Alnur Mussayev, a former Soviet KGB officer, claimed that Donald Trump was recruited as a Russian spy in 1987 under the codename "Krasnov." Mussayev, who later led Kazakhstan's security agency, fled to Austria in 2007 and faced legal troubles over alleged crimes.

A former officer of Russia's spy agency Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (KGB) has claimed that US president Donald Trump was groomed 37 years ago as a "potential Soviet asset'. Ukrainian daily Kyiv post cited a Facebook post by Alnur Mussayev who claimed that he was serving in the 6th Directorate of the then USSR KGB in Moscow.

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

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.

Beast published - then swiftly deleted - a story this weekend with allegations that Donald Trump has been recruited as a KGB asset since 1987 and was given the codename "Krasnov," citing a social media post by a former Soviet intelligence officer.

It has been claimed that when Donald Trump travelled to Moscow for the first time back in 1987, as a 40-year-old real estate developer, he was recruited as a KGB agent

Donald Trump Recruited By KGB Under Codename Krasnov refers to an allegation by Alnur Musayev, the former head of Kazakhstan's National Security Committee,

A former Soviet intelligence officer has sensationally claimed that Donald Trump was recruited by the KGB in 1987 and given the codename "Krasnov"

President Donald Trump was recruited by the Soviet Union's KGB (Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti) back in 1987 and was also given a codename, a former intelligence officer alleged in a social media post.