Ivana Trump was under FBI inquiry for ties to her homeland Czechoslovakia
Kaelan Deese
Video Embed
Former President Donald Trump‘s late first wife, Ivana Trump, was under an FBI counterintelligence inquiry stemming from allegations over ties to her home country of Czechoslovakia, according to newly unearthed documents.
Based on what a confidential source provided in 1989, the FBI recommended “a preliminary inquiry be opened on Ivana Trump,” according to a 190-page document released by a law enforcement agency on Monday as part of a Freedom of Information Act suit from Bloomberg.
‘AIN’T NO WAY’: FBI SURVEILLED ARETHA FRANKLIN FOR DECADES
The motive behind the FBI’s investigation into Ivana Trump is unknown but involved the bureau’s counterintelligence division and spanned at least two years. The document includes a passage stating that “it is unknown if the allegations stem from jealousies of her wealth and fame. Investigation continuing,” though the rest of that inquiry is redacted.
There is no text in the filing accusing her of wrongdoing. The FBI redacted several portions of the large filing, citing national security concerns, personal privacy, and law enforcement techniques and procedures.
In 1949, Ivana Trump was born in the former country of Czechoslovakia, and she left the communist nation in 1971 after marrying an Austrian ski instructor whom she divorced one year later after gaining Austrian citizenship. She later moved to California and New York, where she worked as a model.
In 1976, she met Donald Trump in New York, and the pair married in April 1977. Their first child, Donald Trump Jr., was born roughly eight months after. They later had Donald Trump’s first daughter, Ivanka Trump, in 1981 while their second son, Eric Trump, was born in 1984.
The couple became well known in New York City culture, but they ultimately divorced by the end of the 1980s after the future president’s affair with his second wife, Marla Maples.
The public interest in the divorce also provided some portions of information to FBI agents who peered into court records surrounding the couple’s split.
FBI agents also took interest in a “highly confidential and reliable source” who advised that Ivana Trump was in Czechoslovakia on June 4, 1990, when the country’s last president gave her an autographed book.
The Bloomberg report noted the Prague Daily Monitor published a story after Donald Trump was elected president surrounding Ivana Trump not aiding dissidents or exiles during the communist regime, writing, “That may explain the FBI’s interest in her visit to the country.”
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER
The former president is not a notable subject of the FBI file, but he is mentioned in one passage referencing a Jan. 16, 1989, magazine article titled “Trump.”
Ivana Trump died after a fall in her New York home in July 2022 at the age of 73.