'Research' for anti-Trump dossier consisted of bar talk over drinks in Moscow, FBI notes show
By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times - Sunday, December 6, 2020
Research for the Christopher Steele dossier that roiled President Trump and the White House for two years happened in Moscow bars, newly disclosed FBI notes show.
The notes are contained in an FBI Form 302 from an interview conducted by an agent and intelligence analyst with Mr. Steele in London in September 2017. The session included talk of Mr. Steele‘s “p-sub” — the dossier’s primary sub-source, Russia-born U.S. resident Igor Danchenko.
Based in the U.S., Mr. Danchenko collected secondhand information in Moscow from friends and drinking buddies and tossed it to Mr. Steele during the 2016 election.
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Paid with money from the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee, Mr. Steele, a former British intelligence agent, incorporated Mr. Danchenko’s gossip as the 35-page dossier’s main narrative of a dozen or so felony allegations.
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Paid with money from the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee, Mr. Steele, a former British intelligence agent, incorporated Mr. Danchenko’s gossip as the 35-page dossier’s main narrative of a dozen or so felony allegations.
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