Igor Danchenko

And of course, that may in some cases be rather different than how it was viewed in America and at the other end of the telescope.

And he had taken to using a guy named Igor Danchenko.

Igor Danchenko is Russian.

He had done some kind of think tank work in D.C., still helped him get a think tank kind of job, which ended up serving as his cover effectively, but also gave him a way to stay in D.C.

He was networking

So Igor Danchenko is the one on trial charged with five counts of making false statements to the FBI, was paid more than $200,000 to attempt to serve as a confidential human source.

Danchenko was with people like Fiona Hill, who of course is brilliant and has herself said Steele probably got smoked.

And so for the dossier, Danchenko is the primary subsource.

And, uh, the other one is, uh, at Brookings.

So, you know, Special Counsel John Durham said that, uh, the US paid, the US government, it looks like the FBI, paid, uh, 436,000 to European business wires to Igor Danchenko, including Orbis-related payments.

The aggregate is not a transaction-by-transaction public ledger.

Uh, from 2017 to 2020, the FBI paid Danchenko as a confidential source.