It shows an alert, intelligent, scathing man, and it helps link the Kurtz of darkness to the man whose dossier we have read on the way upriver.
The Today programme's James Naughtie, who was a parliamentary lobby correspondent in the 1970s and 80s, remembers Geoffrey Dickens, the colourful Conservative MP whose dossier on an alleged paedophile network is now the focus of a new inquiry.
"Are you responsible, or are you the victim?" SOS Hadopi has worked with five people whose dossiers have reached the third stage, including Mr. Thollot; all five have been cleared before going to court.
In any event, despite the millions of dollars spent on investigative man-hours and record-keeping, none of the writers — more than fifty men and women — whose dossiers I looked into were ever convicted of any crime attributed to them by the F.B.I. or other federal agencies.
In an article in the Mail on Sunday he said that, when asked at whose behest the dossier was "sexed up", his source responded: "Campbell .Alastair Campbell demanded an apology.
"The individual is an expert on WMD who has advised ministers on WMD and whose contribution to the dossier of September 2002 was to contribute towards drafts of historical accounts of UN inspections.
The file on Pearl Buck (1892-1973), whose name appears in dossiers maintained by the F.B.I., the State Department, the Army, and the Navy, is even thicker than that on Lewis.
Ever light-hearted, he named his dog after Andrew Gilligan, the Today journalist whose report on the Iraq dossier sparked the confrontation between the BBC and the government, and the eventual exit of Dyke.
The Cossack with the flowing beard from a village near the Krasnodar region in Russia was among those whose photograph appeared in a dossier prepared by Ukraine's caretaker government purporting to prove that members of the Russian special forces who had served in Georgia and Crimea were now in the Donbass.
Lawyer Alison Millar said abuse victims did not have "faith" in Mrs Woolf after she disclosed she had socialised with Lord Brittan, whose handling of a 1980s "dossier" on child abuse has been questioned.
"More than the questions themselves, the dynamic of answering the questions in an obfuscating way, the lack of precise follow-ups, was very problematic," Paul-Olivier Dehaye, whose data startup PersonalData.IO produced a dossier on Cambridge Analytica last year, told VICE News.
