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  • Seshmeister
    ROTH ARMY WEBMASTER

    • Oct 2003
    • 35752

    Trump a Russian Asset

    More and more people taking this seriously. McMaster and Mathis couldn't and still say they can't understand Trump bending the knee to Russia. Maybe it's just what it looks like...

    The KGB ‘played the game as if they were immensely impressed by his personality’, Yuri Shvets, a key source for a new book, tells the Guardian



    ‘The perfect target’: Russia cultivated Trump as asset for 40 years – ex-KGB spy

    David Smith in Washington Fri 29 Jan 2021 08.00 GMT
    ? 2025 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. (dcr)


    The KGB ‘played the game as if they were immensely impressed by his personality’, Yuri Shvets, a key source for a new book, tells the Guardian David Smith in Washington Fri 29 Jan 2021 08.00 GMT


    Donald Trump was cultivated as a Russian asset over 40 years and proved so willing to parrot anti-western propaganda that there were celebrations in Moscow, a former KGB spy has told the Guardian.

    Yuri Shvets, posted to Washington by the Soviet Union in the 1980s, compares the former US president to “the Cambridge five”, the British spy ring that passed secrets to Moscow during the second world war and early cold war.

    Now 67, Shvets is a key source for American Kompromat, a new book by journalist Craig Unger, whose previous works include House of Trump, House of Putin. The book also explores the former president’s relationship with the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

    “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 said by phone on Monday from his home in Virginia.

    Shvets, a KGB major, had a cover job as a correspondent in Washington for the Russian news agency Tass during the 1980s. He moved to the US permanently in 1993 and gained American citizenship. He works as a corporate security investigator and was a partner of Alexander Litvinenko, who was assassinated in London in 2006.

    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 ?migr? 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.

    The ex-major recalled: “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.

    “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.”

    Soon after he returned to the US, Trump began exploring a run for the Republican nomination for president and even held a campaign rally in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. On 1 September, he took out a full-page advert in the New York Times, Washington Post and Boston Globe headlined: “There’s nothing wrong with America’s Foreign Defense Policy that a little backbone can’t cure.”

    The ad offered some highly unorthodox opinions in Ronald Reagan’s cold war America, accusing ally Japan of exploiting the US and expressing scepticism about US participation in Nato. It took the form of an open letter to the American people “on why America should stop paying to defend countries that can afford to defend themselves”.

    The bizarre intervention was cause for astonishment and jubilation in Russia. A few days later Shvets, who had returned home by now, was at the headquarters of the KGB’s first chief directorate in Yasenevo when he received a cable celebrating the 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.”

    Trump’s election win in 2016 was again welcomed by Moscow. Special counsel Robert Mueller did not establish a conspiracy between members of the Trump campaign and the Russians. But the Moscow Project, an initiative of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, found the Trump campaign and transition team had at least 272 known contacts and at least 38 known meetings with Russia-linked operatives.

    Shvets, who has carried out his own investigation, 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.”

    He added: “This is what basically we decided to correct. So I did my investigation and then got together with Craig. So we believe that his book will pick up where Mueller left off.”

    Unger, the author of seven books and a former contributing editor for Vanity Fair magazine, said of Trump: “He 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, narcissism made him a natural target to recruit. He was cultivated over a 40-year period, right up through his election.”
  • 78/84 guy
    Crazy Ass Mofo
    • Apr 2005
    • 2724

    #2
    I'm amazed at how pathetically stupid you dumb fuck libs are. How sad.....

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    • Seshmeister
      ROTH ARMY WEBMASTER

      • Oct 2003
      • 35752

      #3
      What is going on in the USA????

      Kashyap Patel as head of the FBI?

      Are you fucking kidding? A QAnon who says the FBI arranged the Jan 6 insurrection has been made the head of the FB fucking I?

      America is fucked...



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      • Seshmeister
        ROTH ARMY WEBMASTER

        • Oct 2003
        • 35752

        #4
        Originally posted by 78/84 guy
        I'm amazed at how pathetically stupid you dumb fuck libs are. How sad.....
        If Kruger fucked Dunning and had a baby it would be more informed than you.

        Go and google it...

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        • 78/84 guy
          Crazy Ass Mofo
          • Apr 2005
          • 2724

          #5
          Originally posted by Seshmeister

          If Kruger fucked Dunning and had a baby it would be more informed than you.

          Go and google it...
          Google it so I can read it on some dickless lib website ? I'll pass you brainwashed dumb fuck.

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          • Mushroom
            Commando
            • Jul 2009
            • 1205

            #6
            Originally posted by 78/84 guy

            Google it so I can read it on some dickless lib website ? I'll pass you brainwashed dumb fuck.
            but you get to Google on your trustworthy Google, the same Google that changed the Gulf of Mexico to Golf of ‘Merica and you unashamedly gobbled it right up
            Last edited by Mushroom; 02-24-2025, 01:28 PM.

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            • Nickdfresh
              SUPER MODERATOR

              • Oct 2004
              • 49565

              #7
              I am not buying this, it comes from a Russian Vlad-ballsack huugar cuck, and the KGB never would have hires someone this fucking stupid and destructive....

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              • 78/84 guy
                Crazy Ass Mofo
                • Apr 2005
                • 2724

                #8
                Originally posted by Mushroom

                but you get to Google on your trustworthy Google, the same Google that changed the Gulf of Mexico to Golf of ‘Merica and you unashamedly gobbled it right up
                Oh honey it's just a fact that it's been changed. Regardless of how much you wanna cry about it. Reading that on a updated map ( as it should be ) and reading some dumb fuck lib articles are really completely different things. Regardless of the search engine.

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                • Nickdfresh
                  SUPER MODERATOR

                  • Oct 2004
                  • 49565

                  #9
                  Originally posted by 78/84 guy

                  Oh honey it's just a fact that it's been changed. Regardless of how much you wanna cry about it. Reading that on a updated map ( as it should be ) and reading some dumb fuck lib articles are really completely different things. Regardless of the search engine.
                  Did you just say "oh honey"? Holy fuck, keep the purse in your mouth. But I fully support your equal rights! Even if you don't....

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                  • Nickdfresh
                    SUPER MODERATOR

                    • Oct 2004
                    • 49565

                    #10
                    BTW, the Russian propagandist cunt discharge that alleged this will be falling out of a window in Moscow any week now....

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                    • Mushroom
                      Commando
                      • Jul 2009
                      • 1205

                      #11
                      Originally posted by 78/84 guy

                      Oh honey it's just a fact that it's been changed.
                      what a fag and a tool, Viva Gulf of Mexico!!

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                      • FORD
                        ROTH ARMY MODERATOR

                        • Jan 2004
                        • 59579

                        #12
                        Geezus... if you can deny that Cheeto & Couchfucker are on the Putin payroll after this meeting with Zelensky, then you're more blind deaf and dumb than Tommy the pinball wizard.

                        Eat Us And Smile

                        Cenk For America 2024!!

                        Justice Democrats


                        "If the American people had ever known the truth about what we (the BCE) have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - Poppy Bush, 1992

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                        • Mushroom
                          Commando
                          • Jul 2009
                          • 1205

                          #13
                          What a shit show. Trumpy got triggered by a harmless irrelevant statement and blew up. All as if he planned on gaslighting Zelensky anyway. The cameras were there so Trumpy had to put on a show. All playing into Putin’s plan

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                          • Seshmeister
                            ROTH ARMY WEBMASTER

                            • Oct 2003
                            • 35752

                            #14
                            He was to be thankful for his country being invaded and then he's guilty of threatening a world war if he doesn't accept some fucking extortion deal?

                            Disgusting.


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                            • Seshmeister
                              ROTH ARMY WEBMASTER

                              • Oct 2003
                              • 35752

                              #15
                              I urge you all to watch the Oscar winning documentary 20 Days in Mariupol

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