Intelligence agents with Soviet ties targeted Donald Trump in the late 1980s in an effort to obtain critical information about the U.S. government, according to official archives and interviews with former spies themselves.
According to the Guardian, Czechoslovakia's Statni bezpecnost (StB) engaged in a "long-term spying mission" against Trump after he married his first wife, Ivana Zelnickova, in 1977. This operation was apparently based out of Zlin, where Zelnickova was born and raised.
The London-based outlet notes:
Ivana's father, Milos Zelnicek, gave regular information to the local StB office about his daughter's visits from the US and on his celebrity son-in-law's career in New York. Zelnicek was classified as a "conspiratorial" informer. His relationship with the StB lasted until the end of the communist regime.
StB records obtained by the Guardian and the Czech magazine Respekt confirm that Soviet intelligence became increasingly interested in Trump following George H.W. Bush's victory in the 1988 U.S. presidential election.
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