REPORTS have emerged that US intelligence agencies were investigating the existence of more than one sordid tape allegedly involving President-elect Donald Trump. BBC foreign correspondent Paul Wood claimed CIA sources had indicated to him last year that they had been informed of tapes in both Moscow AND St Petersburg. 1 Earlier Trump hit out at the claims he had been compromised on video as "sick and fake" Credit: Getty Images He said: “I used an intermediary to pass some questions to active duty CIA officers dealing with the case file – they would not speak to me directly. “I got a message back that there was ‘more than one tape’, ‘audio and video’, on ‘more than one date’, in ‘more than one place’ – in the Ritz Carlton in Moscow and also in Saint Petersburg. “And that the material was ‘of a sexual nature’.” The CIA were said to have indicated that the information telling them of the existence of the tapes was “credible”. Earlier Trump hit out at the claims he had been compromised on video as "sick and fake".

"A thing like that should have never been written, it should never have been had, and it should certainly never have been released," he said.

"It's all fake news. It's phony stuff. It didn't happen."

"I am extremely careful.... I was in Russia years ago, with the Miss Universe contest, which did very well," he said.

"And I told many people, 'Be careful, because you don't want to see yourself on television. Cameras all over the place."

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He then added, seemingly to counter the dossier's description of salacious sex videos featuring prostitutes: "I'm also very much of a germophobe, believe me."

Russian President Vladimir Putin earned a high-five from Trump for denying any links to the explosive dossier.

"You know, President Putin and Russia put out a statement today that this fake news was indeed fake news. They said it totally never happened..... I respected the fact that he said that."

CNN first reported Tuesday that US intelligence chiefs had briefed Trump on the most troubling parts of the Russia dossier, which had been circulating in Washington.

The spy agencies took the first blast: "I think it was disgraceful -- disgraceful that the intelligence agencies allowed any information that turned out to be so false and fake out," Trump charged. "I say that that's something that Nazi Germany would have done."

Trump clashed openly with CNN's correspondent, telling him: "You are fake news."

But he reserved his harshest words for BuzzFeed, which published the unverified 35-page report in full: "As far as BuzzFeed, which is a failing pile of garbage, writing it, I think they're going to suffer the consequences."