
In the Easter term of 1986, Steele was President of the Cambridge Union debating society. While at the University of Cambridge, he wrote for the student newspaper, Varsity. Steele matriculated at Girton College, Cambridge in 1982. Steele spent time growing up in Aden, the Shetland Islands, and Cyprus, as well as at Wellington College, Berkshire. His paternal grandfather was a coal miner from Pontypridd in Wales. His parents, Perris and Janet, met while working at the Met Office, the United Kingdom's national weather service. Early life Ĭhristopher David Steele was born in the Yemeni city of Aden (then part of the British-controlled Federation of South Arabia), on 24 June 1964. Contrary to these false claims, the Republican-controlled House Intelligence Committee, among many other sources, concluded in an April 2018 report that the probe had been triggered by previous information from Trump adviser George Papadopoulos, and the February 2018 Nunes memo, written by staff members for that GOP committee, reached the same conclusion. intelligence community probe into that Russian interference was launched due to Steele's dossier. Trump and his allies have falsely claimed the U.S. The dossier claims, based on anonymous sources, that Russia collected a file of compromising information on Donald Trump and that his presidential campaign conspired to cooperate with the Russians in their interference in the 2016 presidential elections.

It was prepared for Fusion GPS, a firm hired by an attorney associated with the Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign.

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Steele became the centre of controversy after he authored a 35-page series of memos for a controversial political opposition research report later known as the Steele dossier. In 2009, he co-founded Orbis Business Intelligence, a London-based private intelligence firm. He ran the Russia desk at MI6 headquarters in London between 20. 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.
