The former British spy behind the discredited Donald Trump dossier is accused of twisting the truth in similar fashion, three decades ago, by smearing a political rival.
Steele, described by university contemporaries as ruthlessly ambitious, allegedly badmouthed former Cambridge Union Vice President Lance Forman, wrongly accusing him of supporting apartheid.
Now, 32 years later, according to Mr Forman, the former MI6 agent has behaved equally badly, tarnishing the President with lurid claims, linking him to Russian prostitutes.
"When I heard about the Trump dossier, I thought: "He hasn"t changed at all, has he?"," Mr Forman told MailOnline. "He took a fact and blew it up into a story which wasn"t true."
Another contemporary of the former spy, who read social and political sciences at Girton College, agreed about the lengths to which he was willing to go to further his career.
"When you took part in politics at the Cambridge Union, it was very spiteful and full of people spreading rumours," he said. "Steele fitted right in. He was very ambitious, ruthless and frankly not a very nice guy."
Even Steele"s presidential photograph, taken the following year, when he was in his final year at university, shows the extraordinary ambition of the man branded a "failed spy" by Trump, after he authored the dodgy dossier.
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