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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKGB started watching Trump in 1977 and made first move to recruit him as an asset in 1986: report
President Donald Trump was first approached by Russian operatives in 1987 when the man who would go on to become Soviet ambassador Yuri Dubinin opened discussions with Trump about a Moscow real estate project.
However, according to a Politico report published Sunday, Trump appeared on Soviet spy agency the KGBs radar nearly a decade earlier when he married Czech model Ivana Zelnickova.
During the Cold War, Czech spies were known for their professionalism. Czech and Hungarian officers were typically used in espionage actions abroad, especially in the United States and Latin America. They were less obvious than Soviet operatives sent by Moscow, wrote Luke Harding.
Because of her country of origin, Soviet and U.S. intelligence agencies would be routinely monitoring the woman who became Ivana Trump and her new husband, but the first attempt to activate Trump as a Russian asset came when Natalia Dubinin brought her father Yuri to Trump Tower.
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/kgb-started-watching-trump-in-1977-and-made-first-move-to-recruit-him-as-an-asset-in-1986-report/
Yikes! We have a Russian asset installed in the White House just to undermine American democracy!
dalton99a
(81,566 posts)bdamomma
(63,917 posts)we have a treasonous bastard in the WH. Bring a conviction on this woman assault predator.
GusBob
(7,286 posts)They play the long game. Any relationship they can foster they do.
And it's not like they turn you into a spy in a week. They take anything they can get and try and give things to maintain the connection
iluvtennis
(19,868 posts)Joy Reid had her on her show then (and continues to have her on the show). Kendzior knows her stuff and has some excellent insights into authoritarian regimes.
https://sarahkendzior.com/opinion/
Orrex
(63,220 posts)Fuck every last Republican who's content to stand by while this semi-humanoid dumpster fire wreaks havoc upon the nation at the bidding of his oligarch owners.
Fuck everyone's uncle who voted for Trump. Fuck everyone's cousin who voted for Trump. My aunt and my sister voted for him, so fuck them, too.
While we're at it, fuck every Green who voted for Stein and every Democrat who didn't vote for Clinton.
Fuck them, fuck them, fuck them.
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Stallion
(6,476 posts)dawnie51
(959 posts)that Melania is Dumps handler, and was told I needed to take break from politics for awhile. I still believe it tho. Dump is dim witted and somewhat dementia addled now, but he knows what's up. He's a straight up traitor.
bucolic_frolic
(43,257 posts)lock, stock, and barrel
All those oil and gas deals ... public lands ... national monuments ... deregulation to permit pollution ... Supreme Court seat to back up property rights ... media deregulation to eviscerate opposition
Trump didn't cook this up himself. This has been plotted a long time.
There used to be the theory ... first I heard of it in the early 70's ... the Soviet Union would become more like us, and we would become more like them ... 15 years later was the idea that pollution had been a Soviet problem, now it was to be visited upon us .... so the Oligarchs were circling, planning how to jigger assets, laws, regulatory climate to make it go cha-ching for them.
Initech
(100,099 posts)UCmeNdc
(9,600 posts)Think about that!
From Putin's point of view.. "Mission Accomplished!"
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)No doubt.
But by now, he understands at some level he's had -- else he wouldn't be so unrelentingly beholden and clearly in obeisance to Putin.