The Guardian received secret documents showing what Putin thinks about Trump and why he wanted him to win the election

Russian President Vladimir Putin personally authorized a secret spy operation to support the "mentally unstable" Donald Trump in the 2016 US presidential election during a closed meeting of the Russian National Security Council. Edition The Guardian claims this follows from leaked Kremlin documents.

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The key meeting allegedly took place on January 22, 2016 in the presence of the Russian President, his spy leaders and high-ranking ministers.

They agreed that the Trump White House will help ensure that Moscow's strategic goals, including "social unrest" in the United States and a weakening of the American president's negotiating position, are achieved.

Three Russian spy agencies were ordered to find practical ways to back Trump in a decree apparently signed by Putin.

By this point, Trump was the leader in the race from the Republican Party. The report, prepared by Putin's expert department, recommended that Moscow use "all possible force" to ensure Trump's victory.

It is assumed that Western intelligence agencies have been aware of these documents for several months and have carefully studied them. The documents seen by The Guardian appear to represent a serious and highly unusual leak of information from the Kremlin.

The Guardian showed the documents to independent experts who said they appeared to be genuine. Random details seem to be accurate. It is argued that the overall tone and thrust are in line with the Kremlin's security thinking.

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Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov considers the idea that Russian leaders met and agreed to support Trump at a meeting in early 2016 as "big pulp fiction."

The report - “No. 32-04\vd” - is classified. It says Trump is “the most promising” from the Kremlin’s point of view.

There is a brief psychological assessment of Trump, who is described as "an impulsive, mentally unbalanced person with an inferiority complex."

There is also clear evidence that the Kremlin is in possession of incriminating or potentially incriminating material about the president, collected, as the document says, during Trump's previous "unofficial visits to the Russian Federation."

The document refers to "certain events" that occurred during Trump's trips to Moscow. Members of the Security Council are encouraged to find details in the fifth appendix, paragraph five, follows from the document. It is not clear what is contained in the application.

“It is absolutely necessary to use all possible force to facilitate the election of Trump to the presidency of the United States,” it reads.

This will help Russia to realize the "theoretical political scenario". He predicts that Trump's victory "will definitely lead to the destabilization of the socio-political system of the United States" and will cause latent discontent to burst out.

Kremlin summit

There is no doubt that the meeting in January 2016 took place - and it was convened in the Kremlin, the publication believes.

The official photograph of the alleged event was attended by then Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, along with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

The meeting was also attended by: Sergei Shoigu, Minister of Defense in charge of the GRU, Russian military intelligence; Mikhail Fradkov, then head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR); Alexander Bortnikov, head of the FSB spy agency; Nikolai Patrushev, former director of the FSB, as secretary of the Security Council.

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According to the press release, it was about the economy and Moldova.

The document leaked to the Guardian suggests that the Security Council's real secret goal was to discuss confidential proposals prepared by the president's analytical service in response to US sanctions against Moscow.

The author appears to be Vladimir Symonenko, a senior official who heads the Kremlin expert department, which provides Putin with analytical materials and reports (some of which are based on foreign intelligence).

The documents indicate that on January 14, 2016, Symonenko circulated a three-page summary of his team's findings and recommendations.

Two days later, in a signed order, Putin instructed the then head of his foreign policy department, Alexander Manzhosin, to hold a closed briefing of the National Security Council.

The decree says that its purpose was to further study the document. Manzhosin was given five days to arrange everything.

What was said in the hall of the Kremlin Senate building on the second floor is unknown. But the president and his intelligence officials appear to have "signed a multi-agency plan to interfere with US democracy, framed in terms of justified self-defense."

The various measures the Kremlin can take in response to what it considers to be hostile actions by Washington are outlined. The document lays out several of America's weaknesses. These include "the deepening political divide between left and right," "the US media space," and "anti-establishment sentiment under President Barack Obama."

The document does not describe Hillary Clinton as Trump's 2016 rival. He suggests using media resources to undermine leading US political figures.

There are paragraphs on how Russia can introduce "media viruses" into American public life that can become self-sustaining and self-replicating. They say that this will change the mass consciousness, especially in certain groups.

Following the meeting, according to a separate leaked document, Putin issued a decree establishing a new secret interagency commission. Its actual task was to realize the goals set in the "special part" of the document "No. 32-04 \ vd".

It was announced that the new working body will include Shoigu, Fradkov and Bortnikov. Shoigu was appointed chairman of the commission. The decree says that "the group should take practical steps against the United States as soon as possible." This was justified by considerations of national security and in accordance with Federal Law No. 390-FZ of 2010, which allows the council to formulate state security policy.

According to the document, each spy agency was assigned a role. The Minister of Defense was instructed to coordinate the work of units and services. Shoigu was also responsible for collecting and organizing the necessary information and for "preparing measures to influence the information environment of the object."

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The SVR was to collect additional information to support the commission's activities. The FSB was entrusted with counterintelligence. Putin approved the document dated January 22, 2016, which was stamped in his office.

The decree says the measures took effect immediately after Putin's signature. The spy executives were given a little over a week to come back with specific ideas that should have been submitted by February 1st.

The documents, if authentic, offer an unprecedented insight into the usually hidden world of decision-making in the Russian government.

Putin has repeatedly denied allegations of meddling in Western democracy. The docs seem to contradict this statement. They speculate that the president, his spy officers and senior ministers were directly involved in one of the most important and daring espionage operations of the twentieth century: a conspiracy to put the "mentally unstable" Trump in the White House.

The documents also set out the course of events that "actually happened" in 2016.

In the weeks after the Security Council meeting, GRU hackers raided the servers of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and subsequently released thousands of private letters in an attempt to damage the Clinton campaign.

According to diplomatic sources, the report contains details reminiscent of the work of Russian intelligence. A miniature sketch of Trump's personality is characteristic of the analysis of the Kremlin spy agency, which focuses on building a personality profile using both real and psychological assessments.

The document argues that Moscow will benefit the most from the Republican victory. It says that this could lead to a "social explosion", which, in turn, will weaken the US president in the international arena. He emphasizes that Trump's victory will bring international benefits. It says that Putin will be able to secretly dominate any bilateral negotiations between the US and Russia, destroy the White House's negotiating position and implement bold foreign policy initiatives on behalf of Russia.

Other parts of the multi-page report deal with non-Trump topics. It says the sanctions imposed by the United States following Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea have contributed to heightened internal tensions. In conclusion, it is said that the Kremlin should look for alternative ways to attract liquidity to the Russian economy.

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The document recommends reorienting trade and export of hydrocarbons towards China. Moscow should focus on influencing the United States and its satellite countries to lift sanctions altogether or soften them.

Documents

Andrei Soldatov, an expert on Russian spy agencies and author of The Red Web, said the leaked material "reflects reality."

“This is in accordance with the procedures of the security services and the Security Council,” he said. “Decisions are always made this way, with advisers providing information to the president.”

He clarified: “The Kremlin controls most of these operations. Putin has made it clear to his spies since at least 2015 that nothing can be done independently of him. There is no room for independent action. "

Sir Andrew Wood, a former British ambassador to Moscow and a fellow at the Chatham House think tank, called the documents "mesmerizing."

“They reflect the kind of discussions and recommendations that you expect. They are written for a person (Putin) who cannot believe that he did something wrong. He does not believe that Russia could have made the mistake of invading Ukraine. He believes the US is responsible for everything. This point of view has sunk deeply into the souls of the Russian leadership ”.

Trump spokeswoman Liz Harrington issued a statement on his behalf.

“Disgusting! This is fake news. It's just crazy radical leftists doing everything they can to humiliate everyone on the right. This is fiction, and no one has been tougher on Russia than I have been, including on the pipeline and sanctions. At the same time, we got along well with Russia. Russia respected us, China respected us, Iran respected us, North Korea respected us. And the world was much safer than under modern leadership,” she emphasized.

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