Ex Soviet spy chief claims Trump was recruited by the KGB in the 80s

A former Soviet spy chief has claimed that the US President Donald Trump was recruited by the KGB in the late 80s.

Alnur Mussayev ran the KGB in Kazakhstan, and he was responsible for foreign intelligence, internal security counterintelligence and was aware that Trump was recruited by the spy agency in 1987, it has been alledged.

Russia’s KGB was the main security agency between 1954 to 1991 and Trump was recruited by his own department which had a role to gather intelligence through business leaders in the West, the Byline Times reports.

Mussayev wrote, “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.

“It was that year that our Office recruited 40-year-old businessman from the United States, Donald Trump, under the pseudonym ‘Krasnov’.”

He added, “In the activity of intelligence agencies, as in life, everything is possible, even the wildest and incredible things.

“For example, recruitment of future leaders of state and even the President of the United States.”

Another former KGB general Olag Kalugin who was Vladimir Putin’s superior during the Soviet era said that Trump was on the intelligence services sights since the early 80s and they held a file on him over his relationships with women.

The Byline Times reported that Yuri Shivets who is another Soviet spy said Trump was nurtured since the 70s and his political ambitions were to be supported.

Trump was a target of the Soviet and Czechoslovak intelligence in 1977, after he married his first wife, Ivana Zelníčková who previously worked with he Czechoslovak security service surveillance, the Státní Bezpečnost (StB).

Shivets claims that the KGB encouraged Trump to get involved with politics during a visits in 1987 to Leningrad and Moscow and that in the 80s Trump had business dealings with Semion Kislin who had links to the KGB.