Soon thereafter—at the direction of Hillary Clinton, the Clinton Campaign, the DNC, Perkins Coie, and Fusion GPS—Orbis Ltd. and Steele, with the assistance of Robby Mook, Nellie Ohr, Igor Danchenko, Charles Dolan, and others, began preparing approximately seventeen anti-Trump memoranda known collectively as the “Steele Dossier.” Marc Elias testified that he sent the bills from Fusion GPS to Robby Mook, manager of the Clinton Campaign.
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The Dossier was fabricated to induce the FBI to commence an investigation into alleged ties between Russia and Donald J. Trump, the Trump Campaign, and the Trump Organization. In drafting the Dossier, Steele purported to rely upon numerous sources who
contributed information and prevarications to him. Several of the alleged sources named in the Dossier have refuted, under oath, that they provided any of the purported information contained in the Dossier to Steele: Olga Galkina, a Russian citizen who was referenced as “sub-source 3” in the Dossier, stated that she was never a source or sub-source to Steele, and, in fact, never even met him; Alexey Dundich, a Russian citizen who was referenced as “sub-source 4” in the Dossier, stated that he never was a source of information, and never even met Steele; Petr Avan, a Russian citizen who was referenced in the Dossier, denies the allegations contained in the Dossier and states that its contents are false.
The primary source for the information provided in the Dossier was Steele’s analyst, Igor Danchenko.
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Bruce Ohr made his first contact with the FBI about Trump-Russia collusion evidence in late July and early August 2016. Bruce, Nellie and Christopher Steele met for breakfast at a Washington hotel. Trump had made statements about making [[NATO]] allies pay their fair share. Steele of British intelligence was desperate for Trump not to win. Bruce called McCabe at the FBI after they ate. Strzok of the FBI counterintelligence division opened an investigation on Trump the next day.<ref>https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/405484-bruce-ohrs-efforts-to-secretly-reshape-the-trump-probe-started-earlier-in</ref>