Kash Patel Found Sensitive Trump-Russia Probe Docs Inside 'Burn Bags' In Secret Room At FBI Office

Last Updated:July 31, 2025, 12:33 IST

The "burn bag" system is designed to securely dispose of documents marked classified or higher.

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FBI Director Kash Patel has uncovered several “burn bags" containing thousands of classified documents related to the bureau’s Trump-Russia investigation, known internally as ‘Crossfire Hurricane’. These bags, typically used for destroying sensitive documents, were discovered in a concealed room within the FBI headquarters in Washington, DC.

Among the contents was a 29-page classified annex to a 2023 report by special counsel John Durham. This report examined the origins and reasons behind the FBI’s 2016 investigation into potential connections between Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia.

The “burn bag" system is designed to securely dispose of documents marked classified or higher.

“Just think about this," Kash Patel mentioned in a podcast interview with Joe Rogan last month. “Upon my arrival at the bureau, I discovered a room that [former FBI Director James] Comey and others had kept hidden in the Hoover Building, filled with documents and computer hard drives that no one had previously seen or heard of."

This secret appendix, previously undisclosed, contains intelligence from foreign sources warning that the FBI might propagate a false narrative about Trump colluding with Russia, prior to the official launch of Crossfire Hurricane in July 2016.

Currently, the documents are undergoing declassification in coordination with top Trump-era officials, including CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Director of Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and NSA Acting Director William Hartman.

Once declassified, the annex will be handed over to Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley for public release.

A source informed Fox News that the intelligence, though ambiguous at the time, “predicted the FBI’s next move with alarming specificity."

“The release of the classified annex will ultimately lend more credibility to the assertion that there was a coordinated effort within the US government to help the Clinton campaign create controversy linking Trump to Russia," the source said.

Earlier this month, Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, released new materials alleging that the Obama administration was prepared to conclude its findings on Russian interference until Comey’s FBI steered the investigation in a different direction. This claim has been denied by former intelligence chiefs John Brennan and James Clapper.

In a New York Times op-ed, Brennan and Clapper asserted that Russia did interfere in the 2016 election to influence voter preferences and criticised what they described as a distortion of intelligence by Trump-era officials.

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