Monday, October 29, 2018

Czechoslovakia Spied On Donald Trump In The '80s During His Marriage With Ivanka

The StB security file of Jaroslav Jansa who spied on Donald Trump in 1980’s while he was married to Ivana. Photograph: StB

The Guardian: Czechoslovakia ramped up spying on Trump in late 1980s, seeking US intel

Exclusive: aided by Ivana Trump’s father, intelligence service with KGB ties targeted high-level government information, files show

The communist intelligence service in Prague stepped up its spying campaign against Donald Trump in the late 1980s, targeting him to gain information about the “upper echelons of the US government”, archive files and testimony from former cold war spies reveal.

Czechoslovakia’s Státní bezpečnost (StB) carried out a long-term spying mission against Trump following his marriage in 1977 to his first wife, Ivana Zelníčková. The operation was run out of Zlín, the provincial town in south-west Czechoslovakia where Zelníčková was born and grew up.

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Update #1: 'A very different world' - inside the Czech spying operation on Trump (The Guardian)
Update #2: Czechoslovakia ramped up spying on Trump in the late Eighties during his marriage to Ivana in attempt to get information on US government and intelligence activities (Daily Mail).

WNU Editor: So now we know that President Trump's former father-in-law was an informer for Czechoslovakia's intelligence agency.Welcome to how life was like in the Warsaw Pact during the Cold War, where even family members spied on each other.

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