Christopher Steele: Confessions of a former British spy on Johnson, Putin, Trump, and James Bond | Sky News |

It happened about 18 months after his identity as the author of an unverified dossier, alleging collusion between Russia and Donald Trump in the 2016 US presidential election, became public in January 2017 and is just one of many strange moments in a once top-secret life.

Now, for the first time, in a major interview with a British broadcaster, the MI6-officer-turned-private-spy has talked about debating with Boris Johnson as university students, meeting then Soviet Union president Mikhail Gorbachev while serving as an intelligence officer in Moscow and - possibly - having a cup of tea [no poison] poured for him by a young Vladimir Putin.

Mr Steele, 57, also revealed the impact being linked to the dossier had on him and his family, even claiming his wife, who worked at the Foreign Office, effectively lost her career in the fallout. He said that left him feeling "pretty angry and disappointed - as she does".  

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