Russiagate docs declassified by Trump show Steele dossier source supplied by impeachment witness Fiona Hill

A trove of documents declassified by President Donald Trump ahead of his White House departure shows that Fiona Hill, a former National Security Council staffer and witness during his first impeachment, connected British spy and FBI asset Christopher Steele to his primary dossier source.

The documents show that Hill, a Russia expert, introduced Steele to his primary sub-source in 2011 after the FBI had initiated an investigation to determine if he was linked to Moscow’s intelligence services, Just the News reported.

Among the declassified documents is a 26-page report “showing that the sub-source had been the focus of an FBI counterintelligence probe back in 2009-11 and that the bureau assessed he had posed a possible national security threat to the U.S. and had Russian intelligence,” the outlet reported.

The bureau sought to obtain a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant against the sub-source, an Eastern-Europe-born academic employed by the left-leaning policy think tank the Brookings Institute, but he left the U.S. The FBI ended its investigation at that point.

“The primary sub-source was introduced to STEELE and ORBIS by FIONA HILL in or around 2011,” said the report “… Emphasizing the sensitivity, STEELE explained that Hill now worked for the National Security Council. HILL has a very high opinion of the primary sub-source.”

Later, Steele told Hill that the sub-source she introduced him to provided content for the ‘Russia dossier,’ which contained debunked, salacious claims about Trump that he would later leak to the media and which was reportedly used by the FBI to open its counterintelligence investigation into Trump’s 2016 campaign.

“STEELE said FIONA HILL knows that the primary sub-source was involved in the dossier,” said the report, which went on to note that the former British spy went to Hill in early 2017 after he became concerned...



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