Even before the FBI interviewed Igor Danchenko over three days in late January 2017, the agency wanted to enroll the suspected primary sub-source of the discredited Steele Dossier as a confidential source, according to a document.
The document was listed as an exhibit for Danchenko’s trial by his defense but was never formerly entered into evidence,
But the date and description showed the FBI was recruiting the Russian national to be a source shortly after—or even as—he was working with Steele as a business intelligence analyst for London-based Orbis, Steele’s company, and collecting—by his own admission—80 percent of the raw material that appeared in the dossier….