FBI intelligence asset made contact with Russia-linked Trump operatives: Washington Post report

An FBI intelligence asset made contact with members of the Trump campaign who were linked to Russia, the Washington Post reported Friday night.

The Post confirmed the identity of an agent, who was described only as a retired American professor.

The person approached an adviser to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign at British university and started chatting with Carter Page, one of Trump's foreign policy advisers with deep ties to Russia.

Trump has claimed that the "Obama FBI" put a spy inside his campaign.

Page talked to The Post and said that he didn't know he was talking to a spy.

“There has been some speculation that he might have tried to reel me in,” Page told The Post.

The Post's reporters say that many questions about the spy's contacts with Russia need to be determined.

"It is unclear how he first became involved in the case, the extent of the information he provided and the actions he took to obtain intelligence for the FBI. It is also unknown whether his July 2016 interaction with Page was brokered by the FBI or another intelligence agency," they write.

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