Donald Trump was cultivated as a Russian asset over 40 years and proved so willing to parrot anti-western propaganda that there were celebrations in Moscow, a former KGB spy has told the Guardian.
Shvets, a KGB major, had a cover job as a correspondent in Washington for the Russian news agency Tass during the s. He moved to the US permanently in and gained American citizenship. He works as a corporate security investigator and was a partner of Alexander Litvinenko, who was assassinated in London in Kislin denies that he had a relationship with the KGB.
Shvets said he was fed KGB talking points and flattered by KGB operatives who floated the idea that he should go into politics. They had collected a lot of information on his personality so they knew who he was personally. The feeling was that he was extremely vulnerable intellectually, and psychologically, and he was prone to flattery. They played the game as if they were immensely impressed by his personality and believed this is the guy who should be the president of the United States one day: it is people like him who could change the world.
They fed him these so-called active measures soundbites and it happened. So it was a big achievement for the KGB active measures at the time.
Soon after he returned to the US, Trump began exploring a run for the Republican nomination for president and even held a campaign rally in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The bizarre intervention was cause for astonishment and jubilation in Russia. It was hard to believe that somebody would publish it under his name and that it will impress real serious people in the west but it did and, finally, this guy became the president.
