A recently released public version intelligence report said that British intelligence provided a vital tip off to the United States government about the extent of Russian hacking on the Presidential election.

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The report said that the United Kingdom was involved in the affair after US intelligence agencies published an unclassified version of their findings that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a multi-faced operation to interfere on the elections in Donald Trump's favor.

Citing two people familiar with the conclusions of the report, media in the United States reported that British intelligence was among the first to raise the red flag in 2015 that Russia had hacked the Democratic National Committee's servers.

The British spies realized that email exchanges between senior Democrats had been compromised when voice intercepts, computer traffic, or intelligence agents picked up the content of the emails flowing towards Russia.

Acoording to the report, British intelligence agencies and their US counterparts were alarmed over the extent of contacts between Trump's advisers and Russia. Furthermore, the president-elect's consistent pro-Russian stance on several foreign policy issues also raised alarms.

However, Trump's subsequent win in the elections has put the intelligence officials in a difficult position, as Theresa May's government is keen to solidify relations with the incoming US government.

In pursuit of that end, the UK government took the unusual position of lambasting US Secretary of State John Kerry's denunciation of Israel, even though his comments were a close reflection of the UK's longstanding policy on the Middle East crisis.

According to the public version of the report, "...Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the US Presidential election."

The report goes on to say that Putin developed a preference for Trump because of "many positive experiences working with Western political leaders whose business interests made them more disposed to deal with Russia." Such leaders include former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder.

A classified version of the report has been prepared for the US Congress, while a top secret version has been presented to President Barack Obama.

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