American spies delivered a suitcase with $100,000 in cash last year to a murky Russian operative in exchange for unverified information on President Donald Trump, the New York Times reported on Friday, Feb. 9, citing anonymous American and European intelligence officials.
The Russian received the U.S. taxpayer cash in a Berlin hotel room in September as the first installment on the $1 million price tag set for what he claimed would be compromising material on the U.S. president and a collection of NSA and CIA hacking tools stolen in 2016.