Chuck Ross
Investigative Reporter
January 21, 2021 10:23 AM ET
A Trump administration official was a key link between Christopher Steele and his primary source for his dossier on Donald Trump, according to newly declassified documents.
Fiona Hill, who served as a witness at the Trump impeachment hearings in 2019, introduced Steele and his eventual source, Igor Danchenko, in 2011, according to FBI notes.
Hill told Congress that she saw the dossier before it was published, and was “shocked†to learn that Steele had written it. She also said she was concerned that Steele had been snookered by Russian disinformation.
Hill did not reveal how deeply she was connected to Steele or the dossier.
Fiona Hill, a top Russia expert in the Trump administration, was the person who introduced former British spy Christopher Steele to a former think tank analyst who would serve as the primary source for an infamous dossier he compiled on President Donald Trump, according to newly declassified FBI notes.
Hill, who was the director for Russia and Eurasia on the National Security Council during most of the Trump administration, introduced Steele in 2011 to Igor Danchenko, according to a summary of Steele’s interviews with the FBI in September 2017.
Hill kept secret her role introducing Steele and Danchenko all throughout her tenure in the Trump administration, as well as during congressional testimony she gave as part of the Trump impeachment hearings in November 2019.
Hill’s role in linking Steele to Danchenko was revealed on Tuesday, with the declassification of notes from interviews that Steele had with investigators working for the special counsel’s office in September 2017.
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