History of the Steele Dossier- Some allegations have been proven correct: All Russian operatives who gave this information were killed but by who?

• 1History
  • 1.1Research funded by conservative website
  • 1.2Research funded by Democrats produces dossier
    • 1.2.1What the DNC, Clinton campaign, and Steele knew
  • 1.3Hints of existence
    • 1.3.1Mother Jones story
  • 1.4Post-election events
    • 1.4.1Briefings of Obama and Trump
  • 1.5Publication by BuzzFeed News
  • 1.6Format
• 2Authorship
• 3Two different Russian operations
• 4Allegations
  • 4.1Cultivation of Trump
  • 4.2Conspiracy, co-operation, and back channel communication
  • 4.3Why Russia supports Trump
  • 4.4Changing relationships
  • 4.5Kompromat and blackmail: Trump
  • 4.6Kompromat: Clinton
  • 4.7Kremlin pro-Trump and anti-Clinton
  • 4.8Key roles of Manafort, Cohen, and Page
  • 4.9DNC email hack, leaks, and misinformation
  • 4.10Kickbacks and quid pro quo agreements to lift sanctions
  • 4.11Cultivation of various U.S. political figures
  • 4.12Russian spy withdrawn
  • 4.13Use of botnets and porn traffic by hackers
• 5Veracity and corroboration of specific allegations
  • 5.1Cultivation of Trump through time
  • 5.2Russian assistance to the Trump campaign
  • 5.3Manafort's and others' co-operation with Russian efforts
  • 5.4Russian conversations confirmed
  • 5.5Kompromat: "Golden showers" allegation
    • 5.5.1Trump viewed as under Putin's influence
  • 5.6Kremlin's "Romanian" hackers and use of WikiLeaks, and Trump campaign reaction
    • 5.6.1Timing of release of hacked emails
  • 5.7Manafort and kickback payments from Yanukovych
  • 5.8Page met with Rosneft officials
    • 5.8.1Brokerage of Rosneft privatization
    • 5.8.2Trump's attempts to lift sanctions
  • 5.9Cohen and alleged Prague visit
  • 5.10Republican position on Russian conflict with Ukraine and related sanctions
  • 5.11Relations with Europe and NATO
  • 5.12Spy withdrawn from Russian embassy
  • 5.13Use of botnets and porn traffic by hackers
• 6Veracity of dossier
  • 6.1Reputation in the U.S. intelligence community
  • 6.2Varied observations of dossier's veracity
  • 6.3Discrepancies between sources and their allegations
• 7Subject of investigations and conspiracy theories
• 8Denials of specific accusations
  • 8.1Michael Cohen
  • 8.2Aleksej Gubarev
  • 8.3Paul Manafort
  • 8.4Carter Page
  • 8.5Donald Trump
• 9Reactions to dossier
  • 9.1Trump
  • 9.2Others
  • 9.3Litigation
    • 9.3.1Against BuzzFeed News and Fusion GPS
      • 9.3.1.1Filed by Gubarev
      • 9.3.1.2Filed by Fridman, Aven, and Khan
      • 9.3.1.3Filed by Michael Cohen
      • 9.3.1.4Filed by Devin Nunes
    • 9.3.2Against Steele and Orbis Business Intelligence
    • 9.3.3Against DNC and Perkins Coie
    • 9.3.4Against Mueller and the DOJ
  • 9.4Conspiracy theories
• 10Legacy
• 11See also
• 12References
• 13Further reading
• 14External links