Christopher Steele

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Christopher David Steele (born June 24, 1964 in Aden ) is a former British secret service employee . Steele was to the world as an author in January 2017 dossier on the elected US president Donald Trump known.

Life

Steele was born in Aden, South Arabian Federation , to a father who served in the United Kingdom . Steele grew up in Surrey near London and attended Girton College at the elite University of Cambridge . During his time at Cambridge he wrote for the student newspaper "Varsity". In 1986 he was president of the Cambridge Union Society, the student debating club , and Boris Johnson was his counterpart in the Oxford Union . In the same year he graduated in social and political sciences .

After graduating from college, Steele joined the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) in 1990 and worked there for about 20 years. In 1998 he was named First Secretary at the Embassy in Paris. In 1999 he was stationed for MI6 in Moscow , in this context he and 114 other people were named in a DSMA notice ( Defense and Security Media Advisory Notice ).

After leaving MI6, he and Christopher Burrows, another former secret service agent, founded the business intelligence company "Orbis Business Intelligence Ltd." in March 2009, with headquarters at 9-11 Grosvenor Gardens, not far from Buckingham Palace . In mid-January 2017, the British media were again asked in a DSMA notice not to use the name Steeles.

Steele is married and has four children. After the publication of the Donald Trump dossier, Steele went into hiding.

Steele has a very good reputation with his former US and British colleagues and is considered credible by US authorities .

Investigations

Awarding of the soccer world championships 2018 and 2022

In 2009 the English football association " The Football Association " applied to host the 2018 and 2022 football world championships as part of the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 football world championships . As part of the preparation for the selection, the responsible committee hired "Orbis", among others, to collect material about the other competitors. After the decisions were announced, Steele also met with investigators from the FBI's Eurasian Organized Crime Unit who were investigating corruption in FIFA . According to several media outlets, Steeles is said to have helped obtain arrest warrants against FIFA officials who were extradited to the US judicial authorities after arrest.

Trump dossier

Steele pretended to have started investigating contacts between Trump's campaign team and Russian authorities in June 2016 on behalf of Washington, DC- based Fusion GPS . Fusion GPS was paid for by people from the Democratic Party. The company claimed to have been collecting material against Trump since the beginning of 2016 - for a Republican in the party's internal primary campaign . Steele pretended to have previously investigated Russian influence on European elections for other clients. In June 2016, Steele wrote a report referring to President Putin's years of efforts to woo Trump; This came after the Democratic National Convention in July via middlemen to the FBI and secret services after hacked emails from the Democratic Party Organization ( DNC ) were published. The FBI opened an investigation into a possible collusion between Trump's team and Russian authorities in late July 2017. According to Steele's dossier, the Russian government supported Trump's election campaign. Russian authorities are also said to have compromising evidence of Trump's behavior in order to blackmail him. According to the Trump dossier, Igor Sechin , head of the Russian oil company Rosneft , is said to have offered Trump a 19 percent stake in the oil company in return for the lifting of the sanctions. Sechin made the offer to election campaign manager Carter Page . The sanctions imposed by the previous government of Barack Obama in 2014 in the wake of the Crimean crisis were in force against Sechin and the oil company .

A two-page summary of the 35-page dossier was attached to a document informing incumbent US President Obama and President-elect Trump of the investigation into the Russia affair in early January 2017. BuzzFeed released the full document on January 10th. This caused a sensation worldwide.

On January 12, 2017, Donald Trump described Steele as a "failed agent" ("failed spy"). On January 16, 2017, he called for Britain to investigate Steele. In a press conference, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov described Steele as a "runaway crook".

Andrew Wood , British Ambassador to Moscow from 1995 to 2000, was "so concerned" by the dossier that he raised it to Senator John McCain at the Halifax International Security Forum in Canada on November 18, 2016. Wood is said to have not known the exact content, but vouched for Steele's professionalism and integrity in the conversation. Wood told The Times newspaper that the dossier "confirmed information he had heard elsewhere and should be investigated because if it were correct, the future US president could be blackmailed." Wood said of his former co-worker Steele in an interview with CBS News that he was "an honest professional".

In 2020, after court hearings, it became clear that Steele's statements were "unfounded or even completely refuted". Lindsey Graham, as chairman of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, said the FBI deceived his colleagues on the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee at the hearing regarding Russian electoral interference in 2018. Steele's dossier was the reason for the expansion of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Diplomatic Service List . HM Stationery Office, London 1996, ISBN 978-0-11-591752-3 , pp. 235 : “Steele, Christopher David; Second later First Secretary FCO since April 1993; born 6/24/64; FCO 1987; Second Secretary (Chancery) Moscow 1990; FCO 1987; m 1990 Laura Katharine Hunt. "
  2. ↑ Inside the shadowy world of Chris Whatsit: How the confirmed Cambridge socialist became the top British spy behind the Trump 'dirty dossier' that is tearing apart American, British and Russian relations . Mail online . Retrieved January 13, 2017.
  3. ^ Hannah Dawson: Everything we know about Christopher Steele, the Cambridge MI6 spy , The Tab . January 13, 2017. 
  4. ↑ Larisa Brown, Martin Robinson, Sam Greenhill, Sam Tonkin, Dave Burke: Christopher Steele in hiding over Trump dirty dossier made £ 1m in two years , Daily Mail Online January 12, 2017
  5. ↑ Joseph Cox: UK Asks Journalists to Not Name Ex-Agent Allegedly Behind Trump Report , Vice News . January 13, 2017. 
  6. ^ List of MI6 Officers , Cryptome . Archived from the original on January 6, 2017 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved January 17, 2017. “Christopher David Steele: 90 Moscow; dob 1964. " @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / cryptome.org 
  7. ↑ Katrin Pribyl: Great Britain: Where is the mysterious agent Christopher Steele? , Augsburger Allgemeine January 12, 2017
  8. ↑ What to Know About Christopher Steele, Alleged Author of the Trump Dossier Time, January 13, 2017
  9. ↑ Christopher Steele, Ex-Spy Who Compiled Trump Dossier, Goes to Ground New York Times, January 12, 2017
  10. ↑ Ex-MI6 officer Christopher Steele in hiding after Trump dossier. British Broadcasting Corporation , January 12, 2017, accessed January 16, 2017 .
  11. ↑ a b c The Spy Who Didn't Love Trump , FAZ Online from January 12, 2017
  12. ↑ How a Sensational, Unverified Dossier Became a Crisis for Donald Trump New York Times, January 11, 2017
  13. ^ As in the Cold War Neue Zürcher Zeitung of January 14, 2017
  14. ^ The Agent Who Might Know Too Much Spiegel Online, January 17, 2017
  15. ^ Former MI6 officer Christopher Steele, who produced Donald Trump Russian dossier, 'terrified for his safety' and went to ground before name released , The Telegraph, January 12, 2017
  16. ↑ Jenny Gross, Jason Douglas: Christopher Steele, Ex-British Intelligence Officer, Said to Have Prepared Dossier on Trump. In: Wall Street Journal , January 11, 2017.
  17. ↑ tagesschau.de: King & Spalding: Wrays law firm and its Russia connections , June 7, 2017
  18. ↑ Ken Bensinger, Miriam Elder, Mark Schoofs: These Reports Allege Trump Has Deep Ties To Russia. In: BuzzFeed , January 10, 2017 (English).
  19. ^ Head of MI6 used information from Trump dossier in first public speech. In: The Independent , January 15, 2017 (English).
  20. ^ Britain should investigate former MI6 agent Christopher Steele, says Donald Trump. In: The Daily Telegraph , January 16, 2017.
  21. ↑ Russia's Foreign Minister Lavrov: The Trump Understanding. In: Spiegel Online , January 17, 2017.
  22. ↑ Kim Sengupta: Revealed: former British ambassador Sir Andrew Wood's key role in Trump investigation. In: The Independent , January 12, 2017 (English).
  23. ↑ Ex-MI6 agent so worried by his Donald Trump discoveries he started working without pay. In: The Independent , January 14, 2017 (English).
  24. ↑ Jochen Wittmann: Agent in fear. In: Sächsische Zeitung , January 14, 2017.
  25. ↑ Ex-UK ambassador to Russia says Kremlin's use of sexual entrapment “widespread”. In: CBS News , January 18, 2017 (English).
  26. ↑ Robert Draper: Unwanted Truths: Inside Trump's Battles With US Intelligence Agencies In: The New York Times , August 8, 2020.
  27. ↑ Newly Declassified Document Indicates FBI Misled Congress on Reliability of Steele Dossier Senate Judicial Committee , August 9, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Steele, Christopher
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Steele, Christopher David (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British agent and private investigator
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Aden