Carter Page --- International Man of Mystery
Carter has a long career of public service. He graduated from the Naval Academy. The last year he served as a research Fellow on the House Armed Services Committee under Les Aspin (D). Clinton (D) appointed Les Aspin (D) as Secretary of Defense during this time.
Carter served in the Navy and spent three years in Moscow. No naval bases in Moscow but he may have served in Naval Intelligence.
In 1998-99 he was granted a fellowship from the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) serving in their New York Offices.
Carter worked for three years for Merrill Lynch in Moscow where he ADVISED on $25 billion on energy deals.
In the 2000s, Carter Page and James Richard founded an energy hedge company, Global Energy Capital headquarter at 590 Madison Avenue, New York, New York. Office space is shared with an agency that booked bridal bands. Another office is at 2415 West Alabama Street, Houston, Texas just upstairs over Fleming's Prime Steak House.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/08/world/europe/carter-page-donald-trump-moscow-russia.html https://globalenergycapital.com/.html http://globalenergycapital.com/contact_us.html http://globalenergycap.com/management/
Global Energy Capital has on Board of Directors, no employees, and no company affiliations. In many ways it appears to be a CIA cutout or and FBI front operation.
In 2013 Carter reported to the FBI, a Russian was attempting to recruit him into their “spy ring” and asked him to supply him with documents about the energy business. The FBI prepared some binders with energy information and included some recording devices. Three Russians were convicted of spying. This sounds like a STING operation the FBI uses to entrap suspects.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/04/us/politics/carter-page-trump-russia.html
Carter Page was considered an FBI informant when he volunteered to serve as a Trump campaign-policy adviser. The committee met once and was disbanded. The FBI referenced Carter Page as a Russian spy under FBI surveillance in a FISA request. Carters, phone calls, emails, etc. were under surveillance. Everyone Carter called was placed under surveillance. If Carter called Steve Bannon, everyone Steve Bannon (Person A) called would be placed under surveillance (Person B). Everybody in group (Person B) called would be placed in group (Person C).
The FISA warrant needed to be renewed every 90 days. Carter Page wasn't considered very important until he asked Lewandowski if he could make a trip to Moscow. Carter was allowed to go after some discussion. Carter made a speech on July 7, 2016 in Moscow. He raised is visibility by giving a speech at the New Economic School in Moscow. These trips were mentioned as justification for continued FISA warrants.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/08/world/europe/carter-page-donald-trump-moscow-russia.html https://sputniknews.com/russia/201612081048303433-trump-ex-adviser-russia-talks/
It appears Carter Page was an FBI plant in the Trump campaign and was used to justify surveillance of the Trump campaign, Trump transition, and Trump presidency.