哈萨克斯坦前克格勃局长声称川普1987年被克格勃雇佣 代号Krasnov
原文：
https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/breaking-crosspost-donald-trump-was?utm_campaign=post&fbclid=IwY2xjawInKLVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHVGL3-dTDMhzKXJzR-CCmOcgs38MLJwnvjyGucXBpi1aT0Ds4M0mmifKjg_aem_qGEsx5__yyxhnvAkJS8-gg
《前苏联间谍局长声称：唐纳德·川普曾被克格勃雇佣 代号‘Krasnov’ 》（Krasnov为俄文姓，也有“美人”之意）
《BREAKING CROSSPOST: Donald Trump Was Recruited by the KGB Under Codename ‘Krasnov’ Claims Former Soviet Spy Chief》
In an extraordinary post on Facebook on 20 February, Alnur Mussayev – who used to run the successor to the Soviet-era KGB in Kazakhstan – claimed that he was personally aware of Trump’s recruitment by the agency in 1987.
The recruitment, he said, was undertaken by his own KGB department. One of the key roles of that department was to acquire intelligence through business leaders in Western countries.
“In 1987, I served in the 6th Directorate of the KGB of the USSR in Moscow. The most important area of work of the 6th Directorate was the recruitment of businessmen from capitalist countries”, wrote Mussayev in a Russian language post on Facebook.
“It was that year that our Office recruited 40-year-old businessman from the United States, Donald Trump, under the pseudonym ‘Krasnov’”.
网上英文报道一大堆，包括推特/X 上的这份：
https://twitter.com/anthony7andrews/status/1893303762422206758
爆料人 Alnur Mussayev （此人目前居住在奥地利维也纳）的脸书网页同样有此内容，见：
https://www.facebook.com/alnurKZ
In 1987, I served in the 6th Directorate of the USSR KGB in Moscow. The most important direction of the work of the 6th Administration was the recruitment of businessmen from capitalist countries.
It was that year that our administration recruited a 40-year-old businessman from the United States, Donald Trump under the pseudonym "Krasnov".
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In 1987, I worked in the 6th Department of the KGB of the USSR in Moscow. The most important area of work of the 6th Department was the acquisition of spies and sources of information from among businessmen of capitalist countries. It was in that year that our Department recruited the 40-year-old businessman from the USA, Donald Trump, nicknamed "Krasnov".
Donald Trump is on the hook of the FSB and swallowing the bait deeper and deeper. This is evidenced by numerous indirect facts published in the media. There is such a concept as object credibility. Based on my experience of operational work at the KGB-KNB, I can say for sure that Trump belongs to the category of perfectly recruited people. I have no doubt that Russia has a compromise on the President of the United States, that for many years the Kremlin promoted Trump to the position of President of the main world power.
还有这篇文章：https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/donald-trump-recruited-by-kgb-under-codename-krasnov-rumor 提到共产党国家捷克斯洛伐克的安全局 StB 1985-1986年曾经调查川普时的文件档案照片：
“Jaroslav Jansa's StB Security File
As the rumors of Donald Trump's alleged recruitment by the KGB spread, an image of an StB security file on Trump made by the Státní bezpečnost, which was the Czechoslovak political police, an intelligence service, spread online. The file was reportedly made against Trump by the intelligence service when they were investigating him, as reported by The Guardian[10] in October 2018.
The file was mistaken by some as being made by Trump as the rumors spread, however, this is not evidence of his being a spy, but rather, evidence he was being spied on.
这是关于川普1980年代应访问纽约的苏联官员邀请并付费的莫斯科之行，并企图在莫斯科建造豪华旅馆的报道及照片：
英国《经济时报》（The Economic Times) 杂志的文章报道 ：
“Donald Trump’s Russian Spy Connection”，
其中提到俄罗斯一名间谍参加了川普的总统就职典礼：
参看：
人类历史上最伟大的间谍——川普
川普政府对俄乌战争的政策大大伤害了美国利益
乌美相争 五毛雀跃 共狗俄贼欢呼高潮叫床
川普是否目的就是制造混乱以毁西方助俄国
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《前苏联间谍局长声称：唐纳德·川普曾被克格勃雇佣 代号‘Krasnov’ 》（Krasnov为俄文姓，也有“美人”之意）
《BREAKING CROSSPOST: Donald Trump Was Recruited by the KGB Under Codename ‘Krasnov’ Claims Former Soviet Spy Chief》
In an extraordinary post on Facebook on 20 February, Alnur Mussayev – who used to run the successor to the Soviet-era KGB in Kazakhstan – claimed that he was personally aware of Trump’s recruitment by the agency in 1987.
The recruitment, he said, was undertaken by his own KGB department. One of the key roles of that department was to acquire intelligence through business leaders in Western countries.
“In 1987, I served in the 6th Directorate of the KGB of the USSR in Moscow. The most important area of work of the 6th Directorate was the recruitment of businessmen from capitalist countries”, wrote Mussayev in a Russian language post on Facebook.
“It was that year that our Office recruited 40-year-old businessman from the United States, Donald Trump, under the pseudonym ‘Krasnov’”.
网上英文报道一大堆，包括推特/X 上的这份：
https://twitter.com/anthony7andrews/status/1893303762422206758
爆料人 Alnur Mussayev （此人目前居住在奥地利维也纳）的脸书网页同样有此内容，见：
https://www.facebook.com/alnurKZ
In 1987, I served in the 6th Directorate of the USSR KGB in Moscow. The most important direction of the work of the 6th Administration was the recruitment of businessmen from capitalist countries.
It was that year that our administration recruited a 40-year-old businessman from the United States, Donald Trump under the pseudonym "Krasnov".
-
In 1987, I worked in the 6th Department of the KGB of the USSR in Moscow. The most important area of work of the 6th Department was the acquisition of spies and sources of information from among businessmen of capitalist countries. It was in that year that our Department recruited the 40-year-old businessman from the USA, Donald Trump, nicknamed "Krasnov".
Donald Trump is on the hook of the FSB and swallowing the bait deeper and deeper. This is evidenced by numerous indirect facts published in the media. There is such a concept as object credibility. Based on my experience of operational work at the KGB-KNB, I can say for sure that Trump belongs to the category of perfectly recruited people. I have no doubt that Russia has a compromise on the President of the United States, that for many years the Kremlin promoted Trump to the position of President of the main world power.
还有这篇文章：https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/donald-trump-recruited-by-kgb-under-codename-krasnov-rumor 提到共产党国家捷克斯洛伐克的安全局 StB 1985-1986年曾经调查川普时的文件档案照片：
“Jaroslav Jansa's StB Security File
As the rumors of Donald Trump's alleged recruitment by the KGB spread, an image of an StB security file on Trump made by the Státní bezpečnost, which was the Czechoslovak political police, an intelligence service, spread online. The file was reportedly made against Trump by the intelligence service when they were investigating him, as reported by The Guardian[10] in October 2018.
The file was mistaken by some as being made by Trump as the rumors spread, however, this is not evidence of his being a spy, but rather, evidence he was being spied on.
这是关于川普1980年代应访问纽约的苏联官员邀请并付费的莫斯科之行，并企图在莫斯科建造豪华旅馆的报道及照片：
英国《经济时报》（The Economic Times) 杂志的文章报道 ：
“Donald Trump’s Russian Spy Connection”，
其中提到俄罗斯一名间谍参加了川普的总统就职典礼：
参看：
人类历史上最伟大的间谍——川普
川普政府对俄乌战争的政策大大伤害了美国利益
乌美相争 五毛雀跃 共狗俄贼欢呼高潮叫床
川普是否目的就是制造混乱以毁西方助俄国
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我不知烂川是不是普俄细作, 因为调查被他阻止了. 但普俄几乎对他有求必应, 而他也在台面上与普俄打配合.
第五集 俄罗斯，你听到了吗？ https://youtu.be/T1nRH3mh14w
都是四年前的旧视频, 有兴趣的人可以看下回顾视频.
2020 美国大选系列 https://youtube.com/watch?v=he-ripb3lhc&list=PLcczAuNJMkmI_ZULck-s_JBmwyJmP0lDY
第五集 俄罗斯，你听到了吗？ https://youtu.be/T1nRH3mh14w
都是四年前的旧视频, 有兴趣的人可以看下回顾视频.
2020 美国大选系列 https://youtube.com/watch?v=he-ripb3lhc&list=PLcczAuNJMkmI_ZULck-s_JBmwyJmP0lDY
>> 我不知烂川是不是普俄细作, 因为调查被他阻止了. 但普俄几乎对他有求必应, 而他也在台面上与普...
所以对邓矮子有求必应的卡特肯定也是中国间谍。
FBI 是傻子 哈萨克斯坦也是傻子 当年通俄门调查的时候爆出来多好 保准川普毫无翻身之力 现在再来一个通俄门还有人信么
>> 所以对邓矮子有求必应的卡特肯定也是中国间谍。
我认识的一个上海高干后代说澳洲总理霍克去大陆访问，在上海被中共国安局派女间谍在旅馆内上门性交做爱，做着做着国安局干员们破门而入，于是被留下把柄，…
皮糙肉厚的欧裔粗男哪里顶得住娇嫩欲滴鲜花水灵的亚洲妙龄女子肉嫩皮细娇嗔扭拧几下诱惑早已神魂颠倒口涎长流食指大动不知所以按住就干…..
他是kgb没啥争议
是通讯专家专门负责察言观色
他父亲就是(没有编制)算是子承父业
和中国国安部哪位陈部长差不多
(习主席可要看紧了)
是通讯专家专门负责察言观色
他父亲就是(没有编制)算是子承父业
和中国国安部哪位陈部长差不多
(习主席可要看紧了)
这是电报群里的照片：内容是捷克斯洛伐克安全局在1985-86年期间调查川普
FBI不掌握相關信息嗎？如果真的話。
扯淡，民主党搞了两年通俄门，花了天量税金，如果真通俄早被搞了
这就是制造符合需求的故事: 上一秒 苏联-俄罗斯太厉害了 能布局多年 两次/多次成功操纵美国选举 下一秒 俄罗斯要完了 只要自由"盟军"加把劲 下周解放莫斯科
智商真是个好东西，可惜左逼没有
就当川普是苏联间谍
那苏联是不是一起买通了万斯 鲁比奥 马斯克 等内阁决策团数百人?
那苏联是不是一起买通了万斯 鲁比奥 马斯克 等内阁决策团数百人?
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这个真有可能！我记得在图书馆看见上世纪80年代末期出版的书，两本是成套摆一起的，一册叫《戈尔巴乔夫-一颗上升的政坛新星》而另外一册就是《美国企业超级新星—特朗普》。
我记得大选前 有爆料说是哈里斯是苏联共产党员。
雅虎的2025年2月22日报道：https://uk.news.yahoo.com/donald-trump-recruited-kgb-codename-180759277.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAKDHFYTB-Ir3JM_WCAatDjRjcN94E7jXM6_Z_fe0clnQTkL58yzk3b4p5bCMcrDjIcu-Hd2CQHwc3vLKf0SNbqUOULFqYoM_7qzGYj6vI-NM9ZSK_rOK2j1wcdIZam9nlmfDrdcPM5Tjy6GYLeHMHUEfFXAXF6HkL4tyAEvyU62u
许多川普第一总统任期的高级助手与官员都对川普对普京的恭维与敬重感到困惑：
…
However, some US officials have repeatedly raised concerns about his close relationship with the Kremlin leader, particularly during his first term in office. Anthony Scaramucci, who briefly served as Trump’s White House communications director in 2017, added to the intrigue during a recent episode of The Rest Is Politics: US podcast.
He suggested that Trump’s deference to Putin has puzzled many of his former senior officials. “I think there is a mysterious ‘hold’ on the president,” he said. Scaramucci did not elaborate on what that ‘hold’ might be but suggested that several former Trump administration officials, including H.R. McMaster, James Mattis, and John Kelly— had also struggled to understand Trump’s affinity for Putin. “I don’t know why it’s like this,” he said. “McMaster couldn’t figure it out, Mattis couldn’t figure it out, Kelly couldn’t figure it out.”
许多川普第一总统任期的高级助手与官员都对川普对普京的恭维与敬重感到困惑：
…
However, some US officials have repeatedly raised concerns about his close relationship with the Kremlin leader, particularly during his first term in office. Anthony Scaramucci, who briefly served as Trump’s White House communications director in 2017, added to the intrigue during a recent episode of The Rest Is Politics: US podcast.
He suggested that Trump’s deference to Putin has puzzled many of his former senior officials. “I think there is a mysterious ‘hold’ on the president,” he said. Scaramucci did not elaborate on what that ‘hold’ might be but suggested that several former Trump administration officials, including H.R. McMaster, James Mattis, and John Kelly— had also struggled to understand Trump’s affinity for Putin. “I don’t know why it’s like this,” he said. “McMaster couldn’t figure it out, Mattis couldn’t figure it out, Kelly couldn’t figure it out.”
书籍评论：
《American Kompromat: how the KGB cultivated Donald Trump and related tales of sex, greed, power, and treachery》（腐蚀美国：克格勃如何培育唐纳德•川普 以及关于性，贪恋，权力和背叛的故事）
原文：https://tertulia.com/book/american-kompromat-how-the-kgb-cultivated-donald-trump-and-related-tales-of-sex-greed-power-and-treachery-craig-unger/9780593182543?srsltid=AfmBOopy_pAaBv_8Qyw7Gy3f8JD7E5M1O9E2cvU_sv1YGKOsXce--wSf
Kompromat n.--Russian for "compromising information"
This is a story about the dirty secrets of the most powerful people in the world--including Donald Trump.
It is based on exclusive interviews with dozens of high-level sources--intelligence officers in the CIA, FBI, and the KGB; thousands of pages of FBI investigations, police investigations; and news articles in English, Russian, and Ukrainian. American Kompromat shows that from Trump to Jeffrey Epstein, kompromat was used in operations far more sinister than the public could ever imagine.
Among them, the book addresses what may be the single most important unanswered question of the entire Trump era: Is Donald Trump a Russian asset?
The answer, American Kompromat says, is yes, and it supports that conclusion with the first richly detailed narrative on how the KGB allegedly first "spotted" Trump as a potential asset, how they cultivated him as an asset, arranged his first trip to Moscow, and pumped him full of KGB talking points that were published in three of America's most prestigious newspapers.
Among its many revelations, American Kompromat reports for the first time that:
- According to Yuri Shvets, a former major in the KGB, Trump first did business over forty years ago with a Manhattan electronics store co-owned by a Soviet émigré who Shvets believes was working with the KGB. Trump's decision to do business there triggered protocols through which the Soviet spy agency began efforts to cultivate Trump as an asset, thus launching a decades-long "relationship" of mutual benefit to Russia and Trump, from real estate to real power.
- Trump's invitation to Moscow in 1987 was billed as a preliminary scouting trip for a hotel, but according to Shvets, was actually initiated by a high-level KGB official, General Ivan Gromakov. These sorts of trips were usually arranged for "deep development," recruitment, or for a meeting with the KGB handlers, even if the potential asset was unaware of it.
- Before Trump's first trip to Moscow, he met with Natalia Dubinina, who worked at the United Nations library in a vital position usually reserved as a cover for KGB operatives.
- In 1987, according to Shvets, the KGB circulated an internal cable hailing the successful execution of an active measure by a newly cultivated American asset who took out full page ads in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe promoting policies promoted by the KGB. The ads had been taken out by Donald Trump, who, Shvets said, would become a "special unofficial contact" for the KGB, that is, an intelligence asset whose role has been compared to that of the late industrialist, Armand Hammer.
A number of America's highest national security officials have said they believe Trump is a Russian asset, but neither the Mueller Report nor the numerous congressional investigations throughout Trump's presidency pursued that vital question. American Kompromat does.
《American Kompromat: how the KGB cultivated Donald Trump and related tales of sex, greed, power, and treachery》（腐蚀美国：克格勃如何培育唐纳德•川普 以及关于性，贪恋，权力和背叛的故事）
原文：https://tertulia.com/book/american-kompromat-how-the-kgb-cultivated-donald-trump-and-related-tales-of-sex-greed-power-and-treachery-craig-unger/9780593182543?srsltid=AfmBOopy_pAaBv_8Qyw7Gy3f8JD7E5M1O9E2cvU_sv1YGKOsXce--wSf
Kompromat n.--Russian for "compromising information"
This is a story about the dirty secrets of the most powerful people in the world--including Donald Trump.
It is based on exclusive interviews with dozens of high-level sources--intelligence officers in the CIA, FBI, and the KGB; thousands of pages of FBI investigations, police investigations; and news articles in English, Russian, and Ukrainian. American Kompromat shows that from Trump to Jeffrey Epstein, kompromat was used in operations far more sinister than the public could ever imagine.
Among them, the book addresses what may be the single most important unanswered question of the entire Trump era: Is Donald Trump a Russian asset?
The answer, American Kompromat says, is yes, and it supports that conclusion with the first richly detailed narrative on how the KGB allegedly first "spotted" Trump as a potential asset, how they cultivated him as an asset, arranged his first trip to Moscow, and pumped him full of KGB talking points that were published in three of America's most prestigious newspapers.
Among its many revelations, American Kompromat reports for the first time that:
- According to Yuri Shvets, a former major in the KGB, Trump first did business over forty years ago with a Manhattan electronics store co-owned by a Soviet émigré who Shvets believes was working with the KGB. Trump's decision to do business there triggered protocols through which the Soviet spy agency began efforts to cultivate Trump as an asset, thus launching a decades-long "relationship" of mutual benefit to Russia and Trump, from real estate to real power.
- Trump's invitation to Moscow in 1987 was billed as a preliminary scouting trip for a hotel, but according to Shvets, was actually initiated by a high-level KGB official, General Ivan Gromakov. These sorts of trips were usually arranged for "deep development," recruitment, or for a meeting with the KGB handlers, even if the potential asset was unaware of it.
- Before Trump's first trip to Moscow, he met with Natalia Dubinina, who worked at the United Nations library in a vital position usually reserved as a cover for KGB operatives.
- In 1987, according to Shvets, the KGB circulated an internal cable hailing the successful execution of an active measure by a newly cultivated American asset who took out full page ads in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe promoting policies promoted by the KGB. The ads had been taken out by Donald Trump, who, Shvets said, would become a "special unofficial contact" for the KGB, that is, an intelligence asset whose role has been compared to that of the late industrialist, Armand Hammer.
A number of America's highest national security officials have said they believe Trump is a Russian asset, but neither the Mueller Report nor the numerous congressional investigations throughout Trump's presidency pursued that vital question. American Kompromat does.
原文：https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/global-trends/us-news-was-donald-trump-a-secret-russian-spy-in-1987-codename-krasnov-ex-soviet-spy-alnur-mussayev-makes-sensational-kgb-claim-putin-trump/articleshow/118555667.cms
原文：https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/donald-trump-recruited-by-kgb-in-80s-and-even-has-codename-claims-former-soviet-spy/ar-AA1zwS2y?ocid=socialshare&fbclid=IwY2xjawImD4FleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHVm7oU20X7UYbzI5OQ8gEaNO23hMJFc6EnALhmRhQnIv3Co2sw8p_mE_ZQ_aem_qxjGpvdHu73p0GmbWAdOqA&sfnsn=mo
Mussayev’s post did not include evidence to support his claim, but in a further comment, he made another shocking allegation.
“Today, the personal file of resident ‘Krasnov’ has been removed from the FSB. It is being privately managed by one of Putin’s close associates,” he alleged.
His allegations come amid years of speculation over Trump’s ties to Russia, dating back to his first visit to Moscow in 1987.
At the time, Trump, then a rising star in the New York property market, travelled to the Soviet Union to explore the possibility of building a hotel in the capital.
Soviet officials reportedly facilitated the trip, raising questions among intelligence analysts about whether it was a routine business opportunity or something more nefarious.
Several years ago a report highlighted how, in 1985, the KGB had updated a secret personality questionnaire distributed among its officers, detailing how to identify and recruit Western figures.
The document, according to intelligence sources, instructed agents to target “prominent figures in the West” with the aim of “drawing them into some form of collaboration with us… as an agent, or confidential or special or unofficial contact.” Mussayev’s claim appears to suggest that Trump may have been one such target。
原文：https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/donald-trump-recruited-by-kgb-in-80s-and-even-has-codename-claims-former-soviet-spy/ar-AA1zwS2y?ocid=socialshare&fbclid=IwY2xjawImD4FleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHVm7oU20X7UYbzI5OQ8gEaNO23hMJFc6EnALhmRhQnIv3Co2sw8p_mE_ZQ_aem_qxjGpvdHu73p0GmbWAdOqA&sfnsn=mo
Mussayev’s post did not include evidence to support his claim, but in a further comment, he made another shocking allegation.
“Today, the personal file of resident ‘Krasnov’ has been removed from the FSB. It is being privately managed by one of Putin’s close associates,” he alleged.
His allegations come amid years of speculation over Trump’s ties to Russia, dating back to his first visit to Moscow in 1987.
At the time, Trump, then a rising star in the New York property market, travelled to the Soviet Union to explore the possibility of building a hotel in the capital.
Soviet officials reportedly facilitated the trip, raising questions among intelligence analysts about whether it was a routine business opportunity or something more nefarious.
Several years ago a report highlighted how, in 1985, the KGB had updated a secret personality questionnaire distributed among its officers, detailing how to identify and recruit Western figures.
The document, according to intelligence sources, instructed agents to target “prominent figures in the West” with the aim of “drawing them into some form of collaboration with us… as an agent, or confidential or special or unofficial contact.” Mussayev’s claim appears to suggest that Trump may have been one such target。
伊万卡她妈嘴巴这么大？
原文：https://thehill.com/opinion/international/5162890-assessing-new-allegations-that-trump-was-recruited-by-the-kgb/amp/
《Was 40-year-old Trump recruited by the KGB?》
“Just after Mussayev made his claim, another ex-KGB officer living in France, Sergei Zhyrnov, categorically endorsed the allegations in an interview with a Ukrainian journalist. According to Zhyrnov, Trump would have been surrounded 24/7 by KGB operatives, including everyone from his cab driver to the maid servicing his hotel room. Zhyrnov said that Trump’s every move would have been recorded and documented, and that he could have been either caught in a “honey trap” (“All foreign-currency prostitutes were KGB — one hundred percent,” he said) or perhaps recorded bribing Moscow city officials in order to promote his idea of building a hotel in the Soviet capital.”
None of these former KGB operatives has provided evidence, but the fact that three KGB agents located in different places and speaking at different times agree on the story suggests this possibility should not be dismissed out of hand.
《Was 40-year-old Trump recruited by the KGB?》
“Just after Mussayev made his claim, another ex-KGB officer living in France, Sergei Zhyrnov, categorically endorsed the allegations in an interview with a Ukrainian journalist. According to Zhyrnov, Trump would have been surrounded 24/7 by KGB operatives, including everyone from his cab driver to the maid servicing his hotel room. Zhyrnov said that Trump’s every move would have been recorded and documented, and that he could have been either caught in a “honey trap” (“All foreign-currency prostitutes were KGB — one hundred percent,” he said) or perhaps recorded bribing Moscow city officials in order to promote his idea of building a hotel in the Soviet capital.”
None of these former KGB operatives has provided evidence, but the fact that three KGB agents located in different places and speaking at different times agree on the story suggests this possibility should not be dismissed out of hand.
目前为止共三个前K G B官员分别谈到川普为KGB 1980年代 收买的资产：
Alnur Mussayev 现住维也纳，奥地利
Yuri Shvets 现住美国:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Shvets
Sergei Zhyrno 现住法国。
另有一FBI线人Igor Danchenko指控川普在莫斯科嫖妓被普京掌握龌龊视频：https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/us-politics/sleeper-agent-us-president-donald-trump-rocked-by-truly-wild-rumour/news-story/45a9889fb95a1caee9d2ded4695da4d2
In 2017, FBI informant Igor Danchenko declared that Russian President Vladimir Putin had incriminating footage of Mr Trump engaging with prostitutes in a Moscow hotel.
https://www.facebook.com/share/1ALNgFkLAE/
July 1987, Moscow, USSR — Trump, 41 years old, flies to Moscow at the invitation of Soviet Ambassador to the U.S., Yuri Dubinin.
Upon returning from Moscow, the bankrupt Trump suddenly receives loans from 16 banks and, without negotiation, purchases The Plaza Hotel for $407.5 million — a record price for a hotel.
What does this mean? There are several theories, one of which suggests that Trump is a russian asset.
Currently, three former KGB agents claim that Trump was recruited by russia. They allege that the KGB used flattery and business opportunities to appeal to Trump’s ambitions, aiming to recruit him as an asset.
Upon his return to the U.S., the then-apolitical Trump began loudly criticizing NATO, taking out full-page ads in The Washington Post on September 2, 1987.
These claims come from Alnur Mussayev, former KGB officer and ex-head of Kazakhstan’s intelligence service, as well as ex-KGB agents Yuri Shvets and Sergei Zhyrno, who now reside in the U.S. and France, respectively.
None of these former KGB operatives has provided direct evidence, but the fact that three agents, speaking at different times and from different locations, tell the same story suggests that the possibility should not be dismissed.
Regardless of whether these allegations are true, Trump’s behavior is telling. He has sided with russia and North Korea at the UN, is pulling out of NATO, and has alienated Western allies with trade wars.
Alnur Mussayev 现住维也纳，奥地利
Yuri Shvets 现住美国:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Shvets
Sergei Zhyrno 现住法国。
另有一FBI线人Igor Danchenko指控川普在莫斯科嫖妓被普京掌握龌龊视频：https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/us-politics/sleeper-agent-us-president-donald-trump-rocked-by-truly-wild-rumour/news-story/45a9889fb95a1caee9d2ded4695da4d2
In 2017, FBI informant Igor Danchenko declared that Russian President Vladimir Putin had incriminating footage of Mr Trump engaging with prostitutes in a Moscow hotel.
https://www.facebook.com/share/1ALNgFkLAE/
July 1987, Moscow, USSR — Trump, 41 years old, flies to Moscow at the invitation of Soviet Ambassador to the U.S., Yuri Dubinin.
Upon returning from Moscow, the bankrupt Trump suddenly receives loans from 16 banks and, without negotiation, purchases The Plaza Hotel for $407.5 million — a record price for a hotel.
What does this mean? There are several theories, one of which suggests that Trump is a russian asset.
Currently, three former KGB agents claim that Trump was recruited by russia. They allege that the KGB used flattery and business opportunities to appeal to Trump’s ambitions, aiming to recruit him as an asset.
Upon his return to the U.S., the then-apolitical Trump began loudly criticizing NATO, taking out full-page ads in The Washington Post on September 2, 1987.
These claims come from Alnur Mussayev, former KGB officer and ex-head of Kazakhstan’s intelligence service, as well as ex-KGB agents Yuri Shvets and Sergei Zhyrno, who now reside in the U.S. and France, respectively.
None of these former KGB operatives has provided direct evidence, but the fact that three agents, speaking at different times and from different locations, tell the same story suggests that the possibility should not be dismissed.
Regardless of whether these allegations are true, Trump’s behavior is telling. He has sided with russia and North Korea at the UN, is pulling out of NATO, and has alienated Western allies with trade wars.
YouTube 各种关于川普可能是俄国间谍的访谈：
《 英国MI6前俄国组组长Christopher Steele (也是 Steele Dossier 的作者）对川普接受俄国资助及臣服普京的访谈 The truth behind Trump’s debt to Russia》
https://youtu.be/f5NWwcgyNZk?si=twhPGa_GmjaSeL46 （从8:50秒开始）
（其中Chris Steele 的谈话部分音频见英国资深情报官Christopher Steele 谈川普个人对俄国的财务受惠及对普京的崇拜）
《Was Donald Trump recruited by the KGB under code name Krasnov?》French 24 English
https://youtu.be/TYI4EoAPq4U?si=tb3eip7ZFGTQW-Se
《 Krosnov History 》
https://youtu.be/QT4qlSle-JM?si=GHAkOhRUiPJt5zTZ
《Was Donald Trump really a KBG agent known as Krosnov?》Professor Gerdes explains
https://youtu.be/IBVp06B8HAs?si=wYoZA1ZVQRkIR8sk
《 British MP: Trump could be a Russian asset》
https://youtu.be/hxZAvKlZ7qc?si=cE_1lAC0IaKI1j7K
《Fact check: Was Donald Trump recruited by the KGB and codenamed 'Krasnov'?》
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/03/13/fact-checking-online-claims-that-donald-trump-was-recruited-by-the-kgb-as-krasnov
《 Trump is a Russian Agent —— Craig Unger》
https://youtu.be/ITYZPBJUuiM?si=OofC70SNkUCMbfkI
《US Senator Jeff Merkley (D, Oregon) asks Trump’s nominee if Trump is a Russian asset》
https://youtu.be/qcD6Rru_tPE?si=bYqaaKjAhtV4u26L
发言者是俄勒冈州民主党参议员Jeff Merkley, 他在视频中对被提名为美国副国务卿者的质询问题是“川普是否为俄国间谍“？得到被质询者否定回答后，他继续道，之所以他如此提问，是因为许多他家乡的人也在问此问题。他继续说道，如果川普真是俄谍，则其如今也完全会同样行事，比如：
1。他从椭圆办公室发表俄罗斯的宣传，即乌克兰发动了俄乌战争，泽连斯基是独裁者；
2。他在谈判尚未开始前就放弃己方筹码，即表明美国绝对反对乌克兰加入北约；
3。他切断美对乌武器援助，使乌克兰完全无力反抗俄罗斯这个后勤供应短缺但资源丰富的邻国；
4。他实现普京重要所愿，损害了美国与欧洲同盟关系这个80多年来的（欧洲）安全保障；
5。他在国际舞台上拼命贬低辱骂泽连斯基，表现在其与副总统在椭圆办公室可耻地攻击泽连斯基。
参议员继续问：无法想象如川普真是俄谍，他还能做任何其它事情？
《Is Trump a Russian agent, a useful idiot, or an unwitting asset?》Professor Tim Wilson
https://youtu.be/4SHwfxLLDmY?si=0dLdc2TvQE73DA1N
《 英国MI6前俄国组组长Christopher Steele (也是 Steele Dossier 的作者）对川普接受俄国资助及臣服普京的访谈 The truth behind Trump’s debt to Russia》
https://youtu.be/f5NWwcgyNZk?si=twhPGa_GmjaSeL46 （从8:50秒开始）
（其中Chris Steele 的谈话部分音频见英国资深情报官Christopher Steele 谈川普个人对俄国的财务受惠及对普京的崇拜）
《Was Donald Trump recruited by the KGB under code name Krasnov?》French 24 English
https://youtu.be/TYI4EoAPq4U?si=tb3eip7ZFGTQW-Se
《 Krosnov History 》
https://youtu.be/QT4qlSle-JM?si=GHAkOhRUiPJt5zTZ
《Was Donald Trump really a KBG agent known as Krosnov?》Professor Gerdes explains
https://youtu.be/IBVp06B8HAs?si=wYoZA1ZVQRkIR8sk
《 British MP: Trump could be a Russian asset》
https://youtu.be/hxZAvKlZ7qc?si=cE_1lAC0IaKI1j7K
《Fact check: Was Donald Trump recruited by the KGB and codenamed 'Krasnov'?》
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/03/13/fact-checking-online-claims-that-donald-trump-was-recruited-by-the-kgb-as-krasnov
《 Trump is a Russian Agent —— Craig Unger》
https://youtu.be/ITYZPBJUuiM?si=OofC70SNkUCMbfkI
《US Senator Jeff Merkley (D, Oregon) asks Trump’s nominee if Trump is a Russian asset》
https://youtu.be/qcD6Rru_tPE?si=bYqaaKjAhtV4u26L
发言者是俄勒冈州民主党参议员Jeff Merkley, 他在视频中对被提名为美国副国务卿者的质询问题是“川普是否为俄国间谍“？得到被质询者否定回答后，他继续道，之所以他如此提问，是因为许多他家乡的人也在问此问题。他继续说道，如果川普真是俄谍，则其如今也完全会同样行事，比如：
1。他从椭圆办公室发表俄罗斯的宣传，即乌克兰发动了俄乌战争，泽连斯基是独裁者；
2。他在谈判尚未开始前就放弃己方筹码，即表明美国绝对反对乌克兰加入北约；
3。他切断美对乌武器援助，使乌克兰完全无力反抗俄罗斯这个后勤供应短缺但资源丰富的邻国；
4。他实现普京重要所愿，损害了美国与欧洲同盟关系这个80多年来的（欧洲）安全保障；
5。他在国际舞台上拼命贬低辱骂泽连斯基，表现在其与副总统在椭圆办公室可耻地攻击泽连斯基。
参议员继续问：无法想象如川普真是俄谍，他还能做任何其它事情？
《Is Trump a Russian agent, a useful idiot, or an unwitting asset?》Professor Tim Wilson
https://youtu.be/4SHwfxLLDmY?si=0dLdc2TvQE73DA1N
关于川普是俄国间谍的报道评论：
https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/us-politics/sleeper-agent-us-president-donald-trump-rocked-by-truly-wild-rumour/news-story/45a9889fb95a1caee9d2ded4695da4d2
《‘Sleeper agent’: US President Donald Trump rocked by truly wild rumour》
KGB Major Shvet said in 2022 that Mr Trump first came to the attention of Eastern Bloc agents when he married Czechoslovakian model Ivana Zelnichova in 1977. A “spotter” agent allegedly later identified him as vulnerable to recruitment because of the business deals behind the opening of his first big property development – the Grand Hyatt New York hotel.
“This is an example where people were recruited when they were just students and then they rose to important positions; something like that was happening with Trump,” Shvet told UK media.
“For the KGB, it was a charm offensive. They had collected a lot of information on his personality, so they knew who he was. The feeling was that he was extremely vulnerable intellectually and psychologically, and he was prone to flattery,” he explained.
“This is what they exploited. They played the game as if they were immensely impressed by his personality and believed this is the guy who should be the President of the United States one day: it is people like him who could change the world. They fed him these so-called active measures sound bites, and it happened. So it was a big achievement for the KGB active measures at the time.”
Whether or not Mussayev is telling the truth, his original 2018 post has chilling relevance today.
“Will the century(ies)-old American Democracy withstand him? Trump’s chances against the ruling elite, which represents American Democracy in the USA, are, in my opinion, 50/50 …”
https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/us-politics/sleeper-agent-us-president-donald-trump-rocked-by-truly-wild-rumour/news-story/45a9889fb95a1caee9d2ded4695da4d2
《‘Sleeper agent’: US President Donald Trump rocked by truly wild rumour》
KGB Major Shvet said in 2022 that Mr Trump first came to the attention of Eastern Bloc agents when he married Czechoslovakian model Ivana Zelnichova in 1977. A “spotter” agent allegedly later identified him as vulnerable to recruitment because of the business deals behind the opening of his first big property development – the Grand Hyatt New York hotel.
“This is an example where people were recruited when they were just students and then they rose to important positions; something like that was happening with Trump,” Shvet told UK media.
“For the KGB, it was a charm offensive. They had collected a lot of information on his personality, so they knew who he was. The feeling was that he was extremely vulnerable intellectually and psychologically, and he was prone to flattery,” he explained.
“This is what they exploited. They played the game as if they were immensely impressed by his personality and believed this is the guy who should be the President of the United States one day: it is people like him who could change the world. They fed him these so-called active measures sound bites, and it happened. So it was a big achievement for the KGB active measures at the time.”
Whether or not Mussayev is telling the truth, his original 2018 post has chilling relevance today.
“Will the century(ies)-old American Democracy withstand him? Trump’s chances against the ruling elite, which represents American Democracy in the USA, are, in my opinion, 50/50 …”
关于川普从俄国得到贷款：
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7304477822540996608?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28activity%3A7304477822540996608%2C7304485928721350656%29&dashCommentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_comment%3A%287304485928721350656%2Curn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7304477822540996608%29
“…it didn’t take a genius to realize that real or imagined dots would soon be connected linking Deutsche [Bank] to Russia to Donald Trump. This was especially true since the bank a decade earlier had connected Trump with wealthy Russians as he prepared to build his resorts in Hawaii and Mexico. (Adding fuel to the fire, Eric Trump had previously told a journalist that when it came to financing work on his family’s golf courses, “we don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.” [Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction, by David Enric, 2020]
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7304477822540996608?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28activity%3A7304477822540996608%2C7304485928721350656%29&dashCommentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_comment%3A%287304485928721350656%2Curn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7304477822540996608%29
“…it didn’t take a genius to realize that real or imagined dots would soon be connected linking Deutsche [Bank] to Russia to Donald Trump. This was especially true since the bank a decade earlier had connected Trump with wealthy Russians as he prepared to build his resorts in Hawaii and Mexico. (Adding fuel to the fire, Eric Trump had previously told a journalist that when it came to financing work on his family’s golf courses, “we don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.” [Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction, by David Enric, 2020]
MAGA: Moscow Agent Governing America
关于川普1987年从莫斯科访问后回到美国便在《纽约时报》《华盛顿邮报》及《波士顿环球报》上花费💲948100 打整页政治广告（取名告美国人民书）批评美国政府的外交政策：(注意当时美国总统是里根（1981-1989年总统））
https://www.yahoo.com/news/fact-check-yes-trump-paid-030000826.html
川普的广告全文如下：
Here is the full text of Trump's 1987 open letter:
There's nothing wrong with America's Foreign Defense Policy that a little backbone can't cure.
An open letter from Donald J. Trump on why America should stop paying to defend countries that can afford to defend themselves.
To The American People:
For decades, Japan and other nations have been taking advantage of the United States.
The saga continues unabated as we defend the Persian Gulf, an area of only marginal significance to the United States for its oil supplies, but one upon which Japan and others are almost totally dependent. Why are these nations not paying the United States for the human lives and billions of dollars we are losing to protect their interests? Saudi Arabia, a country whose very existence is in the hands of the United States, last week refused to allow us to use their mine sweepers (which are, sadly, far more advanced than ours) to police the Gulf. The world is laughing at America's politicians as we protect ships we don't own, carrying oil we don't need, destined for allies who won't help.
Over the years, the Japanese, unimpeded by the huge costs of defending themselves (as long as the United States will do it for free), have built a strong and vibrant economy with unprecedented surpluses. They have brilliantly managed to maintain a weak yen against a strong dollar. This, coupled with out monumental spending for their, and others, defense, has moved Japan to the forefront of world economies.
Now that the tides are turning and the yen is becoming strong against the dollar, the Japanese are openly complaining and, in typical fashion, our politicians are reacting to these unjustified complaints.
It's time for us to end our vast deficits by making Japan, and others who can afford it, pay. Our world protection is worth hundreds of billions of dollars to these countries, and their stake in their protection is far greater than ours.
Make Japan, Saudi Arabia, and others pay for the protection we extend as allies. Let's help our farmers, our sick, our homeless by taking from some of the greatest profit machines ever created — machines created and nurtured by us. "Tax" these wealthy nations, not America. End our huge deficits, reduce our taxes, and let America's economy grow unencumbered by the cost of defending those who can easily afford to pay us for the defense of their freedom. Let's not let our great country be laughed at anymore.
Sincerely,
Donald J. Trump
如前面所引的Craig Unger 著作“American Kompromat” 所说：
In 1987, according to Shvets, the KGB circulated an internal cable hailing the successful execution of an active measure by a newly cultivated American asset who took out full page ads in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe promoting policies promoted by the KGB. The ads had been taken out by Donald Trump, who, Shvets said, would become a "special unofficial contact" for the KGB, that is, an intelligence asset whose role has been compared to that of the late industrialist, Armand Hammer.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/fact-check-yes-trump-paid-030000826.html
川普的广告全文如下：
Here is the full text of Trump's 1987 open letter:
There's nothing wrong with America's Foreign Defense Policy that a little backbone can't cure.
An open letter from Donald J. Trump on why America should stop paying to defend countries that can afford to defend themselves.
To The American People:
For decades, Japan and other nations have been taking advantage of the United States.
The saga continues unabated as we defend the Persian Gulf, an area of only marginal significance to the United States for its oil supplies, but one upon which Japan and others are almost totally dependent. Why are these nations not paying the United States for the human lives and billions of dollars we are losing to protect their interests? Saudi Arabia, a country whose very existence is in the hands of the United States, last week refused to allow us to use their mine sweepers (which are, sadly, far more advanced than ours) to police the Gulf. The world is laughing at America's politicians as we protect ships we don't own, carrying oil we don't need, destined for allies who won't help.
Over the years, the Japanese, unimpeded by the huge costs of defending themselves (as long as the United States will do it for free), have built a strong and vibrant economy with unprecedented surpluses. They have brilliantly managed to maintain a weak yen against a strong dollar. This, coupled with out monumental spending for their, and others, defense, has moved Japan to the forefront of world economies.
Now that the tides are turning and the yen is becoming strong against the dollar, the Japanese are openly complaining and, in typical fashion, our politicians are reacting to these unjustified complaints.
It's time for us to end our vast deficits by making Japan, and others who can afford it, pay. Our world protection is worth hundreds of billions of dollars to these countries, and their stake in their protection is far greater than ours.
Make Japan, Saudi Arabia, and others pay for the protection we extend as allies. Let's help our farmers, our sick, our homeless by taking from some of the greatest profit machines ever created — machines created and nurtured by us. "Tax" these wealthy nations, not America. End our huge deficits, reduce our taxes, and let America's economy grow unencumbered by the cost of defending those who can easily afford to pay us for the defense of their freedom. Let's not let our great country be laughed at anymore.
Sincerely,
Donald J. Trump
如前面所引的Craig Unger 著作“American Kompromat” 所说：
In 1987, according to Shvets, the KGB circulated an internal cable hailing the successful execution of an active measure by a newly cultivated American asset who took out full page ads in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe promoting policies promoted by the KGB. The ads had been taken out by Donald Trump, who, Shvets said, would become a "special unofficial contact" for the KGB, that is, an intelligence asset whose role has been compared to that of the late industrialist, Armand Hammer.
《 How Trump’s history with Russia and Ukraine set the stage for a blowup with Zelenskyy 》
March 4, 2025 by Eric Tucker on AP News
https://apnews.com/article/trump-russia-ukraine-fbi-mueller-ff6d60923de68632f2671e275083b54b#
March 4, 2025 by Eric Tucker on AP News
https://apnews.com/article/trump-russia-ukraine-fbi-mueller-ff6d60923de68632f2671e275083b54b#
Grok 3 对我问题 “ When did Trump business’ Russian funding start？” 的回答：
There is no single, definitive start date for when Donald Trump's business ventures began receiving funding from Russian sources, as the timeline is based on a combination of documented events, allegations, and investigative findings rather than a precise moment. However, evidence and reports suggest that Trump’s business ties to Russian funding emerged prominently in the late 1980s and became more significant in the 1990s and 2000s, particularly after his financial difficulties made traditional U.S. bank loans harder to secure.
Trump’s interest in Russia began as early as 1986, when he met Soviet ambassador Yuri Dubinin and discussed potential hotel projects in Moscow. This led to a 1987 trip to Russia to explore real estate opportunities, though no major deals materialized at that time. His financial troubles deepened in the 1990s with multiple bankruptcies, which reportedly limited his access to American bank loans. Around this period, Russian money began flowing into his projects, often through less transparent channels.
By the late 1990s and early 2000s, reports indicate that Russian investors, including wealthy individuals and oligarchs, started purchasing properties in Trump developments, such as units in Trump World Tower in New York. Real estate broker Dolly Lenz noted selling about 65 units to Russian buyers during this time, suggesting a growing reliance on such investors. In the mid-2000s, Trump’s business model shifted toward licensing deals and partnerships, including with firms like the Bayrock Group, led by Felix Sater, which allegedly facilitated Russian and Eastern European funding. For example, Bayrock’s involvement in projects like Trump SoHo (announced in 2006) reportedly included investments from Russian-linked sources, such as the FL Group, tied to wealthy Russians close to Vladimir Putin.
Donald Trump Jr.’s 2008 statement that “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets” and “we see a lot of money pouring in from Russia” further supports the idea that Russian funding had become a key component of the Trump Organization’s finances by this time. Eric Trump reportedly echoed this in 2014, claiming the company had “all the funding we need out of Russia” for golf course expansions, though he later denied the statement.
Specific instances, like the 2008 sale of a Florida mansion to Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev for $95 million (bought by Trump for $41 million), highlight how Russian funds bolstered Trump’s finances during this period. Additionally, the Trump Tower Moscow project, pursued from 2015 to 2016 with involvement from Sater and Russian banks like VTB and Genbank, underscores continued efforts to secure Russian backing well into his presidential campaign.
In summary, while Trump’s engagement with Russian business interests began in 1987, substantial funding from Russian sources likely started in the late 1990s and grew in the 2000s, driven by his financial needs and partnerships with figures connected to Russian capital. The exact start remains unclear due to the opaque nature of his private business dealings.
There is no single, definitive start date for when Donald Trump's business ventures began receiving funding from Russian sources, as the timeline is based on a combination of documented events, allegations, and investigative findings rather than a precise moment. However, evidence and reports suggest that Trump’s business ties to Russian funding emerged prominently in the late 1980s and became more significant in the 1990s and 2000s, particularly after his financial difficulties made traditional U.S. bank loans harder to secure.
Trump’s interest in Russia began as early as 1986, when he met Soviet ambassador Yuri Dubinin and discussed potential hotel projects in Moscow. This led to a 1987 trip to Russia to explore real estate opportunities, though no major deals materialized at that time. His financial troubles deepened in the 1990s with multiple bankruptcies, which reportedly limited his access to American bank loans. Around this period, Russian money began flowing into his projects, often through less transparent channels.
By the late 1990s and early 2000s, reports indicate that Russian investors, including wealthy individuals and oligarchs, started purchasing properties in Trump developments, such as units in Trump World Tower in New York. Real estate broker Dolly Lenz noted selling about 65 units to Russian buyers during this time, suggesting a growing reliance on such investors. In the mid-2000s, Trump’s business model shifted toward licensing deals and partnerships, including with firms like the Bayrock Group, led by Felix Sater, which allegedly facilitated Russian and Eastern European funding. For example, Bayrock’s involvement in projects like Trump SoHo (announced in 2006) reportedly included investments from Russian-linked sources, such as the FL Group, tied to wealthy Russians close to Vladimir Putin.
Donald Trump Jr.’s 2008 statement that “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets” and “we see a lot of money pouring in from Russia” further supports the idea that Russian funding had become a key component of the Trump Organization’s finances by this time. Eric Trump reportedly echoed this in 2014, claiming the company had “all the funding we need out of Russia” for golf course expansions, though he later denied the statement.
Specific instances, like the 2008 sale of a Florida mansion to Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev for $95 million (bought by Trump for $41 million), highlight how Russian funds bolstered Trump’s finances during this period. Additionally, the Trump Tower Moscow project, pursued from 2015 to 2016 with involvement from Sater and Russian banks like VTB and Genbank, underscores continued efforts to secure Russian backing well into his presidential campaign.
In summary, while Trump’s engagement with Russian business interests began in 1987, substantial funding from Russian sources likely started in the late 1990s and grew in the 2000s, driven by his financial needs and partnerships with figures connected to Russian capital. The exact start remains unclear due to the opaque nature of his private business dealings.
Grok 3 对 “FBI investigation on Trump’s first wife” 的回答：
Ivana Trump, Donald Trump’s first wife, was the subject of an FBI counterintelligence inquiry in the late 1980s and early 1990s due to her ties to her home country of Czechoslovakia. The investigation, which spanned at least two years and involved multiple countries including Canada and Austria, explored her associations with individuals linked to Czechoslovakian intelligence and her immigration history. Declassified FBI documents, released in batches starting in 2023, reveal that the inquiry began in March 1989 and examined her emigration from then-Communist Czechoslovakia to Austria, and later to Canada, before she settled in the United States. The FBI also investigated a man with ties to Czechoslovakian intelligence who was involved in arranging fictitious marriages, though his specific connection to Ivana remains unclear due to redactions.
The documents, totaling up to 900 pages and initially classified as “secret,” highlight inconsistencies in Ivana’s Immigration and Naturalization Service file regarding her residency, schooling, and employment. A notable detail is her meeting with Vaclav Havel, the last president of Czechoslovakia, on June 4, 1990, during a visit to Prague, where he gave her an autographed book. This encounter was linked to her earlier appearance in a 1970 episode of the show Pan Tau, filmed at Barrandov Film Industry studios. Despite the extensive inquiry, Ivana was not accused of any wrongdoing, and the investigation was closed in 1991 due to a lack of outstanding leads. The FBI’s interest partly overlapped with her high-profile divorce from Donald Trump, finalized in 1990, though he appears infrequently in the released files.
Ivana Trump, Donald Trump’s first wife, was the subject of an FBI counterintelligence inquiry in the late 1980s and early 1990s due to her ties to her home country of Czechoslovakia. The investigation, which spanned at least two years and involved multiple countries including Canada and Austria, explored her associations with individuals linked to Czechoslovakian intelligence and her immigration history. Declassified FBI documents, released in batches starting in 2023, reveal that the inquiry began in March 1989 and examined her emigration from then-Communist Czechoslovakia to Austria, and later to Canada, before she settled in the United States. The FBI also investigated a man with ties to Czechoslovakian intelligence who was involved in arranging fictitious marriages, though his specific connection to Ivana remains unclear due to redactions.
The documents, totaling up to 900 pages and initially classified as “secret,” highlight inconsistencies in Ivana’s Immigration and Naturalization Service file regarding her residency, schooling, and employment. A notable detail is her meeting with Vaclav Havel, the last president of Czechoslovakia, on June 4, 1990, during a visit to Prague, where he gave her an autographed book. This encounter was linked to her earlier appearance in a 1970 episode of the show Pan Tau, filmed at Barrandov Film Industry studios. Despite the extensive inquiry, Ivana was not accused of any wrongdoing, and the investigation was closed in 1991 due to a lack of outstanding leads. The FBI’s interest partly overlapped with her high-profile divorce from Donald Trump, finalized in 1990, though he appears infrequently in the released files.
《 ‘The perfect target’: Russia cultivated Trump as asset for 40 years – ex-KGB spy 》
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/29/trump-russia-asset-claims-former-kgb-spy-new-book
David Smith in Washington ， Fri 29 Jan 2021 19.00 AEDT
Donald Trump was cultivated as a Russian asset over 40 years and proved so willing to parrot anti-western propaganda that there were celebrations in Moscow, a former KGB spy has told the Guardian.
Yuri Shvets, posted to Washington by the Soviet Union in the 1980s, compares the former US president to “the Cambridge five”, the British spy ring that passed secrets to Moscow during the second world war and early cold war.
Now 67, Shvets is a key source for American Kompromat, a new book by journalist Craig Unger, whose previous works include House of Trump, House of Putin. The book also explores the former president’s relationship with the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
“This is an example where people were recruited when they were just students and then they rose to important positions; something like that was happening with Trump,” Shvets said by phone on Monday from his home in Virginia.
Shvets, a KGB major, had a cover job as a correspondent in Washington for the Russian news agency Tass during the 1980s. He moved to the US permanently in 1993 and gained American citizenship. He works as a corporate security investigator and was a partner of Alexander Litvinenko, who was assassinated in London in 2006.
Unger describes how Trump first appeared on the Russians’ radar in 1977 when he married his first wife, Ivana Zelnickova, a Czech model. Trump became the target of a spying operation overseen by Czechoslovakia’s intelligence service in cooperation with the KGB.
Three years later Trump opened his first big property development, the Grand Hyatt New York hotel near Grand Central station. Trump bought 200 television sets for the hotel from Semyon Kislin, a Soviet émigré who co-owned Joy-Lud electronics on Fifth Avenue.
According to Shvets, Joy-Lud was controlled by the KGB and Kislin worked as a so-called “spotter agent” who identified Trump, a young businessman on the rise, as a potential asset. Kislin denies that he had a relationship with the KGB.
Then, in 1987, Trump and Ivana visited Moscow and St Petersburg for the first time. Shvets said he was fed KGB talking points and flattered by KGB operatives who floated the idea that he should go into politics.
The ex-major recalled: “For the KGB, it was a charm offensive. They had collected a lot of information on his personality so they knew who he was personally. The feeling was that he was extremely vulnerable intellectually, and psychologically, and he was prone to flattery.
“This is what they exploited. They played the game as if they were immensely impressed by his personality and believed this is the guy who should be the president of the United States one day: it is people like him who could change the world. They fed him these so-called active measures soundbites and it happened. So it was a big achievement for the KGB active measures at the time.”
Soon after he returned to the US, Trump began exploring a run for the Republican nomination for president and even held a campaign rally in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. On 1 September, he took out a full-page advert in the New York Times, Washington Post and Boston Globe headlined: “There’s nothing wrong with America’s Foreign Defense Policy that a little backbone can’t cure.”
The ad offered some highly unorthodox opinions in Ronald Reagan’s cold war America, accusing ally Japan of exploiting the US and expressing scepticism about US participation in Nato. It took the form of an open letter to the American people “on why America should stop paying to defend countries that can afford to defend themselves”.
The bizarre intervention was cause for astonishment and jubilation in Russia. A few days later Shvets, who had returned home by now, was at the headquarters of the KGB’s first chief directorate in Yasenevo when he received a cable celebrating the ad as a successful “active measure” executed by a new KGB asset.
“It was unprecedented. I am pretty well familiar with KGB active measures starting in the early 70s and 80s, and then afterwards with Russia active measures, and I haven’t heard anything like that or anything similar – until Trump became the president of this country – because it was just silly. It was hard to believe that somebody would publish it under his name and that it will impress real serious people in the west but it did and, finally, this guy became the president.”
Trump’s election win in 2016 was again welcomed by Moscow. Special counsel Robert Mueller did not establish a conspiracy between members of the Trump campaign and the Russians. But the Moscow Project, an initiative of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, found the Trump campaign and transition team had at least 272 known contacts and at least 38 known meetings with Russia-linked operatives.
Shvets, who has carried out his own investigation, said: “For me, the Mueller report was a big disappointment because people expected that it will be a thorough investigation of all ties between Trump and Moscow, when in fact what we got was an investigation of just crime-related issues. There were no counterintelligence aspects of the relationship between Trump and Moscow.”
He added: “This is what basically we decided to correct. So I did my investigation and then got together with Craig. So we believe that his book will pick up where Mueller left off.”
Unger, the author of seven books and a former contributing editor for Vanity Fair magazine, said of Trump: “He was an asset. It was not this grand, ingenious plan that we’re going to develop this guy and 40 years later he’ll be president. At the time it started, which was around 1980, the Russians were trying to recruit like crazy and going after dozens and dozens of people.”
“Trump was the perfect target in a lot of ways: his vanity, narcissism made him a natural target to recruit. He was cultivated over a 40-year period, right up through his election.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/29/trump-russia-asset-claims-former-kgb-spy-new-book
David Smith in Washington ， Fri 29 Jan 2021 19.00 AEDT
Donald Trump was cultivated as a Russian asset over 40 years and proved so willing to parrot anti-western propaganda that there were celebrations in Moscow, a former KGB spy has told the Guardian.
Yuri Shvets, posted to Washington by the Soviet Union in the 1980s, compares the former US president to “the Cambridge five”, the British spy ring that passed secrets to Moscow during the second world war and early cold war.
Now 67, Shvets is a key source for American Kompromat, a new book by journalist Craig Unger, whose previous works include House of Trump, House of Putin. The book also explores the former president’s relationship with the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
“This is an example where people were recruited when they were just students and then they rose to important positions; something like that was happening with Trump,” Shvets said by phone on Monday from his home in Virginia.
Shvets, a KGB major, had a cover job as a correspondent in Washington for the Russian news agency Tass during the 1980s. He moved to the US permanently in 1993 and gained American citizenship. He works as a corporate security investigator and was a partner of Alexander Litvinenko, who was assassinated in London in 2006.
Unger describes how Trump first appeared on the Russians’ radar in 1977 when he married his first wife, Ivana Zelnickova, a Czech model. Trump became the target of a spying operation overseen by Czechoslovakia’s intelligence service in cooperation with the KGB.
Three years later Trump opened his first big property development, the Grand Hyatt New York hotel near Grand Central station. Trump bought 200 television sets for the hotel from Semyon Kislin, a Soviet émigré who co-owned Joy-Lud electronics on Fifth Avenue.
According to Shvets, Joy-Lud was controlled by the KGB and Kislin worked as a so-called “spotter agent” who identified Trump, a young businessman on the rise, as a potential asset. Kislin denies that he had a relationship with the KGB.
Then, in 1987, Trump and Ivana visited Moscow and St Petersburg for the first time. Shvets said he was fed KGB talking points and flattered by KGB operatives who floated the idea that he should go into politics.
The ex-major recalled: “For the KGB, it was a charm offensive. They had collected a lot of information on his personality so they knew who he was personally. The feeling was that he was extremely vulnerable intellectually, and psychologically, and he was prone to flattery.
“This is what they exploited. They played the game as if they were immensely impressed by his personality and believed this is the guy who should be the president of the United States one day: it is people like him who could change the world. They fed him these so-called active measures soundbites and it happened. So it was a big achievement for the KGB active measures at the time.”
Soon after he returned to the US, Trump began exploring a run for the Republican nomination for president and even held a campaign rally in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. On 1 September, he took out a full-page advert in the New York Times, Washington Post and Boston Globe headlined: “There’s nothing wrong with America’s Foreign Defense Policy that a little backbone can’t cure.”
The ad offered some highly unorthodox opinions in Ronald Reagan’s cold war America, accusing ally Japan of exploiting the US and expressing scepticism about US participation in Nato. It took the form of an open letter to the American people “on why America should stop paying to defend countries that can afford to defend themselves”.
The bizarre intervention was cause for astonishment and jubilation in Russia. A few days later Shvets, who had returned home by now, was at the headquarters of the KGB’s first chief directorate in Yasenevo when he received a cable celebrating the ad as a successful “active measure” executed by a new KGB asset.
“It was unprecedented. I am pretty well familiar with KGB active measures starting in the early 70s and 80s, and then afterwards with Russia active measures, and I haven’t heard anything like that or anything similar – until Trump became the president of this country – because it was just silly. It was hard to believe that somebody would publish it under his name and that it will impress real serious people in the west but it did and, finally, this guy became the president.”
Trump’s election win in 2016 was again welcomed by Moscow. Special counsel Robert Mueller did not establish a conspiracy between members of the Trump campaign and the Russians. But the Moscow Project, an initiative of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, found the Trump campaign and transition team had at least 272 known contacts and at least 38 known meetings with Russia-linked operatives.
Shvets, who has carried out his own investigation, said: “For me, the Mueller report was a big disappointment because people expected that it will be a thorough investigation of all ties between Trump and Moscow, when in fact what we got was an investigation of just crime-related issues. There were no counterintelligence aspects of the relationship between Trump and Moscow.”
He added: “This is what basically we decided to correct. So I did my investigation and then got together with Craig. So we believe that his book will pick up where Mueller left off.”
Unger, the author of seven books and a former contributing editor for Vanity Fair magazine, said of Trump: “He was an asset. It was not this grand, ingenious plan that we’re going to develop this guy and 40 years later he’ll be president. At the time it started, which was around 1980, the Russians were trying to recruit like crazy and going after dozens and dozens of people.”
“Trump was the perfect target in a lot of ways: his vanity, narcissism made him a natural target to recruit. He was cultivated over a 40-year period, right up through his election.”
原文：https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/news/archive/2021/02/title-240459-en.html
Writing in The Conversation, Kyle Cunliffe, PHD student from the Department of International Politics, discusses Donald Trump’s relationship with the Kremlin in a new book by veteran US journalist Craig Unger, claiming that the former US commander-in-chief was cultivated as a Russian intelligence asset
The question of Donald Trump’s relationship with the Kremlin has surfaced once again, this time in a new book by veteran US journalist Craig Unger. The book, American Kompromat, claims that the former US commander-in-chief was cultivated as a Russian intelligence asset for more than four decades.
It’s not the first time this has been reported. In 2017 the former Moscow correspondent for The Guardian Luke Harding published a book: Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win, which propounded roughly the same idea – that Trump had been courted for years after marrying his first wife, Ivana Zelnickova, a model from Czechoslovakia. And then there’s the Christopher Steele dossier, published in 2017 with its allegations of honey-trap blackmail and bizarre sexual practices. Although this came with a big “handle-with-care” caveat.
Could it really be true that one of Washington’s bitterest adversaries would have a stooge at the very top of its ranks? To consider this question it’s important to understand the distinction between an asset and an agent (or spy).
Former KGB major, Yuri Shvets, who appears to be Unger’s key source, compares Trump to the infamous Cambridge Five – a group of ideologically motivated agents in the heart of the British establishment, who willingly and systematically supplied the Soviet Union with state secrets over several decades to advance the communist cause. When you compare their story with that of the former US president, something looks wrong.
During Trump’s tenure, NATO turned its heels towards Russia, and the Magnitsky Act has made life very difficult for a lot of powerful Russians by targeting their assets in the west. British intelligence has reclassified Russia as a “tier one” threat, putting it on at least equal footing to transnational terrorism.
Meanwhile, in 2018, the US expelled more than 60 Russian officials after identifying them as intelligence officers. To put it bluntly, any gains Russia might have achieved through Trump’s good offices are far outweighed by the strategic, economic, and counterintelligence realities that have emerged during his presidency.
Assets vs agents
“Assets” in intelligence jargon, can mean anything from full-blown agents (people who knowingly offer their country’s secrets to a foreign intelligence agency) to those who might serve some use along the way. But they are far more likely to be at the more casual end of that spectrum. To identify and handle agents, intelligence officers need to expand their social circles (to meet more people in sensitive positions), find private safe houses and develop plausible cover stories to explain why they are meeting.
On the other hand, making friends with a masseuse who gives massages to oligarchs while they gossip about Kremlin affairs could represent a perfect asset. An elderly babushka who attends dissident rallies and owns a private B&B? Perfect asset. An overworked secretary who arranges scientific conferences in China? Perfect asset.
Few assets ever become spies proper. The simple proposition “would you like to work for our intelligence agency?” is never an easy sell. If a source panics or overreacts, they might tell the authorities. At which point, that relationship is either swiftly ended, or the asset becomes a counterintelligence pawn, playing the intelligence officer at his or her own game. When one overly eager Russian officer tried to recruit an American diplomat a few years ago, he made the mistake of playing his cards too early. The result? The diplomat reported the encounter, and the FBI then set up their own meeting with the Russian, “turning the game back on him”.
As such, an intelligence officer never asks a useful asset to become an agent unless they’re confident of a positive answer. In many cases, an asset doesn’t even know they’re an asset. In what’s known as “tradecraft” in the world of espionage, it’s often better to let assets exist in blissful ignorance of the intelligence officer’s intentions, trading friendly favours and gossip. That isn’t really espionage, it’s just business.
Just look at Carter Page, one of Trump’s former foreign policy advisers. Despite his strong pro-Kremlin views, despite living in Moscow in 2004, and despite being a target of Russian intelligence, there is no evidence that Page crossed the threshold. Russian intelligence officers certainly attempted to cultivate Page, but even the Mueller report couldn’t determine whether or not he was a full-blown agent.
But why should he be? Carter was a fan of Putin, so Russian officers could bank on him taking the Kremlin’s interests straight to Trump’s team even without explicit instruction. He needn’t be anything more than a friend, and the Russians needn’t risk asking for anything more.
Trump, a useful fool?
Now compare this to the allegations levied against the 45th president. According to Unger, once Trump came on to the KGB’s radar in 1977, he was fed a cocktail of flattery and subtle manipulation, which is nothing new for asset cultivation. The Steele dossier, largely discredited, made allegations of blackmail, which fits within the Russian proclivity for seeking out compromising information about their targets.
But any Russian intelligence officer would need to consider whether Trump really cares enough about kompromat and Russian money. Indeed, why enrol him as an agent of influence – a move that carries enormous consequences for both parties – when Russia could opt for a convenient friend in Washington?
In reality, even if Russia sees Trump as an asset, we’re not talking about Trump being a new Kim Philby (of Cambridge Five fame). We’re talking about Trump being a self-interested businessman who’s happy to do a favour if it works to his own best interests – and that includes staying out of jail. There’s no evidence that Trump knowingly associated with any Russian intelligence officers. And there’s a big distinction between making the wrong kind of friends and committing treason.
Simply put, an agent is a partner for life, whereas an asset is a friend with benefits. And, most likely, if Trump has been one of the two, it’s the latter.
Writing in The Conversation, Kyle Cunliffe, PHD student from the Department of International Politics, discusses Donald Trump’s relationship with the Kremlin in a new book by veteran US journalist Craig Unger, claiming that the former US commander-in-chief was cultivated as a Russian intelligence asset
The question of Donald Trump’s relationship with the Kremlin has surfaced once again, this time in a new book by veteran US journalist Craig Unger. The book, American Kompromat, claims that the former US commander-in-chief was cultivated as a Russian intelligence asset for more than four decades.
It’s not the first time this has been reported. In 2017 the former Moscow correspondent for The Guardian Luke Harding published a book: Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win, which propounded roughly the same idea – that Trump had been courted for years after marrying his first wife, Ivana Zelnickova, a model from Czechoslovakia. And then there’s the Christopher Steele dossier, published in 2017 with its allegations of honey-trap blackmail and bizarre sexual practices. Although this came with a big “handle-with-care” caveat.
Could it really be true that one of Washington’s bitterest adversaries would have a stooge at the very top of its ranks? To consider this question it’s important to understand the distinction between an asset and an agent (or spy).
Former KGB major, Yuri Shvets, who appears to be Unger’s key source, compares Trump to the infamous Cambridge Five – a group of ideologically motivated agents in the heart of the British establishment, who willingly and systematically supplied the Soviet Union with state secrets over several decades to advance the communist cause. When you compare their story with that of the former US president, something looks wrong.
During Trump’s tenure, NATO turned its heels towards Russia, and the Magnitsky Act has made life very difficult for a lot of powerful Russians by targeting their assets in the west. British intelligence has reclassified Russia as a “tier one” threat, putting it on at least equal footing to transnational terrorism.
Meanwhile, in 2018, the US expelled more than 60 Russian officials after identifying them as intelligence officers. To put it bluntly, any gains Russia might have achieved through Trump’s good offices are far outweighed by the strategic, economic, and counterintelligence realities that have emerged during his presidency.
Assets vs agents
“Assets” in intelligence jargon, can mean anything from full-blown agents (people who knowingly offer their country’s secrets to a foreign intelligence agency) to those who might serve some use along the way. But they are far more likely to be at the more casual end of that spectrum. To identify and handle agents, intelligence officers need to expand their social circles (to meet more people in sensitive positions), find private safe houses and develop plausible cover stories to explain why they are meeting.
On the other hand, making friends with a masseuse who gives massages to oligarchs while they gossip about Kremlin affairs could represent a perfect asset. An elderly babushka who attends dissident rallies and owns a private B&B? Perfect asset. An overworked secretary who arranges scientific conferences in China? Perfect asset.
Few assets ever become spies proper. The simple proposition “would you like to work for our intelligence agency?” is never an easy sell. If a source panics or overreacts, they might tell the authorities. At which point, that relationship is either swiftly ended, or the asset becomes a counterintelligence pawn, playing the intelligence officer at his or her own game. When one overly eager Russian officer tried to recruit an American diplomat a few years ago, he made the mistake of playing his cards too early. The result? The diplomat reported the encounter, and the FBI then set up their own meeting with the Russian, “turning the game back on him”.
As such, an intelligence officer never asks a useful asset to become an agent unless they’re confident of a positive answer. In many cases, an asset doesn’t even know they’re an asset. In what’s known as “tradecraft” in the world of espionage, it’s often better to let assets exist in blissful ignorance of the intelligence officer’s intentions, trading friendly favours and gossip. That isn’t really espionage, it’s just business.
Just look at Carter Page, one of Trump’s former foreign policy advisers. Despite his strong pro-Kremlin views, despite living in Moscow in 2004, and despite being a target of Russian intelligence, there is no evidence that Page crossed the threshold. Russian intelligence officers certainly attempted to cultivate Page, but even the Mueller report couldn’t determine whether or not he was a full-blown agent.
But why should he be? Carter was a fan of Putin, so Russian officers could bank on him taking the Kremlin’s interests straight to Trump’s team even without explicit instruction. He needn’t be anything more than a friend, and the Russians needn’t risk asking for anything more.
Trump, a useful fool?
Now compare this to the allegations levied against the 45th president. According to Unger, once Trump came on to the KGB’s radar in 1977, he was fed a cocktail of flattery and subtle manipulation, which is nothing new for asset cultivation. The Steele dossier, largely discredited, made allegations of blackmail, which fits within the Russian proclivity for seeking out compromising information about their targets.
But any Russian intelligence officer would need to consider whether Trump really cares enough about kompromat and Russian money. Indeed, why enrol him as an agent of influence – a move that carries enormous consequences for both parties – when Russia could opt for a convenient friend in Washington?
In reality, even if Russia sees Trump as an asset, we’re not talking about Trump being a new Kim Philby (of Cambridge Five fame). We’re talking about Trump being a self-interested businessman who’s happy to do a favour if it works to his own best interests – and that includes staying out of jail. There’s no evidence that Trump knowingly associated with any Russian intelligence officers. And there’s a big distinction between making the wrong kind of friends and committing treason.
Simply put, an agent is a partner for life, whereas an asset is a friend with benefits. And, most likely, if Trump has been one of the two, it’s the latter.
原文：https://kyivindependent.com/is-donald-trump-a-russian-asset-this-us-author-is-completely-certain-he-is/
《 Is Donald Trump a Russian asset? This US author is 'completely certain' he is 》
Questions about U.S. President Donald Trump's possibly shady relationship with Russia and the country's security services have long swirled, even culminating in a special counsel investigation during his first term in office.
Though that investigation found evidence of "extensive criminal activity" by Trump, his associates, and some of his family members, it found no evidence that he was working for, or had ever been recruited by, Russia's security services.
Yet despite this, the topic refuses to go away — most recently in a viral Facebook post from a former Kazakh security official that claimed Trump was recruited by the Soviet Union's spy agency, the KGB, in 1987 and given the code name "Krasnov."
Craig Unger, an American journalist and writer who has written two books on Trump’s connections to Russia’s security services and the Russian mafia stretching all the way back to the 1980s, says he is "absolutely certain" that the U.S. president is a Russian asset.
According to Unger, Trump’s current actions are benefiting Russian President Vladimir Putin, and destroying relationships with long-time allies.
The Kyiv Independent sat down with Unger to hear what makes him so certain.
The Kyiv Independent: A lot of the discussion around Trump and his connections to Russia gets dismissed as conspiracy theories based on circumstantial evidence. What would you say to those accusations?
Craig Unger: First of all, I want to distinguish between an asset and an agent. An agent is someone who has signed on with the KGB, can be given specific tasks, and is actually paid by them.
That's not the way it works with an asset. The KGB made a point of cultivating powerful businessmen — I'm thinking of Armand Hammer. He was an enormously wealthy American oil man, who was very much an asset. And he was sort of ageing out when the KGB began cultivating Trump.
The Kyiv Independent: How certain are you that Donald Trump is a Russian asset?
Craig Unger: Completely certain. I've written two books about it. “House of Trump, House of Putin,” and “American Kompromat,” and not a single fact has been challenged in my reporting.
It really goes back to 1980 when Donald Trump was just starting out and had his first successful real estate adventure.
He's had a lot of failures. This one was actually a success — he developed the Grand Hyatt Hotel right near Grand Central Station here in New York.
And like every big hotel, he needed a lot of TV sets. And he ended up buying them from the Joy Lud electronics store, which was a front for the KGB. And I got that information from a former agent with the KGB, Yuri Shvets.
And it really all started from that. They sent out a spotter agent, someone who's trying to recruit talent for someone who can help the KGB later on — and they came to Donald Trump.And that set off a series of meetings and events, which led to Trump's first visit to Moscow in 1987.
The Kyiv Independent: If you had to pick three things that are the biggest pieces of evidence that Trump was, or is a Russian asset, what would you choose?
Craig Unger: In 1984, a man named David Bogatin came to Trump Tower, which is a crown jewel among Trump's buildings, and put down $6 million on the table and bought five condos. What was interesting about that was that according to FBI files, Bogatin was a member of the Russian mafia.
And this was the first of many such people who are affiliated with the Russian mafia — I found a total of 13 people — who lived in Trump Tower or other Trump buildings.
Trump was hosting the Russian mafia for many years before he even ran for president. So that's one thing.
Another is when he went to Moscow in 1987. This was a visit that was set up by the KGB, according to Shvets. And when Trump got there, he was sort of groomed by the KGB.
He came back and a lot of people have forgotten this, but he made a brief abortive run for president in 1988.
He also took out a full page ad in The New York Times (NYT), that was assailing America's alliance with NATO.
People are shocked today that Trump is betraying Ukraine, he's betraying Europe, he's siding with Putin. Well, he did it as early as 1987, when he was starting to run for the presidency in 1988. And that is very well documented, it was printed in the NYT.
It's exactly the foreign policy he is acting out today that is so horrifying. This is the end of NATO, it's the end of the Western alliance. Trump is allying with Vladimir Putin, and against Ukraine and all of Western Europe.
The Kyiv Independent: What has happened more recently to make you believe Trump is a Russian asset?
Craig Unger: You saw him during his first term as president when he met with Putin in Helsinki — he essentially said that he trusted Putin far more than American intelligence (agencies).
And what we see happening now is, he is essentially destroying Western intelligence. I can't imagine Ukraine or any European partners wanting to share intelligence with the U.S., as long as Trump is president, because it's likely to be passed straight along to Vladimir Putin.
The Kyiv Independent: Just last week there was a Facebook post from somebody who professes to have been part of the KGB in Kazakhstan during the 1980s and he said Trump was recruited then.
Craig Unger: Yes, I'm aware of that post, I have not been able to corroborate it. If I'm not mistaken, he was talking about the sixth directorate in the KGB. I'm not sure they were recruiting American assets.
And the first director and the second director of the KGB were doing that mostly. So I really can't corroborate it.
The Kyiv Independent: As an American citizen, how does all of this make you feel?
Craig Unger: I'm petrified, to be honest. When I grew up, the movie that I loved in my childhood was “The Manchurian Candidate,” the original, 1962 version. It posited that the communists had gotten inside the White House. And that was the whole premise. And it was seen as incredibly conspiratorial.
The idea that it could actually happen in some way is just breathtaking. And I think we're entering a new era in the U.S. And we have to fight back.
Because I would very much like to keep an alliance with my friends in Europe.
《 Is Donald Trump a Russian asset? This US author is 'completely certain' he is 》
Questions about U.S. President Donald Trump's possibly shady relationship with Russia and the country's security services have long swirled, even culminating in a special counsel investigation during his first term in office.
Though that investigation found evidence of "extensive criminal activity" by Trump, his associates, and some of his family members, it found no evidence that he was working for, or had ever been recruited by, Russia's security services.
Yet despite this, the topic refuses to go away — most recently in a viral Facebook post from a former Kazakh security official that claimed Trump was recruited by the Soviet Union's spy agency, the KGB, in 1987 and given the code name "Krasnov."
Craig Unger, an American journalist and writer who has written two books on Trump’s connections to Russia’s security services and the Russian mafia stretching all the way back to the 1980s, says he is "absolutely certain" that the U.S. president is a Russian asset.
According to Unger, Trump’s current actions are benefiting Russian President Vladimir Putin, and destroying relationships with long-time allies.
The Kyiv Independent sat down with Unger to hear what makes him so certain.
The Kyiv Independent: A lot of the discussion around Trump and his connections to Russia gets dismissed as conspiracy theories based on circumstantial evidence. What would you say to those accusations?
Craig Unger: First of all, I want to distinguish between an asset and an agent. An agent is someone who has signed on with the KGB, can be given specific tasks, and is actually paid by them.
That's not the way it works with an asset. The KGB made a point of cultivating powerful businessmen — I'm thinking of Armand Hammer. He was an enormously wealthy American oil man, who was very much an asset. And he was sort of ageing out when the KGB began cultivating Trump.
The Kyiv Independent: How certain are you that Donald Trump is a Russian asset?
Craig Unger: Completely certain. I've written two books about it. “House of Trump, House of Putin,” and “American Kompromat,” and not a single fact has been challenged in my reporting.
It really goes back to 1980 when Donald Trump was just starting out and had his first successful real estate adventure.
He's had a lot of failures. This one was actually a success — he developed the Grand Hyatt Hotel right near Grand Central Station here in New York.
And like every big hotel, he needed a lot of TV sets. And he ended up buying them from the Joy Lud electronics store, which was a front for the KGB. And I got that information from a former agent with the KGB, Yuri Shvets.
And it really all started from that. They sent out a spotter agent, someone who's trying to recruit talent for someone who can help the KGB later on — and they came to Donald Trump.And that set off a series of meetings and events, which led to Trump's first visit to Moscow in 1987.
The Kyiv Independent: If you had to pick three things that are the biggest pieces of evidence that Trump was, or is a Russian asset, what would you choose?
Craig Unger: In 1984, a man named David Bogatin came to Trump Tower, which is a crown jewel among Trump's buildings, and put down $6 million on the table and bought five condos. What was interesting about that was that according to FBI files, Bogatin was a member of the Russian mafia.
And this was the first of many such people who are affiliated with the Russian mafia — I found a total of 13 people — who lived in Trump Tower or other Trump buildings.
Trump was hosting the Russian mafia for many years before he even ran for president. So that's one thing.
Another is when he went to Moscow in 1987. This was a visit that was set up by the KGB, according to Shvets. And when Trump got there, he was sort of groomed by the KGB.
He came back and a lot of people have forgotten this, but he made a brief abortive run for president in 1988.
He also took out a full page ad in The New York Times (NYT), that was assailing America's alliance with NATO.
People are shocked today that Trump is betraying Ukraine, he's betraying Europe, he's siding with Putin. Well, he did it as early as 1987, when he was starting to run for the presidency in 1988. And that is very well documented, it was printed in the NYT.
It's exactly the foreign policy he is acting out today that is so horrifying. This is the end of NATO, it's the end of the Western alliance. Trump is allying with Vladimir Putin, and against Ukraine and all of Western Europe.
The Kyiv Independent: What has happened more recently to make you believe Trump is a Russian asset?
Craig Unger: You saw him during his first term as president when he met with Putin in Helsinki — he essentially said that he trusted Putin far more than American intelligence (agencies).
And what we see happening now is, he is essentially destroying Western intelligence. I can't imagine Ukraine or any European partners wanting to share intelligence with the U.S., as long as Trump is president, because it's likely to be passed straight along to Vladimir Putin.
The Kyiv Independent: Just last week there was a Facebook post from somebody who professes to have been part of the KGB in Kazakhstan during the 1980s and he said Trump was recruited then.
Craig Unger: Yes, I'm aware of that post, I have not been able to corroborate it. If I'm not mistaken, he was talking about the sixth directorate in the KGB. I'm not sure they were recruiting American assets.
And the first director and the second director of the KGB were doing that mostly. So I really can't corroborate it.
The Kyiv Independent: As an American citizen, how does all of this make you feel?
Craig Unger: I'm petrified, to be honest. When I grew up, the movie that I loved in my childhood was “The Manchurian Candidate,” the original, 1962 version. It posited that the communists had gotten inside the White House. And that was the whole premise. And it was seen as incredibly conspiratorial.
The idea that it could actually happen in some way is just breathtaking. And I think we're entering a new era in the U.S. And we have to fight back.
Because I would very much like to keep an alliance with my friends in Europe.
原文：https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Steele
In his 2024 book 《Unredacted: Russia, Trump, and the Fight for Democracy》，
Christopher Steele
(Author of the Steele Dossier, former MI6 head of Russian Desk) predicts a 'new world disorder' if Trump wins back the presidency in November, and portrays him as more dangerous than U.S. adversaries such as China and Iran. He calls the Republican Party and the former president who dominates it 'the gravest threat to Western democracy and the rule of law … increasingly the willing handmaidens for Putin.'"
Book Summary:https://discover.bklynlibrary.org/item?b=12816974
The intelligence officer behind the explosive "Steele Dossier" steps out of the shadows, revealing a searing new report on the threat Putin and Trump pose to democracy, based on alarming intelligence exposed in these pages for the first time"Putin is now desperate to have Donald Trump back in the White House. If he succeeds in helping Trump get reelected, I am convinced that the global political order will be utterly changed. We shall have entered a new historical era of strategic chaos, a 'new world disorder.' The consequences of Trump winning the 2024 election are catastrophic." -from Unredacted. To a unique degree, Christopher Steele has been an eyewitness observer of modern Russian history. He was a British diplomat and intelligence professional in Moscow when the Soviet Union was collapsing. Steele was there when the putsch against Mikhail Gorbachev took place and when Boris Yeltsin took over the newly independent Russia. After Vladimir Putin came to power, Steele rose to become one of British government's leading Russia experts and played a central role in the investigation into the Kremlin-ordered murder of Alexander Litvinenko. Then, in 2016, he wrote a series of explosive reports about the then presidential candidate Donald Trump and his links to Russia. Now known to the world as the "Steele Dossier," these intelligence documents drew the world's attention to Russia's relationship with Trump--and reluctantly thrust Steele into the center of a global maelstrom. Since Trump's election, he has quietly continued his work. Indeed, Steele has had even better access to sources of information and intelligence on Russia--ones that have given him a privileged view of what's going on inside the Kremlin, and how much we in the West should worry about it. In Unredacted, Steele shares for the first time what that inside view looks like, how he came to the point of gaining such a level of insight, and what Western governments--and all of us--can and should do to counter this generational threat.
In his 2024 book 《Unredacted: Russia, Trump, and the Fight for Democracy》，
Christopher Steele
(Author of the Steele Dossier, former MI6 head of Russian Desk) predicts a 'new world disorder' if Trump wins back the presidency in November, and portrays him as more dangerous than U.S. adversaries such as China and Iran. He calls the Republican Party and the former president who dominates it 'the gravest threat to Western democracy and the rule of law … increasingly the willing handmaidens for Putin.'"
Book Summary:https://discover.bklynlibrary.org/item?b=12816974
The intelligence officer behind the explosive "Steele Dossier" steps out of the shadows, revealing a searing new report on the threat Putin and Trump pose to democracy, based on alarming intelligence exposed in these pages for the first time"Putin is now desperate to have Donald Trump back in the White House. If he succeeds in helping Trump get reelected, I am convinced that the global political order will be utterly changed. We shall have entered a new historical era of strategic chaos, a 'new world disorder.' The consequences of Trump winning the 2024 election are catastrophic." -from Unredacted. To a unique degree, Christopher Steele has been an eyewitness observer of modern Russian history. He was a British diplomat and intelligence professional in Moscow when the Soviet Union was collapsing. Steele was there when the putsch against Mikhail Gorbachev took place and when Boris Yeltsin took over the newly independent Russia. After Vladimir Putin came to power, Steele rose to become one of British government's leading Russia experts and played a central role in the investigation into the Kremlin-ordered murder of Alexander Litvinenko. Then, in 2016, he wrote a series of explosive reports about the then presidential candidate Donald Trump and his links to Russia. Now known to the world as the "Steele Dossier," these intelligence documents drew the world's attention to Russia's relationship with Trump--and reluctantly thrust Steele into the center of a global maelstrom. Since Trump's election, he has quietly continued his work. Indeed, Steele has had even better access to sources of information and intelligence on Russia--ones that have given him a privileged view of what's going on inside the Kremlin, and how much we in the West should worry about it. In Unredacted, Steele shares for the first time what that inside view looks like, how he came to the point of gaining such a level of insight, and what Western governments--and all of us--can and should do to counter this generational threat.
原文：https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/03/10/trump-putin-russia-asset-spy-security-ukraine-europe-war/
《Comrade Trump Why he’s acting exactly like a Russian asset would.》
MARCH 10, 2025, 2:56 PM
A few years ago, it would have looked like mission impossible for even the most capable Russian spy. Divide the United States from its allies? Check. Discredit its normative power (human rights, the rule of law, democracy, altruism)? Check. Weaken U.S. institutions to make further manipulation easier? Check.
One could go on. But it’s simpler to try testing the opposite hypothesis. Name one thing that U.S. President Donald Trump has done since taking office that the Kremlin did not like. Crickets.
《Comrade Trump Why he’s acting exactly like a Russian asset would.》
MARCH 10, 2025, 2:56 PM
A few years ago, it would have looked like mission impossible for even the most capable Russian spy. Divide the United States from its allies? Check. Discredit its normative power (human rights, the rule of law, democracy, altruism)? Check. Weaken U.S. institutions to make further manipulation easier? Check.
One could go on. But it’s simpler to try testing the opposite hypothesis. Name one thing that U.S. President Donald Trump has done since taking office that the Kremlin did not like. Crickets.