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WASHINGTON Ever since F.B.I. investigators discovered in 2013 that a Russian spy was trying to recruit an American businessman named Carter Page, the bureau maintained an occasional interest in Mr. Page. So when he became a foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign last year and gave a Russia-friendly speech at a prestigious Moscow institute, it soon caught the bureaus attention.
That trip last July was a catalyst for the F.B.I. investigation into connections between Russia and President Trumps campaign, according to current and former law enforcement and intelligence officials.
It is unclear exactly what about Mr. Pages visit drew the F.B.I.s interest: meetings he had during his three days in Moscow, intercepted communications of Russian officials speaking about him, or something else.
After Mr. Page, 45 a Navy veteran and businessman who had lived in Moscow for three years stepped down from the Trump campaign in September, the F.B.I. obtained a warrant from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court allowing the authorities to monitor his communications on the suspicion that he was a Russian agent.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/19/us/politics/carter-page-russia-trump.html?_r=0
tanyev
(42,541 posts)kentuck
(111,076 posts)Did he visit Moscow before he came to the Republican Convention or afterwards? He has admitted on TV that he met the Russian ambassador in Cleveland at the Convention.
HAB911
(8,876 posts)After Mr. Page, 45 a Navy veteran and businessman who had lived in Moscow for three years stepped down from the Trump campaign in September, the F.B.I. obtained a warrant from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court allowing the authorities to monitor his communications on the suspicion that he was a Russian agent.
kentuck
(111,076 posts)The article says he made a trip to Moscow in July but it doesn't say if it was the beginning of the month or the end of the month?
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I Googled the Convention in Cleveland and it ended on July 22nd. I assume Carter Gray went to Moscow earlier in the month?