Skripal linked to former spy who compiled Trump dossier

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SERGEI Skripal was linked yesterday to ex-mi6 officer Christopher Steele, who wrote a damning dossier on US President Donald Trump.

The 66-year-old reportedly maintained ties with an MI6 handler close to Steele.

Orbis Business Intelligence, headed by Steele, has been at the heart of the US probe into alleged Russian election meddling in 2016. Steele, who worked as a spy in Russia, produced a dossier on Mr Trump that alleged he was compromised by the Kremlin.

Though not in the dossier, one Steele memo cited a source in the Russian Foreign Ministry, where Skripal reportedly worked, as saying Russia interfered in the chance of Mitt Romney being Trump’s Secretary of State.

But a source said: “Skripal was GRU (Main Intelligence Directorate) and would be unlikely to be exposed to the Trump activities.”