Igor Danchenko: Suspected Russian spy was secretly groomed by Brian Auten of the FBI, top photo - and paid $220,000 to target Trump.
One result: Danchenko, the suspected Russian spy, falsely accused Page, a former U.S. Navy office who had previously helped the FBI, of being a Russian spy in the dossier.
"In particular, the FBI learned that in September 2006, Danchenko informed one Russian intelligence officer that he had an interest in entering the Russian diplomatic service," the report stated.
Danchenko reappeared on Auten's radar in late 2016 as he and the FBI were using the Steele dossier he helped create on Trump to seek warrants to spy on Page.
FBI headquarters proposed paying Danchenko an additional $300,000 even as Durham was actively investigating him as the "Linchpin to the uncorroborated allegations contained in the Steele Reports." After asking officials at FBI headquarters about the bureau's relationship with Danchenko, Durham determined that they were unable to justify keeping him open as a confidential source, "Much less making hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments to him." After examining FBI documents, Durham discovered that Auten interviewed Danchenko over three days in January 2017 as part of a plan to recruit him as a paid informant, despite the unresolved counterespionage investigation.
In internal FBI documents, Danchenko's handling agent Kevin Helson incorrectly stated that there was no "Derogatory" information associated with Danchenko and that he had not been a prior subject of an FBI investigation.
Danchenko attributed to Millian the dossier's core allegation: that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election in a "Well-developed conspiracy of cooperation." This claim, which Durham found to be completely conjured up by Danchenko, formed the backbone of all four of the FBI's applications to the FISA court to spy on Trump.
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