Spy Chief Allegations that Trump was recruited as a Russian Asset in 1987 are being scrubbed from the internet
Spy Chief Allegations that Trump was recruited as a Russian Asset in 1987 are being scrubbed from the internet
So earlier today, the Daily Beast’s Isabel van Brugen published a bombshell story about allegations by Kazakh Spy Chief Alnur Mussayev that the KGB had recruited Donald Trump as a Soviet Asset way back in 1987 under the code name “Krasnov.” I expected...
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25921559
Link above goes to the Daily Kos post that discovered the scrubbing. Here's the text of the original article:
Former Intelligence Officer Claims KGB Recruited Trump
Isabel Van Brugen – The Daily Beast – 21 February 2025
A former Soviet intelligence officer has alleged that Donald Trump was recruited by the KGB in 1987 and given the codename “Krasnov.”
Alnur Mussayev, 71, a former Kazakh intelligence chief, made the explosive claim in a Facebook post on Thursday. He claimed that he served in the 6th Directorate of the KGB in Moscow, which was responsible for counter-intelligence support within the economy. One of its key objectives, he claimed, was “recruiting businessmen from capitalist countries.”
Mussayev wrote that in 1987 “our directorate recruited Donald Trump, a 40-year-old American businessman, under the pseudonym Krasnov.”
He reiterated that the department specialized in recruiting spies and intelligence sources from the West, asserting once again that Trump had been brought into the fold.
“I hope I’ll survive a third assassination attempt,” he said in a comment below his post.
He made another shocking allegation in another comment, saying: “Today, the personal file of resident ‘Krasnov’ has been removed from the FSB. It is being privately managed by one of Putin’s close associates.”
Mussayev’s allegations, while unfounded, add to ongoing speculation about Trump’s connections to Russia. Trump’s first visit to Moscow as a real estate developer in 1987 drew intense scrutiny and speculation that the trip was arranged by the KGB for dubious reasons.
According to Politico, in 1985, the KGB updated a secret personality questionnaire distributed among the agency, advising case officers what to look for in a successful recruitment operation.
The document instructed agents to target “prominent figures in the West” with the goal of drawing them “into some form of collaboration with us… as an agent, or confidential or special or unofficial contact.”
Trump has denied any improper ties to Moscow or collusion with President Vladimir Putin.
The Daily Beast has reached out to the White House and Russia’s Foreign Ministry for comment.
U.S. officials have also expressed concerns about Trump’s relationship with Putin.
Anthony Scaramucci who briefly served as Trump’s White House communications director in 2017, said during an episode of “The Rest Is Politics: US” podcast with co-host Katty Kay on Friday that he thinks there is a mysterious “hold” on the president.
Scaramucci did not elaborate on what he believes that “hold” might be, adding only: “I don’t know why it’s like this. [H.R.] McMaster couldn’t figure it out, [James] Mattis couldn’t figure it out, [John] Kelly couldn’t figure it out.”
I am on my scooter today putting up these flyers; I encourage everyone to spread the news
Rather than buy nothing for 24 hours, why not buy from independent or second hand shops forever? You buying nothing on Friday and twice as much on Saturday to compensate isn’t gonna achieve shit.
Always had my doubts about The Daily Beast, given Chelsea Clinton is on the board of the company that owns them, and they continue to employ Matt "I Hate Trump But Still Happily Call Myself a Republican" Lewis. Their recent "questionable salute" headline about Bannon the other day was a huge red flag. This is just the icing on the cake.
True or not, you couldn't really find a more complimentary president/business leader for Putin's Russia than Trump. He will bend over backwards to protect and extend that relationship no matter what.
I think Trump has a thing for Slavic women and that combines with the Putin strong man vibe, and Trump clearly has daddy issues. He's the definition of a useful idiot.
I'll take "Streisand Effect" for $2000, Alex.
The next step to ask would be, say for arguments sake this is true, then what comes next?
Would Congress actually act on this and impeach him?
If not, does the CIA and Joint Chiefs have a conversation and then act, to eliminate a domestic enemy?
Dark times to be had, either way. Sucky timeline to live in.
Edit: Addendum. Since one of the links articles is four years old, why hasn't something been done by Congress by now?
You left out an option or two.
Nothing will happen. Things will get worse. Things are probably going to get pretty bad. Start thinking about somewhere you might be able to escape to if you're able and what the threshold is that would need to be crossed for you to make that decision.
This Joint Chiefs? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyr2xvn4dpo
There are a few copies of a few articles at archive.is
I don't particularly remember this story, but I also remember in 2016 some pretty damn clear links to Russia were made.
But, it was also all described perfectly in the Russian playbook to defeat the US, so congrats Soviets, you did it
At what cost?
Before being invited to an interview on RT, even Alex Jones said Trump was "too mobbed up with the russians"... Of course it would take a moron like trump to make AJ right about anything...
I like the idea of a “Russian Nesting Doll” response thread of seemingly infinite, independent archives…
America's worst nightmare may actually be true.
Some of knew he was compromised back when he ran in 2016, or did you mean the fear of the US falling for it twice?
Probably means that the election was actually fuckered with
Or, that the free media is be washed away. Or that media is losing its ability to report on certain topics due to government retaliation.
So that means it was true.
Are VPNs still good at getting around government restrictions of blocking sites? Only a matter of time now...
There are only a few VPNs that actually don't keep logs and thus can't be subpoenaed by governments for info.
All the popular ones you commonly see advertised or written about in 'best of' type reviews... they'll protect you from a man in the middle attack (which almost no one does or falls victim to), and allow you to bypass region restrictions... but all a government has to do is say nope, thats illegal now, as is already the case in many more restrictive countries.
Oh, you're paying for your VPN with your debit card? Credit card? Oh cool, now we know which VPN company to get your data from.
This is one of the few legit use cases for crypto, monero anyway (all the others can be de-anonymized fairly easily by someone who knows how), paying covertly for a VPN.
Mullvad is probably the best actually safe VPN to use.
I might also suggeat you look into I2P, which functionally turns all your internet traffic into an anonymized, decentralized shared torrent protocol.
Its quite slow compared to high powered VPNs, but basically, because everyone in the system is their only little miniature routing hub for everyone else, and everyones data is mixed together in shared, but partitioned and encrypted packets, its quite hard to definitively nail down exactly what any particular user is doing.
It is a bit more conplicated to set up, in general, than most modern VPNs which usually just have an app that 'just works'.
The technology of VPN works great for circumventing censorship. VPN can be blocked, but it's a game of whack a mole between the state and private actors. The main vulnerability in hosted VPN is that the provider has the ability to sell you out if law enforcement comes knocking. Picking a trusted provider is key. Alternatively, there's TOR but that isn't perfect either, as anyone may participate in the network.
If you think the people running Trump and the GOP - and I mean the documented ones - like the Mercer’s, Thiel, Adelson, Tim Mellon, etc, would cede control of their man to Russia, please say why.
If their interests align with Russia's-- the breakdown of the rule of law, attacking civil society, promoting oligarchy, controlling the media, damaging NATO and the EU, then they'll let Trump continue to serve Putin. They might think they can end it later. Whether that's true or not remains to be seen. And it may be that Trump is using the American billionaires, but will backstab them once they've served his and Putin's purposes. It wouldn't be the first time that people have throught they could ride the fascist tiger, only to later be eaten by it. And it certainly wouldn't be the first time that Trump has betrayed those around him.
Do you honestly think any of them have competing interests? The greedy ones stand to make money either way, and the ideologically driven ones are salivating at the idea of destroying the country if it means they could possibly steer a new government.
Cute of you still believing the people running shit being limited by nations lol
I’m a cute guy
They got there too late to be a primary influence, but Trump won’t ever say no to a hand out.
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