The FBI was advised that a portion of the infamous Steele dossier likely was the product of a Russian disinformation campaign meant to harm U.S. foreign relations, according to previously redacted footnotes from the Department of Justice inspector general’s report on the investigation of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
The FBI was informed by a source that former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, the author of the dossier, had frequent contacts with Russian oligarchs, which raised concerns at the bureau’s Transnational Organized Crime Intelligence Unit, one of the newly declassified footnotes says.
