NEW John Durham update: FBI agent suspected Steele dossier source was Russian intelligence
ALEXANDRIA, Virginia — A member of the FBI’s Human Intelligence Validation Unit suggested that Igor Danchenko may have been part of Russian intelligence services after the main source for British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s discredited anti-Trump dossier was made a paid informant for the bureau, according to court testimony.
Durham highlighted the female FBI employee’s credentials, but Helson said that her having been a U.S. military counterintelligence analyst in Europe for two decades does not mean she would have the ability to identify a Russian intelligence officer in the United States. Helson claimed he did not know about the existence of the prior counterintelligence investigation at the time.
Durham's indictment also says Danchenko lied to the FBI about a phone call he claims he received from Sergei Millian, a Belarus-born U.S. citizen and businessman whom the Steele source had said told him about a conspiracy of cooperation between former President Donald Trump and the Russians — which the special counsel says is false.
The validation unit also recommended determining the purposes of Danchenko’s travel and to monitor his travel to see if he did what he said he did. Helson indicated he implemented some of these recommendations but did not look back historically at Danchenko’s travel in a meaningful way.
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