JUST IN: Soros’ Stunning Links To ‘Russiagate’ Exposed After Bombshell Declassification

More details are emerging about the contents of “burn bags” found in a secret FBI room this week, including evidence that allegedly links prolific Democratic donor George Soros to the Trump-Russia hoax.

Soros, 94, has been a boogeyman to conservatives for decades, and his impression has been left on nearly every corner of the Democratic Party. That may include an alleged conspiracy by members of the Obama administration to hamstring President Donald Trump with skewed or false U.S. intelligence tying him to Russian forces during the 2016 election.

This week, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and FBI Director Kash Patel announced that a classified appendix from special counsel John Durham’s report on Russiagate had been found inside “burn bags” contained in a sensitive compartmentalized information facility, or SCIF, rooms that are meant for lawmakers to receive classified briefings.

The previously unknown room was found in the bowels of the Bureau’s headquarters by members of Patel’s team. Inside, bags marked for destruction were found, some of which tie Soros’s Open Society Foundation to a plan by the FBI to spread the baseless Trump-Russia rumors before the agency even began its “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation into the allegations.

The annex of Durham’s report contains what U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley (R-IA) called “one of the biggest political scandals and cover-ups in American history.”

A source told Fox News that, while information contained in the appendix is unclear about what type of intelligence collection on Trump and Russia was being done, it described “with alarming specificity” the actions that would later be taken by the FBI.

Also in the appendix, they said, is information tying Soros’ Open Society Foundation to foreign sources where some of the claims originated about Trump’s connections to Russia.

The appendix stated that Russian hackers broke into the Open Society Foundation’s email servers in 2016.

“Two of the apparently hacked emails appear to have originated from the Open Society Foundations,” the appendix states, noting that the author of the Soros foundation’s emails was Leonard Bernardo, who was the regional director for Eurasia at the Open Society Foundations.

“During the first stage of the campaign, due to lack of direct evidence, it was decided to disseminate the necessary information through the FBI-affiliated…technical structures… in particular, the Crowdstrike and ThreatConnect companies, from where the information would then be disseminated through leading U.S. publications,” Bernardo reportedly wrote in an email, per the appendix.

“The media analysis on the DNC hacking appears solid…. Julie (Clinton Campaign Advisor) says it will be a long-term affair to demonize Putin and Trump. Now it is good for a post-convention bounce,” Bernardo allegedly wrote, per the appendix. “Later the FBI will put more oil into the fire.”

Another email reportedly from Bernardo states: “HRC (Hillary Rodham Clinton) approved Julie’s idea about Trump and Russian hackers hampering U.S. elections.”

“This should distract people from her own missing email, especially if the affair goes to the Olympic level,” Bernardo continued, per the annex. “The point is making the Russian play a U.S. domestic issue. Say something like a critical infrastructure threat for the election to feel manic since both POTUS and VPOTUS have acknowledge the fact IC would speed up searching for evidence that is regrettably still unavailable.”

Just days later, the FBI’s “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation opened on July 31, 2016, Fox News reported.

The appendix also states that members of Durham’s team interviewed numerous FBI agents involved in Crossfire Hurricane and believed Bernardo’s emails to be “likely authentic.”

Durham’s appendix also states that the Clinton campaign “might have wanted or expected the FBI or other agencies to aid that effort (“put more oil into the fire”) by commencing a formal investigation of the DNC hack.”

Other documents reviewed by Durham’s team and listed in the annex allegedly describe how the Clinton campaign sought to tie Trump to Russia and expected help in that effort from the office of the vice president, the FBI, and other parts of the intelligence community.

“The Office’s best assessment is that the … emails that purport to be from Bernardo were ultimately a composite of several emails that were obtained through Russian intelligence hacking of the U.S.-based Think Tanks, including the Open Society Foundations, the Carnegie Endowment, and others,” the Durham annex states.

“It is a logical deduction (redacted) (Julianne) Smith was, at minimum, playing a role in the Clinton campaign’s efforts to tie Trump to Russia,” Durham writes, also noting that the communication reviewed “certainly lends at least some credence that such a plan existed.”

Durham concluded that the FBI “failed to act” on a “clear warning sign” that it was being co-opted by a Clinton-led campaign to smear Trump before the 2016 election.