NYT: U.S. Spies Paid $100,000 to Russian Claiming to Have Damaging Info on Trump - Breitbart
Description: American spies, while trying to recover stolen NSA hacking tools, paid a Russian claiming to have damaging information about Donald Trump.
Keywords: Donald Trump, NSA, Russia,Big Government, National Security, Tech,trump
Date: 2018-02-10T09:39:11-08:00

# NYT: U.S. Spies Paid $100,000 to Russian Claiming to Have Damaging Info on Trump

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by Breitbart News 10 Feb 2018 0

10 Feb, 2018 10 Feb, 2018

## Matthew Rosenberg writes at the New York Times that American spies, while trying to recover stolen NSA hacking tools, paid a Russian claiming to have damaging information about Donald Trump:

> After months of secret negotiations, a shadowy Russian bilked American spies out of $100,000 last year, promising to deliver stolen National Security Agency cyberweapons in a deal that he insisted would also include compromising material on President Trump, according to American and European intelligence officials.

> The cash, delivered in a suitcase to a Berlin hotel room in September, was intended as the first installment of a $1 million payout, according to American officials, the Russian and communications reviewed by The New York Times. The theft of the secret hacking tools had been devastating to the N.S.A., and the agency was struggling to get a full inventory of what was missing.

> Several American intelligence officials said they made clear that they did not want the Trump material from the Russian, who was suspected of having murky ties to Russian intelligence and to Eastern European cybercriminals. He claimed the information would link the president and his associates to Russia. Instead of providing the hacking tools, the Russian produced unverified and possibly fabricated information involving Mr. Trump and others, including bank records, emails and purported Russian intelligence data.

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