolt. Instead, it immediately curtsies, praises the exquisite nutritional profile of American oats, and drafts a glowing thank-you note for the privilege of licking the spoon.
I have long made a sport of mocking the Americans and their tragic inability to speak English properly—mangling the language, flattening the vowels, and treating prose like disposable packaging. But in truth, why would they ever bother acquiring such a refined art? Why master the subtle craft of eloquence or romantic words when you can get an entire empire to assume the doggy position without so much as buying them dinner first? Eloquence is for suitors; power demands no preliminary charm—and clearly, no lubrication required either.
We endlessly parade the phrase 'The Special Relationship'—a sordid euphemism that carries all the structural equality, warmth, and consent of the 'special relationships' Jeffrey Epstein maintained with little girls. It is a toxic, predatory arrangement of pure coercion and submission, yet we insist on framing it as a grand romance of equals.
When Washington sneezes, London does not merely catch a cold—it preemptively checks itself into intensive care and sends a thank-you basket for the phlegm. As Edmund Burke dryly observed, 'Servility to the great has its own compensation.' For modern Britain, that compensation appears to be a thin bowl of lukewarm slop, a firm leash, and a polite instruction to mind our manners while we swallow it.
G.K. Chesterton famously wrote, 'A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.' Good heavens, how gracefully the British state floats down the river of foreign dictation, utterly convinced that drifting along on someone else’s current constitutes world-class navigation. We are not a sovereign nation executing strategy; we are, quite simply, the USA's bitch.