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