Bbc steele dossier confirmed professional#

The Associated Press has not authenticated any of the claims.Ī camera operator stands outside the building housing the offices of Orbis Business Intelligence, where former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele works, in central London. The report contains unproven information on close co-ordination between Trump's inner circle and the Russians about hacking into Democratic accounts - as well as unproven claims about Trump's sexual activities attributed to anonymous sources. presidential campaign and was being discussed in Washington as early as October, even though its details weren't widely reported until this week. The dossier was reportedly produced as political research for the 2016 U.S.

What we know about the claims in the Trump dossier.I don't think he would, necessarily, always draw correct judgment, but that's not the same thing.'

Bbc steele dossier confirmed professional#

'I know him as a very competent, professional operator who left the secret service and is now operating his own private company,' Andrew Wood, Britain's ambassador to Russia from 1995 to 2000, told the BBC on Friday. The firm provides strategic advice, gathers intelligence and conducts cross-border investigations, according to its website. After leaving the agency, he and a partner started Orbis Business Intelligence Ltd.

Steele, 52, worked for MI6, Britain's overseas intelligence agency, and served in Moscow in the early 1990s. president-elect Donald Trump, is a well-regarded operative who wouldn't make up stories to satisfy his clients, according to diplomatic and intelligence experts who know him. Christopher Steele, the one-time British spy who has compiled a dossier on U.S.