Ex-Soviet Spy Claims KGB Recruited Trump In 1987

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.