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A Shadowy Finger Points to Trump as Russian Agent, Roiling Social Media

Former top CIA officials are wary of a charge by a former KGB official saying Trump was officially recruited in 1987, but Trump's pro-Moscow pivot makes it irrelevant now anyway, they say.

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Trump, seen here with Putin at a Group of 20 Summit in Hamburg in July 2017, was recruited and code-named ‘Krasnov’ by the KGB in 1987, according to a Facebook post by a former Kasakh and KGB intelligence official (Evan Vucci/Associated Press photo)

The long-bubbling suspicion that Donald Trump has long been in the pocket of Russian President Valdimir Pu…

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