How the FBI Lost, Found, and Rewarded the Alleged Russian Spy Pivotal to Surveilling Trump

How the FBI Lost, Found, and Rewarded the Alleged Russian Spy Pivotal to Surveilling Trump
J. Edgar Hoover FBI building in Washington on March 28, 2023. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times
Paul Sperry
RealClearInvestigations
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Twelve years ago, FBI agents in Baltimore sought to wiretap former Brookings Institution analyst Igor Danchenko on suspicions he was spying for Russia. But the counterintelligence analyst they were assigned to work with Brian Auten told them he could not find their target and assumed the Russian national had fled back to Moscow.