Top US intelligence officials believe that Russian strongman Vladimir Putin was personally involved in the secret Russian campaign to tilt the US presidential election toward Donald Trump, NBC News reported on Wednesday.

Two senior officials with direct access to the information told the network that new intelligence shows with “a high level of confidence” that Putin directed how hacked material from Democrats was leaked and otherwise used.

The blockbuster development came from information supplied by diplomatic sources and spies working for American allies, the officials told NBC.

Putin’s motive began as a vendetta against Hillary Clinton for her tough stance on Russian aggression while she was secretary of state.

But it morphed into an effort to discredit the US political system and to “split off key American allies by creating the image that [other countries] couldn’t depend on the US to be a credible global leader anymore,” the official said.

According to the CIA, the Russians also wanted to elect Donald Trump — a view that the FBI and others in the intelligence community have not fully bought into.