He held a Bachelor of Arts in political science, a master's degree in international relations, and an Advanced Management Program in public administration.

[1] In an interview by Jones in June 2017, Steele claimed NASA holds a colony on Mars populated by human slaves who were kidnapped as children and sent to the planet.

"[7][8] On his Public Intelligence Blog, Steele cited The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a fabricated antisemitic document, at least 42 times to expound on the "Zionist conspiracy".

Steele promoted Donald Trump's claims of fraud in the 2020 presidential election and told his audiences of "the treason and high crimes represented by the fake pandemic, unconstitutional lockdown, mask idiocy, and the deaths and sterilization and mutations associated with the untested toxic 'vaccines'".

[15] Friend and fellow conspiracy theorist Mark Tassi, who confirmed Steele's death, claimed that his health had deteriorated after being given treatment in hospital for COVID-19.