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S1: 5. Blowback

The Coming Storm

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Chris Steele, a Former British Intelligence Officer, Was a Russian Spy

Chris steele had been head of the russia desk at m i six. By 20 16 he'd retired from briton's foreign intelligence agency. He was running his own private consultancy, digging up information on matters relating to the former soviet union. The clinton campaign hired him to look into donald trump's business connections to Russia. His sources suggest the russians were trying to manoeuvre trump into the white house because they had compromising material that could make him vulnerable to blackmail. But as the weeks and months dragged on, no one seemed to be doing anything with the explosive material in his docier. So Steele decided he had to act through discreet back channels. Luckily

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