From a friend: I'm doing a deep dive into this and will be posting about it. As you know I was a CIA Russian specialist and served in Moscow from 84-86. Trump's 1987 trip to Moscow was clearly something where the 'hosts' who were wining and dining him in Moscow were KGB and there is no doubt they were "developing" him. At the time, there was a general directive in KGB to target and recruit Western businessmen. So the KGB demonstrably had access and intent. Now Mussayev, a former KGB officer who became the top KGB officer in Kazakhstan, has made the allegation that Trump was in fact recruited and given the code name Krasnov. This is credible and Mussayev is credible but a word of caution -- "recruit' could mean anything from bein a controlled, paid asset, to something less structured, more open-ended, without remuneration or control. It is also something that could have been a real thing in the late 1980's but lapsed after the end of the USSR. In sum, I think it's credible but would be cautious about interpreting it to mean he is currently a controlled Russian asset.
trump has shown he is impearlist warmonger. and he will do anything for money.musk and adelsteon are running government.
Thanks, James. It is far beyond anyone's imagination that we are in this situation today. How do we stop this madness?
Good question Chris.
From a friend: I'm doing a deep dive into this and will be posting about it. As you know I was a CIA Russian specialist and served in Moscow from 84-86. Trump's 1987 trip to Moscow was clearly something where the 'hosts' who were wining and dining him in Moscow were KGB and there is no doubt they were "developing" him. At the time, there was a general directive in KGB to target and recruit Western businessmen. So the KGB demonstrably had access and intent. Now Mussayev, a former KGB officer who became the top KGB officer in Kazakhstan, has made the allegation that Trump was in fact recruited and given the code name Krasnov. This is credible and Mussayev is credible but a word of caution -- "recruit' could mean anything from bein a controlled, paid asset, to something less structured, more open-ended, without remuneration or control. It is also something that could have been a real thing in the late 1980's but lapsed after the end of the USSR. In sum, I think it's credible but would be cautious about interpreting it to mean he is currently a controlled Russian asset.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/07/trump-putin-russia-collusion.html