{"id":344800,"date":"2018-01-21T11:49:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T10:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/did-christopher-steele-write-his-dossier\/"},"modified":"2018-01-21T11:49:29","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T10:49:29","slug":"did-christopher-steele-write-his-dossier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/did-christopher-steele-write-his-dossier\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Christopher Steele Write His Dossier"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Non-Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Among the few givens in the unfolding drama of alleged Russia-Trump collusion is that former MI6 intelligence officer Christopher Steele\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2idMtlv\">wrote<\/a>\u00a0the Donald Trump-Russia dossier, alternately known as the \u201cSteele Dossier.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is the notorious document that purports to detail \u201cRepublican candidate Donald Trump\u2019s activities in Russia and compromising relationship with the Kremlin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The above quote is from the subhead of the document, titled \u201cCompany Intelligence Report 2016\/080.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Yet the same subhead hints at a disturbing pattern evident throughout the document: it appears to be written by someone whose native language is something other than English.<\/p>\n<p>The phrase should read, \u201cRepublican candidate Donald Trump\u2019s activities in Russia and\u00a0his\u00a0compromising relationship with the Kremlin.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0As shall be seen, it is hard to believe that Christopher Steele actually wrote the original phrase or much of the rest of the eponymous dossier.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Steele, or \u201cChris Steele,\u201d as he bylined his reporting, attended Cambridge University and wrote for the student publication, Varsity.\u00a0\u00a0At Cambridge, he also served as president of the Cambridge Union Society,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2mLsz5S\">a debating club<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Contemporaries remember him as an \u201cavowedly [l]eft-wing student with CND credentials.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0CND is shorthand for \u201cCampaign for Nuclear Disarmament,\u201d a British organization that was particularly active when Steele arrived at Cambridge in the early 1980s.\u00a0\u00a0At the time, MI5 monitored CND for its reported communist ties.<\/p>\n<p>As the British Guardian\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2iXe6BH\">observed<\/a>\u00a0in an article on Steele, \u201cCambridge had produced some of MI6\u2019s most talented cold war officials.\u00a0\u00a0A few of them, it turned out \u2013 to great embarrassment \u2013 had secret second jobs with the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/01\/no_author\/did-christopher-steele-write-his-dossier-or-did-a-russian-associate\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the few givens in the unfolding drama of alleged Russia-Trump collusion is that former MI6 intelligence officer Christopher Steele\u00a0wrote\u00a0the Donald Trump-Russia dossier, alternately known as the \u201cSteele Dossier.\u201d This is the notorious document that purports to detail \u201cRepublican candidate Donald Trump\u2019s activities in Russia and compromising relationship with the Kremlin.\u201d The above quote is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-344800","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}