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EXCLUSIVE: Steele Source Had Meeting In Russia At Crucial Point In Dossier Saga

A deputy director at Russia's ministry of energy confirmed to me he met with Igor Danchenko and a journalist several days before the first memo of the dossier. dailycaller.com/2020/08/07/igo…
The journalist is Ivan Vorontsov, an editor for a Russian banking magazine.

Vorontsov posted on Facebook that he met with Danchenko and the Russian official ahead of the SPIEF forum.
Vorontsov also posted that Danchenko was his outlet's "special correspondent" at a Nov. 2018 Russia-British business forum.

Danchenko's name tag listed his affiliation as Sidar Global Advisers, but the owner of that firm tells me they didn't send Danchenko there.
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SOURCE OF INTRIGUE:
The FBI memo of interviews with Igor Danchenko sheds light on the sourcing for the Steele dossier. But it also provides contradictions about the involvement of Sergei Millian, who was reported to be a key dossier source. dailycaller.com/2020/07/29/ser…
Millian was identified by WSJ and ABC News on Jan. 24, 2017 as a key source for the dossier's most explosive claims (the pee tape, etc.). That happened to be the same day that Danchenko met the FBI.

The question: why was Millian identified early on but not Danchenko or others?
The main inconsistency is that Steele told the FBI and *someone* told the media that Millian was a source for the pee tape claim. But Danchenko told the FBI he isn't even sure if he spoke w/ Millian, and if he did, it was a month after Steele wrote the pee tape memo.
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Red Flags In FBI Memo About The 2 Sources Of Information About Carter Page In The Dossier

"Source 3" was the same source behind the debunked Cohen-Prague claim, which may be Russian disinfo.

"Source 5" had a Russian 'kurator,' or handler. dailycaller.com/2020/07/20/ste…
According to @danielhoffmanDC, the former CIA station chief, the FBI memo lends further credence to the disinformation theory.

He noted that the memo says Steele communicated w/ his primary source by Skype, app and phone.
Another significant revelation -- Steele's primary collector told the FBI that he did not tell Steele that "Source 5" had a Russian 'kurator.'

This shows Steele did not have great insight into his sourcing chain
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