Christopher Steele, Former MI6 Agent Who Reportedly Assembled Trump Dossier, Appears To Be In Hiding : The Two-Way : NPR
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Meanwhile, a man named Christopher Steele was living quietly outside London. He was “eating his favorite tapas and pottering around Victoria, home to his newly refurbished office,” The Guardian reports. He ran a private intelligence company, but aside from a spare LinkedIn page had almost no presence on the Internet; searching for his name would bring up hits on a porn actor, a musician and a TV doctor instead.
This week, everything changed.
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Steele’s name was everywhere, and the man himself nowhere to be found.
On Wednesday, he asked a neighbor to look after his cat, The Telegraph reports. He said he’d be gone for a “few days.”
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As you might expect with a story about a spook, all the published reporting on Steele relies heavily on anonymous sources. NPR has not independently confirmed any of these details.