Subscribe and read news in favourite messenger. What were Mussayev’s allegations on Trump The claim, which originated from former KGB and Kazakh security officer Alnur Mussayev, suggested that the KGB ...

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In February 2025, Alnur Mussayev, a former Soviet and Kazakh security official, claimed in a Facebook post that U.S.

The former head of Kazakhstan’s intelligence service, Alnur Mussayev, recently claimed in a Facebook post that Donald Trump was recruited by the KGB in 1987, when the 40-year-old real-estate ...

The claim gained traction when the news website The Daily Beast published a now-deleted story (archived) titled "Former Intelligence Officer Claims KGB Recruited Trump," using only Mussayev's ...

In February 2025, Alnur Mussayev, a former Soviet and Kazakh security official, claimed in a Facebook post that U.S. President Donald Trump was recruited in 1987 by the KGB, the intelligence agency of ...

Alnur Mussayev, a former Soviet intelligence officer and former head of Kazakhstan's National Security Committee, claims that Soviet Russia recruited Donald Trump as a KGB agent in 1987. People are ...

A former UK spy chief has weighed in on the bizarre claims made by an ex-KGB spy that Donald Trump was recruited as a Russian asset over 40 years ago, operating under the codename "Krasnov".

In a sensational claim that sounds straight out of a thriller novel, a former officer of Russia’s KGB has alleged that US President Donald Trump was recruited as a spy by the erstwhile Soviet ...

Who else made the cut? There was an online sensation last week when it was revealed that Musk’s wunderkind gaggle at DOGE included someone with distant KGB connections. Among the platoons of ...

A former Soviet intelligence officer has alleged that Donald Trump was recruited by the KGB in 1987 under the codename “Krasnov.” Alnur Mussayev, a former Kazakh intelligence chief ...