The claim gained traction when the news website The Daily Beast published a now-deleted story (archived) titled "Former Intelligence Officer Claims KGB Recruited Trump," using only Mussayev's ...

Howard was supposed to serve as Tolkachev's case officer. Instead, he handed him to the KGB. Business Insider recently spoke with Hoffman, who won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction for ...

A former UK spy chief has weighed in on the bizarre claims made by an ex-KGB spy that Donald Trump was recruited as a Russian asset over 40 years ago, operating under the codename "Krasnov".

Tolkachev transformed the US's understanding ... The Discus could be "an invulnerable magic carpet that would soar over the heads fo the KGB." But there were a few drawbacks.