Stephen Gardner and Christian Courbois, friends or CIA gangstalkers, you decide
Stephen Gardner and Christian Courbois I met two American expatriates in Saint Petersburg, Russia in 1998. Their names were and remain Stephen Gardner and Christian Courbois. Stephen left Russia after a successful career as a senior executive working in the Russian Telecomms sector in the mid 2000s, hiring me in April of 1998 to replace him as commercial director of Saint Petersburg’s largest city wide all digital phone network, a company called PeterStar Telecommunications. PeterStar was sold a few times and is now a department of Russian national cellular network, Megafon. Stephen was my boss for over two years on behalf of the 71% American shareholder in PeterStar who paid both our salaries. I had also believed Stephen to be a dear friend. As senior NCIS agent Douglas Boyce told me in 2014, I had misperceived much in my life, Stephen’s friendship among those things misperceived. Stephen today serves as marketing director for the US branch of an Israeli medical marijuana comp...