Russian and Chinese spies may have tried to infiltrate Trump's Mar-A-Lago home for 'top-secret documents', ex-FBI agent says

Russian and Chinese spies may have tried to infiltrate former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence, a former Federal Bureau of Investigation official has said. kept top secret documents kept there. .

What Happened: Former FBI Counterintelligence Deputy Director Peter Strzok - who was once fired for writing anti-Trump text messages on his business phone - on a show with MSNBC on Sunday, said, "not just the Russians, any relevant foreign intelligence service, whether it's those belonging to China, those belonging to Iran, Cuba, including certainly Russia, are all - were interested, and are interested in having access to Mar-a-Lago."

He added that it is "particularly concerning" that there was "an absolute lack of any kind of control or remembering of who had access to Mar-a-Lago at some time."< /p>

According to Strzok, whether or not the top-secret documents were kept on the property, it was still very likely that foreign intelligence agents had attempted to infiltrate Trump's residence during and after his tenure as President.

"And that's absolutely the kind of thing that the American intelligence community and the FBI, in particular, are going to be concerned about: trying to establish who had access to the land, who had access to this storage area and what they need to do to mitigate any type of damage that may have occurred,” he added.

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