The source for some of the so-called Steele dossier's most specific but debunked allegations of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government has been identified as a Russian public relations executive.
Galkina's role as a source for the Steele dossier would seem to further undercut the credibility of the salacious document, which BuzzFeed News published on Jan. 10, 2017, 10 days before Trump took office.
Steele, a former MI6 officer, had declined to tell the FBI the identities of his primary source and subsources, but the FBI identified Danchenko as the likely primary source by January 2017.
In his FBI interviews, Danchenko said Galkina was a "Close, personal friend" who had served as a "Key" source for him for the dossier project.
According to Danchenko, Galkina was a source for three separate allegations that appeared in the dossier, which Steele compiled on behalf of Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
Danchenko also told the FBI that Galkina was the source for the dossier claim that Gubarev used his web companies to aid Russian hacks of national Democrats' computer systems during the 2016 election campaign.
A footnote from the inspector general's report said that a dossier subsource who appears to be Galkina said that information attributed to her in the dossier appeared to be "Exaggerated" and that she did not recognize it.
Sunday, November 1, 2020
Key Source Identified for Debunked Russia-Trump Claim in Steele Dossier
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