Not only did the complaint and other documents reviewed by Insider say the agent’s superiors ordered him to stop working on these leads, but they also said the superiors ordered, in early 2022, that the FBI informant who had provided the best intelligence on Giuliani’s activities be “closed” — cut off from further FBI contact. The statement said the order came from the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force, a headquarters-based unit established by Director Christopher Wray in 2017 and charged with combating foreign influence.