Edward Baumgartner co-founded UK-based intelligence consultancy Edward Austin. Baumgartner was hired by FusionGPS to work with Natalia Veselnitskaya on the Prevezon asset forfeiture case and to work with Christopher Steele on the Steele dossier. He is the primary Sub-Source
And just that fast @ebaumgar73
When Glenn Simpson testified on November 8th and 14th in front of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, he was vague and evasive about the names of the people that worked on the document and just said that he hired Steele.

Just wait, this guy also ties into Ukraine
According to Steele's testimony in the UK he “used his old contacts and farmed out other research to native Russian speakers who made phone calls on his behalf“.

Those "old contacts" were subsequently identified as Nellie Ohr and Edward Baumgartner.
Question never asked, how was Steele, a private British national living in UK able to so quickly & effectively reach top US politicians like McCain & Pelosi, publish through & get full backing from media outlets like Yahoo, NYT & WaPo?

Glenn Simpson = Media

But there's more
Glenn Simpson and his wife Mary Jacoby, Peter Fritsch, and Benjamin Schmidt formed Bean LLC, and gave it the trade name Fusion GPS. Shortly afterwards, Neil King Jr. and Tom Catan joined the team.

And we all know about Mary Jacoby right?
Remember that on April 19, 2016 Mary Jacoby shows up on White House visitor logs meeting with President Obama in the oval office, the day after the Clinton Campaign and DNC formally hired Fusion-GPS through Perkins Coie.
In March 2016 Fusion GPS was in negotiations with Perkins Coie, to see if there was interest in the firm continuing the opposition research for Hillary Clinton on the Trump campaign they had started for Paul Singer/Marco Rubio.
A LOT going on in April 2016. Mary Jacoby, visits the White House. The Clinton Campaign and DNC hire Fusion GPS to conduct ‘Opposition Research’, with a Russian emphasis. Fusion GPS then hires Nellie Ohr who specializes in Russian-centric counterintelligence.
Nellie Ohr then contacts Christopher Steele to inform him that they are writing a Russian Dossier. A month later, May 2016 Nellie’s husband inside the DOJ, Bruce Ohr, begins working with FBI counterintelligence head Peter Strzok, on Crossfire Hurricane.
And Nellie Ohr out of the blue at 59 years old applied for a HAM radio license (May 23rd 2016). Not illegal but very suspect that at that late in life she takes up a hobby like HAM having never shown any interest in it in her entire life.
Also strange is Bruce Ohr is a lawyer with no real counterintelligence background, suddenly is in the small Crossfire Hurricane team.

ALL just coincidences?

Hardly
So Glenn Simpson confirmed in his testimony to congress that Baumgartner’s job for Fusion GPS was the translation of Russian language documents, writing reports, and interviewing assets who speak Russian.
Glenn Simpson testified:

“So we retained Ed to—originally in the Prevezon case—to do some interviews in Moscow, I think, and retrieve some records from Russia. And other Russian language-related tasks.”
IMHO Steele was just the name on the masthead. In late 2016, the FBI finally homed-in on the problem that they had when they used the dossier for the FISA apps & Steele’s lack of source credibility & verifiability. The FBI offered him about $50K to corroborate the dossier.
For reasons unknown, he didn’t, couldn’t, or wouldn’t do it. Next thing you know Steele is persona non grata and tossed from his access to the Crossfire team and no longer being expensed financially, reportedly for talking to the press, but he just became worthless to them.
Simpson and Jacoby played a significant role in the dossier’s ‘architectural’, ‘editorial’, and ‘creative’ writing processes by his own words. In his testimony, Simpson confirmed sharing his Oppo-research with Steele.
Obviously, Simpson also directly supervised Ohr, Baumgartner, & several other resources. FusionGPS’s involvement certainly went beyond just coordinating SMEs and acting as the general contractor for the law firm Perkins Coie who commissioned the report from FGPS for CLinton/DNC
We Simpson coordinated with Yahoo News via his old crony from WSJ Michael Isikoff who was the circular referencing on the Dossier and the FISA Apps on Carter Page.
Simpson & Jacoby also acted as the sources using their original oppo-research template from the WSJ days & some of the US political material found in the dossier that shows up in phrases like “an American political figure” and “TRUMP’s associate”. 100% orchestrated coup attempt
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