[reasonisfaith]

The name “Carter Page” sounds like something you’d make up for yourself if you were going to become a spy.

[GOPJ]

"I shared basic immaterial information and publicly available research documents with Podobnyy who then served as a junior attaché at the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the United Nations.” Mr. Page, who at the time was also teaching a course on energy and politics at New York University, said in his statement that he had given the Russian “nothing more than a few samples from the far more detailed lectures I was preparing at the time for the students.”

Maybe the FBI had the goods on Carter Page and forced him into an "undercover" position ... the above sounds like an excuse he rehearsed over many long years... LOL - You're right about the name ... sounds fake.

[GOPJ]

"I shared basic immaterial information and publicly available research documents with Podobnyy who then served as a junior attaché at the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the United Nations.” Mr. Page, who at the time was also teaching a course on energy and politics at New York University, said in his statement that he had given the Russian “nothing more than a few samples from the far more detailed lectures I was preparing at the time for the students.”

Maybe the FBI had the goods on Carter Page and forced him into an "undercover" position ...

Was Page a minor 'bad guy' who the FBI used as undercover in exchange for not arresting him? Then his 'good guy' exterior would be covering an opportunist a 'bad guy'? That would explain the mixed feeling about the guy. He wasn't originally on the side of 'good' he was reluctantly recruited?

Think a small time con artist who when caught either goes to jail or wears a wire when talking with the mob... or in this case the S.V.R. Foreign Intelligence Service (Russia)