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"Kislin probably offered the TV sets to Trump at spectacularly low prices.
"By doing so, the KGB, via Kislin, got its foot in the door and could see if the flashy, connected real estate mogul was worth the effort to recruit." https://www.spytalk.co/p/how-the-kgb-hooked-trump
"Kislin probably offered the TV sets to Trump at spectacularly low prices.
"By doing so, the KGB, via Kislin, got its foot in the door and could see if the flashy, connected real estate mogul was worth the effort to recruit." https://www.spytalk.co/p/how-the-kgb-hooked-trump
"... to insulate himself from allegations that he was tied to the Russian Mafia, Kislin became a donor to Rudy Giuliani’s... and raised millions more for him... In return, Giuliani gave Kislin a plum patronage job on the New York City Economic Development Corporation in 1996."
"It’s widely known that Trump—profoundly insecure, highly suggestible, and exceptionally susceptible to flattery—was anxious to acquire intellectual validation. In In that regard, the KGB would have been delighted to humor him."
“It was like he was created to be recruited,” said Shvets. “Everybody has weaknesses. But with Trump, it wasn’t just weakness. Everything was excessive. His vanity—excessive. Narcissism—excessive. Greed—excessive. Ignorance—excessive.”
"By the mid-1980s, Trump had become convinced he knew as much about nuclear, as he put it, as anyone in the country. He told reporters at The New York Times and Washington Post he was such nuclear arms virtuoso, he should be negotiating nuclear proliferation talks."
"... that ongoing fixation provided a great opening for the KGB. 'They’d say, ‘You have great potential. Someday you’ll be a big politician. You have such an unorthodox approach! What great ideas! ... you should lead the United States. And then we together can change the world."
"The main point behind the Dubinina interview may have been to conceal the fact that Trump’s first contact with Russia had been through KGB intelligence. “all subsequent contacts with Russian representatives had to be ultimately controlled by the KGB/FSB/SVR.”
“In terms of his personality,” Shvets added, “the guy is not a complicated cookie, his most important characteristics being low intellect coupled with hyper inflated vanity. This combination makes a dream for an experienced recruiter.”
"Traveling to Moscow with his then-wife Ivana... Trump saw half a dozen potential building sites for Moscow’s Trump Tower...
"And that was to flatter Trump into believing that not only was he a budding statesman, but that he had a lucrative real estate future in Russia."
"And that was to flatter Trump into believing that not only was he a budding statesman, but that he had a lucrative real estate future in Russia."
"the new recruit had executed a successful Active Measure operation by voicing KGB talking points in full-page ads bought in three major American newspapers... The ads called for the United States to stop spending money to defend Japan and the Persian Gulf."
"it was indeed a triumph for the KGB to manipulate an American into attacking foundational elements of American foreign policy, and doing it with the KGB’s strategic talking points.
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"As for the man behind the ad, he was a flashy 41-year-old real estate mogul from New York."
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"As for the man behind the ad, he was a flashy 41-year-old real estate mogul from New York."
Ordinarily, the name of the new asset would not appear on such a cable. “In handling assets, security always comes first when it comes to agents,” Shvets said.
“But in this case, the ad itself had already been signed by the new asset. And his name was Donald J. Trump."
“But in this case, the ad itself had already been signed by the new asset. And his name was Donald J. Trump."
