By Allan Lengel
Just released FBI files show Ivana Trump was under a counterintelligence inquiry in the late 1980s and early 1990s because of ties to her homeland, Czechoslovakia, Bloomberg News reports. Czechoslovakia was under communist rule from 1948 to 1989.
Yahoo! News reports that the 190 pages of classified documents were heavily redacted. The documents cite a number of “highly sensitive and reliable sources”, who “advise” the FBI.
A memo dated March 7, 1989, states that the FBI New York office opened a “preliminary inquiry,” Yahoo! reports. Ivana, Donald Trump’s first wife, was married to Trump from 1977 to 1990.
Even the FBI records note “it is unknown if the allegations stem from jealousies of her wealth and fame. Investigation continuing.”
Ivana died in July 2022 after falling down the stairs at her Upper East Side home.
