04 July. On this date in 1987, Trump arrived in Moscow as a guest of the state. [View all]
On this date in 1987, Trump arrived in Moscow as a guest of the state. He was lodged in the KGB-run "National Hotel" on Red Square and given Vladimir Lenin's personal suite, a suite the KGB had bugged. He was in Moscow with his first of thee wives - the daughter of a Communist official. She had been monitored for the previous 10-years.
In 1987 you could not just "visit" Russia. You had the be invited; and before you were even invited, you had to be "vetted" - by the KGB. And there already existed at that time a KGB file on Donald Trump. A 1977 file created first by the StB, Czechoslovakia secret police, because Czech citizen, Ivana Zelnickova, had married Trump.
Under KGB directions to recruit Americans, the then-Soviet Ambassador to the UN, Yuri Dubinin, sought out Trump, hoping that one day he would be "useful" to Soviet "interests." Dubinin deemed Trump 'useful' enough to arrange his trip to Moscow.
Dubinin’s daughters confirmed that their father was on a mission as ambassador - to make contact with America’s business elite. And found Trump.
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