How Russia Recruited Trump
According to a former KGB head of station, in its effort to recruit new agents, the bureau SPECIFICALLY asked, ''“Are pride, arrogance, egoism, ambition or vanity among subject’s natural characteristics?”
Sound familiar?
To
recruit new agents, KBG officers were instructed by their bosses to
“make bolder use of material incentives . . .'' Specifically the instructions said to use the
lure of ''money'' and ''flattery'' - both considered important tools for
recruiting agents to begin cooperating with their Russian intelligence
handlers.
With Trump's obvious narcissism, he was a nearly
perfect mark. It's no surprise that the KGB was able to dangle the
prospect of a shiny big Trump Tower in Moscow; and that Trump went for
it.
Even MORE telling, according to a former KGB station chief, during the time the KGB was dangling Trump, they were instructed to find what they call ''kompromat'' - ''compromising information about subject, including illegal acts in financial and commercial affairs, intrigues, speculation, bribes, graft … and exploitation of his position to enrich himself.”
A former GRU (Russian intelligence) operative explains how the pee-tape works.
“Everything is free. There are good parties with nice girls. It could
be a sauna and girls and who knows what else.” The hotel rooms or villa
were under “24-hour control,” with “security cameras and so on,” Suvorov
said. “The interest is only one. To collect some information and keep
that information about him for the future.”
“It’s at this
point you say: ‘Knock, knock! Do you remember the marvelous time in
Moscow? It was a wonderful evening. You were so drunk. You don’t
remember? We just show you something for your good memory.’”
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/19/trump-first-moscow-trip-215842
Sound familiar?
To
recruit new agents, KBG officers were instructed by their bosses to
“make bolder use of material incentives . . .'' Specifically the instructions said to use the
lure of ''money'' and ''flattery'' - both considered important tools for
recruiting agents to begin cooperating with their Russian intelligence
handlers.
With Trump's obvious narcissism, he was a nearly
perfect mark. It's no surprise that the KGB was able to dangle the
prospect of a shiny big Trump Tower in Moscow; and that Trump went for
it.
Even MORE telling, according to a former KGB station chief, during the time the KGB was dangling Trump, they were instructed to find what they call ''kompromat'' - ''compromising information about subject, including illegal acts in financial and commercial affairs, intrigues, speculation, bribes, graft … and exploitation of his position to enrich himself.”
A former GRU (Russian intelligence) operative explains how the pee-tape works.
“Everything is free. There are good parties with nice girls. It could
be a sauna and girls and who knows what else.” The hotel rooms or villa
were under “24-hour control,” with “security cameras and so on,” Suvorov
said. “The interest is only one. To collect some information and keep
that information about him for the future.”
“It’s at this
point you say: ‘Knock, knock! Do you remember the marvelous time in
Moscow? It was a wonderful evening. You were so drunk. You don’t
remember? We just show you something for your good memory.’”
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/19/trump-first-moscow-trip-215842
