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We are getting a few more insights into what the FBI knows. The FBI successfully spied on the Russians, captured Russians talking about the Americans they were dealing with.
Former Trump adviser duped by Russian spies
Rachel Maddow describes how former Donald Trump foreign policy adviser Carter Page was unwittingly recruited and cultivated as an asset by Russian spies, as outlined in a new report from Buzzfeed News. Duration: 22:02
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L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)WOW --- Page has volunteered to help Senate investigators in their inquiry.
WOW 2.0 --- Page is the first direct link between Trump and Russian spies.
A former campaign adviser for Donald Trump met with and passed documents to a Russian intelligence operative in New York City in 2013.
The adviser, Carter Page, met with a Russian intelligence operative named Victor Podobnyy, who was later charged by the US government alongside two others for acting as unregistered agents of a foreign government. The charges, filed in January 2015, came after federal investigators busted a Russian spy ring that was seeking information on US sanctions as well as efforts to develop alternative energy. Page is an energy consultant.
A court filing by the US government contains a transcript of a recorded conversation in which Podobnyy speaks with one of the other men busted in the spy ring, Igor Sporyshev, about trying to recruit someone identified as Male-1. BuzzFeed News has confirmed that Male-1 is Page.
The revelation of Pages connection to Russian intelligence which occurred more than three years before his association with Trump is the most clearly documented contact to date between Russian intelligence and someone in Trumps orbit. It comes as federal investigators probe whether Trumps campaign-era associates including Page had any inappropriate contact with Russian officials or intelligence operatives during the course of the election. ................
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Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)all the republican traitors should be shipped off to freaking Siberia for their treachery against the USA.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)"Mr. Podobnyy called Mr. Page an idiot but said he was enthusiastic."
By ADAM GOLDMAN
April 4, 2017
The businessman, Carter Page, met with one of three Russians who were eventually charged with being undeclared officers with Russias foreign intelligence service, known as the S.V.R. The F.B.I. interviewed Mr. Page in 2013 as part of an investigation into the spy ring, but decided that he had not known the man was a spy, and the bureau never accused Mr. Page of wrongdoing.
The court documents say that Mr. Page, who founded an investment company in New York called Global Energy Capital, provided documents about the energy business to one of the Russians, Victor Podobnyy, thinking he was a businessman who could help with brokering deals in Russia.
In fact, Mr. Podobnyy was an S.V.R. officer posing as an attaché at the Russian mission to the United Nations.
Court documents do not identify Mr. Page, but the details in a statement he emailed to reporters on Tuesday match the individual described as Male-1 in the court case. .......
......Evgeny Buryakov, in the guise of being a legitimate banker, gathered intelligence as an agent of the Russian Federation in New York, Preet Bharara, the United States attorney in Manhattan at the time, said in a statement after Mr. Buryakovs sentencing.
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L. Coyote
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(51,129 posts)jmg257
(11,996 posts)L. Coyote
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(11,996 posts)jmg257
(11,996 posts)The spies were busted, and reads like he was involved.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Reports are indicating he is now cooperating with the FBI investigation of #TrumpRussia. It is possible he was a foreign intelligence investigation target before he became a Trump advisor, that would not be surprising given this history. The FBI may have been watching him as a Russian spy suspect when Trump announced he was Trump's foreign policy advisor.
jmg257
(11,996 posts)L. Coyote
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(51,129 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)It sucks having republican traitors in positions of power.