14 minutes agoFormer KGB spy: Russia cultivated Trump as asset from 1977
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)The KGB played as if they were too impressed by his personality, says Yuri Schevers, a key source from a new book. Donald Trump had been cultivated as Russian assets for more than 40 years and he was willing to speak anti-Western propaganda as there were celebrations about it in [...]
Donald Trump was cultivated as Russian assets for more than 40 years and he was ready to speak anti-Western propaganda as there were celebrations of this in Moscow, He told a former KGB spy on Guardian.
Yuri Shvets, who was posted to Washington by the Soviet Union in the 1980s, compares former American President to “the Cambridge five”, the British spying network that had gone through secrets towards Moscow during World War II and at the beginning of the Cold War, writes The Guardian, records Periscope.
Currently 67-year-old, Schvets was a key source for American Compromise, the new book by journalist Craig Unger. The book also explores the former president's relationship with the ignoble funder because of scandals, Jeffrey Epstein.
This is an example of how people were recruited when they were only students, and they were trying to get up in important positions; something like that happened to Trump,” said Shvets Monday from his home in Virginia.
Shvets, a KGB superior, was a challenger of the Washington correspondent for the Tas news agency during the '80s. He had moved to the U.S.A. permanently in 1993 and received US citizenship.
Unger relates how Trump first appeared on the radar of the Russians in 1977 when he married Czech model Ivana Zelnickova. /Periscope
