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Undated: Christopher David Steele
(born 24 June 1964) is a British former intelligence officer with the Secret Intelligence Service MI6 from 1987 until his retirement in 2009. He ran the Russia desk at MI6 headquarters in London between 2006 and 2009. In 2009 he co-founded Orbis Business Intelligence, a London-based private intelligence firm.

He authored a dossier that claims Russia collected a file of compromising information on U.S. President Donald Trump.[2][3] The Trump administration and congressional Republicans have falsely claimed that U.S. intelligence community probes into Russian interference in the 2016 election were launched due to Steele's dossier.[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Steele

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March 30: How Ex-Spy Christopher Steele Compiled His Explosive Trump-Russia Dossier

The man behind the infamous dossier that raises the possibility that Donald Trump may be vulnerable to Kremlin blackmail is Russia expert Christopher Steele, formerly of M.I.6. Here’s the story of his investigation.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/03/how-the-explosive-russian-dossier-was-compiled-christopher-steele

October 25: The Trump Dossier: What We Know and Who Paid for It

Campaigns and party committees frequently pay companies to assemble what’s known in politics as opposition research — essentially damaging information about their opponents — and nothing is illegal about the practice.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/25/us/politics/steele-dossier-trump-expained.html

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June 15: Trump dossier author Christopher Steele fights defamation case
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44502547

July 26: How Hillary Clinton used the anti-Trump Russia dossier during the campaign

The dossier emerged again as a Washington hot topic in recent days with the release of four FBI applications to a judge to spy on a Donald Trump volunteer. The petition’s evidence to convince the judge was largely based on the dossier.

With the application’s release, President Trump took to Twitter to declare the 35-pages a “Clinton campaign document.”

Some pundits and a fact-checkers asserted that the Clinton campaign never used Mr. Steele’s Russia charges.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jul/26/hillary-clinton-used-christopher-steeles-trump-rus/?utm_source=GOOGLE&utm_medium=cpc&utm_id=chacka&utm_campaign=TWT+-+DSA&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIrNzc0_y-3wIVlIJpCh2igAFmEAMYAiAAEgJi5vD_BwE

August 3: FBI releases documents showing payments to Trump dossier author Steele

The 71 pages of correspondence with former British spy Christopher Steele are heavily redacted.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/fbi-releases-documents-showing-payments-trump-dossier-author-steele-n897506

August 3: 12 times Christopher Steele fed Trump-Russia allegations to FBI after the election
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/12-times-christopher-steele-fed-trump-russia-allegations-to-fbi-after-the-election

August 6: Why the Trump Tower meeting may have violated the law — and the Steele dossier likely didn’t
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/08/06/why-the-trump-tower-meeting-may-have-violated-the-law-and-the-steele-dossier-likely-didnt/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.4bd4e3b02ea2

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August 21: Author of Trump-Russia dossier wins libel case in US court

Suit against Christopher Steele by three Russian oligarchs thrown out by judge

The former MI6 officer Christopher Steele has won a legal battle in the United States against three Russian oligarchs who sued him over allegations made in his dossier about the Trump campaign and its links with Moscow.

The oligarchs – Mikhail Fridman, Petr Aven and German Khan – claimed that Steele and his intelligence firm, Orbis, defamed them in the dossier, which was leaked and published in early 2017. The Russians own stakes in Moscow-based Alfa Bank. All are billionaires.

On Monday, a judge in the District of Columbia, Anthony C Epstein, upheld a motion by Steele to have the oligarchs’ case thrown out. Epstein did not determine whether the dossier – which Donald Trump has repeatedly dismissed as “fake” – was “accurate or not accurate”.

But the judge concluded that it was covered by the US first amendment, which protects free speech. He ruled that the oligarchs had failed to prove a key part of their case: that Steele knew that some information in the dossier was inaccurate, and had acted “with reckless disregard as to its falsity”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/21/author-of-trump-russia-dossier-wins-libel-case-in-us-court-christopher-steele

August 28: Devin Nunes’s Curious Trip to London

The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee flew to London to gather intel on Christopher Steele, the former British intelligence officer who compiled the dossier alleging Trump-campaign ties with Russia. But MI5, MI6, and GCHQ didn’t seem interested.

According to two people familiar with his trip across the pond who requested anonymity to discuss the chairman’s travels, Devin Nunes, a California Republican, was investigating, among other things, Steele’s own service record and whether British authorities had known about his repeated contact with a U.S. Justice Department official named Bruce Ohr. To that end, Nunes requested meetings with the heads of three different British agencies—MI5, MI6, and the Government Communications Headquarters, or GCHQ. (Steele was an MI6 agent until a decade ago, and GCHQ, the United Kingdom’s equivalent of the National Security Agency, was the first foreign-intelligence agency to pick up contacts between Trump associates and Russian agents in 2015, according to The Guardian.)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/devin-nuness-curious-trip-to-london/568699/

August 31: [Justice Department attorney Bruce] Ohr says Steele told him Russian intel believed they had Trump 'over a barrel'

Bruce Ohr, who testified behind closed doors this week to the House Judiciary and Oversight committees, said dossier author Christopher Steele shared the information with him at a July 2016 breakfast, the source said.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/31/politics/bruce-ohr-christopher-steele-donald-trump/index.html

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September 24: Mueller makes rare mention of Trump dossier author

Prosecutors were responding to an indicted Russian company's complaint that the special counsel 'selectively' targeted the firm while giving Steele a pass.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/24/mueller-trump-dossier-author-838280

October 10: The retired British spy who wrote an explosive dossier about President Donald Trump's alleged ties to Russia broke his silence to criticize Trump and the "distorted" state of US politics.

The former spy, Christopher Steele, wrote to Vanity Fair shortly after he was named to the magazine's "2018 New Establishment List." CNN reviewed a copy of Steele's email, which included his most political comments since his dossier gained international attention in January 2017.

"In these strange and troubling times, it is hard to speak unpalatable truths to power, but I believe we all still have a duty to do so," Steele said. "I salute those on your list, and otherwise, who have had the courage to speak out over the last year, often at great personal cost."

Steele went on to say, "(A)t a time when governance is so distorted and one-sided, as I believe it currently is in the United States, the media has a key role to play in holding it accountable."
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/10/politics/steele-dossier-letter/index.html

November 8: Christopher Steele, the former MI6 officer who wrote the Trump dossier, is suing one of Germany’s biggest engineering companies for allegedly failing to pay for work carried out by his intelligence firm, Orbis.

Steele and his ex-MI6 business partner Christopher Burrows have taken legal action against Bilfinger, a global industrial group based in Mannheim, south-west Germany. They allege it owes Orbis €150,000 (£130,000) for an investigation into Bilfinger’s activities in Nigeria.

It is understood that Steele may give evidence in a German court. It would be his first public appearance since March 2017, when he made a brief statement and was photographed on the steps of Orbis’s office in London Victoria.

Steele has kept a low profile since his dossier was published suggesting collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 election.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/nov/08/trump-dossier-author-christopher-steele-suing-engineering-firm

November 18: Trump, conservatives demand probe into Clinton-Steele-Moscow links
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/nov/18/trump-seeks-hillary-clinton-christopher-steele-rus/

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December 7: Christopher Steele ... Giuliani’s Report Will Hit All Of Trump’s Favorite Fox News Conspiracy Theory Villains

A report promised by the president will try to discredit Robert Mueller using the same attacks as Fox News hosts and House Republicans.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/rudy-giuliani-mueller-report_us_5c0ab85ce4b035a7bf5aefdc

December 17: Trump-Russia dossier journalist doubts Christopher Steele's claims

The journalist who was among the first to report on the Trump-Russia dossier suspects many of the allegations made in former British spy Christopher Steele's collection of memos are "likely false.”

Yahoo chief investigative reporter Michael Isikoff was one of the journalists who met with Steele during the 2016 campaign. On Sept. 23, 2016, he wrote an article about former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page, which outlined how Page had attracted law enforcement's attention for allegedly trying to establish back channels between the campaign and Russia and for discussing the lifting of sanctions with Moscow-linked officials.

Despite reporting accusations made by Steele, Isikoff told John Ziegler's Free Speech Broadcasting podcast that many of the claims had still not been corroborated.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-russia-dossier-journalist-doubts-christopher-steeles-claims 

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