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Steele said MI6 gave consent to him working with IG
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IG did not review all material collected under FISA
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CHS operations were NatSec extraterritorial (needs higher approval per FBI manuals)
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USG agency not running Mifsud as asset, but no derogatory info either
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A "senior intelligence official" was present at a meeting on July 27 2016, providing the FFG information on Papadopoulos (likely in London)
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Evidence Chris Steele lied by denying he thought he was an official CHS, as payments to him had CHS's "Payment Name"
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A 2015 report written by FBI's TOCI Unit on 10 Russian oligarchs noted between Jan-May 2015 "5 of these had their intermediaries contact Steele". These were "outreach efforts" by Steele with the Oligarchs. Gaeta was AWARE of these efforts and Oligarch contacts!
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"Sensitive source" reporting from June 2017 indicated that a "person affiliated" with Russian Oligarch 1 (Oleg Deripaska) was "possibly aware" of Steele's election investigation as of early July 2016
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Confirmation none of Steele's sources from his time at MI6
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Info about Person 1 (assessed as being Sergei Millian), still heavily redacted
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Confirmation of reports given by Gaeta to Steele.
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A number of these reports do not appear in the BuzzFeed published dossier - e.g. 132, 137 and 139.
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Steele report "139" (not published by BuzzFeed), says that "Person 1 [Sergei Millian] was forced to lie low abroad following his/her exposure in the western media and was currently in [redacted]"….
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…Report 139 being about Person 1 (Sergei Millian) suggests Steele kept giving reports to FBI/Gaeta AFTER being terminated by an FBI CHS as Millian was only identified in the WSJ in early 2017. Also, Steele appears to know Person 1's location
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The FBI wanted FISA surveillance in place on Page before Mon Oct 17 due to his upcoming travel to the U.K and South Africa.
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Sally Yates authorized overseas surveillance of Carter Page.
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MI6 said Steele was only in a "moderately senior" position, which contradicted the "high ranking" position suggested by Steele to the FBI.
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Person 1 info still redacted
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Person had contact with suspected Russian intelligence persons and entities
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During a London meeting with MI6, Bill Priestap (who authorized opening the CH probe) "may have made a commitment to MI6 not to document [MI6s] views on Steele as a condition for obtaining the information"
The FBI DID NOT WANT anything derogatory in writing🚨
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Steele's Primary Sub Source did NOT view his/her contacts as a "network of sources, but rather as FRIENDS with whom he/she has conversations about current events & government relations"
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Page/Sechin meeting allegation came from source linked to RUS intel🚨
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In late Jan 2017, FBI aware that Russian intel may have targeted Steele's company Orbis [redacted] and research all publicly available information about it [redacted].
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By early June 2017 US Intel Community report indicated two persons affiliated with Russian intelligence were aware of Steele's election investigation in early July 2016 [Note: one of these may be the same person linked to Oleg Deripaska mentioned in FN211]