In the United States, the CIA exfiltrated the agent who implicated Putin in the Russian interference file

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According to CNN, this person who had worked for the Americans for several decades had direct access to Vladimir Putin and provided images of documents photographed in secret on the president's desk.

Also according to the channel, this agent was exfiltrated from Russia in 2017 for fear that US President Donald Trump or his administration will betray him in one of their untimely revelations of classified information.

According to New York Times, the CIA had proposed to her source to bring her out of Russia by the end of 2016, but she refused by invoking family problems. The US secret service then began to fear a double agent, fears that proved unfounded several months later when the source gave way.

The informant, whose name has not been disclosed, has proved to be a key source of information for US services, who have concluded that Vladimir Putin directly orchestrated Russian interference in Donald Trump and at the expense of his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential election, the Times continues.

According to the New York daily, the informant also directly implicated Putin in the hacking of the mail server of the National Democratic Committee, which had revealed a huge amount of embarrassing messages for the Clinton camp.

The exfiltrated agent was, according to the Times, the most valuable source of the CIA in Russia and his flight from the country prevented US intelligence from knowing about the Kremlin's activities during the mid-term elections in the United States. 2018, and during the preparations for the 2020 presidential election.

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