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Inside Soviet recruitment: Kazakhstan's former security chief claims Trump was a stooge
Alnur Mussayev claims that the Soviet KGB recruited Donald Trump before the collapse of the USSR, assigning him the alias Krasnov. He shared this assertion on his Facebook page.
In 1987, I served in the Sixth Directorate of the KGB in Moscow. Our primary mission was recruiting businesspeople from capitalist countries. That year, our directorate recruited Donald Trump, a 40-year-old American businessman, under the pseudonym Krasnov, Mussayev wrote.
He acknowledged that the idea of a U.S. president being a spy or an agent of influence for an adversary state might seem far-fetched, even beyond Hollywood's imagination. However, he argued that nothing is impossible in the world of intelligence.
Everything is possible, even the wildest and most unbelievable things, Mussayev said. For example, the recruitment of future heads of state, even the president of the U.S.
In 2018, Mussayev lamented that Kazakhstan had not adequately monitored or evaluated Trump's actions on the international stage or in U.S. domestic politics. He suggested that Trump's policies were contributing to a shift in global standards and values.
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Inside Soviet recruitment: Kazakhstan's former security chief claims Trump was a stooge
Alnur Mussayev claims that the Soviet KGB recruited Donald Trump before the collapse of the USSR, assigning him the alias Krasnov. He shared this assertion on his Facebook page.
In 1987, I served in the Sixth Directorate of the KGB in Moscow. Our primary mission was recruiting businesspeople from capitalist countries. That year, our directorate recruited Donald Trump, a 40-year-old American businessman, under the pseudonym Krasnov, Mussayev wrote.
He acknowledged that the idea of a U.S. president being a spy or an agent of influence for an adversary state might seem far-fetched, even beyond Hollywood's imagination. However, he argued that nothing is impossible in the world of intelligence.
Everything is possible, even the wildest and most unbelievable things, Mussayev said. For example, the recruitment of future heads of state, even the president of the U.S.
In 2018, Mussayev lamented that Kazakhstan had not adequately monitored or evaluated Trump's actions on the international stage or in U.S. domestic politics. He suggested that Trump's policies were contributing to a shift in global standards and values.