ALEXANDRIA, Virginia — The FBI set up an immunity agreement with British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s main source shortly before the bureau made Igor Danchenko a paid confidential informant in early 2017, special counsel John Durham’s trial revealed.
Danchenko was on the FBI's payroll as a confidential human source from March 2017 to October 2020, as shown by Durham in court filings, before he was charged in November 2021 with five counts of making false statements to the bureau. He has pleaded not guilty, and his lawyers claim the FBI will praise his work for the bureau.
The judge ended up siding with Durham’s team and shot down Danchenko’s argument. “I think the jury does need to be told something," Judge Anthony Trenga said before they walked in. Durham repeated that the jury should be instructed to disregard the Danchenko lawyer’s claims. The agreement was signed between Danchenko, his former defense lawyer Mark Schamel, and David Laufman, the now-former chief of the counterintelligence and export control section within the National Security Division at the Department of Justice. The letter was signed Jan. 24, 2017, the first day in three consecutive days of interviews the FBI had with Danchenko at the time.
According to Durham, Danchenko anonymously sourced a fabricated claim about Trump 2016 campaign manager Paul Manafort to Charles Dolan, a Clinton ally who spent years, including 2016, doing work for Russian businesses and the Russian government.
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