The Guardian learned the role of British intelligence in Trump's connections with Russia

The Government Communications Center (Government Communications Headquarters, GCHQ, British electronic intelligence) warned the US special services about Donald Trump's contacts with Russia before the US president.

About this, citing sources in the intelligence of Great Britain, reports The Guardian. According to the newspaper, the British intelligence service informed the Americans about the "suspicious connections" of people from Trump's entourage at the end of 2015.

The source of the publication emphasized that Gchq did not conduct targeted monitoring of Trump, the service intercepted negotiations as part of the usual observation of Russian intelligence.

In the first half of 2016, as the newspaper writes, the special services of Poland, Estonia and Germany received certain information about the negotiations of people from the Trump’s election headquarters.

As the sources of The Guardian said, the FBI and the CIA were hesitated to do this information. Partly notes the newspaper, this is due to the legislation of the United States, which does not allow to check private contacts without a warrant.

“It seems that the special services [US] were sleeping. They [European agencies] said: “There are contacts between people from the encirclement of Trump and Russia, you must worry about it,” explained one of The Guardian sources.

At the same time, the interlocutors of the newspaper in the special services of the United States and Great Britain noticed that it was the data from GCHQ that gave an impetus to the FBI investigation about the ties of the Trump team with Russia. One of the sources called the British special service the “main informant” in this matter.

In March 2017, the FBI director James Komi confirmed that the bureau is investigating the possible connections of the Trump campaign with the Russian Federation. Earlier, the American media have repeatedly reported such an investigation. In particular, The New York Times wrote that Trump’s headquarters contacted Russian intelligence during the election period.

About checking the possible contacts of three Trump assistants with the Russian authorities, which is conducted by US intelligence services, was also reported at the beginning of the year.

Washington claims that Moscow and personally Russian President Vladimir Putin are standing for election hacker attacks in the United States. The Kremlin rejects these accusations.