ian fleming could but i digress writing for the intercept james rosen outlines how the n.s.a. was desperate to recover documents that intelligence officials believe russia had obtained through a mysterious group known as the shadow brokers but once the communications channel open the russians on the other side offered to sell documents related to trump along with these stolen and this a documents risin goes on to write how the cia was wary of accepting the trump documents initially worried about not only the motives behind the offer but the potential political blowback as well meanwhile over of the new york times matthew rosenberg reported that after months of secret negotiations a shadowy russian built american spies out of one hundred thousand dollars last year and that the episode ended this year with american spies chasing the russian out of western europe a spy story told by a rise in the story didn't mention the hundred grand both stories ultimately concluded that the russia russian go between offering all the info could not be relied upon or trusted but i guess that did