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These recently declassified footnotes raise another issue of significant concem: what other parts of the FBI's investigation were infected by Russian disinformation? For example, one footnote explains that Russian Intelligence Services targeted Steele's company for penetration.
Another footnote shows that, as early as October 2016 and the same time it was preparing its first FISA application, the FBI became aware that one of Steele 's key sources was either a Russian intelligence officer or otherwise linked to Russian intelligence. In other words, the FBI knew that Russian intelligence was targeting Christopher Steele's company, that Steele relied on sources affiliated with Russian intelligence, and at least two of Steele's reports were described as the product of a Russian disinf ormation campaign. Because these facts show the intention, means, and ability to plant Russian disinformation in Steele's reporting, they suggest that the prevalence of such disinformation in the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane investigation may have been widespread.
For these reasons, please provide the following no later than April 30, 2020:
l. All intelligence records (e.g., reporting, products, memoranda, etc.), foreign or domestic, received or reviewed by the Crossfire Hurricane team.
° For any such intelligence record no longer in FBI's possession, please identify the record, the entity that provided the record, and the date of FBI's review.
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All FBI records (e.g., 302s, ECs, etc.) addressing these intelligence products;
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A list of all intelligence records requested but not received or reviewed by the Crossfire Hurricane team.
Please send all unclassified material directly to each Committee. In keeping with the requirements of Executive Order 13526, if any ofthe responsive documents do contain classified information, please segregate all unclassified material within the classified documents, provide
all unclassified information directly to each Committee, and provide a classified addendum to the Office of Senate Security. Although our Committees comply with all laws and regulations goveming the handling of classified information, they are not bound, absent prior agreement, by any handling restrictions.
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