However, details of the 35-page dossier began circulating in the fall and were widely known among journalists and politicians in Washington. Intelligence agencies considered it so potentially explosive that they decided Obama, Trump and congressional leaders needed to be told about it and that the agencies were actively investigating it.
‘Nothing but an absolute fantasy’: Kremlin denies that Russian agents compromised Donald Trump.'If Putin likes Trump, guess what, folks, that’s an asset': president-elect on whether Russia helped him win.Article content Recommended from Editorial This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. A source told The Daily Telegraph Steele fears retribution from Moscow and is “terrified for his safety.” Steele is said to have fled his Surrey home on Wednesday after being publicly identified. The research was initially funded by Trump’s Republican opponents, and later by Democrats. Now the head of a London-based private intelligence gathering firm, he prepared the dossier for a Washington political and corporate research firm during last year’s election campaign. Christopher Steele, 52, was an MI6 agent posted in Russia in the 1990s. The dossier was compiled mainly by a retired British intelligence operative who received information from Russian informants and others.
ODD ANDERSEN / JEFF KOWALSKY / AFP/Getty Images The videos were supposedly recorded as “kompromat,” a Russian word used to describe compromising material that can be used to gain leverage. Trump was in Moscow at the time to help organize a Miss Universe pageant. According to the dossier, FSB spies secretly taped Trump watching prostitutes he hired peeing on the Ritz Carlton Hotel bed Barack and Michelle had slept in during an official trip to Russia. Its most explosive claims describe sex videos involving Donald Trump and prostitutes at a Moscow hotel in 2013.
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The dossier, comprising a series of memos, alleges secret contacts between the Trump campaign and Moscow about hacking into Democratic accounts. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.
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