In 1987, #KGB FCD Directorate T developed the General Operational Indicator (OOP) to quantify the value of their foreign contacts.

Here's the Structure & the Points given per each category:

1. Level of Operational Relations
Agent 1
Confidential Contact 0.7
Op. Cultivation 0.5 2. Operational Category of the Source
Agent-recruiter, agent of influence 2
Agent-source of information, potential agent 1

3. Citizenship (Permanent Residence) - USA, NATO, PRC, Japan
a) USA 2
NATO, PRC, Japan 1.5
Other countries 1

NEW 🧵: When #KGB closed down its training school in Vilnius in 1960, many top secret publications from the school's library were destroyed.

Based on my archival research at the Hoover Institution, I am now able to resurrect the titles of the destroyed publications. ⬇️ Note: I translated the titles from Russian into English. For most, this is their first public mention.

1. Nikitinsky and Safonov. Collection of Documents on German Espionage in Tsarist Russia.
2. Nikitinsky. Collection of Documents on the History of Russian Counterintelligence.

🧵From a secret letter to Vice Admiral M. A. Usatov, deputy head, First Chief Directorate, #KGB, May 1979.

How Lithuanian KGB planned to spy on NATO:

1. Using its foreign agents to conduct visual surveillance, make contacts with officials and employees of NATO facilities, and spot individuals open to being developed for recruitment.

4 KGB foreign agents mentioned in this context (3 US citizens: codename ODYSSEUS - Prof at Columbia U; codename PILIS - Prof at U of Virginia; codename SHURIN - Group leader at New York U). ⬇️

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.

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)

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

1/6 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.

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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.

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.