According to declassified documents, the KGB aggressively recruited former German (mostly Abwehr) intelligence officers after the war. [22] The KGB used them to penetrate the West German intelligence service. [22]

In February 2025, Alnur Mussayev, a former Soviet and Kazakh security official, claimed in a Facebook post that U.S. President Donald Trump was recruited in 1987 by the KGB, the intelligence...

Mar 13, 2025 · A Facebook post by an ex-KGB agent claiming that Donald Trump was recruited by Moscow in 1987 under the code name "Krasnov" has sent social media into a spin. What's the story behind the claim?

Feb 26, 2025 · Several years ago, Yuri Shvets, a former KGB major now resident in Washington, D.C., served as one of the key sources for Craig Unger’s best-selling book, “American Kompromat: How the KGB...

Jan 29, 2021 · The KGB cultivated Donald Trump as an asset for 40 years, and he proved a highly valuable asset in repeating anti-Western Russian propaganda in the United States, a former KGB operative told...

The KGB, the Soviet Union's vast secret police and espionage apparatus, technically was dismantled decades ago. But it still exists under a new name.

Feb 22, 2025 · US President Donald Trump was groomed 37 years ago as a potential Soviet asset, according to Alnur Mussayev, the former head of Kazakhstan’s security services, who had been a KGB officer in Moscow at the time.

Mar 1, 2018 · KGB stands for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti, which translates to “Committee for State Security.” The KGB headquarters occupied what is now a famous structure at Lubyanka Square—and...

Jack Philip Barsky (born Albrecht Dittrich, 18 May 1949) is a German-American author, IT specialist and former sleeper agent of the KGB who spied on the United States from 1978 to 1988. Exposed after the Cold War, Barsky became a resource for U.S. counterintelligence agencies and was allowed to remain in the United States.