The CIA has kidnapped Russia's spy who unveiled Putin's role in the 2016 US election campaign

The CIA has obtained information from a senior government source confirming that President Vladimir Putin played a direct role in the interference in the 2016 election campaign in the United StatesUS media reported Monday night.

The source or "topo"What? had been providing information for decadesHe had access to Russian President Vladimir Putin and sent high-level documents from the Russian president's office, the channel said on Monday. CNN.

The channel said that The spy was kidnapped from Russia in 2017 because of the concern that President Donald Trump or his firm could expose him to repeated mismanagement of clbadified information.

The decision to proceed with the extraction of the "mole" was taken shortly after a meeting held in May 2017 at the Oval office, during which Trump discussed highly confidential information information with the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Sergey Kislyak, Russian Ambbadador to Washington.

The CNN reserve several details on the spy to reduce the risk of identification of the person. But some Russian media have already abandoned that name. In parallel, information appeared on the Russian telegram chains they could talk about Oleg Smolenkov, an employee of the presidential administration, went on vacation to Montenegro with his family in June 2017 and disappeared without a trace.

Oleg Smolenkov worked in the Kremlin administrationbut has been fired for several years, said this morning the spokesman of the President, Dmitry Peskov.

according to NBC, informant lives near Washington under his own name and is protected by the United States Government.

The CIA refuted the report. Brittany Bramell, Director of Public Relations, said CNN: "The speculations that the treatment by our president of sensitive intelligence information, which he has access every day, led to an extraction operation, are erroneous."

The CIA proposed the extraction of the end of 2016 but the informant initially refused to allege family reasons, he informed The New York Times

This shot Fears that the informant, who was not identified, would have become Double agentAlthough months later, he gave in, the newspaper added.