London, Jul 15 (EFE) – Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized a secret operation to help Republican Donald Trump win the 2016 US elections, according to the British newspaper The Guardian on Thursday, based on leaked Kremlin papers.
The documents, allegedly signed by Putin himself, were approved at a closed-door meeting of Russia’s national security council on January 22, 2016, in the presence of the Russian president, his spy chiefs, and senior representatives of the Executive, the newspaper adds.
In this private session, they agreed that the three Russian spy agencies would work to ensure Trump’s success in the elections, a victory that suited Russia because, in its view, it would cause “social upheaval” in the US and a weakening of the president’s negotiating position.
According to The Guardian, which claims to have checked the veracity of the papers with several independent experts, this is a “serious and very unusual” leak from inside the Kremlin.
Asked by the British newspaper, Putin’s spokesman, Dmitri Peskov, denied the facts and assured that the idea of a meeting between Russian leaders to hatch a secret plan to support Trump is a “great fiction.”
In the report, classified as secret, the then-Republican candidate is described as “an impulsive, mentally unstable and unbalanced individual suffering from an inferiority complex.”
However, from the Russian perspective, Putin’s administration considers him in the document as the “most promising candidate,” and concludes that it is “extremely necessary to use all possible force to facilitate his election to the office of president of the United States.” EFE
Text and photos courtesy of EFE
Translated by María Isabel Carrasco Cara Chards
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