This fifty-year-old, introduced as a former british agent of MI-6 and presumed author of the memo controversial, paying particular Donald Trump escapades of sex in Russia, was concern of retaliation from Moscow.
Identifié by several media as being the author of the document-explosive, and non-tested of 35 pages on the links of Donald Trump with Russia, Christopher Steele is not found since the publication of this memo. “Terrified for his safety and that of his family”, since as the Wall Street Journal has disclosed his identity, this British ex-spy is 52 years old, is “earth” now, according to the british daily the Daily Telegraph. Wednesday morning, he would have left his home in the Surrey, south-west London, for fear of retribution, “fast and dangerous” on the part of Moscow.
One of his neighbors, Mike Hopper, has indicated to the press that Steele had lived there for about 18 months with his wife and four children, and that he had not seen them since the previous day. It seemed “normal” when he left his home, he continued. “He did not say where he was going nor when he would return,” added the witness, adding that he had asked him to feed her three cats during her absence.
A retired MI-6 was converted in the private sector
Introduced as a former agent of MI-6 (intelligence service outside the united kingdom), Christopher Steele is today – according to his Linkedin profile – the director of the business council, london Orbis Business Intelligence, for which work other former secret service agents.
a Graduate of Cambridge, he served several years in Moscow and Paris in the 90′s and has good reputation in the intelligence world, according to the WSJ, which cites a former CIA agent. He would have left the MI-6 in 2009 and then worked for the american federal police (FBI) on corruption at the international football federation (Fifa), according to the Telegraph.
He had worked on the murder of Litvinenko
Marina Litvinenko, the widow of Alexander Litvinenko, the former Russian spy, a critic of the Russian regime killed by a strong poison in 2006, and of which Putin was accused of having “approved of” the killing, responded on the BBC. According to her, Christopher Steele has every reason to be afraid.
“It is very dangerous. You can easily be killed.”
“I think it is very dangerous, especially after the death of my husband, because when you come to very specific information, especially if this information relates to someone very powerful, you find yourself in the line of sight and you can easily be killed.” According to several sources cited by the Guardian, this is Christopher Steele is based in Russia at the time of the facts, which would have helped to cross this mine field diplomatic : he would have quickly realized that the death of Litvinenko was a “hit” of the Russian State.
In the private sector, “a lot more money and freedom”
The security correspondent of the BBC, Frank Gardner, has also described an “agent respected intelligence”, which “has started a second career at midlife” in the private sector, where the ex-agents “work for a lot more money and with much more freedom”. It has however found it “unusual” that a person with this profile is found involved at this level in a matter of policy.
given his excellent knowledge of enterprise networks and personalities close to the Kremlin, it is unlikely that Christopher Steele either directly traveled to Russia to feed its investigation and its report, ahead of the New York Times. He would mostly play his or her contacts, both inside and outside the country to obtain the information.
The 10 Downing Street denies any involvement
In addition, Christopher Steele “not working for the british administration, assured a spokesman for the First minister Theresa May. Earlier, the mp and labour’s Mary Creagh had requested the minister of foreign Affairs Boris Johnson – whose department manages the external communications of the MID-6 – to detail to the Parliament what the british government knew of the note secret attributed to Christopher Steele.
Who has commissioned the report ?
According to multiple media, Christopher Steele would have first been engaged by FusionGPS, a corporation of policy research based in Washington (the same who had been engaged to investigate the former candidate for the republican primary Mitt Romney) to do research on Donald Trump. This research has been conducted on behalf of Republicans not identified who wanted to curb the application of the real estate mogul to the party nomination for the presidential election 2016.
According to the New York Times, the opponents democrats Trump would not have made the report in question in the hands only after his loved ones enemies the republicans. The initial contract, signed with FusionGPS, was maintained after the victory of Trump in the republican primary. And then the notes would be found in the hands of the influential senator John McCain, who would have decided to deliver them to the FBI.
For the past several months, the “information compromise” contained in the document, circulated also in several figures of the democratic party and in the media. Reuters has indicated that they have been in possession of a copy of the document, “like other major newspaper titles”, but none of these essays, any more than the american services of information, have not been able to confirm or authenticate its contents.
quotes from the document drawn up “by a sub-contractor Russian” ?
A source close to the intelligence services that says, “to know,” Christopher Steele and Chris Burrows, co-directors at Orbis, assured AFP that it was “impossible for them to have made this report”. “But, I can’t say the same about their sources,” added this source, finding that “the report is not credible because it does not contain any reservations.” The associate of Christopher Steele has refused to “confirm or deny” the WSJ its participation in the drafting of the note. Another source, a former actor of intelligence past in the private sector, felt that the English in which is written the report suggests that the passages were not written by a brit, but probably “by a subcontractor in Russian.”
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