A former Russian officer claimed that KGB (Soviet intelligence) had put the idea of running for US presidency into the mind of Donald Trump.
The former officer with the rank of major in the "KGB" Yuri Shvets, who is currently residing in the United States, said in a telephone interview with the British newspaper "The Guardian", that KGB "took care" of Trump for four decades, considering him a valuable asset.
The newspaper quoted the former officer as saying: "There were people who were recruited when they were students, then they took important positions, and something of this kind happened to Trump."
Shvets, who worked in 1985-1987 in Washington under the cover of the position of correspondent for "TASS" news agency, claimed that Trump appeared on the "KGB" radar screen for the first time in 1977 when he married his first wife, Czech model Ivana Zelenichkova.
He added that the intelligence service In Czechoslovakia, he launched a joint operation with the "KGB" to spy on Trump.
Three years later, Trump opened his first major real estate project, the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York, and bought 200 television sets from Soviet businessman Simeon Keslin, one of the owners of the Joy-Lud company, which, according to the former officer’s claims, was under the control of the "KGB. "
Shvets added that KGB agents were encouraging Trump, during his first visit with Ivana to Moscow and St. Petersburg in 1987, to follow the political track, indicating that the Soviet intelligence had collected until then a lot of information about Trump's personality and they considered him a very weak person. Psychologically and mentally, due to his being very affected by gentle speech.
The "Guardian" indicated that Trump, after returning to the United States in 1987, began studying the possibility of running for the presidency for the Republican Party and even organized an election rally in Portsmouth.
Shvets said the Trump case had become an unprecedented success for the KGB.
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