How United States intelligence agencies can find out what Trump discussed with Putin in Helsinki

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The Donald and Vlad in Helsinki
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How United States intelligence agencies can find out what President Trump discussed privately with Russian President Putin.

 

Besties out for a ride
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The United States’ top-secret Special Collection Service has extraordinary capabilities to “hoover” up intelligence from foreign adversaries.

 

President Donald Trump’s insistence on holding a one-on-one meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin hobbled United States intelligence agencies that would usually get an intimate look at such a sit-down, but American spooks still have extraordinary capabilities to piece together what was discussed.

 

Say what?
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Key is the existence of the top-secret Special Collection Service which which specializes in tapping adversaries’ communications on the fly.

 

For example, those of Putin’s entourage at recent summit in Helsinki Finland between United States President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

 

Under virtually any other president, audio and video recordings of such a critical event would be a given, especially if there was not a top aide in the room specifically there to take detailed notes. 

 

Never trust and instead always verify
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Privately, however, sources familiar with American intelligence capabilities expressed confidence that the Special Collection Service scooped up not only Putin’s readout of the two-hour meeting, but also what the Kremlin’s top spymasters really think about it – and how they are spinning things to their foreign counterparts.

 

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