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Orbis co-founder Christopher Steele, a retired British MI6 officer with expertise in Russian matters, [15] was hired as a subcontractor to do the job. [50] Prior to and during some of his work on the dossier, Steele had been a paid confidential human source (CHS) for the FBI [51] for information unrelated to the Russia investigation. [52]
Christopher David Steele was born in the Yemeni city of Aden (then part of the British-controlled Federation of South Arabia), on 24 June 1964. [10] [11] His parents, Perris and Janet, met while working at the Met Office, the United Kingdom's national weather service.
The dossier, made up of more than a dozen memos, was produced by Orbis in 2016 ahead of the US election which saw Mr Trump become president before it was leaked to and published by BuzzFeed in 2017.
The FBI released 71 pages of correspondence with Christopher Steele, the former British spy who wrote a dossier alleging collusion between Trump and Russia.
A London judge has dismissed former President Donald Trump’s appeal in his case against retired British spy Christopher Steele’s company over a controversial 2016 dossier.
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Multiple lawsuits have been filed in connection with the Steele dossier, primarily involving defamation claims by plaintiffs such as Aleksej Gubarev, the three owners of Alfa-Bank (Mikhail Fridman, Petr Aven, and German Khan), Michael Cohen, Devin Nunes, Giorgi Rtskhiladze, and Carter Page against Christopher Steele, BuzzFeed, Oath, Orbis Business Intelligence, the Democratic National ...
Many of the reports most scandalous claims are either unconfirmed or have been proven false, but that doesn't mean "Russiagate" was a hoax.