NAMED: The British Ambassador who played a key role in revealing the ‘dirty dossier’ an ex-MI6 man made about Donald Trump

Sir Andrew Wooden met with Senator John McCain in Canada final yr

A former British ambassador to Moscow has revealed that he mentioned sordid allegations towards Donald Trump with one of many President Elect's arch-rivals - who later took the notorious 'soiled file' to the pinnacle of the FBI.

The doc, which has opened up a deep diplomatic disaster, was delivered to FBI chief James Comey by Republican John McCain.

Now Sir Andrew Wooden - British ambassador to Moscow between 1995 and 2000 - has confirmed he met McCain, an outspoken critic of the President Elect, at a safety convention in Canada in November.

The 2 mentioned Trump's vulnerability to blackmail amid allegations contained within the discredited file.

However he denied being the supply of the doc, which McCain was handed by an unnamed diplomat. 

Sir Andrew instructed The Impartial he knew the alleged creator of the file, former MI6 spy Christopher Steele, describing him as 'skilled and thorough'.

Sir Andrew Wooden (pictured alongside former Prime Minister Tony Blair) was British ambassador to Moscow between 1995 and 2000

Sir Andrew described alleged file creator Christopher Steele (pictured), a former MI6 spy who has since gone into hiding, as 'skilled and thorough'

KREMLIN WRITES OFF MEMO AS 'NONSENSE'

Russia has denied allegations that the Kremlin collected compromising details about U.S. President-elect Donald Trump.

Dmitry Peskov, the spokesman for President Vladimir Putin, dismissed information studies as a 'full fabrication and utter nonsense.' 

He insisted that the Kremlin 'doesn't interact in gathering compromising materials'.

He added: 'There are those that pump up such a tantrum and do their greatest to keep up a 'witch hunt', and by the way in which that is how president-elect Trump characterised this faux.

'And why is the continuation of this hysterical state wanted? To pressure our relationship to remain degraded.

'It's a full faux - not well worth the paper it was written on.'

The memo additionally states that Peskov 'managed' one other file containing compromising materials on Hillary Clinton compiled over 'a few years'. 

However Peskov denied there was any such materials. 

'This was completely fabricated, that is whole nonsense. That is what known as 'pulp fiction'.'

He mentioned: 'Sure I did meet Senator McCain and his aides on the convention. 

'We spoke concerning the type of actions the Russians will be engaged in.

'We additionally spoke about how Mr Trump might discover himself able the place there may very well be an try to blackmail him with Kompromat (a Russian time period for compromising materials) and claims that there have been audio and video tapes in existence.'

Referring to allegations that the Russian authorities had used hackers to affect the election, he mentioned: 'My view is that these are critical issues and that they need to be investigated. I don't assume I've achieved something mistaken in any respect in what I've achieved.'

Steele, who spied in Moscow within the 1990s, is in hiding after vanishing shortly earlier than the damning file made headlines world wide.

Neighbours mentioned he had requested them to take care of his three cats, and there have been claims final night time he was in an MI6 protected home.

Earlier as we speak Britain's new ambassador to the EU instructed bosses he 'had nothing to do with' the file.

Sir Tim Barrow's title entered the body as a possible supply of the leak to US politician John McCain after it was urged the Senator was handed the incendiary file by a former British ambassador to Moscow.

The ambassador has not but been publicly recognized. 

McCain was allegedly handed the doc late final yr by an unnamed diplomat. He took the file to the pinnacle of the FBI, James Comey

US President Elect Donald Trump was scathing with the media after the doc turned public

HOW DID THE DOCUMENT END UP IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN? 

It's alleged that Steele's agency Orbis Enterprise Intelligence Ltd was recruited in 2015 to assist Mr Trump's Republican rivals.

The BBC claims he was initially employed by former Presidential candidate Jeb Bush.

After Trump received the nomination, supporters of Democratic candidate Hilary Clinton recruited Steele to do the identical job, based on studies.

The file was handed to FBI director James Comey on December 9, it's claimed.

Final week, the company reportedly put the file earlier than Trump.

The FBI had first been tipped off two months earlier than the election, in August final yr, reportedly by Steele.

When he heard nothing, he met with David Corn, a bureau chief from information web site Mom Jones, which printed extracts.

Senator John McCain, an outspoken Trump critic, was allegedly handed the doc late final yr by an unnamed diplomat. 

Steele is believed to have handed a duplicate of the file to an FBI contact in Rome, and alerted his former bosses at British intelligence.

On Tuesday CNN reported doc had been introduced by US intelligence officers claiming Russia had delicate info which might embarrass or discredit Trump.

It mentioned the supply was thought-about credible, however the claims had but to be verified.

The identical afternoon, BuzzFeed printed the total memos, filled with salacious allegations.

In a press convention on Wednesday, Trump blasted each BuzzFeed and CNN.  

The Russian embassy in London urged Steele was nonetheless working for MI6 and 'briefing each methods' towards Mr Trump and Moscow on Twitter

In an alarming Twitter put up, the Russian embassy in London urged Steele was nonetheless working for MI6 and 'briefing each methods' towards Mr Trump and Moscow.

A Russian embassy spokesman mentioned the tweet – which mentioned 'MI6 officers are by no means ex' – 'mirrored the temper in Russia'. 

Following the tweet, Tory MP Crispin Blunt, who's conducting an inquiry into Russia, mentioned it was an indication UK-Russian relations have been the 'worst they might get in peace time'.

Mr Blunt, an ex-army officer and overseas affairs choose committee chair, mentioned: 'For a peace time political relationship, it's about as dangerous because it might get.' 

Steele, a father-of-three and widower, might have gone overseas after being sensationally revealed because the creator of a file on Donald Trump's alleged outlandish sexual perversions with prostitutes in a Russian presidential suite.

He was President of the Cambridge Union debating society in 1986, simply earlier than he joined MI6 in Moscow to spy because the Soviet Union collapsed.

His counterpart on the Oxford Union was Boris Johnson, however the present Overseas Secretary mentioned tonight he had by no means heard of Steele.

A spokesman for Mr Johnson mentioned: 'Boris by no means met or heard of him earlier than so they didn't meet or know one another throughout the Overseas secretary's time at Oxford.'

After leaving MI6, Steele arrange Orbis Enterprise Intelligence Ltd with fellow ex-MI6 operative Christopher Burrows.

His work included assortment details about corruption at soccer governing physique FIFA, and led to the resignation of a number of prime officers, together with president Sepp Blatter. 

Steele's work reportedly led to a profitable deal to dig for dust on Trump's dealings with Russia, the place he labored for 20 years as a spy after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

However lurid claims made within the salacious Russian file about Donald Trump's intercourse life and weird footage allegedly held by the Kremlin's blackmail unit has seen him go to floor.  

Mr Trump referred to as the file 'faux' and 'phony', even suggesting that US secret providers had leaked it to break his fame earlier than his inauguration. 

He debunked the 'golden bathe' declare by saying: 'Does anybody consider that? I am a germophobe'.  

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