The material in the Donald Trump dossier that emerged this week has been described as unsubstantiated, and the president-elect himself derided the report as “fake news.” However, at least some in the U.S. intelligence community believed that the source of the report was credible, and with the recent unmasking of that source’s identity has come a basis for that credibility.
The man behind the dossier is a former British spy, Christopher Steele, who is now a corporate intelligence consultant. In 2010, Steele helped deliver information about FIFA to the FBI that eventually led to indictments of many current and former officials of the soccer governing body, as well as the ouster of longtime FIFA president Sepp Blatter.
The World Cup appears likely to get a whole lot bigger next week
Reuters reported Thursday that it had viewed emails showing that Steele met with members of the FBI’s “Eurasian Organized Crime” squad. The ex-spy’s London-based consulting firm, Orbis Business Intelligence, had been hired in 2009 by England’s Football Association to investigate allegations of corruption by FIFA.
England had been hoping to host either the 2018 or 2022 World Cup, but FIFA awarded those tournaments to Russia and Qatar, respectively, amid accusations of bribery and other corrupt dealings. With FIFA based in Zurich, the U.S. worked with Swiss authorities to investigate the body, and has brought indictments against more than 30 people in an ongoing probe.
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why was the US intelligence community interested in soccer to that extent? it most probably had more to do with Russia than Qatar ( Russia had the Football World Cup in 2018) the spooks were looking for chances of sanctions and sabotage