A Key Source for Steele Dossier Was an Alcoholic Female Lawyer Living In Cyprus Who He'd Known Since 8th Grade
Igor Danchenko and Olga Galkina — not quite Julius and Ethel Rosenburg, but they tried hard.
This is not the first time Olga Galkina’s name has been confirmed as one of the key sources behind allegations in the Steele Dossier reports.
But the Wall Street Journal has a story out today about the individual identified as “Sub-Source 3” providing much more information and background on Galkina. It makes even more clear the fact that the various reports making up the Steele Dossier — basis for nearly four years of wall-to-wall non-stop coverage in the media, and tens of millions of dollars and tens of thousands of federal law enforcement man-hours wasted — was all done in pursuit of a story that had all the earmarks of a hoax from the very start.
Vladamir Putin goes to bed each night chuckling at the way he made the NYT, WaPo, ABC, NBC, CBS — not to mention the FBI and DOJ — look like chuckle-headed morons chasing this complete fraud. The fact that many in the media hold-out hope that there really was something there, our point to the completely idiotic outcomes of the efforts of the Mueller Special Counsel’s Office – while at the same time IGNORING the FACTS that Joe Biden went into business with the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese People’s Liberation Army — is for all practical purposes, a signifier that our great nation is on the brink of self-destruction.
Igor Danchenko had a case opened on him in 2009 as a likely Russian intelligence operative tasked with recruiting incoming members of the newly-elected Obama Administration to sell classified information to Russian intelligence services. Two individuals described to the FBI how Danchenko approached them after the election in 2008 to inquire if they would be joining the Obama Administration foreign policy team, and if they did he could help them to sell classified information they might obtain to people who were interested in buying that kind of information. In January 2017 he was interviewed by the FBI who knew at that point that he was the “Primary Sub-source” for Christopher Steele — the sole conduit through which the information from a “network of sub-sources” inside Russia was supplying information on connections between Donald Trump, the Trump Campaign, and Russian government actors.
Olga Galkina was a Russian living and working in Cyprus, where she was employed by an affiliate of XBT Holdings, which owned and operated the web hosting service Webzilla, and which was owned by a Russian named Aleksej Gubarev. Galkina and Danchenko had been friends since the equivalent of 8th grade in the Russian city Perm where they both grew up. Some of the most significant allegations against Trump and the Trump campaign in the Steele Dossier are traced to “Sub-source 3”, including the claims that Michael Cohen traveled to Prague to meet with Russian government officials to coordinate Russian efforts in support of the Trump campaign, as well as allegations that Carter Page, while a Trump campaign official, had met with a high-level Kremlin official Igor Diveykin, Russia’s deputy chief for internal policy, while visiting Moscow to give a speech in July 2016.
But according to the WSJ, Galkina had moved to Cyprus in the early fall of 2016.
Apparently, firing an employee in Cyprus can be a challenging effort as her manager felt the need to go to the police in the Cypriot city where she worked to file a police report regarding her misconduct. His reason for going to the police was that he’d been told — by whom he does not say — that he could be killed if he did not pay Galkina 10,000 Euros.
According to the WSJ, when Danchenko was interviewed by the FBI and asked about Galkina, he disputed the manner in which Steele had characterized some of the things that he had told Steele based on information he received from Galkina.
That the Steele reports were a pathetic excuse to simply pursue baseless claims against the Trump Administration has become more and more clear almost from the moment the Reports were made public by Buzzfeed. The fact that the press, FBI, and DOJ was not able to make that judgement YEARS AGO is an indictment of all of them for their own corruption.
If Joe Biden wins next week while the press ignores the fact that he’s a business partner with the malign foreign communist government in China, the time of US ascendency in the world will have drawn to a close.
The United States press has turned itself into the “Pravda” of our time.
https://redstate.com/shipwreckedcrew/2020/10/28/a-key-source-for-steele-dossier-was-an-alcoholic-female-lawyer-living-in-cyprus-who-hed-known-since-8th-grade-n271212