When former KGB officer Alnur Mussayev claimed that US President Donald Trump was recruited as an asset for Moscow in the 1980s, it set off a storm on social media. In a Facebook post on 20 ...

The former head of Kazakhstan’s intelligence service, Alnur Mussayev, recently claimed in a Facebook post that Donald Trump was recruited by the KGB in 1987, when the 40-year-old real-estate ...

In a dramatic claim, ex-KGB official Alnur Mussayev alleges that Donald Trump was recruited as a Russian spy in 1987 with the codename "Krasnov." Mussayev asserts that Trump’s Soviet-era ...

The claim gained traction when the news website The Daily Beast published a now-deleted story (archived) titled "Former Intelligence Officer Claims KGB Recruited Trump," using only Mussayev's ...

US President Donald Trump was groomed 37 years ago as a potential Soviet asset, according to Alnur Mussayev, the former head of Kazakhstan’s security services, who had been a KGB officer in Moscow at ...

In February 2025, Alnur Mussayev, a former Soviet and Kazakh security official, claimed in a Facebook post that U.S. President Donald Trump was recruited in 1987 by the KGB, the intelligence agency of ...

In February 2025, Alnur Mussayev, a former Soviet and Kazakh security official, claimed in a Facebook post that U.S. President Donald Trump was recruited in 1987 by the KGB, the intelligence ...

Donald Trump is a Russian agent; he was recruited by the KGB of the USSR in 1987. When I was with the KGB, I repeatedly reported my finding that an obscure pro-Moscow newsletter, the Executive ...

A former officer of Russia's spy agency Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (KGB) has claimed that US president Donald Trump was groomed 37 years ago as a "potential Soviet asset'. In 2021 ...

A former Soviet intelligence officer has claimed Donald Trump was recruited by the KGB in 1987 and given the codename “Krasnov”. The bombshell allegation was made by Alnur Mussayev ...

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A former Soviet intelligence officer has alleged that Donald Trump was recruited by the KGB in 1987 under the codename “Krasnov.” Alnur Mussayev, a former Kazakh intelligence chief ...