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Anonymous ID: c6e656 June 21, 2023, 7:01 a.m. No.19044891   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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>https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/11/06/charles-dolan-steele-dossier-igor-danchenko-indictment/

 

A spin doctor with ties to Russia allegedly fed the Steele dossier before fighting to discredit it

Charles Dolan Jr., a PR executive who cut his teeth in Democratic politics, provided anti-Trump information, according to the special counsel probing the Russia investigation

 

Christopher Steele, a former British spy who wrote a 2016 dossier about alleged links between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, leaves the

 

That question was posed in a February 2017 email from Charles Dolan Jr., a diligent spin doctor with Irish Boston flair who, former colleagues said, boasted ties to Democratic politics and extensive contacts inside the Kremlin. “Yes, definitely,” Carlson replied that evening, ultimately conducting the interview four days later. “This is great.”

The media blitz formed part of an effort by Dolan to discredit claims in the Steele dossier, prepared by a former British intelligence officer, Christopher Steele. The day after BuzzFeed News published the unverified information, Dolan wrote to his client, the entrepreneur Aleksej Gubarev, who would later unsuccessfully sue BuzzFeed for defamation, according to emails exhibited in that case.

“I’m hoping that this is exposed as fake news,” Dolan wrote. “I may be wrong but I have doubts about the authenticity.”

Now, a grand jury is alleging that Dolan, 71, was behind at least some of the claims included in the dossier, according to a 39-page indictment obtained by John Durham, the special counsel probing the Justice Department’s Russia investigation. The indictment also suggests that Dolan, who worked on both Bill and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaigns and on a State Department advisory board during the Clinton administration, was so partisan that any information he provided would be suspect.

Dolan is left unidentified in the charges against Igor Danchenko, a Russia analyst who, the indictment claims, provided the core allegations included in the Steele dossier. But a lawyer for Dolan confirmed he was the unnamed executive cited in the document.

The new allegations make Dolan one of the most mysterious figures in the saga of the Steele dossier.

The dossier was tangential to the official inquiry led by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III but nonetheless captured public imagination and created debate over geopolitics, intelligence gathering and media ethics. According to the indictment, Dolan, who helped handle global public relations for the Russian Federation for eight years ending in 2014, fed the dossier before he fought against it. And his contacts and credibility in both instances rested on his extensive work for Russia, much of which he performed when he was affiliated with Ketchum, a public relations firm headquartered in New York.

“The fact that the individual had long-standing relationships in that area of the world is one reason the Justice Department may look at this part of the case with a more careful lens — to see on whose behalf he was actually acting,” said Joshua Ian Rosenstein, an expert on the Foreign Agents Registration Act at the D.C.-based Sandler Reiff Lamb Rosenstein and Birkenstock firm.

While the indictment argues that Dolan’s political loyalties made his information unreliable, it leaves unaddressed the question of motivations for his alleged actions….

 

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