Mussayev is not the first former KGB officer to make such a claim. Years ago, Yuri Shvets, a former KGB major now living in Washington, D.C., was a key source for Craig Unger’s book American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump,

Former Kazakh intelligence chief Ainur Mussayev has alleged that US President Donald Trump was recruited by the KGB during his 1987 visit to Moscow. Other former KGB officers have supported the claim,

A former KGB officer claims Donald Trump was recruited by Soviet intelligence in 1987 under the codename "Krasnov." He alleges Trump's KGB file was later removed and is now privately controlled by a Putin associate.

Edward "Big Balls" Coristine is reportedly the grandson of Valery Fedorovich Martynov, a KGB agent executed by the Soviet Union for sharing state secrets with the FBI

It was alleged that in 1987, the KGB – the Soviet Union’s intelligence agency – recruited Trump as a Russian asset and nicknamed him ‘Krasnov’. Photos of Trump with his former wife, Ivana, were shared as ‘proof’ of the successful recruitment of the President in the 80s.

A former Soviet intelligence officer has made a shocking claim that Donald Trump was recruited by the KGB back in 1987 and given the codename “Krasnov.” The statement comes from a former high-ranking official who worked in the intelligence sector of the Soviet Union.

Former Chairman of Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee Alnur Mussayev claims the Soviet KGB recruited Donald Trump before the collapse of the USSR, assigning him the alias Krasnov

February 21, 1994 - Ames and his wife, Rosario, are arrested in Arlington, Virginia, by the FBI, accused of spying for the Soviet Union and later, Russia. It is estimated that Ames has received approximately $2.5 million from Russia and the Soviet Union for his years of spying.

I first set foot in Russia a couple of years after the presidents of Belarus, Ukraine and Russia signed a declaration in a Belarus forest, declaring that the Soviet Union had ceased to exist.

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 the Soviet Union,