Carter William Page (born June 3, 1971) is an American petroleum industry consultant and former foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump during the 2016 Presidential election campaign. Page is founder and managing partner of Global Energy Capital, investment and consulting firm a one-person investment specializing in Russian and Central Asian oil and gas business. He has been the focus of investigation of the 2017 Special Investigation into relations between Trump's colleagues and Russian officials and Russian interference on behalf of Trump during the 2016 Presidential election.
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Life and career
Carter Page was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on June 3, 1971, the son of Allan Robert Page and Rachel (Greenstein) Page. His father is from Galway, New York, and his mother is from Minneapolis. His father is a manager and executive with Central Hudson Gas & amp; Electricity company. Page grew up in Poughkeepsie, New York, and graduated from Our Lady of Lourdes Poughkeepsie High School in 1989.
Page graduated in 1993 from the United States Naval Academy; he is a Distinguished Graduate (top 10% in his class) and selected for the Navy Trident Scholar program, which provides an opportunity for selected officers for independent academic research and study. During his senior year at the Naval Academy, he worked in the office of Les Aspin as a researcher for the House Armed Services Committee. He served in the US Navy for five years, including a tour of western Morocco as an intelligence officer for the UN peacekeeping mission. In 1994, he completed his Master of Arts degree in National Security Studies at Georgetown University.
Education and business
After leaving the Navy, Page completed a fellowship on the Council on Foreign Relations and in 2001 he received a Master of Business Administration degree from New York University. In 2000, he began working as an investment banker with Merrill Lynch in the company's London office, was a vice president at Moscow corporate office, and later served as COO for Merrill Lynch's energy department and power in New York. Page has stated that it works on transactions involving Gazprom and other leading Russian energy companies. According to businesspeople interviewed by Politico by 2016, Page's work in Moscow is at the subordinate level, and he himself remains unknown to decision makers.
After leaving Merrill Lynch in 2008, Page set up its own investment fund, Global Energy Capital with partner James Richard and former middle-level Gazprom executive Sergei Yatsenko. This fund operates outside the workspace with Manhattan along with booking agents for wedding bands, and by the end of 2017, Page is the company's sole employee. Another entrepreneur working in the Russian energy sector said in 2016 that the fund has not really materialized a project.
Page received his Ph.D. in 2012 from SOAS, University of London, where she is overseen by Shirin Akiner. His doctoral dissertation on the transition of Asian countries from communism to capitalism was rejected twice before being accepted by new examiners. One of the original inspectors then said Page "knows nothing" about the subject matter and is unfamiliar with "basic concepts" such as Marxism and state capitalism. He tried unsuccessfully to publish his dissertation as a book; a reviewer describes it as "very analytical, just throwing a lot of stuff out there with no real arguments." The page blamed the rejection of anti-Russian and anti-American bias. He then runs an international affairs program at Bard College and teaches courses on energy and politics at New York University. In recent years, he has written a column in the Global Policy Journal , a publication from Durham University.
Foreign policy and links to Russia
In 1998, Page joined the Eurasia Group, a strategy consulting firm, but left three months later. In 2017, Eurasia Group president Ian Bremmer recalled his Twitter feed that a strong pro-Russian stance from PT "did not fit" for the company and that Page was his "most wackadoodle" alumnus. Stephen Sestanovich then described Page's overseas views as "dizzyingly dizzying haters" and sympathy for criticism of Russian leader Vladimir Putin against the United States. Over time, Page has become increasingly critical of US foreign policy towards Russia, and more in favor of Putin, with a US official who describes Page as "a bold apologist for whatever Moscow does". This page is often quoted by Russian state television, where it is presented as a "famous American economist". In 2013, Russian intelligence agents tried to recruit Page, and one of them described him as enthusiastic about business opportunities in Russia but "idiot". The news accounts of 2017 show that because of this association with Russia, Page has been the subject of a warrant under the Foreign Intelligence Oversight Act (FISA) in 2014, at least two years earlier than indicated in the story of his role in Donald's Presidential Campaign Trump 2016.
Trump 2016 presidential campaign
Page served as foreign policy adviser in Donald Trump's 2016 Presidential campaign. In September 2016, US intelligence officials investigated alleged contacts between Page and Russian officials imposed on US sanctions, including Igor Sechin, president of Russia's state-run Rosneft oil conglomerate. After news reports began to appear depicting the Page link to Russia and Putin's government, Page fell out of its role in the Trump campaign.
Shortly after Page resigned from the Trump campaign, the Federal Bureau of Investigation obtained another warrant (he submitted to the beginning in 2014) from the United States Foreign Intelligence Supervisory Court (FISC) in October 2016 to oversee Page's communications. To issue a warrant, a federal judge concluded there was a possible cause for believing that Page was a foreign agent who was consciously involved in secret intelligence for the Russian government. The initial 90 day warrant is then updated more than once. The New York Times reported on May 18, 2018 that the supervisory warrant expires sometime around October 2017.
In January 2017, Page's name appeared repeatedly in the "Trump-Russian/Steele document" which allegedly a close interaction between the Trump and Kremlin campaigns. At the end of January 2017, Page was under investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, the Director of National Intelligence, and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. Page is not accused of any wrongdoing.
The Trump Administration tries to distance itself from Page, saying that he has never met Mr. Trump or advised him of anything, but the December press conference in December 2016 in Russia contradicts the claim that Page and Trump have never met. Page responded to a question about his contact with Trump who said, "I've been in a number of meetings with him and I've learned a lot from him." Page testified before the intelligence committee that he was keeping senior officials in Trump campaigns such as Corey Lewandowski, Hope Hicks, and J.D. Gordon told about his contacts with Russia.
In October 2017, Page said he would not cooperate with a request to appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee and would affirm the Fifth Amendment right against the allegations. He said this because they asked for the document dating back to 2010, and he did not want to get caught in a "fake oath trap". He expressed a desire to testify before the committee in an open atmosphere.
Testimony of House Intelligence Committee
On November 2, 2017, Page testified to the House Intelligence Committee that he had told Jeff Sessions, Corey Lewandowski, Hope Hicks and other Trump campaign officials that he traveled to Russia to give a speech in July 2016.
Page testified that he had met with Russian government officials during this trip and had sent a post-meeting report via email to members of the Trump campaign. He also pointed out that co-chairman Sam Clovis's campaign had asked him to sign a non-disclosure agreement on his journey. The elements of the Testimonial page are contrary to previous claims by Trump, Session, and others in the Trump administration. Lewandowski, who previously denied knowing Page or met him during the campaign, said after Page's testimony that his memory was refreshed and admitted he had known Page's travel to Russia.
Page also testified that after delivering his opening speech at the New Economy School in Moscow, he spoke briefly with one of the people present, Arkady Dvorkovich, Deputy Prime Minister in Dmitry Medvedev's cabinet, contrary to previous statements that did not speak to anyone. connected with the Russian government. In addition, when Page rejected a meeting with Sechin as alleged in the Trump-Russian document, he said he met Andrey Baranov, head of investor relations Rosneft. The document alleges that Sechin offers Page broker fees from sales of up to 19 percent from Rosneft if he works to replay the economic sanctions the Magnitsky Act has imposed on Russia in 2012. It also alleges that Page is confirmed, to Trump "full of authority", that this is what Trump means. Page testified that he did not "directly" express support for sanctioning during a meeting with Baranov, but he may have mentioned Rosneft's proposed deal.
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See also
- Michael Flynn
- Paul Manafort
- Roger Stone
References
External links
- globalenergycap.comÃ, - Global Capital Energy Site
- Former Trump advisor says that he has not had a Russian meeting in the past year on YouTube, February 15, 2017 PBS NewsPage interview
- Testimony from Carter Page, US Household Special Elections Committee on Intelligence, November 7, 2017
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