The report also noted that of the four Trump aides who initially came under investigation, only Page was placed under national security surveillance. Foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos, national security adviser Michael Flynn and campaign chairman Paul Manafort were not.
Page and Manafort, however, were already under investigation even before the FBI probe got underway. Page was the subject of an ongoing counterintelligence investigation opened by the FBI's New York Field Office in April 2016, relating to his contacts with suspected Russian intelligence officers, the report said. Manafort was under an ongoing criminal investigation, supervised by the Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section in the Department's Criminal Division, concerning millions of dollars he received from the government of Ukraine.
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