Who really wrote the infamous Dossier?

EVIDENCE SUGGESTS THAT STEELE MAY NOT HAVE  BEEN THE AUTHOR

WAS STEELE CONNECTED TO POISONED SPY SERGEI SKRIPAL

                                                                                                                                                             

                                            

Many questions remain about the compilation of the infamous Trump Dossier. We do know that Fusion GPS, founded in 2009,  was commissioned by an unknown wealthy republican in the service of candidate Marco Rubio,  to do opposition research on Donald Trump and other republican candidates.  Rubio stopped the work in May of 2016 after Trump had clinched the nomination. In June, GPS was hired by attorneys at Perkins Coie to engage in opposition research on the Trump campaign. Perkins Coie was paid  $9.2 million dollars by the Clinton Campaign and the Democratic National committee. Fusion GPS was paid $1.02 million by Perkins Coie. 

Glen Simpson of Fusion GPS who had contacts in the FBI and one of his employees who specialized in research on Russia was married to Bruce Ohr Asst. Deputy Attorney General. Somehow Simpson was directed to Christopher Steele a former MI-6 agent who retired and opened his own intelligence agency in London called Orbis Business Intelligence.

The exact date of Steele's commission has not been released, but began in sometime in June 2016. Amazingly Steele was able to send his first report to Simpson on June 20,2016. This timeline suggests that the work was in progress before this date. This lengthy report stated that Trump was compromised by the Russians 8 years before. He reported that the Russians had much dirt on Trump concerning personal activities and financial dealings in Russia. He continued to send reports weekly until Dec, 2016. 

According to Paul Roderick Gregory, a Texas writer and historian, who has experience with Russian intelligence since the 1960's, the reports appear to have been written by a Russian intelligence person. He makes his observation due to problems with English and the capitalization of all names, which was a typical Russian practice. He also states that the kind of gossip and information could not be gathered by third parties. Leaks of this kind do not happen in Russian intelligence. He also states that every accusation listed cannot be verified in any way. Trump also had no business dealing in Russia.

The interesting question is, who wrote or compiled this information? 

It is a fact that Steele was the head of the Russian desk in London, until he retired in 2009. He was known to have been involved in the investigation into poisoned Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko. He is most likely to have known Sergei Skripal, a Russian double agent from 1995 to 2004, He was arrested in Russia and eventually traded for British spies in 2010. He was poisoned in the UK in March of 2018. Authorities claim it was Russia that was behind the poisoning. No one has come up with a motive for attempting to kill a former agent, 8 years after being released. Could Skripal have been the author of the Dossier?

Christopher Steele admitted under questioning that he did not have any first hand proof of the allegations. He claimed that he received the information from other parties who he paid for the information. He claims they were former Russian agents who had contacts in Russia. Skripal was just such a person. It was highly unlikely he had access to any current real intelligence in Russia.

Now, it is suspected that Skripal was poisoned with Novochok a nerve agent produced by Russia from 1971-1993. This poison is unique to Russia, so would Russians use this if  they wanted to conceal who did it. Samples of this nerve agent were transferred to western counties including the United States and the UK and antidotes have been developed.

Steele has many contacts to British intelligence, his partner Christopher Burrows, Richard Dearlove, Andrew Woods who handed the dossier to Sen John McCain. He also had dealings with Victoria Nuland assistant Secretary of state under Obama and connections to the Ukrainian revolution. He has testified that he was a supporter of the Clinton's.

So did the Russians poison Skripal because he was a go between with Russian intelligence, who actually authored the Dossier, or was it the work of others who feared he would be compromised and reveal who really wrote the fabricated dossier?

Steele was reported to have been paid $168,000. Who and how much did he pay his informants? This should not be too hard to find out by professional agents, if they really want to know the truth.