British intelligence services reportedly provided a major tip-off to the United States in 2015 about cyber operations to interfere in the November presidential election.
The UK’s involvement came to light after the US intelligence community published an unclassified version of a report that accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of ordering a multi-pronged operation to influence the election.
In their report released on Friday, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the National Security Agency (NSA) concluded that the Russian government “sought to help” Republican Donald Trump by hacking various Democratic Party organizations and operatives as well as running a smear campaign against his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton.
Citing “two people familiar with the conclusions” of the assessment, The New York Times reported that British intelligence was “among the first” to alert their American…