Filip Kovacevic

Top expert on #KGB (ops, archives, spy fiction). Book: KGB Literati ( PhD. 25+ years university prof in Russia/Balkans/US.

[Filip Kovacevic @ChekistMonitor]

Tomorrow my book #KGBLiterati meets the world & the world meets #KGBLiterati!
https://t.co/bAexh729bm

Simon Willmetts: "A must read for anybody interested in intelligence, spy fiction, and the role that culture played during the Cold War." ⬇️ @utpress

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"What did this #KGB illegal do? ... What were his sources and methods which #SVR wants to keep classified more than fifty years later?"

Find out in my new article on KGB & Western #nuclear industry. ⬇️

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"How a #KGB Illegal Penetrated a Nuclear Power Plant Construction Company in West Germany"

My NEW article based on the Mitrokhin files.

The link: https://t.co/o9NcLKtaM4

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"How a #KGB Illegal Penetrated a Nuclear Power Plant Construction Company in West Germany"

My NEW article based on the Mitrokhin files.

The link: https://t.co/o9NcLKtaM4

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This book was a #KGB active measure. It was framed as a scholarly report on the environmental impact of U.S. industries. Under the imprint of a Young Scott Book, its target audience was young Americans. Even the Kirkus Review was fooled and reviewed it as a regular book when it was published in 1972.

Mitrokhin wrote that the First Chief Directorate of the KGB paid for the print run of 30,000 copies.

In his memoir, Oleg Kalugin revealed that the KGB funded the book’s author Carl Marzani’s publishing company, but did not mention any particular publications, or that Marzani’s own work was sponsored by the KGB.

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#Spy Sites of San Francisco

The old Metro Movie Theater, now Equinox Gym, on 2055 Union Street.

According to Mitrokhin, #KGB designated this location as a meeting place with their American contacts from 1962 to 1968.

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"How #KGB Used Illegals inside the Soviet Union"

My NEW article based on the Mitrokhin files. ⬇️

The link: https://t.co/OmHUx3eRp0

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If you are interested in the searchable documentary record of Soviet #spy operations & personalities in the United States, I highly recommend the Friday Archive.
43 collections/ 1,130 files/ 147,000 pages.
The link: https://t.co/691LoTvzhz

[Filip Kovacevic @ChekistMonitor]

For those interested in the Soviet-Chinese #spywars during the Cold War mentioned by @mirek_szczerba, here's a good way to start:
A series of blog posts I wrote on this topic based on #KGB in-house publications.
https://t.co/4u4qggfeJm

[Mirek Szczerba @mirek_szczerba]

"CZŁOWIEK KTÓRY TWORZYŁ LUDZI, KTÓRZY NIE ISTNIELI"

Witam Państwa i zapraszam na sobotni 2 -częściowy wątek z historii szpiegostwa i wywiadów.
W środę pokazałem grafikę AI przedstawiającą idącego podziemnym korytarzem -sowieckiego oficera.

To generał -major Jurij Iwanowicz Drozdow.

Jeden z najciekawszych oficerów w historii sowieckiego wywiadu i człowiek, którego prawdziwy życiorys momentami wygląda jak gotowy scenariusz thrillera szpiegowskiego.
Dlatego to jego wybrałem na jednego z bohaterów mojego bogato ilustrowanego thrillera psychologiczno-szpiegowskiego:👇
"DZIEDZICTWO.NIELEGAŁ "

Urodzony w 1925 roku na Białorusi.
Żołnierz II wojny światowej.
Po wojnie służył w Niemczech, ukończył Wojskowy Instytut Języków Obcych, a w 1956 roku rozpoczął służbę w KGB. Doskonale znał niemiecki.
Kilka lat później znalazł się przy jednej z najbardziej symbolicznych operacji zimnej wojny.
10 lutego 1962 roku.
Słynny Most Glienicke...
Po jednej stronie Francis Gary Powers - pilot amerykańskiego U-2 zestrzelonego nad ZSRR.
Po drugiej William Fisher, znany światu jako Rudolf Abel - sowiecki nielegał aresztowany w Stanach Zjednoczonych.
Oficjalna biografia Drozdowa potwierdza jego udział w operacji związanej z wymianą Fishera na Powersa.
Ale dla naszej historii znacznie ważniejsze jest to, co wydarzyło się dwa lata później.
1964.
Chiny.
Drozdow obejmuje kierownictwo rezydentury sowieckiego wywiadu w ChRL.
Pozostanie tam do 1968 roku...
Trafia do Chin w wyjątkowym momencie.
Dawny sojusz Moskwy i Pekinu rozpada się.
Ideologiczny konflikt między dwoma komunistycznymi mocarstwami przeradza się również w konflikt ich aparatów bezpieczeństwa.
Późniejsze tajne opracowania KGB pokazują, jak poważnie Moskwa zaczęła traktować chińskie służby jako przeciwnika.
I tutaj pojawia się szczegół, który wiele lat później będzie niezwykle interesujący.
Według jednego z tajnych opracowań KGB analizowanych przez znakomitego mojego Followersa - p. dr @ChekistMonitor , chińskie Ministerstwo Bezpieczeństwa Publicznego ( MSS) miało rozpocząć systematyczne przygotowywanie nielegałów do działania w ZSRR już w połowie lat sześćdziesiątych.
Dokładnie w okresie, kiedy Drozdow pracował w Chinach...
Człowiek, który później stanie na czele programu sowieckich nielegałów, spędził cztery lata w kraju, którego służby w tym samym okresie rozwijały własne, długoterminowe koncepcje operacji nielegalnych.
Przypadek historii?
Być może.
Ale historia Drozdowa dopiero się zaczynała...
Po powrocie pracował w centrali Pierwszego Zarządu Głównego KGB i został zastępcą szefa Zarządu „S”.
W latach 1975–1979 kierował rezydenturą w Nowym Jorku.
A w 1979 roku objął strukturę, która będzie najważniejsza dla naszej opowieści.
Zarząd „S”.
Nielegałowie.
Ludzie wysyłani za granicę bez oficjalnego związku z państwem, które ich tam skierowało.
Ludzie posiadający legendy, dokumenty i życiorysy pozwalające im funkcjonować w cudzym społeczeństwie.
Drozdow kierował Zarządem „S” aż do 1991 roku.
W jego biografii był jeszcze Afganistan, operacja „Sztorm-333”, pałac Hafizullaha Amina oraz inicjatywa utworzenia jednostki specjalnej Wympieł.
Nielegałowie.
I rok 1991.
Bo właśnie w tym miejscu prawdziwa historia Jurija Drozdowa zaczyna stykać się z historią, którą opowiedziałem w moim thrillerze:
„DZIEDZICTWO.NIELEGAŁ" .
Wszystko, o czym pisałem powyżej, należy do historii.
To, co może wydarzyć się dalej - należy już do mojego thrillera...
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#HistoriaWywiadu
@AGasztold @KapitanLisowski @A_Pawlikowski @AleksanderOlech

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What did #KGB publish in its #topsecret journal Sbornik in January 1986?

Below is my translation of Table of Contents. ⬇️

Table of Contents

Counterintelligence Activities

The Discussion of the Important Questions Regarding the Agent-Operational Activities … 3

V. TITOV, I. TIKHONOV, and N. SKOROVAROV While Trying to Escape: A Documentary Essay … 9

V. KOSMACH and S. VINNIK Creating the Agent Positions in the Ukrainian MVD Units … 24

K. POLTORAK and V. IMMER From the Active Positions … 31

A. SHIVERSKIKH From the Practice of the Informational Coverage of the Chekist Measures … 37

A. SHABANOV On the Slippery Boards … 40

S. DIAKOV The Role of the Legal Assessment of Operational Information in the Activities of Counterintelligence … 43

Investigation and Inquiry

N. LELEKACH and V. GRAB No Right to Forgiveness. On the Investigation of the Cases Regarding the Former Terrorists of the OUN … 51

Training and Education of the Personnel

Iu. SHRAMKO Fully Enhance the Role of the Supervisor … 57
V. DIACHENKO The Street Named After Tardzhimanov … 61

From the History of the VChK-KGB

N. GOROKHOV The History Pages of the Tula Chekists … 64
I. KHODAKOV The Werewolf … 65
V. ZALESOV A Letter to the Editor … 71

Book Reviews

V. KONOPLENKO and V. KURABKO From the Experience of the Struggle Against the Agent Activities of the Hostile Intelligence Services … 72

Assisting Our Authors

The Types of Topics Solicited for Submission in the Sbornik of the KGB of the USSR … 76

[Filip Kovacevic @ChekistMonitor]

Some great dialogue in Roger Hall's #spy fiction novel 19:
"'You always were a wise guy, Winthrop,' he said, in a voice heavy with dislike.
'Coming from you, I take that as a compliment.'"

[Filip Kovacevic @ChekistMonitor]

I enjoyed reading Roger Hall's entertaining #OSS memoir You're Stepping on My Cloak & Dagger, first published in 1957, in which, by the way, Bill Casey, the future #CIA director, plays a prominent role.

Now I look forward to reading Hall's only #spy fiction novel 19.

[Filip Kovacevic @ChekistMonitor]

Witty statements from Chapter 1, such as "if you really know what's going on, you don't have to know what's going on to know what's going on" & "if they know enough to write a book, they know enough not to write a book" reveal that Hall was a true insider in the #spy business.

[Filip Kovacevic @ChekistMonitor]

I enjoyed reading Roger Hall's entertaining #OSS memoir You're Stepping on My Cloak & Dagger, first published in 1957, in which, by the way, Bill Casey, the future #CIA director, plays a prominent role.

Now I look forward to reading Hall's only #spy fiction novel 19.

[Filip Kovacevic @ChekistMonitor]

I enjoyed reading Roger Hall's entertaining #OSS memoir You're Stepping on My Cloak & Dagger, first published in 1957, in which, by the way, Bill Casey, the future #CIA director, plays a prominent role.

Now I look forward to reading Hall's only #spy fiction novel 19.

[Filip Kovacevic @ChekistMonitor]

A “trace” is a summary information on a given individual that an intelligence service keeps in its records.

I've recently started a short article series "Top Secret: Traces from #KGB Files."

Here's the link for the first 4 installments: https://t.co/GHj9Al9rgb

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@Krystelvk @Tonisenior It's dedicated to her and my other grandparents, but she is the only one who lived to see it.

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Happy 96th birthday to my grandmother! She was born when Herbert Hoover was U.S. president and my favorite place for archival research is Hoover Library & Archives Reading Room at Stanford.

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NEW in my short article series “Traces from #KGB Files.”

KGB Counterintelligence suspected British author & Russia specialist John Massey Stewart of working for #MI6. https://t.co/WETBt2h5Hn

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Parshina had a long intelligence career. She was active in the Spanish Civil War, WWII, and operated as an illegal in Czechoslovakia in the late 1940s and early 1950s. She described numerous flawed practices and unprofessional behaviors of her handlers, including the instances of their stealing the money and resources allocated to her by Moscow Center.

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Soviet intel officer Yelizaveta Parshina claimed in her memoir that Masaryk was thrown out of the window by #MGB Lt. Gen. Mikhail Belkin's personnel. Belkin, whom she knew well, allegedly told her this in the 1960s & even named the direct perpetrator.
https://t.co/IMQCDhiVo1

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This volume of #KGB Sbornik included an article on the case of the Soviet nuclear engineer Yuri Pavlov who was a #BND & #CIA asset. #KGB alleged that Pavlov's compromised dead-drop led to the detention of a CIA case officer Lon Augustenborg working undercover as US vice consul in Leningrad, his wife Denise & their 14-month-old daughter on this day in 1983.

Here's a link to Augustenborg's 2022 interview about his time in Leningrad, including his detention by the KGB: https://t.co/nLIxEsxhEV

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What did #KGB publish in its #topsecret journal Sbornik in December 1985?

Below is my translation of Table of Contents. ⬇️

Table of Contents

In Anticipation of the XXVII Congress of the CPSU

N. PCHELINTSEV Increasing the Level of the Counterintelligence Protection of the Economic Facilities … 3

Counterintelligence Activities

V. TRETIAKOV, V. CHERKESOV, and A. ZVIAGINSKII The Agent of Two Intelligence Services … 11
N. GIBADULOV, A. BARKOV, and S. LUKASHENKO The Counterintelligence Protection of the Construction of the Main Gas Pipeline Urengoi-Uzhgorod … 22
F. KUDASHKIN and Kh. BAGRAMOV Stopping the Hostile Activities of the Military Intelligence Officers of the Adversary … 22
Iu. PETKIAVICHIUS The Struggle Against Clerical Extremism – Our Important Task … 27
A. ARKHIPOV and Iu. GROZDOV On the Practice of Exposing in the Press the Intelligence and Sabotage Activities of the Adversary Using the Sea-Based Channels … 36
V. MELNIKOV and L. KULIABICHEV There Was Prophylactics and There Was Recidivism … 40
V. VASILEV and A. BOCHKOV How A Nationalist Group Was Decomposed … 44
Iu. CHUFAROVSKII, V. KANEVETS, and A. SHARMAR On the Trail of the Anonymous … 49
G. MAGOMEDOV and G. ABUEV The Illegal Publication Presses Eliminated … 53
V. LUTSENKO and Iu. PYDIN The Demise of the Doers of the “VCR Business” … 57
I. KULINICH and V. GAMZA The All-Around Assessment of the Personality Helped the Success of the Prophylactics … 62
A. UDOVENKO and A. POGORELII The Nazi Collaborators Found the Hiding Place in the USA … 65
A. TSARKOV … Thanks to the Vigilance of a Citizen … 68

Investigation and Inquiry

I. TKACHUK On the Typical Approaches in the Investigation of the Loss of Secret Documents … 71
V. RYBAK and O. CHUMAK On the Use of the Agents Inside the Prison Cell … 78

Training and Education of the Personnel

D. VASHKOVIAK and V. MARYCHEV The Education of the Personnel on the Basis of the Revolutionary and War Traditions … 86
V. PONOMAREV Some Specific Features in Counting the Number of Years Required for Retirement of the Military Personnel of the KGB Who Served in the Units of the MVD … 89

Reference Bibliography

I. PANOV and B. DOLZHIKOV A Useful Handbook for Practical Work … 92
Published by the Higher School of the KGB of the USSR Named After F. E. Dzerzhinsky … 95