Trump’s 1987 trip to Moscow was orchestrated by the Soviet diplomatic service with KGB assistance with the dual goals of fostering business relations and potentially cultivating Trump for intelligence or political purposes.
Ivana Trump’s father, Miloš Zelníček, was an informer for the Czechoslovak State Security Service (StB), which was the secret police and intelligence agency of communist Czechoslovakia during the Cold War. The StB’s activities were closely aligned with Soviet intelligence, so some of the information gathered likely reached Moscow.
He had a “functional relationship” with the Czech secret police, providing information about his daughter Ivana and her life in the United States, including Donald Trump’s activities and ambitions. Miloš was classified as a “conspiratorial informer,” meaning he discreetly passed along information without being a formal agent or publicly associated collaborator. This relationship afforded him some cover and plausible deniability while assisting the StB’s surveillance efforts.
The StB closely monitored Ivana and Donald Trump starting from their marriage in 1977 and kept files on the family, relying on Miloš for updates.
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