The Daily Record reports:
Donald Trump was recruited by the KGB in 1987 and given the codename “Krasnov”, claims a former Soviet intelligence officer.
The bombshell allegation was made by Alnur Mussayev, a former Kazakh intelligence chief, in a Facebook post. The 71-year-old, who previously headed Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee, said he had served in the 6th Directorate of the KGB in Moscow, which was responsible for counter-intelligence support within the economy.
One of the directorate’s primary objectives, he claimed, was “recruiting businessmen from capitalist countries.” According to Mussayev, Trump, then a 40-year-old New York real estate developer, was one of those recruits. “In 1987, our directorate recruited Donald Trump under the pseudonym Krasnov,” he wrote.
Read the full article. The Daily Record is a UK tabloid. So far the story has been picked up by other tabloids and the Kyiv Post, but I’m not yet seeing it on mainstream US news sites. The British “investigative news site” Byline Times has a deep dive into the allegations.
In 1987, Trump was having financial difficulties (he lost $1 Billion dollars from 1978-1990) – so he turned to Russia. The KGB literally paid for his trip to Russia, and he was recruited by the KGB. #Krasnov pic.twitter.com/9QJUO29XH3
— Anonymous (@YourAnonNews) February 21, 2025
🚨Former KGB head Alnur Musayev states that in 1987, the USSR’s 6th KGB Department, responsible for recruiting spies from capitalist businessmen, recruited 40-year-old Donald Trump, codenamed “Krasnov” pic.twitter.com/8XTeRHIo6a
— Anonymous TV 🇺🇦 (@YourAnonTV) February 20, 2025
A former Soviet spy says that Trump was indeed recruited to the KGB 38 years ago by his department. He was given a codename, ‘Krasnov’. We checked, and the source was indeed a KBG intelligence officer at the time. Read about it in my @BylineTimes report: https://t.co/z48Ybc3RmS
— Dr Nafeez Ahmed FRSA (@NafeezAhmed) February 21, 2025