(CNN) President Donald Trump assembled a cadre of advisers in the Oval Office in January to discuss the FBI's crumbling and outdated headquarters. His FBI head, chief of staff and budget director, and the government's head of property management had just huddled and decided to rebuild -- instead of relocating or renovating -- the bureau's central offices.

Three months later, one of the meetings' attendees avoided telling Congress about Trump's involvement, the inspector general for the General Services Administration concluded Monday. GSA Administrator Emily Murphy's answers were "incomplete" and may have been misleading, according to the IG report.

The investigation had been requested by Rep. Gerry Connolly, a Virginia Democrat who asked for a look into "the agency's abrupt decision to abandon longstanding plans" to relocate the FBI headquarters.

"Murphy told us that she believed her answers to Representative Quigley were truthful. We agree that her responses were literally true," the report reads. "However ... her testimony was incomplete and may have left the misleading impression that she had no discussions with the President or senior White House officials in the decision-making process about the project."

A spokeswoman for the GSA focused on the first, rather than second, part of the inspector general's conclusions.

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