![]() ![]() Russian President Vladimir Putin has denied his government meddled in the election.įour wealthy Russians take more specific exception to the dossier: They say they were libeled. It remains unclear if the Trump campaign, in the end, secretly acquired Russian information, and if so, whether Trump himself was aware and involved.įor his part, Trump has dismissed the memos as "fake news" and turned "no collusion" into the Twitter tagline of his presidency. The Russian government, in return, was said to supply Trump with secrets about his political rivals while collecting compromising information on him, including recording him with prostitutes who supposedly urinated on a bed in a Moscow hotel. It reports that Trump provided intelligence to the Kremlin on wealthy Russians in the U.S. However, the dossier makes other sensational, unverified claims. and another aide as receptive to Russian overtures to supply dirt on Clinton. The dossier's portrait of a cooperative campaign also has been bolstered by developments it did not specifically foretell: Legal cases and authoritative reporting have exposed Trump's son Donald Jr. Steele laid out details of a secret Moscow meeting between the Russians and Trump adviser Carter Page months before FBI suspicions about Page and news reports about just such a meeting forced him to leave the campaign. The dossier first told of a clandestine partnership between the Trump campaign and Russian officials in a memo dated June 2016, the month before the FBI began investigating that very possibility. intelligence agencies and the special counsel's investigation into Russian election interference did eventually find that Kremlin-linked operatives ran an elaborate operation to promote Trump and hurt Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton, as the dossier says in its main narrative. Some of the dossier's broad threads have now been independently corroborated. Steele's 17 memos laid out an extraordinarily detailed narrative of how the Russian government supposedly collaborated with the Trump campaign in an elaborate operation to tilt the 2016 presidential race in his favor. He is later listed as service at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 2003 and as First Secretary at Britain’s Paris embassy in 1998.In the 18 months since the dossier's release, government investigations and reports, criminal cases, and authoritative news articles have begun to resolve at least some of the questions surrounding the memos.Īs a whole, the Steele dossier now appears to be a murky mixture of authentic revelations and repurposed history, likely interspersed with snippets of fiction or disinformation, an Associated Press review finds.Īt the vortex of all the arguments is Steele, often described as a buttoned-down, earnest defender of Western interests, who spied on Russia for the British government and later founded a business intelligence firm built on his network of confidential informants. Steele was posted to the UK’s Moscow embassy in 1990 as Second Secretary, serving under ambassador Sir Rodric Braithwaite. ![]() The firm, based in Grosvenor Gardens, close to London’s upmarket Belgravia area (pictured), says it “draws on extensive experience at boardroom level in government, multilateral diplomacy and international business to develop bespoke solutions for clients.”īurrows has refused to “confirm or deny” that Orbis had produced the 35-page dossier. ![]() It says: “We provide strategic advice, mount intelligence-gathering operations and conduct complex, often cross-border investigations.” Steele is one of two directors of Orbis, according to Companies House, along with Christopher Burrows, 58.įounded in 2009 by former British intelligence professionals, Orbis has a “global network” of experts and “prominent business figures”, according to its website. ![]()
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