The rise and fall of the Anti-President.
It would be easy to say if only one source were involved
that Mr Trump was an innocent victim of a russian smear
job and he really did not frequent Hookers over seas,
he really wasn't filmed on camera and audio tapes in
more than hotel with prostitutes.
Sure it would be easy to deny if it wasn't for the fact that so
many intelligence agencies have multiple accounts and reports
of Mr Trumps escapades............and those being allies, enemies,
Israel, Russia and lastly the CIA and NSA and lately some of it
turned over to FBI.
Sure we can SAY they are unsubstantiated to the Public
But that doesn't mean anyone is buying the cover story............
Trump 'dossier' author
Christopher Steele's
allegations backed up
by fellow spies: reports
Some of the allegations against Trump focus on the Ritz Carlton Moscow.
(SERGEY PONOMAREV/AP)The former British spy behind the unsubstantiated "dossier" on Donald Trump was not alone in making salacious allegations against the President-elect, according to a report.
Christopher Steele was identified Wednesday as the ex-MI6 agent behind documents containing allegations about the President-elect and “perverted sexual acts” in a hotel room at the Ritz-Carlton in Moscow, as well as coordination with Russian officials during his campaign.
Trump and his supporters have called the supposed intelligence gleaned from Russian sources “fake news,” with attention turning to the credibility of its author.
But Paul Wood, BBC's Washington correspondent, claimed in a first person report Thursday that Steele is not the only source reporting on the so-called "kompromat" on Trump.
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Another retired British spy reportedly told Wood back in August that the head of an Eastern European intelligence agency was aware of Russian operatives possessing damaging information about Trump.
Wood said he used an "intermediary" to pass that information along to active duty CIA officers.
"I got a message back that there was 'more than one tape,' 'audio and video,' on 'more than one date,' in 'more than one place' — in the Ritz-Carlton in Moscow and also in St. Petersburg — and that the material was 'of a sexual nature,'" Wood said, adding that he was told the CIA considered the information "credible."
Beyond the uncorroborated allegations of "perverted sexual acts," Wood said a senior member of the U.S. intelligence community shared information with him about Trump associates being listed in a top-secret inquiry into two Russian banks.
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The banks, the source said, were being targeted for having supposedly funneled money into the 2016 presidential campaign, and a lawyer familiar with the matter told Wood that three Trump associates were named in the inquiry.
President-elect Donald Trump has called unsubstantiated alegations against him "fake news." (SETH WENIG/AP)
"But it's clear this is about Trump," the lawyer said, according to Wood.
When Wood confronted the three associates identified by the source, Wood said they "emphatically denied any wrongdoing."
The Trump team has also vehemently denied that there were any contact between staffers and Kremlin officials during the campaign.
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But the U.S. intelligence community concluded in an extensive report last month that Russians launched a hacking campaign against Democrats in order to help Trump win the White House.
And Steele's unsubstantiated dossier, published in full by BuzzFeed on Tuesday, has raised further suspicion about Russia's role in the election.
Steele, the 52-year-old co-director of a private intelligence company, has worked extensively with U.S. intelligence agencies in the past, as well as with former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, according to The Times of London.
Litvinenko, a former KGB and FSB operative who moved to Britain, was killed in London in 2006 after ingesting polonium 210.
A British inquiry into the death made public last year said the killing was “probably approved” by Vladimir Putin, who Litvinenko blamed shortly before he died.
Alexander Litvinenko died in 2006 after being poisoned with polonium-210. (AP)
The poisoning occurred shortly after Steele retired, according to the Telegraph, which cited intelligence author Nigel West as saying the death likely turned the ex-MI6 operative into a “man with a mission.”
His activities since retirement has included working with the FBI on alleged corruption in FIFA, the governing body of international soccer.
FBI officers from New York met with Steele in London in 2010 to discuss possible wrongdoing around the process that controversially awarded the 2018 World Cup to Russia and the 2022 World Cup to Qatar, Reuters said.
U.S. prosecutors announced bribery and racketeering charges against more than a dozen people in 2015, leading to multiple FIFA resignations include that of president Sepp Blatter.
Steele reportedly went on to found private firm Orbis Business Intelligence, which says on its website that it was formed in 2009 by two “former British intelligence professionals.”
The CNN report that first told the public about the allegations that there is Russian “kompromat” against Trump said that the company was first hired to do opposition research on supporters of primary opponents, and then by Democrats.
Journalist Carl Bernstein told the network the spy gave the information to the FBI having deciding that it was serious, and that it was summarized in two pages given to President Obama and Trump.
An unidentified source told the Telegraph Wednesday that Steele has gone into hiding because he is “terrified for his safety” after his memos were published by Buzzfeed.
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