advisor to the kremlin. first reported this weekend at "time magazine" in august 2013 carter page wrote a letter in a dispute over a manuscript they didn't publish, but in it he bragged to them in this letter over the past half year, i had the privilege to serve as an informal advisor to the staff of the kremlin. august 2014. two months before then, june 2013 is when the fbi paid a visit to carter page two counter intelligence officers from the fbi visiting him in person to tell him he had been handing documents over to a russian spy ring in new york city trying to recruit him. now, you would expect that, you know, that the outcome of a visit like that from the fbi might be to make a person feel very self-conscious, worried or mortified in a sense they had