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.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.
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. 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.
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