Carter Page – FBI Spy

Lew references a bombshell revelation, that Carter Page was an FBI spy. I find that this source tells the story in a reasonably clear way.

It’s truly shocking and it’s news we haven’t heard before. Page worked for the FBI to trap a Russian spy. “The same John P Carlin who, together with the FBI counterintelligence unit, conscripted Carter Page as an FBI Under-Cover Employee, gains a guilty plea [against the Russian target], then turns around and six months later accuses Page of being a Russian Spy.”

The reason for this about-face was to make the case for a FISA warrant that allowed the FBI to spy on the Trump campaign. Page was a convenient link. Never expecting this major corruption ever to see the light of day, the FBI people involved simply used Page.

While the preceding is fact, I will now indulge in a theory that presents itself to me. In reading Page’s biography as presented in Wiki, I cannot help wondering if Page was a CIA asset too for a long time. More generally, a reader comments, he could have been an intelligence agent for any one of the numerous such outfits in Washington (17?). He could have been a State Department operative or an NSA operative or Navy intelligence. A lot of his life points in that direction. Look at his education and positions around the time he graduated. He worked “as a researcher for the House Armed Services Committee. He served in the U.S. Navy for five years, including a tour in western Morocco as an intelligence officer for a United Nations peacekeeping mission, and attained the rank of lieutenant. In 1994, he completed a MA degree in National Security Studies at Georgetown University.” He’s intimate with intelligence and national security issues. He goes on to the Council of Foreign Relations and gets an MBA. He gets a job at Merrill Lynch in London and then becomes a vice-president in their Moscow office. I suspect he was recruited to work for U.S. intelligence at that time (2000) because “Page’s work in Moscow was at a subordinate level, and he himself remained largely unknown to decision-makers.” He has a perfect cover. Furthermore, after forming his own investment fund after returning to New York, it engages in no projects. Page becomes known for being critical of U.S. policy toward Russia and supportive of Putin. I cannot help thinking that this is a ruse to gain the confidence of Russians so that he can spy on them. It would also not surprise me if the FBI had no idea of a connection with the CIA. The Russians might well suspect Page of being a CIA or other U.S. intelligence asset and string him along to feed him misleading information.

The above is total spinning of a theory. There has been no revelation, not even a hint of a suggestion of the above link to the CIA, that I know of. We are hearing bizarre news all the time, so why not spin a plausible possibility? I am certain that Carter Page would vigorously deny ever working for the CIA if he read this, and I could not dispute it. I present it mainly to suggest that we do not have the tools of knowledge really to gauge the realities in the world of intelligence operations that now engulfs government. We have to imagine possible scenarios.

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5:23 pm on October 22, 2018