Mr. Steele’s profile on LinkedIn gives no specifics about his career. But the file was used to prepare a two-page appendix to the intelligence presentation American officials gave to Mr. Trump last Friday. Mr. Trump has denied the allegations in the dossier in the sharpest terms, and called them “fake news.” Russia has denied that it holds any compromising material on Mr. Trump. is going to follow this through,” Mr. Sipher said. In October, David Corn of Mother Jones magazine wrote about the dossier and described his conversations with Mr. Steele, whom he did not identify by name or nationality.

Source: New York Times January 12, 2017 14:31 UTC