Where was Donald Trump today in 1987?
He wasn't celebrating Indepence Day with his family. He wasn’t even in the United States.
He was in Moscow, meeting with Soviet intelligence agents.
This is the story of the KGB’s recruitment of Donald Trump. 🧵
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Our story begins in March 1986, when Soviet ambassador Yuri Dubinin and his daughter Natalia walked into Trump Tower and requested a meeting with Donald. Natalia later told @politico that they needed to “hook” the assumed billionaire. He "melted at once.” politico.com/magazine/story…
In the mid-1980s, as sympathy for the Soviet Union was waning, KGB head Vladimir Alexandrovich Kryuchkov began exploring new strategies for the intelligence agency to recruit assets abroad.
Most importantly, KGB officers were told to focus on targets of value – especially those in the U.S. like Donald Trump – who may be able to “actively influence” foreign policy in favor of the Soviet Union.
Donald Trump was already a target for KGB recruitment. The KGB worked with allies’ intelligence agencies to identify targets, and their Czech counterpart had been compiling kompromat on the Trumps for a decade. trumpfile.org/czech-intellig…
When Yuri and Natalia met Trump in March 1986, Natalia was in a top position at the Dag Hammerskjold Library at the UN in New York.
A year earlier, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence identified her position as an active cover for KGB agents. intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/…
In THE ART OF THE DEAL, Trump writes that he sat next to Yuri Dubinin at a luncheon in 1986 (some time after the Trump Tower meeting). There, Dubinin completed the first stage in KGB recruitment, offering Trump a “material incentive” he couldn’t refuse.
The KGB incentive, according to Trump’s own book: “a large luxury hotel, across the street from the Kremlin, in partnership with the Soviet government.”
But first, Dubinin would need Trump to meet with some of his associates in Moscow, the second stage of KGB recruitment.
On the Fourth of July, 1987, Donald and Ivanka Trump were staying at the Intourist hotel in Moscow, a facility allegedly operated and surveilled by the KGB, across the street from the Kremlin.
As far as Trump probably knew, the purpose of this trip – which was paid for by the Soviet government – was to meet with officials from the country’s tourist agency.
But the agents he met with weren’t interested in tourism.
The conversation between Trump and Soviet officials centered on deals with the Politburo, the highest committee within the Kremlin, and how Trump might be of assistance to the KGB. They fed Trump KGB talking points and went to great lengths in their efforts to flatter him.
The KGB knew from their intel that flattery was Trump's weak spot.
They used this to their advantage and pretended to be “immensely impressed” by him, according to one former agent. They told him only people like him "could change the world.”
During their conversation with Trump, these Soviet agents even went as far as to suggest that he could become president someday.
Donald Trump returned to the U.S. with a plan for our foreign policy (just as the KGB had intended), which he happily shared with reporters.
Meanwhile, an elite intelligence magazine called Executive Intelligence Review published a story on 7/24/87 confirming the Soviet Union had hopes for a Trump presidency.
Note: EIR has its own controversial backstory and may have been a source of conspiracy-minded propaganda.
Back home in New York, Trump told now-defunct Manhattan, inc. magazine that if he were president, the U.S. and the Soviet Union would join forces, combine their nuclear stockpiles, and “dominate” Third World countries.
“You start off as nicely as possible… If that doesn’t work, you then start cutting off aid... You do whatever is necessary so these people will have riots in the street, so they can’t get water… food... That’s the only thing that’s going to do it… riots.” – Donald Trump, 1987
It’s worth noting that Donald Trump said something similar about his views on the U.S. in 2014, that the only way to control our government is through creating riots.
The KGB celebrated Trump's Manhattan, inc. interview. They celebrated again in September when Trump spent $94,000 on newspaper ads attacking NATO and accusing U.S. allies of exploiting us.
Their efforts to recruit a valuable U.S. asset to influence foreign policy paid off.
The KGB also celebrated because Trump had started teasing his first presidential campaign.
His campaign hopes simmered by November. He’d waited too long to enter the race. But his Soviet ties remained. He even met with Mikhail Gorbachev in December. trumpfile.org/friend-tells-n…
The story as it’s told here is composed of interviews with Soviet / Russian nationals, former KGB agents, reports by reputable sources, and Donald Trump’s own book.
All sources are linked at the end of this page on Trump File.
But we’re not done.
trumpfile.org/recruiting-don…
Let’s wrap up with some “fun” facts.
ONE: Also involved in planning Trump’s July 4th trip to Moscow was Vitaly Churkin. He stayed in touch with Trump, and in 2006 he became Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations...
Ten years later, Churkin shocked governments around the world by randomly defending Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign at the U.N. despite no one there having criticized the Republican candidate...
One month after Trump was inaugurated, Churkin died suddenly, and he took the details of his relationship with the KGB's asset-turned-president with him.
It’s believed that Churkin might have been murdered, but Trump’s State Department blocked his autopsy.
“FUN” FACT TWO: Churkin was the fifth Russian diplomat to die unexpectedly after Trump won the 2016 election.
THREE: At the time of Donald Trump’s recruitment, 34-year-old Vladimir Putin was an officer of the KGB.
“FUN” FACT FOUR: In 2018, GOP lawmakers took a trip to Moscow to meet with the Russian government. One of them was later accused by members of Congress of helping Russia interfere in the 2020 election…
The day of their trip? The Fourth of July. trumpfile.org/republican-law…
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All sources are included in this post on Trump File, linked in a tweet a few posts above, but want to give a shoutout for one of them. @CraigUnger’s research and interviews in American Kompromat are the foundation of this Trump story. Grab your copy here! amzn.to/3RX470x
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