Former MI-6 spy is author of reports on Donald Trump in Russia
Washington — Christopher Steele, who wrote reports on compromising material Russian operatives allegedly had collected on US president-elect Donald Trump, is a former officer in Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, according to people familiar with his career. Former British intelligence officials said Steele spent years under diplomatic cover working for the agency, also known as MI-6, in Russia and Paris and at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London. After he left the spy service, Steele supplied the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) with information on corruption at Fifa, international soccer’s governing body. It was his work on corruption in international soccer that lent credence to his reporting on Trump’s entanglements in Russia, US officials said on Wednesday. E-mails seen by Reuters indicate that, in the summer of 2010, members of a New York-based FBI squad assigned to investigate Eurasian organised crime met Steele in London to discuss allegations of possib...
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