Excellent observations. I’d only add that, actually, the Russian secret service angle is easily accommodated to the whistleblower line: I read in one article – the Telegraph’s? – that University of East Anglia aggressively sought Russian students, perhaps as some sort of post-Cold War exchange. I believe the article referred to some 30+ Russian national students at the University. And everyone knows the story of the Cambridge 5, to say nothing of Oleg Kalugin’s experience at Columbia University…