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Side by side: Transcript of "Witness Name Redacted" is FBI Agent Michael Gaeta?
From pages 10 and 11 in the transcript of "Witness Name Redacted"
A…: "So Chrislopher Steele was one of these individuals. I met him with Bruce. The first time, I believe, was the spring of 2010, was when I met Christopher Steele.
Q: Prior to that meeting in – your first meeting with Christopher Steele
in spring of 2010, had you had any communications with Mr. Steele?
A: No.
Q: Just Mr. Ohr told you about him?
A He had told me about him in lead up to the introduction and the meeting, which happened in London. Again, I think it was April. I don't know exactly the date. But spring of 2010.
Q: But it was in London?
A: Yes.
Q: Okay. Anyone else there, just you and Mr. Steele?
A: Mr. Steele, myself, Bruce Ohr. I can't recall if there were - I can't recall if anyone else was there.
Q: You don't remember. It's pretty easy. What happened at this meeting in London in April of 2O1O?
A: So at this meeting I was induced to Christopher Steele
https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/wnr56.pdf
Buried in IG Report: How an FBI Team in Rome Gave Steele Highly Guarded Secrets
It was in the context of the FIFA investigation that Steele met FBI agent Michael Gaeta in 2010. Gaeta was in charge of a team fighting Russian organized crime. When the bureau’s reliance on the Steele dossier first became public in 2017, press reports claimed that Steele’s contributions to the soccer probe proved he was reliable. However, the IG report summarizes the views of a case agent and a prosecutor who said, “Steele did not have any role in the [FIFA] investigation itself, he did not provide court testimony, and his information did not appear in any indictments, search warrants, or other court filings.”
Nonetheless, between 2014 and 2016, Steele collected $95,000 from the bureau for his work on the FIFA case and reports on corruption in Russia and Ukraine.
His paymaster was Gaeta, referred to in the Horowitz report as “Handling Agent 1.” So when Steele and Simpson decided to approach the FBI to promote a conspiracy theory about Trump and Russia, Gaeta was the natural contact. Steele met with Gaeta in London on July 5, 2016 and presented him with a tantalizing preview of the “dossier.” This first installment included the lurid “pee tape” story – the salacious rumor that Trump had paid Russian prostitutes to urinate on a Moscow hotel bed the Obamas had slept on.
By September Steele had given the FBI the bulk of his Trump-Russia reports. That led to the meeting in Rome on October 3 between Steele and several agents from the Crossfire Hurricane team, as the IG report describes them: “Case Agent 2,” a “Supervisory Intel Analyst,” and an “Acting Section Chief,” together with Gaeta.
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2020/02/13/buried_in_ig_report_fbi_gave_steele_highly_protected_secrets_122394.html
https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/wnr56.pdf