Alnur Mussayev, former head of Kazakhstan's security services and ex-KGB officer, claims Trump was recruited as a Soviet asset in 1987.
Mussayev stated Trump was given the code name "Krasnov" and was considered "ideally recruitable."
The article references the controversial "Steele dossier" that alleged Russia had compromising material on Trump.
Yuri Shvets, a former KGB major, also claimed Trump was "cultivated as a Russian asset" who parroted anti-Western propaganda.
According to the article, Trump first came to Russian attention in 1977 when he married Ivana Zelnickova, a Czech model.
The article alleges Czech intelligence spied on Ivana and her father in cooperation with the KGB.
The narrative suggests Trump purchased 200 TVs for his Grand Hyatt hotel from Semyon Kislin, described as a "spotter agent" for the KGB.
Trump and Ivana's 1987 first visit to Moscow and St. Petersburg is portrayed as a turning point where Trump was allegedly fed KGB talking points.
The article cites declassified Prague files claiming Czech spies monitored the couple in Manhattan.
Author Craig Unger noted the recruitment wasn't planned decades in advance, but rather part of widespread Soviet recruitment efforts targeting "dozens and dozens of people."
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America is doomed, and currently it seems Australia is going to be taken down with them.
trump despite telling the American population he's a nationalist and for the american people, is in bed with Chinese and Russian powers behind to benefit himself.
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