The Daily Beast
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Summary

Former Kazakh intelligence chief Alnur Mussayev alleges that the KGB recruited Donald Trump in 1987 under the codename “Krasnov.”

In a Facebook post, Mussayev claimed that the KGB targeted Western businessmen and that Trump’s file is now privately controlled by a Putin associate.

Though unverified, the claims fuel speculation about Trump’s ties to Russia, which he has denied.

Concerns about Trump’s relationship with Vladimir Putin persist, with former officials like Anthony Scaramucci suggesting an unexplained “hold” on him but offering no further details.

  • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
    23·
    1 day ago

    They have simply have no way to wrap their heads around the idea of doing anything about it. The CIA was created as a weapon for the government to point at their enemies. They don’t know how to respond when that government is the enemy.

    • captainWhatsHisName@lemm.ee
      15·
      23 hours ago

      The Manchurian Candidate came out in 1959 and was made a movie in 1962. I guarantee that the people who do game theory about coups and nuclear war have thought about a willing or unwilling traitor in power. It’s one of the most confusing things about all this that they haven’t done anything to stop it.

      • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
        7·
        17 hours ago

        I guarantee that the people who do game theory about coups and nuclear war have thought about a willing or unwilling traitor in power. It’s one of the most confusing things about all this that they haven’t done anything to stop it.

        My take is that whatever plans exist (and I agree they must) for this situation were designed to come into play only when a very specific set of criteria had been met, and that because any such plan would necessarily be very extreme, the designers of the plan codified that no matter how bad things got, it would require ALL those criteria to be met before it could be lawfully executed.

        I believe we haven’t checked all the boxes yet.

      • forrgott@lemm.ee
        1·
        22 hours ago

        My takeaway is that they believe they will have now power now, and so will do nothing to stop Trump

      • gdog05@lemmy.world
        9·
        1 day ago

        They have always worked for the oligarchs. And the oligarchs are either in on this as well or find it useful.