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Originally Posted by Kizzy

I wonder why they did that?..He was just a British MP and diplomat after all.

The claim by the former agent states that he got nothing of any value from the meeting, so where is the issue?
Corbyn wasn't ( even if true) the first to be duped by an agent and he won't be the last, the fact is that there was no useful info gleaned from him so what is the point of the story here?

The point of the story was to 'break' at the same time as those celebrating the 15th anniversary of Corbyns 'stop the war' speech, #fake news was touched upon earlier... this is a prime example.
In fact this news item could quite possibly have been generated by the same bots, or those with similar aims, that is entirely plausible.

Aside from the claim that many are inclined not to believe it the flip side of that is many are very much inclined to believe it, which of course was the aim of the item regardless of whether or not it has any basis in fact or not.

Were people really 'celebrating' the 15th anniversary of a speech? How odd

He was identified because they thought he'd be sympathetic to the Soviet cause. At best Corbyn was naive to meet with the Czech three times, at worst he was deliberately assisting a member of the Czech Intelligence services. Neither reflects very well on his judgement