US spies made a deal last year with a seller to provide them with their stolen cyber-weapons, but what they eventually received was compromising material on President Donald Trump, according to American and European intelligence officials.
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as well as the National Security Agency (NSA) was engaged in top-secret negotiations last year with a “Russian intermediary,” to recover their classified hacking tools.
The man promised the US spies to provide them with the full NSA cache, stolen back in 2016, sources said. He also reportedly offered some revelations that he claimed could shed light on Trump’s presidential campaign’s alleged ties with Moscow.
The “Russian” was acting as a middle-man and initially demanded $10 million for the trove, but later slashed the price down to $1 million, the Times wrote, citing unnamed intelligence officials.
The US spies reportedly made it clear that they did not…