WHEN A FORMER KGB AGENT SHARES YOUR ARTICLE AND THE AMERICAN MEDIA IS STILL ASLEEP
Closer to the Edge and Rook T. Winchester
Mar 05, 2025
Something bizarre just happened. Something that proves independent journalism is doing what the corporate press refuses to do.
A couple of weeks ago, Closer to the Edge published an article calling out CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and every other major news outlet for ignoring what should be one of the biggest geopolitical bombshells in modern history:
Alnur Mussayev, former head of Kazakhstan’s intelligence service, claimed that Donald Trump has been a Russian asset since 1987 —operating under the KGB codename “Krasnov.”
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It didn’t start in Moscow.
It started in New York — in 1986 — when Donald Trump was first approached by Soviet operatives posing as business representatives. According to Yuri Shvets, a former KGB officer stationed in Washington during the Cold War, Trump was identified as a potential asset and cultivated through soft power: flattery, promises of fame, and the prospect of doing business in the USSR.
A year later, in 1987, Trump would fly to Moscow under the watchful guidance of Intourist, the Soviet government’s travel agency and a known KGB front. That trip, Shvets claims, was a “textbook active measure.” Trump was paraded around, given VIP treatment, and gently encouraged to consider a future in politics.
He returned home weeks later and took out full-page ads in American newspapers criticizing U.S. foreign policy and NATO spending — almost verbatim what Soviet officials had wanted. Shvets believes that moment marked the beginning of Trump’s role as a Kremlin asset.
But the targeting may have started even earlier.
https://www.closertotheedge.net/p/when-a-former-kgb-chief-shares-your
Who Is Alnur Mussayev? Ex-KGB Chief Who ‘Recruited’ Donald Trump In 80s
Authored by: Shamik Banerjee
Updated: Feb 22, 2025, 08:17 IST
Alnur Mussayev, a former Soviet and Kazakh security official, began his career in 1979. He conducted counterintelligence missions in Iraq (1980–1986) and later held a leadership role in Moscow. Mussayev claims that the KGB recruited Donald Trump, then a 40-year-old American businessman, under the codename “Krasnov.”
In 2007, after a fallout with President Nazarbayev, Mussayev fled to Austria, alleging widespread governmental corruption in Kazakhstan. The Kazakh government subsequently convicted him in absentia for various crimes. In 2015, Mussayev faced charges in Austria related to the abduction and murder of two bankers in the Nurbank case.
Kremlin and Kazakhstan Both Have Kompromat on Trump, Says Ex-KGB Spy Chief
In brief: The ex-KGB official and Kazakh spy chief who claimed Donald Trump had been recruited by the KGB on his watch now says that Kazakhstan tried to used kompromat videos to blackmail Trump.
by Stash Luczkiw | Feb. 8, 2026, 3:16 pm
The Kremlin and Kazakhstan are both in possession of kompromat incriminating US President Donald Trump, according to Alnur Mussayev, the former head of Kazakhstan’s security services, who had been a KGB officer in Moscow in the 1980s.
In a Feb. 6 interview on Ukraine’s Espreso TV program “Studia Zakhid,” Mussayev reiterated a claim he has expressed publicly for years – namely, that there is a Kremlin file with compromising video material from Trump’s stay at Moscow’s Ritz-Carlton hotel in 2013. Trump had come to Moscow before his first run for the US presidency to attend the Miss Universe pageant.
In the latest interview, however, Mussayev added some significant details regarding Kazakhstan’s also being in possession of that same kompromat (a portmanteau word for “compromising material”).
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