US President Donald Trump’s foreign policy adviser during his election campaign met with a Russian intelligence operative in 2013 and provided him documents about the energy industry, according to a FBI court filing.
Russian spy Victor Podobnyy attempted to recruit Carter Page as an intelligence source in 2013, about three years before Trump listed him as a foreign policy adviser, according to the sealed FBI complaint.
Page, an energy consultant working in New York City at the time, acknowledged in a statement on Monday that he shared with Podobnyy “basic immaterial information and publicly available research documents.”
According to the complaint filed in 2015, the FBI interviewed Page as part of an investigation stemming from the indictment of three Russian spies working for the Russian overseas intelligence agency.
Page served briefly as a foreign policy adviser to Trump’s presidential election campaign, though he resigned from the campaign…