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FBI declassifies spreadsheet used to try to corroborate Steele dossier

The FBI declassified a spreadsheet that the bureau used in trying to review allegations put forth in the salacious and unverified anti-Trump dossier authored by ex-British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, which further revealed that the bureau had little corroboration of the claims.

Fox News obtained the document, which spans over 94 pages, and was declassified by the FBI on Oct. 8, as part of the latest directive from President Trump to declassify all documents related to the Trump-Russia investigation.

The document, according to sources familiar, was used in an effort to figure out which Steele allegations the bureau could corroborate.

Set up like a spreadsheet, the document shows information put forth by Steele in the left-hand column, and “Corroboration/Analyst Notes” in the right-hand column.

For example, Steele put forth an allegation that Trump had stayed in the “Presidential Suite” of the Moscow Ritz-Carlton, but the spreadsheet notes that “there is no confirmation that Trump stayed here,” and that “there is no ‘Presidential Suite’ currently listed on the Ritz Carlton website.’”

Multiple allegation entries were submitted without any corroboration or analyst notes in the left-hand corner, however, some of the analyst notes revealed that the allegations were put forth by Steele’s “primary sub-source.”