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The U.S. in 2017 extracted a Kremlin source high-level enough to provide photos of documents on Putin's desk, because of fears that Donald Trump was going to disclose their identity to the Russians: edition.cnn.com/2019/09/09/pol…
"The impact would be huge because it is so hard to develop sources like that in any denied area, particularly Russia, because the surveillance and security there is so stringent," said former senior intelligence official. "You can't reacquire a capability like that overnight."
"Weeks after the decision to extract the spy, in July 2017, Trump met privately with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit in Hamburg and took the unusual step of confiscating the interpreter's notes."
