Looks like someone had a crystal ball about Trump or another reason caused the CIA to try and extract the asset in 2016.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/09/us/politics/cia-informant-russia.html
I guess we can give a big shout out to CNN. Looks like they are helping Russia in America's efforts to gather intelligence on Russia.
"James R. Clapper Jr., the former director of national intelligence who left office at the end of the Obama administration, said he had no knowledge of the decision to conduct an extraction.
But, he said, there was little doubt that revelations about the extraction were “going to make recruiting assets in Russia even more difficult than it already is.” "