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The Secret KGB Files.
Yuri Bezmenov ex KGB Psychological Warfare Techniques. Subversion & Control of Western Society 1/7
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KGB in America: Cold War Russian Spies, Agents and Operations - Documentary Film
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  • Duration: 55:30
  • Updated: 10 Feb 2013
KGB (КГБ) is the commonly used acronym for the Russian: Комитет государственной безопасности​ (Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti or Committee for State Security). It was the national security agency of the Soviet Union from 1954 until 1991, and was the premier internal security, intelligence, and secret police organization during that time. The KGB has been considered a military service and was governed by army laws and regulations, similar to the Soviet Army or MVD Internal Troops. While most of the KGB archives remain classified, two on-line documentary sources are available. Since breaking away from Georgia de facto in the early 1990s with Russian help, South Ossetia established its own KGB (keeping this unreformed name). The State Security Committee of the Republic of Belarus also uses the acronym KGB. The GRU (military intelligence) recruited the ideological agents Julian Wadleigh and Alger Hiss, who became State Department diplomats in 1936. The NKVD's first US operation was establishing the legal residency of Boris Bazarov and the illegal residency of Iskhak Akhmerov in 1934. Throughout, the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and its General Secretary Earl Browder, helped NKVD recruit Americans, working in government, business, and industry. Other important, high-level ideological agents were the diplomats Laurence Duggan and Michael Whitney Straight in the State Department, the statistician Harry Dexter White in the Treasury Department, the economist Lauchlin Currie ...
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The KGB Psychic Files
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  • Duration: 1:25:31
  • Updated: 07 Feb 2013
Video of the KGB's bizarre psychic experiments, KGB ghost hunters and more with original KGB footage and interviews.
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KGB Agent Tells You What The Illusion Is !
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  • Duration: 8:48
  • Updated: 09 Feb 2013
pindz.blogspot.com - http - hotufos.blogspot.com KGB Agent Tells You What The Illusion Is !
  • published: 18 Oct 2010
  • views: 196428
  • author: CH3MTRAILS
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Yuri Bezmenov: Deception Was My Job (Complete)
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  • Duration: 1:21:27
  • Updated: 10 Feb 2013
This is G. Edward Griffin's shocking video interview, Soviet Subversion of the Free-World Press (1984), where he interviews ex-KGB officer and Soviet defector Yuri Bezmenov who decided to openly reveal KGB's subversive tactics against western society as a whole. Bezmenov explains how Jewish Marxist ideology is destabilizing the economy and purposefully pushing the US into numerous crises so that a "Big Brother" tyranny can be put into place in Washington, how most Americans don't even realize that they are under attack, and that normal parliamentary procedures will not alter the federal government's direction. He then explains how Marxist leaders use informers to make lists of anti-Communist and other politically incorrect people who they want to execute once they - actually a Jewish oligarchy - come to power. The oligarch's secret lists include "civil rights" activists and idealistically-minded "useful idiot" leftists as well. Bezmenov provides several real world examples of how Marxist leaders even execute and/or imprison each other. Also he explains how American embassy employees were known to betray Soviets attempting to defect, how there existed a "triangle of hate" in the Soviet government, why he realized that Marxism-Leninism was a murderous doctrine, and how the CIA ignored (or didn't care) about Communist subversion. He also mentions that revolutions throughout history are never the result of a majority movement, but of a small dedicated and highly-organized ...
  • published: 21 Jan 2011
  • views: 70015
  • author: GBPPR2
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How To Brainwash A Nation
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  • Duration: 8:48
  • Updated: 10 Feb 2013
This amazing interview was done back in 1985 with a former KGB agent who was trained in subversion techniques. He explains the 4 basic steps to socially engineering entire generations into thinking and behaving the way those in power want them to. It's shocking because our nation has been transformed in the exact same way, and followed the exact same steps. Please join the campaign to end this insanity at The Kick Them All Out Project www.KickThemAllOut.com
  • published: 14 May 2009
  • views: 556788
  • author: TPOCS
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KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov's warning to America
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  • Duration: 13:37
  • Updated: 11 Feb 2013
A WARNING from ex-KGB communist defector Yuri Bezmenov from *29 YEARS AGO*, detailing the 4 stages of a Marxist-Leninist revolution and taking over a nation. Watch this at your own risk, as your bones will literally begin to freeze as you start to realize he is describing EXACTLY what is happening today almost to the letter. Thank you Yuri, and sorry for not listening! George Soros: "China will be the NEW world reserve currency" www.youtube.com The clock to crisis is ticking... www.usdebtclock.org Checkmate.
  • published: 28 Jan 2013
  • views: 51190
  • author: John Doe
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The Secret KGB Files.
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  • Duration: 1:26:56
  • Updated: 03 Feb 2013
Formerly secret files and testimonies now disclosed.
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Yuri Bezmenov ex KGB Psychological Warfare Techniques. Subversion & Control of Western Society 1/7
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  • Duration: 9:32
  • Updated: 08 Feb 2013
Yuri Bezmenov 1983 Soviet subversion of Western Society Yuri Bezmenov, aka Tomas Schuman, soviet KGB defector, explains in detail his scheme for the KGB process of subversion and takeover of target societies at a lecture in Los Angeles, 1983. Yuri Alexandrovitch Bezmenov is a former KGB propagandist who was assigned to New Dehli, India, defected to the West in 1970, and was interviewed by Edward Griffin in 1985. Bezmenov explains his background, some of his training, and exactly how Soviet propaganda is spread in other countries in order to subvert their teachers, politicians, and other policy makers to a mindset receptive to the Soviet ideology. He also explains in detail the goal of Soviet propaganda as total subversion of another country and the 4 step formula for achieving this goal. He recalls the details of how he escaped India, defected to the West, and settled in Montreal as an announcer for the CBC.
  • published: 07 Mar 2009
  • views: 90775
  • author: HISTROIKA
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KGB Montage
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  • Duration: 7:58
  • Updated: 10 Feb 2013
Taking a break from taunt killing again, this time to hit people with big glowing hands. Song is You're the Best Around by Joe Esposito. twitter.com
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Vimpel, KGB, CCCP
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  • Duration: 9:01
  • Updated: 06 Feb 2013
KGB spteznaz Training Opetations Veterans
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Rounders-Final Hand
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  • Duration: 4:05
  • Updated: 09 Feb 2013
Movie Rounders. Starring: Matt Damon Edward Norton John Turturro Famke Janssen Gretchen Mol with John Malkovich and Martin Landau
  • published: 19 Feb 2010
  • views: 327263
  • author: marecski
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Grey Alien Filmed By KGB
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  • Duration: 3:50
  • Updated: 10 Feb 2013
Originaly uploaded by Ivan0135. KGB TOP SECRET UFO/ET FOOTAGE! Date format: YY/MM/DD Duration: HH:MM:SS From the first contact in 1942, a series of diplomatic visits to discuss matters of mutual concern were planned. Under the treaty 23/04, these meetings would take place in secrecy, a limited number of special agents would escort visitors and they would only meet high ranking officers. According to the document 072 / E, at the meeting of 1961 there was an incident involving 3 subjects due to the violation of the agreement by the officers at the military base when they discovered that their arrival was filmed with a hidden device without their consent. Under the treaty 23/04, the meetings would be confidential and filming or taking photographs would not be allowed. After the incident, the treaty was revised. ...
  • published: 26 May 2011
  • views: 1911103
  • author: leoxy64
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OBAMA's END GAME REVEALED BY KGB - Obama Socialist / Communist / Marxist / Maoist
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  • Duration: 9:52
  • Updated: 09 Feb 2013
commieblaster.com - CommieTunes Episode 8 - Starring Yuri Bezmenov, Obama, Oliver Stone, Danny Glover, Sean Penn, Cornel West, John Kerry, Jim Wallis, Hillary & Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Father Pfleger, Jessie Jackson, Al Sharpton, Vladimir Putin, Rev. Wright, Bobby Rush, Barbara Lee, Laura Richardson, Emanuel Cleaver, Marcia Fudge, Mel Watt, Robert McCheasney, Valerie Jarrett, David Axelrod, Bill Ayers, Barney Frank, Mark Lloyd, Cass Sunstein, Carol Browner, Maxine Waters, John Podesta, Van Jones, Daniel Ellsberg, John Lewis, Ron Bloom, Jane Fonda. See all our videos at http
  • published: 13 Apr 2010
  • views: 230286
  • author: flywheel091
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Yuri Bezmenov ex KGB Psychological Warfare Techniques. Subversion & Control of Western Society 2/7
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  • Duration: 9:48
  • Updated: 29 Jan 2013
Yuri Bezmenov 1983 Soviet subversion of Western Society Yuri Bezmenov, aka Tomas Schuman, soviet KGB defector, explains in detail his scheme for the KGB process of subversion and takeover of target societies at a lecture in Los Angeles, 1983. Yuri Alexandrovitch Bezmenov is a former KGB propagandist who was assigned to New Dehli, India, defected to the West in 1970, and was interviewed by Edward Griffin in 1985. Bezmenov explains his background, some of his training, and exactly how Soviet propaganda is spread in other countries in order to subvert their teachers, politicians, and other policy makers to a mindset receptive to the Soviet ideology. He also explains in detail the goal of Soviet propaganda as total subversion of another country and the 4 step formula for achieving this goal. He recalls the details of how he escaped India, defected to the West, and settled in Montreal as an announcer for the CBC.
  • published: 07 Mar 2009
  • views: 37943
  • author: HISTROIKA
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  • KGB in America: Cold War Russian Spies, Agents and Operations - Documentary Film
    55:30
    KGB in America: Cold War Russian Spies, Agents and Operations - Documentary Film
  • The KGB Psychic Files
    1:25:31
    The KGB Psychic Files
  • KGB Agent Tells You What The Illusion Is !
    8:48
    KGB Agent Tells You What The Illusion Is !
  • Yuri Bezmenov: Deception Was My Job (Complete)
    1:21:27
    Yuri Bezmenov: Deception Was My Job (Complete)
  • How To Brainwash A Nation
    8:48
    How To Brainwash A Nation
  • KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov's warning to America
    13:37
    KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov's warning to America
  • The Secret KGB Files.
    1:26:56
    The Secret KGB Files.
  • Yuri Bezmenov ex KGB Psychological Warfare Techniques. Subversion & Control of Western Society 1/7
    9:32
    Yuri Bezmenov ex KGB Psychological Warfare Techniques. Subversion & Control of Western Society 1/7
  • KGB Montage
    7:58
    KGB Montage
  • Vimpel, KGB, CCCP
    9:01
    Vimpel, KGB, CCCP
  • Rounders-Final Hand
    4:05
    Rounders-Final Hand
  • Grey Alien Filmed By KGB
    3:50
    Grey Alien Filmed By KGB
  • OBAMA's END GAME REVEALED BY KGB - Obama Socialist / Communist / Marxist / Maoist
    9:52
    OBAMA's END GAME REVEALED BY KGB - Obama Socialist / Communist / Marxist / Maoist
  • Yuri Bezmenov ex KGB Psychological Warfare Techniques. Subversion & Control of Western Society 2/7
    9:48
    Yuri Bezmenov ex KGB Psychological Warfare Techniques. Subversion & Control of Western Society 2/7


KGB (КГБ) is the commonly used acronym for the Russian: Комитет государственной безопасности​ (Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti or Committee for State Security). It was the national security agency of the Soviet Union from 1954 until 1991, and was the premier internal security, intelligence, and secret police organization during that time. The KGB has been considered a military service and was governed by army laws and regulations, similar to the Soviet Army or MVD Internal Troops. While most of the KGB archives remain classified, two on-line documentary sources are available. Since breaking away from Georgia de facto in the early 1990s with Russian help, South Ossetia established its own KGB (keeping this unreformed name). The State Security Committee of the Republic of Belarus also uses the acronym KGB. The GRU (military intelligence) recruited the ideological agents Julian Wadleigh and Alger Hiss, who became State Department diplomats in 1936. The NKVD's first US operation was establishing the legal residency of Boris Bazarov and the illegal residency of Iskhak Akhmerov in 1934. Throughout, the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and its General Secretary Earl Browder, helped NKVD recruit Americans, working in government, business, and industry. Other important, high-level ideological agents were the diplomats Laurence Duggan and Michael Whitney Straight in the State Department, the statistician Harry Dexter White in the Treasury Department, the economist Lauchlin Currie ...

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KGB in Amer­i­ca: Cold War Rus­sian Spies, Agents and Op­er­a­tions - Doc­u­men­tary Film
KGB (КГБ) is the com­mon­ly used acronym for the Rus­sian: Комитет государственной безопаснос...
pub­lished: 23 Aug 2012
85:31
The KGB Psy­chic Files
Video of the KGB's bizarre psy­chic ex­per­i­ments, KGB ghost hunters and more with orig­i­nal K...
pub­lished: 25 Mar 2009
8:48
KGB Agent Tells You What The Il­lu­sion Is !
pindz.​blogspot.​com - http - hotufos.​blogspot.​com KGB Agent Tells You What The Il­lu­sion Is ...
pub­lished: 18 Oct 2010
au­thor: CH3M­TRAILS
81:27
Yuri Bez­men­ov: De­cep­tion Was My Job (Com­plete)
This is G. Ed­ward Grif­fin's shock­ing video in­ter­view, So­vi­et Sub­ver­sion of the Free-World ...
pub­lished: 21 Jan 2011
au­thor: GBP­PR2
8:48
How To Brain­wash A Na­tion
This amaz­ing in­ter­view was done back in 1985 with a for­mer KGB agent who was trained in su...
pub­lished: 14 May 2009
au­thor: TPOCS
13:37
KGB de­fec­tor Yuri Bez­men­ov's warn­ing to Amer­i­ca
A WARN­ING from ex-KGB com­mu­nist de­fec­tor Yuri Bez­men­ov from *29 YEARS AGO*, de­tail­ing the ...
pub­lished: 28 Jan 2013
au­thor: John Doe
86:56
The Se­cret KGB Files.
For­mer­ly se­cret files and tes­ti­monies now dis­closed....
pub­lished: 03 Dec 2011
9:32
Yuri Bez­men­ov ex KGB Psy­cho­log­i­cal War­fare Tech­niques. Sub­ver­sion & Con­trol of West­ern So­ci­ety 1/7
Yuri Bez­men­ov 1983 So­vi­et sub­ver­sion of West­ern So­ci­ety Yuri Bez­men­ov, aka Tomas Schu­man, ...
pub­lished: 07 Mar 2009
au­thor: HISTROI­KA
7:58
KGB Mon­tage
Tak­ing a break from taunt killing again, this time to hit peo­ple with big glow­ing hands. S...
pub­lished: 27 Oct 2009
9:01
Vim­pel, KGB, CCCP
KGB sptez­naz Train­ing Opeta­tions Vet­er­ans...
pub­lished: 21 Apr 2007
4:05
Rounders-Fi­nal Hand
Movie Rounders. Star­ring: Matt Damon Ed­ward Nor­ton John Tur­tur­ro Famke Janssen Gretchen Mo...
pub­lished: 19 Feb 2010
au­thor: marec­s­ki
3:50
Grey Alien Filmed By KGB
Orig­i­naly up­load­ed by Ivan0135. KGB TOP SE­CRET UFO/ET FOOTAGE! Date for­mat: YY/MM/DD Durat...
pub­lished: 26 May 2011
au­thor: leoxy64
9:52
OBAMA's END GAME RE­VEALED BY KGB - Obama So­cial­ist / Com­mu­nist / Marx­ist / Maoist
commieblaster.​com - Com­mi­eTunes Episode 8 - Star­ring Yuri Bez­men­ov, Obama, Oliv­er Stone, D...
pub­lished: 13 Apr 2010
au­thor: fly­wheel091
9:48
Yuri Bez­men­ov ex KGB Psy­cho­log­i­cal War­fare Tech­niques. Sub­ver­sion & Con­trol of West­ern So­ci­ety 2/7
Yuri Bez­men­ov 1983 So­vi­et sub­ver­sion of West­ern So­ci­ety Yuri Bez­men­ov, aka Tomas Schu­man, ...
pub­lished: 07 Mar 2009
au­thor: HISTROI­KA
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2012 R16 TAI­WAN (KGB VS FOR­MOSA)
R16 TAI­WAN 2012 KGB VS FOR­MOSA...
pub­lished: 09 Apr 2012
au­thor: Bat­tleKGB
9:33
Yuri Bez­men­ov ex KGB Psy­cho­log­i­cal War­fare Tech­niques. Sub­ver­sion & Con­trol of West­ern So­ci­ety 3/7
Yuri Bez­men­ov 1983 So­vi­et sub­ver­sion of West­ern So­ci­ety Yuri Bez­men­ov, aka Tomas Schu­man, ...
pub­lished: 07 Mar 2009
au­thor: HISTROI­KA
9:58
Yuri Bez­men­ov ex KGB Psy­cho­log­i­cal War­fare Tech­niques. Sub­ver­sion & Con­trol of West­ern So­ci­ety 4/7
Yuri Bez­men­ov 1983 So­vi­et sub­ver­sion of West­ern So­ci­ety Yuri Bez­men­ov, aka Tomas Schu­man, ...
pub­lished: 07 Mar 2009
au­thor: HISTROI­KA
9:56
Yuri Bez­men­ov ex KGB Psy­cho­log­i­cal War­fare Tech­niques. Sub­ver­sion & Con­trol of West­ern So­ci­ety 5/7
Yuri Bez­men­ov 1983 So­vi­et sub­ver­sion of West­ern So­ci­ety Yuri Bez­men­ov, aka Tomas Schu­man, ...
pub­lished: 07 Mar 2009
au­thor: HISTROI­KA
photo: AP / Ugarit News via AP video
This image taken from video obtained from Ugarit News on Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, purports to show Syrian soldiers dancing to Usher's hit song "Yeah!"
The New York Times
09 Feb 2013
BEIRUT, Lebanon — The video has gone viral in recent days. Syrian government soldiers, in camouflage gear, carrying rocket-propelled grenades and brandishing rifles, mugging for the camera while dancing in a circle to Usher’s hit song “Yeah!”. Enlarge This Image. Ugarit News, via Associated Press. In a video posted online, Syrian soldiers chant and dance to Usher’s hit song “Yeah!”. Related. U.N ... Twitter List ... Raw ... ....(size: 8.2Kb)
photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb
File - Palestinian Salafis "al-Qaeda" burning U.S. and Israeli flags as they burn an image of U.S. President Barack Obama during a protest against what they said was a film being produced in the U.S. that was insulting to the Prophet Mohammad in Rafah in southern Gaza Strip on September 14, 2012.
Mail Guardian South Africa
10 Feb 2013
A protester holds a banner reading "Be careful Mr President Hollande, Tunisia is not Mali" at a demonstration in Tunis on February 9. (AP). More Coverage. Late last year, largely unnoticed in the West, Tunisia's president, Moncef Marzouki, gave an interview to Chatham House's The World Today ... "We didn't realise how dangerous and violent these Salafists could be ... They are a tiny minority within a tiny minority ... Threats ... ....(size: 13.5Kb)
photo: AP / Elaine Thompson
A Boeing 777-367 (ER) Cathay Pacific jet is guided to a parking spot by a marshaller at Paine Field Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013, in Everett, Wash.
Jakarta Post
10 Feb 2013
Boeing sent a 787 up on a test flight Saturday, the first since the new airliner was grounded three weeks ago because of a battery fire ... The plan was to spend two and a half hours in the air ... ....(size: 1.0Kb)
photo: WN / Imran Nissar
Activists of the Jammu and Kashmir Mass Movement (JKMM) shouting anti-India slogans during a protest in support of clemency for Mohammad Afzal Guru in Srinagar on December 13, 2012. Indian police detained some half a dozen activists during the protest. Fellow Kashmiri, Mohammad Afzal Guru was sentenced to death by an Indian court after being found guilty of being involved in the 13 September 2001 attack on India's Parliament House in New Delhi. The protestors appealed to the President to commute the death sentence of Guru and reinvestigate the case.
The Guardian
09 Feb 2013
NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian news channels are reporting that a Kashmiri man convicted in the 2001 attack on India's Parliament has been hanged ... World news. Last 24 hours....(size: 5.9Kb)
photo: AP / Marcio Jose Sanchez
Nigeria supporters root for their team as it plays Costa Rica during the FIFA U20 World Cup soccer tournament in Victoria, Canada, Sunday, July 1, 2007. Decked out in green-and-white striped toques and matching T-shirts, 90 members of the Nigeria Football Supporters' Club followed their men's youth team all the way from western Africa to Victoria for the tournament.
FourFourTwo
10 Feb 2013
Top scorer Emenike fails to make final for Nigeria. Africa Cup of Nations 7 minutes ago. Burkina Faso v Nigeria - African Nations Cup final teams. Africa Cup of Nations 21 minutes ago. Blatter angry with UEFA over declaration on FIFA reforms. Rest of Europe 1 hours ago. Mali bank on Keita to deliver first World Cup place. Africa Cup of Nations 1 hours ago. Nigeria start favourites in African Nations Cup final ... Rest of Europe Yesterday, 22.28....(size: 6.8Kb)



The Examiner
09 Feb 2013
The Cold War seems everything but cold with the election of Ronald Regan and the difficulties his spy-hunting stance bring for these KGB operatives ... Already in the pilot, they tackle some seriously difficult issues of sexuality, from Elizabeth's sexual intelligence sortie and its implications for her relationship with Phillip to a KGB commander who ......(size: 9.0Kb)
MSNBC
09 Feb 2013
So far, 2013 has been good to television fans. The year opened with the usual avalanche of new shows that arrives every January, and a surprising number of them have proven to be quite watchable ... One caveat. The reviews are based on the first episode or two of most of these shows ... THE GOOD ... Wednesdays) -- A dark and fascinating drama about a pair of KGB spies living in deep cover as a suburban American couple in 1980s Washington D.C ... A ... A-....(size: 7.9Kb)
m&c;
08 Feb 2013
The Americans is a period drama about the complex marriage of two KGB spies posing as Americans in suburban Washington D.C ... Not so ... Next week the great Margo Martindale is introduced to the cast as Claudia, the KGB agent doling out assignments to Elizabeth and Philip. .  . ....(size: 1.4Kb)
The Independent
08 Feb 2013
Yesterday a painting by Eugene Delacroix was vandalised in a gallery in northern France. Understandably there has been outcry about this, it being the latest in a long line of high profile defacements of public art, notably the Rothko at Tate Modern last year ... Here are some examples.. Having a Ball ... The penis ‘erected,’ directly facing the headquarters of the FSB, the KGB’s successor. The group called the artwork Dick Captured by KGB ... ....(size: 2.4Kb)
Orlando Sentinel
08 Feb 2013
The leftist Sergei Udaltsov is among several opposition figures charged with riots and violence against police during a protest against Putin in May on the eve of the former KGB spy's inauguration for a third presidential term ......(size: 1.3Kb)
IMDb
08 Feb 2013
Ed Harris stars as the commander of a Russian submarine, who must fend off a group of rogue Kgb agents (lead by David Duchovny), who are trying to control the ship's nuclear missile ......(size: 1.0Kb)
Voa News
08 Feb 2013
 . The leftist Sergei Udaltsov is among several opposition figures charged with riots and violence against police during a protest against Putin in May, on the eve of the former KGB spy's inauguration for a third presidential term.  . The federal Investigative Committee, which answers only to Putin, has so far only barred the shaven-headed Udaltsov from travelling freely as he awaits trial ...  . "S ...   ...   ... ....(size: 2.4Kb)
Wall Street Journal
08 Feb 2013
Enlarge Image. Close. The Far-Out Trip. North Korea, With Thrills and Frills. One of the greatest spectacles on earth is one you likely have never seen in person. North Korea's Mass Games feature roughly 100,000 performers and last several weeks ... travelers), coxandkingsusa.com. Enlarge Image. Close ... Shortly after KGB agents confiscated his novel "Life and Fate" in 1961, Soviet writer Vasily Grossman received a curious assignment ... Mr ... ....(size: 2.5Kb)
Huffington Post
08 Feb 2013
MOSCOW -- A retired Russian military intelligence colonel has been found guilty of leading a bizarre plot that envisioned a group of elderly people taking over the government ... Also on HuffPost ... The couple came to Germany in 1988, reportedly as KGB spies, and continued operating for the modern Russian intelligence service while maintaining a front as immigrants from South America until their arrest in late 2011 by German police ... Like ... ....(size: 3.7Kb)
noodls
08 Feb 2013
(Source. NYU - New York University). The New York University Creative Writing Program's Spring 2013 Reading Series continues in March with events featuring Brooklyn Poet Laureate Tina Chang (March 14) and Pulitzer-Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon (March 28). All events are held in the program's Greenwich Village home, the Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, located at 58 W ... Subways ... Friday, March 1, 5 p.m ... KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street....(size: 4.2Kb)
The Florida Times Union
08 Feb 2013
“If we’re worried about an atomic bomb in the hands of Iran, we should be more worried about Russia, which is the only country in the world that has the capacity to destroy the United States,” Satter said in a telephone interview ... In “Darkness at Dawn,” Satter charged that the Russian Federal Security Service, the successor to the KGB, was behind the bombings of Russian apartment buildings in 1999 that claimed more than 300 lives....(size: 4.7Kb)
London Evening Standard
08 Feb 2013
On the way from Domodedovo airport, as the snow flutters down, I pass forests of trees bent double by the snow and grim, grey tower blocks lining the way ... The traffic is terrible and all the cars are filthy from splashes from the melting snow ... Walking to lunch, I pass the faded mustard monolith that is the former KGB headquarters — or Lubyanka, as it is known — on the square of the same name ... But for the food? Nyet ... DETAILS. MOSCOW....(size: 5.9Kb)
AV Club
08 Feb 2013
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Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti
KGB USSR
Комитет государственной безопасности
КГБ СССР
Emblema KGB.svg
The KGB Sword-and-Shield emblem.
Agency overview
Formed January 1, 1954; 58 years ago  (1954-01-01)
Dissolved 6 November 1991 (de facto)
3 December 1991 (de jure)
Superseding agency Federal Security Service Foreign Intelligence Service
Jurisdiction Council of Ministers of the USSR
Headquarters Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union

The KGB (КГБ) is the commonly used acronym for the Russian: About this sound Комитет государственной безопасности (Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti or Committee for State Security). It was the national security agency of the Soviet Union from 1954 until 1991, and was the premier internal security, intelligence, and secret police organization during that time. While most of the KGB archives remain classified, two on-line documentary sources are available.[1][2]

Since breaking away from Georgia de facto in the early 1990s with Russian help, South Ossetia established its own KGB (keeping this unreformed name).[3] The State Security Committee of the Republic of Belarus currently uses the Russian name KGB.

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Mode of operation[link]

A 1983 Time magazine article reported that the KGB was the world's most effective information-gathering organization.[4] It operated legal and illegal espionage residencies in target countries where a legal resident gathered intelligence while based at the Soviet Embassy or Consulate, and, if caught, was protected from prosecution by diplomatic immunity. At best, the compromised spy either returned to the Soviet Union or was declared persona non grata and expelled by the government of the target country. The illegal resident spied, unprotected by diplomatic immunity, and worked independently of Soviet diplomatic and trade missions, (cf. the non-official cover CIA agent). In its early history, the KGB valued illegal spies more than legal spies, because illegal spies infiltrated their targets with greater ease. The KGB residency executed four types of espionage: (i) political, (ii) economic, (iii) military-strategic, and (iv) disinformation, effected with "active measures" (PR Line), counter-intelligence and security (KR Line), and scientific–technological intelligence (X Line); quotidian duties included SIGINT (RP Line) and illegal support (N Line).[5]

The KGB classified its spies as agents (intelligence providers) and controllers (intelligence relayers). The false-identity or legend assumed by a USSR-born illegal spy was elaborate, using the life of either a "live double" (participant to the fabrication) or a "dead double" (whose identity is tailored to the spy). The agent then substantiated his or her legend by living it in a foreign country, before emigrating to the target country, thus the sending of US-bound illegal residents via the Soviet embassy in Ottawa, Canada. Tradecraft included stealing and photographing documents, code-names, contacts, targets, and dead letter boxes, and working as a "friend of the cause" or agents provocateur, who would infiltrate the target group to sow dissension, influence policy, and arrange kidnappings and assassinations.[citation needed]

History[link]

The Cheka was established to defend the October Revolution and the nascent Bolshevik state from its enemies—principally the monarchist White Army. To ensure the Bolshevik regime's survival, the Cheka suppressed counter-revolutionary activity with domestic terror and international deception. The scope of foreign intelligence operations prompted Lenin to authorise the Cheka's creation of the INO (Innostranyi Otdel—Foreign-intelligence Department)—the precursor to the First Chief Directorate (FCD) of the KGB. In 1922, Lenin's regime renamed the Cheka as the State Political Directorate (OGPU).[6]

The OGPU expanded Soviet espionage nationally and internationally, and provided Joseph Stalin with his head personal bodyguard: Nikolai Vlasik. The vagaries of Stalin's paranoia influenced the OGPU's performance and direction in the 1930s, i.e. Trotskyist conspiracies. Acting as his own analyst, Stalin unwisely subordinated intelligence analysis to intelligence collection. Eventually, reports pandered to his conspiracy fantasies. The middle history of the KGB culminates in the Great Purge (1936–1938) killings of civil, military, and government people deemed politically unreliable. Among those executed were NKVD chairmen Genrikh Yagoda (1938) and Nikolai Yezhov (1940); later, Lavrentiy Beria (1953) followed suit. Ironically, Yezhov denounced Yagoda for executing the Great Terror, which from 1937 to 1938 is called Yezhovshchina, the especially cruel "Yezhov era".[7]

In 1941, under Chairman Lavrentiy Beria, the OGPU became the NKGB (People's Commissariat for State Security, integral to the NKVD) and recovered from the Great Purge of the thirties. Yet, the NKGB unwisely continued pandering to Stalin's conspiracy fantasies—whilst simultaneously achieving its deepest penetrations of the West. Next, Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov centralised the intelligence agencies, re-organising the NKGB as the KI (Komitet Informatsii—Committee of Information), composed (1947–51) of the MGB (Ministry for State Security) and the GRU (Foreign military Intelligence Directorate). In practice making an ambassador head of the MGB and GRU legal residencies in his embassy; intelligence operations were under political control; the KI ended when Molotov incurred Stalin's disfavor. Despite its political end, the KI's contribution to Soviet intelligence was reliant upon illegal residents—spies able to establish a more secure base of operations in the target country.[8]

The Jubilee Congress 70 years KGB USSR. (1987)

Moreover, expecting to succeed Joseph Stalin as leader of the USSR, the ambitious head of the MVD (Ministry of Internal Affairs), Lavrentiy Beria, merged the MGB and the MVD on Stalin's death in 1953. Anticipating a coup d'etat, the Presidium swiftly eliminated Beria with treasonous charges of "criminal anti-Party and anti-state activities" and executed him. In the event, the MGB was renamed KGB, detached from the MVD, and demoted from Cabinet to Committee level.

Mindful of ambitious spy chiefs—and after deposing Premier Nikita Khrushchev—Secretary Leonid Brezhnev and the CPSU knew to manage the next over-ambitious KGB Chairman, Aleksandr Shelepin (1958–61), who facilitated Brezhnev's palace coup d'état against Khrushchev in 1964 (despite Shelepin not then being in KGB). With political reassignments, Shelepin protégé Vladimir Semichastny (1961–67) was sacked as KGB Chairman, and Shelepin, himself, was demoted from chairman of the Committee of Party and State Control to Trade Union Council chairman.

In the 1980s, the glasnost liberalisation of Soviet society provoked KGB Chairman Vladimir Kryuchkov (1988–91) to lead the August 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt to depose President Mikhail Gorbachev. The thwarted coup d'état ended the KGB on 6 November 1991. The KGB's successors are the secret police agency FSB (Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation) and the espionage agency SVR (Foreign Intelligence Service).


KGB in the US[link]

The World War Interregnum[link]

The GRU (military intelligence) recruited the ideological agents Julian Wadleigh and Alger Hiss, who became State Department diplomats in 1936. The NKVD's first US operation was establishing the legal residency of Boris Bazarov and the illegal residency of Iskhak Akhmerov in 1934.[9] Throughout, the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and its Gen.-Sec'y Earl Browder, helped NKVD recruit Americans, working in government, business, and industry.

Other important, high-level ideological agents were the diplomats Laurence Duggan and Michael Whitney Straight in the State Department, the statistician Harry Dexter White in the Treasury Department, the economist Lauchlin Currie (an FDR advisor), and the "Silvermaster Group", headed by statistician Greg Silvermaster, in the Farm Security Administration and the Board of Economic Warfare.[10] Moreover, when Whittaker Chambers, formerly Alger Hiss's courier, approached the Roosevelt Government—to identify the Soviet spies Duggan, White, and others—he was ignored. Hence, during the Second World War (1939–45)—at the Teheran (1943), Yalta (1945), and Potsdam (1945) conferences—Big Three Ally Joseph Stalin of the USSR, was better-informed about the war affairs of his US and UK allies, than they about his.[11]

Soviet espionage succeeded most in collecting scientific and technologic intelligence about advances in jet propulsion, radar, and encryption, which impressed Moscow, but stealing atomic secrets was the capstone of NKVD espionage against Anglo–American science and technology. To wit, British Manhattan Project team physicist Klaus Fuchs (GRU 1941) was the main agent of the Rosenberg spy ring.[citation needed] In 1944, the New York City residency infiltrated the top secret Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, by recruiting Theodore Hall, a nineteen-year-old Harvard physicist.

During the Cold War[link]

The KGB failed to rebuild most of its US illegal resident networks. The aftermath of the Second Red Scare (1947–57), McCarthyism, and the destruction of the CPUSA hampered recruitment. The last major illegal resident, Rudolf Abel ("Willie" Vilyam Fisher), was betrayed by his assistant, Reino Häyhänen, in 1957.

Recruitment then emphasised mercenary agents, an approach especially successful[citation needed][quantify] in scientific and technical espionage—because private industry practiced lax internal security, unlike the US Government. In late 1967, the notable KGB success was the walk-in recruitment of US Navy Chief Warrant Officer John Anthony Walker who individually and via the Walker Spy Ring for eighteen years enabled Soviet Intelligence to decipher some one million US Navy messages, and track the US Navy.[12]

In the late Cold War, the KGB was lucky with intelligence coups with the cases of the mercenary walk-in recruits, FBI counterspy Robert Hanssen (1979–2001) and CIA Soviet Division officer Aldrich Ames (1985).[13]

KGB in the Soviet Bloc[link]

Russian President Vladimir Putin worked extensively in Dresden, East Germany during the 1980s.

It was Cold War policy for the KGB of the Soviet Union and the secret services of the satellite-states to extensively monitor public and private opinion, internal subversion, and possible revolutionary plots in the Soviet Bloc. In supporting those Communist governments, the KGB was instrumental in crushing the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, and the Prague Spring of "Socialism with a Human Face", in 1968 Czechoslovakia.

During the Hungarian revolt, KGB chairman Ivan Serov, personally supervised the post-invasion "normalization" of the country. In consequence, KGB monitored the satellite-state populations for occurrences of "harmful attitudes" and "hostile acts;" yet, stopping the Prague Spring, deposing a nationalist Communist government, was its greatest achievement.

The KGB prepared the Red Army's route by infiltrating to Czechoslovakia many illegal residents disguised as Western tourists. They were to gain the trust of and spy upon the most outspoken proponents of Alexander Dubček's new government. They were to plant subversive evidence, justifying the USSR's invasion, that right-wing groups—aided by Western intelligence agencies—were going to depose the Communist government of Czechoslovakia. Finally, the KGB prepared hardline, pro-USSR members of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (CPC), such as Alois Indra and Vasil Biľak, to assume power after the Red Army's invasion.[citation needed]

The KGB's Czech success in the 1960s was matched with the failed suppression of the Solidarity labour movement in 1980s Poland. The KGB had forecast political instability consequent to the election of Archbishop of Kraków Karol Wojtyla, as the first Polish Pope, John Paul II, whom they had categorised as "subversive," because of his anti-Communist sermons against the one-party PUWP régime. Despite its accurate forecast of crisis, the Polish United Workers' Party (PUWP) hindered the KGB's destroying the nascent Solidarity-backed political movement, fearing explosive civil violence if they imposed the KGB-recommended martial law. Aided by their Polish counterpart, the Służba Bezpieczeństwa (SB), the KGB successfully infiltrated spies to Solidarity and the Catholic Church[citation needed], and in Operation X co-ordinated the declaration of martial law with Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski and the Polish Communist Party;[citation needed][dubious ] however, the vacillating, conciliatory Polish approach blunted KGB effectiveness—and Solidarity then fatally weakened the Communist Polish government in 1989.



Suppressing internal dissent[link]

Monument to KGB victims, Vilnius, Lithuania.

During the Cold War, the KGB actively suppressed "ideological subversion"—unorthodox political and religious ideas and the espousing dissidents. In 1967, the suppression increased under new KGB Chairman Yuri Andropov.

After denouncing Stalinism in his secret speech On the Personality Cult and its Consequences (1956), Nikita Khrushchev lessened suppression of "ideological subversion". Resultantly, critical literature re-emerged, notably the novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962), by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; however, after Khrushchev's deposition in 1964, Leonid Brezhnev reverted the State and KGB to actively harsh suppression—routine house searches to seize documents and the continual monitoring of dissidents. To wit, in 1965, such a search-and-seizure operation yielded Solzhenitsyn (code-name PAUK, "spider") manuscripts of "slanderous fabrications", and the subversion trial of the novelists Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel; Sinyavsky (alias "Abram Tertz"), and Daniel (alias "Nikolai Arzhak"), were captured after a Moscow literary-world informant told KGB when to find them at home.

After suppressing the Prague Spring, KGB Chairman Andropov established the Fifth Directorate to monitor dissension and eliminate dissenters. He was especially concerned with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov, "Public Enemy Number One".[14] Andropov failed to expel Solzhenitsyn before 1974; but did internally exile Sakharov to Gorky city [Nizhny Novgorod] in 1980. KGB failed to prevent Sakharov's collecting his Nobel Peace Prize in 1975, but did prevent Yuri Orlov collecting his Nobel Prize in 1978; Chairman Andropov supervised both operations.

KGB dissident-group infiltration featured agents provocateur pretending "sympathy to the cause", smear campaigns against prominent dissidents, and show trials; once imprisoned, the dissident endured KGB interrogators and sympathetic informant cell-mates. In the event, Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost policies lessened persecution of dissidents; he was effecting some of the policy changes they had been demanding since the 1970s.[15]

Notable Operations[link]

Former head of Azerbaijan SSR KGB Heydar Aliyev, ex–Azerbaijani President
  • With the Trust Operation, the OGPU successfully deceived some leaders of the right-wing, counter-revolutionary White Guards back to the USSR for execution.
  • NKVD infiltrated and destroyed Trotskyist groups; in 1940, the Spanish agent Ramón Mercader assassinated Leon Trotsky in Mexico City.
  • KGB favoured active measures (e.g. disinformation), in discrediting the USSR's enemies.
  • For war-time, KGB had ready sabotage operations arms caches in target countries.

In the 1960s, acting upon the information of KGB defector Anatoliy Golitsyn, the CIA counter-intelligence chief, James Jesus Angleton, believed KGB had moles in two key places—the counter-intelligence section of CIA and the FBI's counter-intelligence department—through whom they would know of, and control, US counter-espionage to protect the moles and hamper the detection and capture of other Communist spies. Moreover, KGB counter-intelligence vetted foreign intelligence sources, so that the moles might "officially" approve an anti-CIA double agent as trustworthy. In retrospect, the captures of the moles Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen, proved Angleton—ignored as over-cautious—was correct, despite costing him his job at CIA, which he left in 1975.[citation needed]

In the mid-1970s, the KGB tried to secretly buy three banks in northern California to gain access to high-technology secrets. Their efforts, however, were thwarted by the CIA. The banks were Peninsula National Bank in Burlingame, the First National Bank of Fresno, and the Tahoe National Bank in South Lake Tahoe. These banks had made numerous loans to advanced technology companies and had many of their officers and directors as clients. The KGB used the Moscow Narodny Bank Limited to finance the acquisition, and an intermediary, Singaporean businessman Amos Dawe, as the frontman.[16]

[edit] August Coup of 1991

On August 18, 1991 the Chairman of the KGB Vladimir Kryuchkova and 7 other Soviet leaders, the State Committee on the State of Emergency, attempted to overthrow the government of the Soviet Union. The purpose of the attempted coup d'état was to preserve the integrity of the Soviet Union and the constitutional order. President Mikhail Gorbachev was arrested and ineffective attempts made to seize power. Within two days, by 20 August 1991, the attempted coup collapsed.

Organization of the KGB[link]

The Chairman of the KGB, First Deputy Chairmen (1–2), Deputy Chairmen (4–6). Its policy Collegium comprised a chairman, deputy chairmen, directorate chiefs, and republican KGB chairmen.

The Directorates[link]

Other Units[link]

  • KGB Personnel Department
  • Secretariat of the KGB
  • KGB Technical Support Staff
  • KGB Finance Department
  • KGB Archives
  • KGB Irregulars
  • Administration Department of the KGB, and
  • The CPSU Committee.
  • KGB Spetsnaz (special operations) units such as:

History of the KGB[link]

Organization Chairman Dates
Cheka–GPU–OGPU Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky 1917–26
OGPU Vyacheslav Rudolfovich Menzhinsky 1926–34
NKVD Genrikh Grigoryevich Yagoda 1934–36
Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov 1936–38
Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria 1938–41
NKGB Vsevolod Nikolayevich Merkulov 1941 (Feb–Jul)
NKVD Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria 1941–43
NKGB–MGB Vsevolod Nikolayevich Merkulov 1943–46
MGB Viktor Semyonovich Abakumov 1946–51
Semyon Denisovich Ignatyev 1951–53
Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria 1953 (Mar–Jun)
Sergei Nikiforovich Kruglov 1953–54
KGB Ivan Aleksandrovich Serov 1954–58
Aleksandr Nikolayevich Shelepin 1958–61
Vladimir Yefimovich Semichastny 1961–67
Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov 1967–1979
Haydar Aliyev 1979-1982
Vitali Vasilyevich Fedorchuk 1982 (May–Dec)
Viktor Mikhailovich Chebrikov 1982–88
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kryuchkov 1988–91
Vadim Viktorovich Bakatin 1991 (Aug–Nov)

Insignia[link]


See also[link]

Notes[link]

  1. ^ Yale.edu, The KGB File of Andrei Sakharov, Joshua Rubenstein and Alexander Gribanov eds., in Russian and English.
  2. ^ JHU.edu, archive of documents about Communist Party of the Soviet Union and KGB, collected by Vladimir Bukovsky.
  3. ^ [1]
  4. ^ Eyes of the Kremlin
  5. ^ The Sword and the Shield (1999) p. 38
  6. ^ The Sword and the Shield (1999) p. 28
  7. ^ The Sword and the Shield (1999) p. 23
  8. ^ The Sword and the Shield (1999) p. 146
  9. ^ The Sword and the Shield (1999) p. 104
  10. ^ The Sword and the Shield (1999) pp. 104–5
  11. ^ The Sword and the Shield (1999) p. 111
  12. ^ The Sword and the Shield (1999) p. 205
  13. ^ The Sword and the Shield (1999) p. 435
  14. ^ The Sword and the Shield (1999) p. 325
  15. ^ The Sword and the Shield (1999) p. 561
  16. ^ Tolchin, Martin (16 February 1986). "Russians sought U.S. banks to gain high-tech secrets". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/16/us/russians-sought-us-banks-to-gain-high-tech-secrets.html. 

References[link]

  • Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West, Gardners Books (2000) ISBN 0-14-028487-7; Basic Books (1999) ISBN 0-465-00310-9; trade (2000) ISBN 0-465-00312-5
  • Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World, Basic Books (2005) ISBN 0-465-00311-7
  • John Barron, KGB: The Secret Work of Soviet Secret Agents, Reader's Digest Press (1974) ISBN 0-88349-009-9
  • Amy Knight, The KGB: Police and Politics in the Soviet Union, Unwin Hyman (1990) ISBN 0-04-445718-9
  • Richard C.S. Trahair and Robert Miller, Encyclopedia of Cold War Espionage, Spies, and Secret Operations, Enigma Books (2009) ISBN 978-1-929631-75-9

Further reading[link]

  • Солженицын, А.И. (1990). Архипелаг ГУЛАГ: 1918 - 1956. Опыт художественного исследования. Т. 1 - 3. Москва: Центр "Новый мир". (in Russian)
  • Yevgenia Albats and Catherine A. Fitzpatrick, The State Within a State: The KGB and Its Hold on Russia — Past, Present, and Future Farrar Straus Giroux (1994) ISBN 0-374-52738-5.
  • John Barron, KGB: The Secret Works of Soviet Secret Agents Bantam Books (1981) ISBN 0-553-23275-4
  • Vadim J. Birstein. The Perversion Of Knowledge: The True Story of Soviet Science. Westview Press (2004) ISBN 0-8133-4280-5
  • John Dziak Chekisty: A History of the KGB, Lexington Books (1988) ISBN 978-0-669-10258-1
  • Sheymov, Victor (1993). Tower of Secrets. Naval Institute Press. pp. 420. ISBN 1-55750-764-3. 
  • (Russian) Бережков, Василий Иванович (2004). Руководители Ленинградского управления КГБ : 1954-1991. Санкт-Петербург: Выбор, 2004. ISBN 5-93518-035-9
  • Кротков, Юрий (1973). «КГБ в действии». Published in «Новый журнал» №111, 1973 (in Russian)
  • Рябчиков, С.В. (2011). Заметки по истории Кубани (материалы для хрестоматии) // Вiсник Мiжнародного дослiдного центру "Людина: мова, культура, пiзнання", 2011, т. 30(3), с. 25-45. (in Russian)

http://independent.academia.edu/SergeiRjabchikov/Papers/1322526/Zametki_po_istorii_Kubani_materialy_dlya_khrestomatii_

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Yuri Bezmenov
Born Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov
1939
Moscow
Died 1993 (aged 53–54)[1]
Windsor, Ontario
Residence India
Toronto, Canada
Montreal, Canada
Los Angeles, USA
Windsor, Canada
Nationality Russian
Other names Tomas Schuman
Citizenship Canadian
Education Moscow State University
University of Toronto
Occupation Journalist, informant, author
Years active 1963 – 1986
Employer KGB
RIA Novosti
Known for Soviet defector

Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov (Russian: Юрий Безменов, also known as Tomas David Schuman; 1939 – 1993[1]) was a journalist for RIA Novosti and a former KGB informant from the Soviet Union who defected to Canada.

After being assigned to a station in India, Bezmenov eventually grew to love the people and culture of India, while, at the same time, he began to resent the KGB-sanctioned oppression of intellectuals who dissented from Moscow's policies. He decided to defect to the West. Bezmenov is best remembered for his pro-American, anti-communist lectures and books from the 1980s.

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Early life[link]

Bezmenov was born in 1939 in a suburb of Moscow to a high ranking Soviet Army officer. He was educated in an elite school inside the Soviet Union, and became an expert in Indian culture and Indian languages.

At the age of 17, Bezmenov entered the Institute of Oriental Languages, a part of Moscow State University—which was under the direct control of the KGB and the Communist Central Committee. In addition to languages, Bezmenov studied history, literature, and music. During his second year, Bezmenov sought to look like a person from India; his teachers encouraged this because graduates of the school were employed as diplomats, foreign journalists, or spies.

As a Soviet student, he was also required to take compulsory military training in which he taught how to play "strategic war games" using the maps of foreign countries, as well as how to interrogate prisoners of war.

Soviet life[link]

After graduating in 1963, Bezmenov spent two years in India working as a translator and public relations officer with the Soviet economical aid group Soviet Refineries Constructions, which built refinery complexes.

In 1965, Bezmenov was recalled to Moscow, and began to work for Novosti as an apprentice for their classified department of "Political Publications" (GRPP). Soon he discovered that about three-quarters of Novosti's staffers were actually KGB officers, with the remainder being "co-optees", or KGB freelance writers and informers like himself. However, Bezmenov did no real freelance writing; rather, he edited and planted propaganda materials in foreign media, and also accompanied delegations of Novosti's guests from foreign countries on tours of the Soviet Union, or to international conferences held in the Soviet Union.

After several months, Bezmenov was formally recruited by the KGB as an informer—an offer he stated one could not simply say "no" to[citation needed]—while still maintaining his position as a Novosti journalist. He then used his journalistic duties to help gather information and to spread disinformation to foreign countries for the purposes of Soviet propaganda and subversion.

Rapid promotion followed, and Bezmenov was once again assigned to Bila in 1969, this time as a Soviet press-officer and a public-relations agent for the KGB. He continued Novosti's propaganda effects in New Delhi, working out of the Soviet Embassy. Bezmenov was directed to slowly but surely establish the Soviet "sphere of influence" in India. In the same year, a secret directive of the Central Committee opened a new secret department in all embassies of the Soviet Union around the world, titled the "Research and Counter-Propaganda Group." Bezmenov became a deputy chief of that department, which gathered intelligence from sources like Indian informers and agents, regarding most every influential or politically significant citizen of India. Those who favored the Soviets' expansionist policy into India were promoted to higher positions of power, affluence, and prestige through various KGB/Novosti operations.[further explanation needed] Those who refused to cooperate with Soviet plans were the target of character assassination in the media and press.

Bezmenov stated that he was also instructed not to waste time with idealistic Leftists, as these would become disillusioned, bitter, and adversarial when they realized the true nature of Soviet Communism. To his surprise, he discovered that many such were listed for execution once the Soviets achieved control. Instead, Bezmenov was encouraged to recruit such persons as were in large circulation, established conservative media, rich filmmakers, intellectuals in academic circles, and cynical, ego-centric people who lacked moral principles.

During that period, Bezmenov increasingly saw the Soviet system as insidious and ruthless, and began careful planning to defect.[2] [3]

Defection to the West[link]

In February 1970, Bezmenov clothed himself in hippie attire, replete with a beard and wig, and joined a tour group; by this means, he escaped to Athens, Greece. After contacting the American embassy and undergoing extensive interviews with United States intelligence, Bezmenov was granted asylum in Canada.

In an interview with G. Edward Griffin he detailed how Soviet help for inciting anger and uprising in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) was the final straw in his personal decision to defect to the West. In the interview Yuri details how Russian consulates in India were used to smuggle weapons and propaganda material to East Pakistan in a largely Soviet effort to break up the state of Pakistan, then a staunch Western and US ally.

After studying political science at the University of Toronto for two years, Bezmenov was hired by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1972, broadcasting to the Soviet Union as part of the CBC's International Service. In 1976, the KGB compelled his departure from that position, and Bezmenov began free-lance journalism. He later became a consultant for Almanac Panorama of the World Information Network.[3]

Pro-American lecturer, writer, advocate[link]

In 1984, he gave an interview to G. Edward Griffin, who at that time was a member of the John Birch Society, an anti-communist group. In the interview, Bezmenov explained the methods used by the KGB to secretly subvert the democratic system of the United States.[4]

Under the pen-name Tomas D. Schuman, Bezmenov authored the book Love Letter to America. The author's biography of the book states "Like a true-life Winston Smith, from George Orwell's 1984, Tomas Schuman worked for the communist equivalent of Orwell's Ministry of Truth—The Novosti Press Agency. Novosti, which means 'News' in Russian, exists to produce slanted and false stories to plant in the foreign media. The term for this K.G.B. effort is 'disinformation.' "[2]

Tomas D. Schuman was associated with the World Information Network (WIN) of Westlake Village, California.

In 1983, at a lecture in Los Angeles, Bezmenov expressed the opinion that he "wouldn't be surprised" if the Soviet Union had shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007 in order to kill Larry McDonald, a member of the United States House of Representatives.[5]

Bibliography[link]

See also[link]

References[link]

Further reading[link]

  • Schuman, Tomas (1984) (Audio). Soviet Ideological Subversion of America in Four Stages : Elizabeth Clare Prophet interviews Tomas Schuman, Novosti Press, Soviet defector. Interview with Elizabeth Clare Prophet. OCLC 25714330. Summit University. Malibu, California. 

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