The overall structure of what stands behind the narrative regarding human reality is quite open to question. Marcus Mephistopheles a well known scholar of Goethe from Erfurt was uncovered as a Stasi agent in 1999 was a mover and shaker once but 1988 and 1989 are long ago. None really care he quite ably impersonated 64 well known celebrities including every Beatle.
Recall the Czech band in the 70’s - LA Ska, out of a tiny village close to Slovakia noted only for one hotel and a stage once used for French theater in 1700, used by a lonely East German security officer in Vienna and the three Warsaw pact agencies who had a thing for pretty anti-communist girls they liked to recruit and how he helped the Dutch girl he dated find some extra Sandoz to distribute in East Europe through diplomatic pouches, and taking profit banked it through Lebanon and Monaco before laundering it in Rome, and who bankrolled three chemists over 30 years to perfect the dose needed and who in 1976 supplied Loose Lucy who supplied 23 years of Dead Shows before retirement in a Bangkok condo owned by the CIA. https://fitzinfo.net/red-cocaine/