Just the News published declassified FBI informant-handling reports that, in Solomon’s telling, cover Halper’s tasking from August 2016 into early 2017 and use the codename “Mitch.” The pieces describe recordings of Carter Page denying Steele-dossier claims, FBI-provided questions and cover, and a wider set of campaign names than the public first heard. Conservative Treehouse (25 Feb 2021) recapped the Solomon packet. Those are reports about documents. They are not a conviction.
A later Just the News article by Jerry Dunleavy and John Solomon described newly declassified memos on concerns and payments, including language that the source was motivated in part by “monetary compensation.” This draft did not independently open the underlying FBI PDF to verify headline totals. Per the research file, do not treat a payment headline as a Fact sentence. The existence of handling reports is the documented claim here. The exact multi-decade dollar figure stays in the news story until the PDF is checked.
No original Deep Capture investigation and no standalone OANN article with a stable unique URL were located in this pass. They are omitted, not invented.