Temple
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 | | Subject: Ex-KGB Spy Claimed Trump Was “Recruited” Fri Dec 16, 2022 9:33 pm | |
| Ex-KGB Spy Claimed Trump Was “Recruited”
As An Asset By Russia, Groomed For 40+ Years As They
“Exploited” His “Extreme Intellectual Vulnerability”
And The Fact That He Is “Psychologically Prone To Flattery”.
In the midst of the ongoing Russian war against Ukraine, and ex-President Donald Trump’s deeply disturbing behavior and rhetoric surrounding it, now seemed as good a time as any to remind the American people that, according to a former KGB spy.
The man who served as the President of the United States just 2 years ago (and was under steady investigation for his Russian ties) was allegedly specifically recruited and cultivated as a Russian asset for more than 40 years.
Back in the very early weeks of 2021, a bombshell report from The Guardian made massive waves as they reported on the staggering revelation from Yuri Shvets, a former spy for the KGB who was posted to Washington by the Soviet Union in the 1980s.
Speaking with the publication by phone at the time of the report, Shvets said,
“This is an example where people were recruited when they were just students and then they rose to important positions; something like that was happening with Trump.”
Shvets revealed that Donald Trump first peaked Russian interests in 1977 when he married his first wife and mother of his first 3 children, Czech model Ivana Zelnickova.
At that point, the then-real estate mogul became the center of a Czechoslovakia’s intelligence service spying operation, in cooperation with the KGB.
Just three years later, Donald Trump would go on to begin his first major property development in the form
of the Grand Hyatt New York hotel, just around the corner from Grand Central station.
As part of the development, Trump purchased 200 TVs to be used in the hotel from Soviet émigré and co-owner of Joy-Lud electronics on Fifth Avenue, Semyon Kislin.
Shvets said Joy-Lud was operated and controlled by the KGB and that Kislin was a so-called “spotter agent”
who pegged Trump, then a young and rising businessman, as a potential asset.
It was a 1987 visit to Moscow and St Petersburg by Trump and his then-wife Ivanka that Shvets claimed
was the catalyst to result in Trump being fed KGB talking points and highly flattered by KGB operatives who pushed the idea on Donald that he should take a dive into the world of politics.
“For the KGB, it was a charm offensive. They had collected a lot of information on his personality so they knew who he was personally.
The feeling was that he was extremely vulnerable intellectually, and psychologically, and he was prone
to flattery,” the former KGB recalled at the time.
“This is what they exploited. They played the game as
if they were immensely impressed by his personality and believed this is the guy who should be the president of the United States one day:
it is people like him who could change the world.
They fed him these so-called active measures soundbites and it happened. So it was a big achievement for the KGB active measures at the time.”
It was soon after this trip to Russia that Trump began
to nose around the idea of a run for the Republican presidential nomination, even going so far as to launch
a campaign in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
September 1st saw a full-page ad in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Boston Globe with the headline: “There’s nothing wrong with America’s Foreign Defense Policy that a little backbone can’t cure.”
In the midst of Ronald Reagan’s Cold War America,
the ad was structured as an open letter to the American people “on why America should stop paying to defend countries that can afford to defend themselves.”
Just a few days later Shvets, who was back home in Russia now, saw firsthand the celebration and jubilation in his home country, revealing that while at the headquarters of the KGB’s first chief directorate in Yasenevo he received a cable full of celebration and dubbing the Trump ad as a successful “active measure” executed by a new KGB asset.
“It was unprecedented. I am pretty well familiar with KGB active measures starting in the early 70s and 80s, and then afterwards with Russia active measures,
and I haven’t heard anything like that or anything similar – until Trump became the president of this country – because it was just silly.
It was hard to believe that somebody would publish it under his name and that it will impress real serious people in the west but it did and, finally, this guy became the president.
Unsurprisingly, Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential election win was met with similar jubilation in Moscow. Ultimately, despite an extensive investigation, Special Counsel Robert Mueller was unable to officially establish an official conspiracy connection between Trump, members of his campaign, and the Russians.
However, the Moscow Project, an initiative of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, reportedly discovered a total of at least 272 known contacts
and an additional 38 known meetings with Russia-linked operatives within the Trump campaign and transition teams.
Schvets, who conducted his own investigation on the matter, said, “For me, the Mueller report was a big disappointment because people expected that it will be
a thorough investigation of all ties between Trump and Moscow, when in fact what we got was an investigation of just crime-related issues.
There were no counterintelligence aspects of the relationship between Trump and Moscow.”
“Trump was the perfect target in a lot of ways:
his vanity, narcissism made him a natural target to recruit. He was cultivated over a 40-year period, right
up through his election.” was an asset.
It was not this grand, ingenious plan that we’re going
to develop this guy and 40 years later he’ll be president.
At the time it started, which was around 1980, the Russians were trying to recruit like crazy and going after dozens and dozens of people.”
“Trump was the perfect target in a lot of ways:
his vanity, extreme intellectual vulnerability,
narcissism made him a natural target to recruit.
He was cultivated over a 40-year period,
right up through his election.”
Check out the Guardian’s full interview with Shvets here.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/29/trump-russia-asset-claims-former-kgb-spy-new-book
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oliver clotheshoffe
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| | Subject: Re: Ex-KGB Spy Claimed Trump Was “Recruited” Sat Dec 17, 2022 6:59 am | |
| What happened Temple, did the Daily Kos shut down and now you need to go to the National Enquirer to get your stories? |
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Temple
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| | Subject: Re: Ex-KGB Spy Claimed Trump Was “Recruited” Sat Dec 17, 2022 6:12 pm | |
| - oliver clotheshoffe wrote:
- What happened Temple, did the Daily Kos shut down and now you need to go to the National Enquirer to get your stories?
0oohh dear Oliver.. When you learn how to read with compression you will then see that is from the Guardian.. Anything else I can help you with ? |
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oliver clotheshoffe
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| | Subject: Re: Ex-KGB Spy Claimed Trump Was “Recruited” Sun Dec 18, 2022 5:57 am | |
| - Temple wrote:
0oohh dear Oliver..
When you learn how to read with compression you will then see
that is from the Guardian..
Anything else I can help you with ?
Post a link next time maybe? |
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Temple
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| | Subject: Re: Ex-KGB Spy Claimed Trump Was “Recruited” Sun Dec 18, 2022 2:58 pm | |
| - oliver clotheshoffe wrote:
- Temple wrote:
0oohh dear Oliver..
When you learn how to read with compression you will then see
that is from the Guardian..
Anything else I can help you with ?
Post a link next time maybe?
Sigh..what to do with you.. ____ I did post the link.. Do you read or illiterate? ?? |
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| | Subject: Re: Ex-KGB Spy Claimed Trump Was “Recruited” Sun Dec 18, 2022 5:17 pm | |
| The author of that idiotic bullshit is of no importance ..just one of your useless left wing rags
... But i hafta say: That could possibly be THE number one stupidest things you've ever pasted to this board .. that I've actually witnessed anyway, as I've skipped over a lotta your shit ..But that's an awful lotta stupid for you to have actually surpassed with this one .. Holy fuck!
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