REPORT: Intel chiefs tell Trump that Russian operatives claim to have compromising information on him



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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump listens to questions from reporters while appearing with Alibaba Executive Chairman Jack Ma after their meeting at Trump Tower in New York, U.S., January 9, 2017.REUTERS/Mike Segar
Russian operatives claim to have compromising personal and financial information on President-elect Donald Trump, US intelligence officials told the incoming president in a classified briefing last week, according to CNN.
The intelligence officials gleaned their information from a former British intelligence operative who provided the FBI with a series of memos in August 2016 detailing how Russia has tried to cultivate Trump for at least five years.
The British spy's findings were summarized in a two-page synopsis that was appended to the US intelligence agency's report on Russia's interference in the 2016 election, CNN said.
Only President Barack Obama, Trump, and the Congressional "Gang of Eight" received the version of the report with a summary of the British operative's memos. 
The operative collected the information from Russian intelligence sources while he was doing opposition research for a project financed by anti-Trump Republicans. The information that the operative collected indicated that Russia had compromising information both Trump and Clinton but only chose to release information that was potentially damaging to the Clinton campaign.


CNN said that it is working to confirm the details contained in the memos composed by the unidentified British operative, who is apparently considered trustworthy by US intelligence officials. 
Mother Jones reported on the British spy's work on the alleged Trump-Russia connection in October, and apparently obtained the first memo written by the British operative that was based on conversations the operative had had with Russian intelligence sources.
The memo claimed that the Trump campaign and the Kremlin had established an "exchange of information" of "mutual benefit," and that Russian intelligence had "compromised" Trump during his visits to Moscow and could "blackmail him."
The Kremlin, the memo read, "has been cultivating, supporting and assisting TRUMP for at least 5 years," Mother Jones reported. "Aim, endorsed by PUTIN, has been to encourage splits and divisions in western alliance." 
In October, Nevada Senator Harry Reid wrote an open letter to FBI Director James Comey calling on him to release the "explosive information" he possesses about the "close ties and coordination between Donald Trump, his top advisors, and the Russian government -- a foreign interest openly hostile to the United States."  
When asked about reports that Trump's campaign had contact with Russia during the election, Comey told the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on Tuesday that he could "not comment in an open forum" on whether his agency is pursuing an investigation into the alleged ties.
Carl Bernstein, who contributed reporting to CNN's story on the British spy's revelations,tweeted in December that it is "essential for citizens/Congress to know holdings and debts and partners in Russia (especially) of Donald Trump and his companies."
Trump said frequently during the campaign that he supported mending ties with Russia. Recently, he said that the US intelligence community should "move on" from its focus on the hacks targeting the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign chairman, John Podesta.
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情报局认为俄罗斯同时黑了川普的竞选委员会，了解很多跟川普有关的黑材料。
以便川普访俄的时候好黑川普，从而让川普成为俄罗斯的傀儡。
什么情况？如果事情属实，这真是要搞死川普的节奏。
难道真会有大事情发生？