PeterRS Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 Might this be the reason for Trump's reluctance to criticise Putin and his regime? Or just another KGB game to sow seeds of doubt? Journalist and author Craig Unger, who has written seven books including "House of Trump, House of Putin," has just published a new book "American Kompromat" whose primary source is a former KGB agent Yuri Shvets. Shvets claims Trump was recruited as a Russian agent 40 years ago. He compares Trump with the Cambridge Five in England. This group of Cambridge undergraduates, recruited in in the 1930s, were the sleeper spies Burgess, Maclean, Kim Philby, Sir Anthony Blunt who later held a position as Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures, and John Cairncross who had worked as a code breaker at Bletchley Park during World War 2 and fed secrets to the Soviets. Burgess and Maclean were discovered in 1951 and fled to Moscow. At the time there was talk for years of a 'Third Man". Philby, who for a time had been a member of Britain's Secret Service MI6 and then worked as a journalist, fled to Moscow in 1963. The following year Blunt was exposed, but his treachery was covered up and he was permitted to keep his knighthood and his position at Buckingham Palace. In 1979 Margaret Thatcher was forced to admit in parliament he had been the "Fourth Man". In 1964 Cairncross admitted he was the "Fifth Man" in return for immunity from prosecution. Cairncross had been recruited by Blunt. "Unger describes how Trump first appeared on the Russians’ radar in 1977 when he married his first wife, Ivana Zelnickova, a Czech model. Trump became the target of a spying operation overseen by Czechoslovakia’s intelligence service in cooperation with the KGB. "Three years later Trump opened his first big property development, the Grand Hyatt New York hotel near Grand Central station. Trump bought 200 television sets for the hotel from Semyon Kislin, a Soviet émigré who co-owned Joy-Lud electronics on Fifth Avenue. "According to Shvets, Joy-Lud was controlled by the KGB and Kislin worked as a so-called “spotter agent” who identified Trump, a young businessman on the rise, as a potential asset. Kislin denies that he had a relationship with the KGB. "Then, in 1987, Trump and Ivana visited Moscow and St Petersburg for the first time. Shvets said he was fed KGB talking points and flattered by KGB operatives who floated the idea that he should go into politics." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anddy Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 funny you should post this, I JUST read this article about it in The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/29/trump-russia-asset-claims-former-kgb-spy-new-book True or not I don't know, but sounds entirely plausible to me. Especially the vain & stupid, easily manipulable Trump with is microscopic ego Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
