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Filip Kovacevic

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Dec 4, 2023

From a top secret #KGB operational assignment to their agent in 1987:

“You are asked to remember this list of the main signs of preparation for a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union as reflected in international shipping.” ⬇️🧵

1. The introduction of military control over the port captain services, pilotage, immigration, customs, sanitary, and other vital services in the ports of Western states.

2. The reactivation [and] recruitment of crews, and the accelerated completion of the repair of transport and passenger ships in the ports of NATO states, [and] their test trials.

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Filip Kovacevic

@ChekistMonitor

Dec 19, 2022

1. Nikita Petrov's biography of the 1st #KGB chairman Ivan Serov refers to dozens of never before seen docs from the FSB Central Archive.

One of them - Serov's report to the CPSU Central Committee from 10/21/55 - describes the massive purges began by Mao's regime in July 1955.

2. As quoted by Petrov, the report ends with the statement that "the [KGB] advisory administration is providing assistance but without getting involved in the principal orientation of the campaign." (Petrov, p. 447)

3. However, in his autobiography (whose bona fides are disputed by some scholars, but not, generally speaking, by Petrov), Serov wrote that he suggested to Khrushchev to warn Mao about the likely negative consequences of the purges.

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Filip Kovacevic

@ChekistMonitor

Nov 17, 2022

Colonel Vladimir Kravchenko was the first head of the KGB Press Bureau.

Was Kravchenko's only book "Under the Name of Schmidhen" published in 1970 (see below) based on an intentional historical falsification?

#KGBLiterati

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In his book, Kravchenko claimed that Ian Buikis was the real name of the Cheka agent Schmidhen who played a significant role in the sting counterintelligence operation against the British envoy Bruce Lockhart & his associates in Russia in 1918.

2/6

Kravchenko stated that his claim was based on the Cheka archival documents & on interviews with Buikis who was still alive in the late 1960s.

Kravchenko's version of the events was widely repeated in the subsequent scholarship about the operation.

3/6

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Filip Kovacevic

@ChekistMonitor

Oct 31, 2022

Just finished reading Andrei P. Frolov's book "#KGB and the Art of Counterintelligence: A Perspective on CI Theory from the Inside" published in Moscow in 2003.

This book hasn't been translated into English, so I decided to share some of my notes in the thread below.

Andrei Frolov was a KGB colonel who spent most of his career teaching at the Higher School of the KGB in Moscow (today's #FSB Academy). Considered to be one of the top KGB experts on counterintel theory, he authored several (still classified) training manuals on the subject.

Frolov's book is mostly autobiographical. I wouldn't say the book is very revealing, but it does provide an inside view of the educational dynamics and debates at the Higher School not found in any other published account.

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Filip Kovacevic

@ChekistMonitor

Oct 17, 2022

@michaeldweiss

A True Spy Story: "Albert, or the Death of a Disloyal Agent" (Part 1)

One of top secret #KGB docs released by @michaeldweiss is about the case of a Soviet agent codenamed Albert.

The doc title (in my translation) - ALBERT: Overview of the Topic 'Exposing a Penetration Agent.'

Written by KGB veteran Col. V. M. Ivanov in 1966, the overview was used for counterintel training at the 101st School, KGB foreign intelligence school.

Renamed the Red Banner Institute, this is where Putin & Naryshkin learned how to be spies. They were not the best of students.

The doc tells the story of Albert's recruitment in 1939, his pre-war & post-war spy activities, the growing suspicions that he was turned by the British in the post-war Germany, the subsequent Soviet investigations & ultimately the kidnapping and death.

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