THE STEELE DOSSIER, STILL IN PROCESS OF BEING VERIFIED
…Christopher Steele outside 10 Downing Street,
London
Much of the Steele Dossier has already been
verified
If you have been following the political
circus in Washington, you have obviously heard of “The Steele Dossier”. This was the investigative report that was
written by a former British intelligence officer who had formally been the head
of the “Russia Desk” for British
intelligence (MI6). Christopher Steele
had left MI6 and started his own private agency and had originally been hired
by a private investigative firm, FUSION GPS to gather information on Donald
Trump’s dealings with the Russians.
In April 2016, attorney Marc
Elias separately hired Fusion GPS to investigate Trump on behalf of
Hillary Clinton’s Campaign and the DNC.
In June 2016, Fusion GPS subcontracted
Steele's firm to compile the now famous dossier. His instructions were to seek answers to why
Donald Trump had "repeatedly attempted
to do deals with a notoriously corrupt police state, Russia”.
The Clinton campaign officials were
reportedly unaware that FUSION GPS had subcontracted Steele, and Steele was not
told that the Clinton campaign was going to be the recipient of his
research. Following Trump's election as US President, funding to FUSION
GPS from Clinton and the DNC ceased for FUSION GPS. However, Steele continued his research and
was reportedly paid directly by FUSION GPS co-founder, Glenn Simpson.
The completed to-date dossier was then handed off to the British and
American intelligence services.
I recently decided that I wanted to personally
read this famous dossier.
It took some searching, but I finally located
on-line, the unabridged, 31 page, Steele
Dossier.
I have since read the complete dossier, and
it reads like a traditional spy novel.
However, instead of attaching the whole document here, I will list below
the Summary Statements of what is communicated in the complete dossier document. I offer these statements of what was said in
the dossier because the document is lengthy, and it is not easy to read while
certain sections were obviously translated from Russian to English, and those
are difficult to decipher. Sorry for the
length, but it is a translation of the whole document.
When the dossier was first introduced, there
were press comments stating that most of what it contained had not been
verified. However, since it was introduced,
it has been stated by a number of well-respected press operations that more and
more of the data in the Steele document has been positively verified.
The media, the US intelligence community, and
most experts have treated the dossier with serious caution due to its
unverified assertions. But of
course, President Trump has denounced the whole report as “fake news”. The intelligence community has taken the allegations
seriously, and even today, Robert Mueller and the press are continuing to
investigate the allegations.
In May 2018, former career intelligence
officer, James Clapper stated that "more and more of the dossier
has been validated over time”. Overall, while many of the allegations
of the dossier have been corroborated, others still remain unverified because
some issues require access to classified data for verification.
It is appearing however, that over time, the
Steele Dossier officially known as: “THE
STEELE DOSSIER – TRUMP INTELLIGENCE ALLEGATIONS” could eventually
become a wholly “non-fiction”
historical document.
In the following summaries, the term “FSB”
refers to the Russian sponsored intelligence operation or the “Russian Federal Security Services” that
often use coercion, blackmail, bribes and other activities. They use these to recruit cyber
hackers, secret agents and double-agents.
FSB even approaches US citizens that are opening businesses in Russia and
they offer “investments” in the US citizen’s
new Russian businesses. But these US
citizen are also warned by the US State Dept. to be very careful, as there are known
claims of billions of Russian rubles being lost by these businesses, due to the
Russian FSB involvement and local Russian cyber criminals.
In the beginning of the dossier, there is a
long explanation of what Steele refers to as the FSB using Trump’s personal
obsessions and sexual perversions to compile “compromising material”. The
Russians refer to this compromising info in Russia as “kompromat”.
In one item that has since been reported
multiple times, it refers to a bazaar event that apparently occurred at The Moscow Ritz Hotel in 2013.
The report says that in the presidential
suite where President Obama and Michelle Obama had stayed back in 2013, and who are also
a presidential couple that Trump hates.
The report says that Trump had hired some prostitutes to “defile the presidential suite’s bed” by
urinating on the bed if front of Trump.
It is well known in Russia that the Moscow
Ritz is under FSB control with microphones and concealed cameras are in all the
main hotel rooms, and they are able to record anything, anytime they want.
Several of the staff were aware of this event
and they had confirmed the “defiling
story” directly to Christopher Steele.
In 2016, a former, top-level Russian
intelligence officer asserted to Steele that Trump’s unorthodox behavior in
Russia over the years had provided the authorities with enough embarrassing
material on the now US President, to seriously blackmail him at any time.
Could this be why Trump never says anything negative about Vladimir
Putin?
Here are the rest of my Summary Statements from The Steele Dossier:
Summary Statement
The Russian FSB had been following the
Clinton’s going back to Bill’s presidency.
They followed or recorded both of them under the direct orders of Putin
and primarily by using telephone intercepts.
Summary Statement
Russia has an extensive state sponsored crime
and criminal cyber operation. External
targets of the Russian FSB are: foreign governments, corporations,, banks, and
FSB currently leads up their cyber apparatus.
In June 2016, a number of Russian figures with detailed knowledge of
national cyber-crime, both state-sponsored and other, they outlined the current
situation in these areas. A former Russian senior intelligence officer has divided Russian state-sponsored cyber
operations into four categories and in the order of their priorities. They are: Western governments; Foreign business corporations; Domestic
monitoring of all country’s elite personnel;
Attacking political opponents at home and abroad.
The FSB leads this Russian state-sponsored operations
apparatus.
Summary Statement
FSB was targeting all foreign computer
products by implanting a Trojan virus into the foreign company’s software. They were also successful in installing their
malware on foreign manufactured PC’s and other technical platforms.
Summary Statement
Russian government authorities have cited
that non-state sponsored cyber-crime was also becoming an increasing problem
inside Russia.
Summary Statement
Russia states that there were indications of
an extensive conspiracy between Trump’s campaign and the Kremlin. This conspiracy was sanctioned at the highest
Russian levels and it involved Russian diplomatic staff based in the US.
A Trump associate has admitted that the
Kremlin was behind former appearances of the DNC e-mails on WikiLeaks, as a means
of maintaining plausible deniability.
Dossier says Trump’s team was using moles within DNC in the US, as well
as some in Russia.
Summary Statement
A well-established conspiracy managed by
Republican campaign manager, Paul Manafort, was using foreign policy advisor,
Carter Page and other intermediaries.
Mutual interests in defeating Hillary Clinton, who Putin both hated and
feared. A Russian source acknowledged that
the Russian regime was behind the leak of embarrassing e-mails emanating from
the DNC to the WikiLeaks platform.
Summary Statement
Using WikiLeaks for “plausible deniability” was conducted with full knowledge and
support of Trump and senior members of his campaign.
Elements against Clinton campaign were
divided into three elements: Agents and facilitators within the DNC; Russian offensive cyber operators based in
US; Russian state sponsored cyber operators located in Russia
Summary Statement
Trump’s previous efforts of exploring real
estate business in Russia had failed. In
the end, per Steele, Trump had to settle for the extensive use of sexual
services from local Russian prostitutes rather than having a Trump business
success.
Summary Statement
July 2016: Secret Kremlin meetings attended
by Trump advisor, Carter Page, in Moscow with Igor Sechin and senior Kremlin
Internal Affairs official, V. Divcyekin.
The subject with Mr. Page was a Russian dossier of “kompromat” on Trump’s
opponent, Hillary Clinton, but it also hinted of Kremlin possession of
“kompromat” on Trump.
Summary Statement
July 2016: Russian source close to Putin,
Igor Sechin, confided a secret meeting between him and visiting foreign affairs
advisor to the Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, by Mr. Carter
Page. Subject with Page was issue of a possible future bilateral US / Russia energy cooperation agreement and prospects of a move to lift
the Ukraine-related western sanctions against Russia. Page however, was generally non-committal
about lifting the sanctions.
Summary Statement
Kremlin official close to Russian Presidential
Administration, S. Ivanov, added directly to Page that he should keep in mind
when he is dealing with Russia, that Diveykin also had “kompromat” on Donald
Trump.
Summary Statement
Russian Kremlin, was concerned that there
would be political fallout from the DNC's e-mail hacking affair could spiral out
of control. Extreme nervousness was among Trump’s associates as a the result of negative US media attention. Source close to Trump campaign confirms to
Steele that a regular exchange with the Kremlin has existed for at least 8
years, including intelligence fed-back to Russia on the Russian oligarch’s
activity in the US.
Summary Statement
Presidential spokesperson, PA Ivanov, was the
main protagonist in the Kremlin campaign to aid Trump and damage Clinton. He became scared and had fears being made the
scapegoat by the Russian leadership for the backlash of media news in the
US. Problem compounded by Ivanov’s
botched intervention in the recent Turkish crisis.
Summary Statement
Senior Kremlin PA (Presidential Assistant)
Ivanov had outlined Russian tactics in Pro-Trump/ Anti-Clinton operation.
Summary Statement
Russian leadership, including Putin,
privately celebrated perceived success to date in splitting the US Hawks and
the US political elites.
Summary Statement
Kremlin engaged with several high-profile US
players including the Green Party’s Jill Stein, Carter Page and the former DIA
Director, Michael Flynn, and the funding of their recent visits to Moscow.
Summary Statement
August 2016: Kremlin insider reports Trump
lawyer Michael Cohen had secret meetings with Kremlin officials held in
Prague. Subject matter was cryptic for
security purposes. Office in Prague was
used for hosting Cohen, which was an action designated by President Putin.
Summary Statement
October 19, 2016: Cohen met with Russian presidential
administration legal department clandestinely in Prague, EU office. This was for helping to clean-up the mess
left behind by western media revelations of Trump ex-campaign manager Paul
Manafort’s corrupt relationship with the former pro-Russian, Yanukovych regime
in Ukraine. Meetings had been originally
scheduled for occurring in Moscow.
Summary Statement
Ex-Ukrainian President Yanukovych confides
directly to Putin that he authorized the kick-back payments to Paul Manafort as
was stated in the western media. He assured
Russian president that there is no documentary evidence trail of the kick-backs. Putin correctly remained worried that the
traces of the payments to Manafort were not fully hidden.
Summary Statement
Due to Yanukovych’s unimpressive record in
covering up his own corrupt tracks, Putin was skeptical of Yanukovych’s
re-assurance about Manafort, as Manafort had been commercially active in the
Ukraine right up to the time that Manafort joined the Trump campaign. This was a potential political vulnerability
and an embarrassment.
Summary Statement
Republicans close to Trump had wanted
Manafort out. Former Trump campaign
manager, Corey Lewandowski hated Manafort and was still close to Trump. He wanted Manafort away from the controls on
presidential strategy and policy formulations.
Summary Statement
Senior Presidential Kremlin officials
developed strategy of separating Clinton from Obama’s policies and trade
agreements. It was positive that both US
candidate were against the Trans Pacific Proposal (TPP) which was detrimental
to Russian interests. But the Kremlin
officials were still thinking that the election was considered too close
to say who was expected to win.
Summary Statement
September 2016: There was a close
relationship between Putin and the Russian ALPHA Business Group. This group was run by the Russian oligarchs
Mikhail Fridman, Petr Aven and German Khan.
Oleg Govorun had been the head of ALPHA’s Social Cooperation Dept. and
he became the bag-man used by the ALPHA Group to deliver large amounts of cash to,
Putin, who at the time, was the deputy Mayor of St. Petersburg. There was continued sensitivity of the
Putin/ALPHA relationship later on when Putin became president, and there was a
serious need again for “plausible
deniability” within Russia. So, the
contact between Alpha Group and Putin was always indirect and was usually through
Govorun.
Summary Statement
Two knowledgeable St. Petersburg sources claimed
that Donald Trump has paid bribes and engaged in sexual activities in St.
Petersburg, but the bribes had silenced the witnesses and evidence was hard to
obtain. These two Russian individuals
said that Trump had participated in Russian sex parties, but these parties had also
been bribed to silence. A business
figure, Araz Agallllarov, had been closely involved with Trump in Russia and he
would know what Trump had done, if any business there.
Summary Statement
When asked why Putin and the Kremlin had
launched such an aggressive Trump support operation, the official said that
Russia needed to upset the liberal international status-quo, including that on
Ukraine-related sanctions, which was seriously disadvantaging Russia. Trump was viewed as disrupting the status-quo
of the US political system. Even if
Trump had lost, he was correctly viewed as being divisive to US politics.
Summary Statement
Close associations with Sechin have confirmed
his secret meetings with Carter Page in July, 2016.
Summary Statement
According to a Russian in the Kremlin, Michael
Cohn’s wife is apparently of Russian descent, and her father is also a leading
property developer in Moscow. The
Kremlin insider confirmed to Steele that a key role in the secret Trump campaign
relationship was being achieved by the Republican candidate’s personal lawyer,
Michael Cohen. Russia believed that if
Trump won, the Russian sanctions would be lifted.
Summary Statement
Cohen was considered very important in
covering up the scandal of Paul Manafort and the exposure of Carter Page, and
he met with Kremlin officials secretly in the EU in August 2016 in pursuit of
this goal. A Kremlin leader highlighted
the importance of Donald Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen role in the election. Cohen was able to minimize the damage arising
from the exposure of the foreign policy adviser, Carter Page.
Summary Statement
There were secret meetings held in Praque,
Czech Republic, in August 2016 between the then Republican candidate, Donald
Trump’s representative, Michael Cohen and his interlocutors operating
undercover. This is according to the
meetings agendas.
Final Summary Statement
Anti-Clinton hackers were recruited under
duress by the Russian FSB and they were significant in this operation. Important
cash, social media ads were paid for by the Russians. The involvement of Paul Manafort and Carter
Page played a big part.
The Steel Dossier still plays a big part of the Mueller Investigation and in the previous
election of Donald J. Trump.
Copyright G. Ater 2018
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