Posted originally on CTH on July 28, 2025 | Sundance

This is interesting because the possibilities of the “credible foreign source” are quite extensive.

According to information just surfacing from leaks inside the IC to Fox News [Article Here], a foreign source told U.S. intelligence the FBI was going to work with Hillary Clinton to promote a bogus Trump-Russia claim.

Taking the pertinent excerpt from the article: “U.S. intelligence had credible foreign sources indicating that the FBI would play a role in spreading the salacious Trump-Russia collusion narrative—before the bureau ever launched its controversial Crossfire Hurricane probe, sources familiar with the intel told Fox News Digital.”

“[…] A source familiar with the contents of the classified annex told Fox News Digital that while it may not have been exactly clear in the moment what the intelligence collection meant, with the benefit of hindsight, it predicted the FBI’s next move “with alarming specificity.”

“Ultimately, the release of the classified annex will lend more credibility to the assertion that there was a coordinated plan inside the U.S. government to help the Clinton campaign stir up controversy connecting Trump to Russia,” the source, who was granted anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence matters that have not yet been made public, told Fox News Digital.

“Mere days after this intelligence was collected, the FBI launched Crossfire Hurricane,” the source said. “It’s really hard to see how Brennan, Clapper and Comey are going to be able to explain this away.” (link)

Expanding to read between the lines.

The information coming to “U.S. Intelligence” from the “foreign sources” almost certainly indicates the receiving intelligence agency was the CIA.  Put into context with the other information, the likely Occam’s Razor of this information is that THIS INTELLIGENCE underpinned former CIA Director John Brennan’s need to brief President Obama.

Essentially, a credible foreign intelligence source was telling the CIA in the summer of 2016, the FBI was going to work in coordination with the Clinton campaign to smear candidate Donald Trump.

That “credible foreign intelligence source” could have been from the U.K, Australia, Italy, Israel or even Russia itself.

However, we must consider that John Durham traveled to Italy as part of his investigation; although everyone (at the time) thought Durham was looking for Professor Joseph Mifsud.  Durham told congress he never found Mifsud, so that leaves multiple possibilities remaining.

If Director Ratcliffe declassifies the name of this source (big ‘if), that means the govt of the source being described is okay with it; or the source is dead, and we don’t care about the issue.  If Ratcliffe only describes the source (without name), that likely means the asset is still active.

Who could it be?  Just about any one of the names we have discussed, or it could be someone we don’t know.

Heck, it could be Chris Steele himself (UK), Alexander Downer (Australia), Or…. My best guess would be the credible foreign source is a little reported Russian Deputy Attorney General named Saak Albertovich Karapetyan – who was working as a double agent for the CIA and Kremlin.

Why would it be him?  Well, Karapetyan was directing the foreign operations of Natalia Veselnitskaya, and Glenn Simpson was organizing her inside the U.S as part of his Trump-Russia creation.

Glenn Simpson managed Veselnitskaya through the 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Donald Trump Jr. However, once the CIA/Fusion GPS operation using Veselnitskaya started to unravel with public reporting, back in Russia Deputy AG Karapetyan died in a helicopter crash.

It would make sense that Karapetyan was telling the CIA what was happening with the Clinton campaign, Fusion GPS and Glenn Simpson, Nellie Ohr’s boss.  It is also likely (based on the relationship) that Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson would tell Karapetyan about his work with Chris Steele on the dossier against Trump, and that encompasses the FBI connection.

Saak Albertovich Karapetyan would be my guess for who the “credible foreign source” would be to tip-off the CIA about what Clinton and the FBI were doing.   That tip then leads Brennan to brief Obama.  It all just makes sense.

Regardless, we could soon find out who that was.

In the final analysis, this is a very explosive issue.  If the “credible source” (Karapetyan) was telling “U.S Intelligence” (CIA) that the FBI was working in coordination with the Clinton campaign on the Trump-Russia smear, and then the exact behaviors of the prediction come true, then John Brennan has no excuse for his willfully blind assertions to everyone.

A very interesting development.