About the memory society, dissidents, the WORK of the KGB with the church, as well as the fact that it is impossible to even talk to KGB officials - in fragments from the interview of retired KGB lieutenant colonel Vladimir Popov, given to the online publication "Gordon" in 2020. You can watch the full interview here
RE: From the interview of the KGB lieutenant colonel (VIDEO) - Metropolitan Agafangel 31.07.2020 11:24
Like the two divisions of the 9th Division 5 in the system of management, which were "developing" Solzhenitsyn and Sakharov, there was a branch in the KGB, which "designed" Metropolitan Vitali, which employed 5 people. This was told in the 90s by journalist Alexander Delicate, who personally talked in the restaurant with the current employee of this department.
It is obvious that there is a department dealing with the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, which included the department, "developing e" Metropolitan Vitali.
Sooner or later we will find out the number of this department, and all its employees and agents - the names of all the traitors who prepared the destruction of the ROCO.
And the kgb-FSB-SBU can not even talk, as the lieutenant colonel said, because the only conversation with them is cooperation. In the mid-1990s I was invited by a former parishioner to meet with a KGB representative dealing with church issues, to which I replied - please, but on the condition that I write a detailed report on this conversation to our Synod. Naturally, the meeting did not take place.
Kgb-shniki always ask that their conversation with you remain secret, and no one needs to tell about it. If you promised not to tell anyone - then you are already their current employee.
KGB Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Popov: KGB and ROCOR.1
Author: Metropolitan Agafangel. Publish Date: . Category: History of the ROC.
Notes of a former KGB lieutenant colonel: Emigrants and Soviet special services
One of the authors of the book "KGB plays chess" and former employee of the State Security Committee of the USSR Vladimir Popov recently completed work on his memoirs. In the book "Conspiracy of scoundrels. Notes of the former KGB lieutenant colonel" he tells about the formation of the regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin, his associates, his work in the committee and key events to which the Soviet special services were involved. Previously, the book was not published. With the author's consent, GORDON exclusively publishes chapters from it. In this part Popov writes about how the special services worked with figures who emigrated from the Soviet Union.
Pictured: Russian store in Paris. 1930s
Vladimir POPOV
Protopresviter Alexander Kiselyov
During the confrontation between the two systems, the Soviet secret services were actively introduced into various foreign religious structures (including the Russian Orthodox Church abroad - the RUSSIAN Orthodox Church), which did not recognize the Bolsheviks' power, and actively developed Russian emigrant centers and organizations. Among those who were particularly interested in soviet state security was a prominent figure of the ROCP protopresviter Alexander Kiselyov.
The future protopresviter was born on October 7, 1909 in Tver province. After the October coup of 1917, his family was forced to leave for what was then independent Estonia, as his father was from Yuriev (Tartu). And for several decades Alexander lived in the Baltics. It was there that he became a participant in one of the most significant phenomena of Russian church life in the first half of the 20th century - the Russian Student Christian Movement (RSCD).
At the origins of this movement were such well-known figures of the church as the proto-priest Vasily zenkovsky, proto-priest Sergiy Chetverikov, priest Alexander Yelchaninov and other prominent clerks of the Russian Orthodox abroad. The RSKHD office was also in the Baltics.
In 1933, Alexander Kiselyov graduated from the Riga Spiritual Seminary, assuming to continue his studies of theology at the St. Sergiev Institute in Paris. But in August 1933 he was ordained a priest and began to serve in several parishes: first in Narva, then in St. Nicholas Church in Tallinn, where the deacon was also a member of the RSCD Alexei Riediger, the future Holy Patriarch of Moscow and all russ alexi ii, recruited by the Soviet state security under the nickname Of Drozdov.
At the memorial service for Father Alexander on October 4, 2001, the Holy Patriarch with tears in his eyes recalled the old years and the image of the good shepherd, which for him in his adolescence was then a young priest Alexander Kiselyov.
In 1940, after the occupation of the Baltic states by the Red Army, Father Alexander went to Germany (helped a certain amount of German blood of his wife). After June 1941, he began to organize parish life for tens of thousands of Soviet citizens who found themselves in wartime conditions in Germany - for prisoners, people taken to work in the German Reich, for those who were called Ostarbeiters (Eastern workers).
At the same time there was a meeting of Alexander's father and former Soviet commander General Andrei Vlasov, whom his father Alexander understood and accepted. He considered the Russian Liberation Army (ROA) to be a natural continuation of the struggle of the Russian people against communism, which was fought during the civil war and during peasant uprisings throughout then-Soviet Russia.
Father Alexander was appointed as a cleric of the Central Staff of the Armed Forces of the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia (CONR) and a spiritual mentor of General Vlasov. Father Alexander spent the last months of the war in parts of the CONR Armed Forces in Munzingen, retreating with Russian units deep into Bavaria. Later, Father Alexander detailed vlasov in his memoirs "The Appearance of General Vlasov", which was published in 1976 in the United States.
After the war, Father Alexander managed to move to New York, where he established the St. Seraphim Foundation and the book publishing the Way of Life, which produced religious and philosophical literature. Since 1978, with a group of like-minded people, he published the magazine "Russian Revival" in which prominent writers, scholars and clergymen of emigration were printed. Kiselyov became one of the founders and spirituals of the largest Russian expat organization in the United States , the Congress of Russian Americans. His anti-communism expressed a burning desire to cleanse Russia of the terrible "disease", to return the people to the path of repentance and service to Christ.
In 1990, after the election of another patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, who became a long-time acquaintance of Father Alexander Alexy II, Alexander Kiselyov had the opportunity to visit his homeland. The case for the Soviet Union was unique: a convinced anti-communist, a confessor of the treasonous general Vlasov and a spiritual pastor of his anti-Soviet army received a visa to enter the country, the struggle against which he devoted all his adult life.
Father Alexander Kiselyov with his mother Callista. Photo: orthodoxmoscow.ru
Of course, the issue of Kiselyov's trip to the USSR was decided not in the patriarchy, but in the KGB. In developing foreign anti-Soviet centers, THE Russian Orthodox Church and prominent figures of emigration, the KGB conducted multi-vehicle operations to achieve goals known only to the leadership.
An experienced agent of the 4th Division of the 5th Kgb Department 'Drozdov' (in the world, the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Alexey II), performing the task of his curators, conducted the processing of his influential father Alexander in the ROC with the aim of persuading him of the need to unite the ROC and the ROC, whose leadership for many decades held an irreconcilable position towards the Moscow Patriarchate.
Alexander's father's grandson, Peter Kholodly, recalled that in the 1980s his grandfather's house in New York was a "place of secret meetings" of the hierarchs of the ROCOR and the Moscow Patriarchate. It was there that an informal meeting took place with the future patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, Alex II, who arrived in the United States on the instructions of the KGB. Many years later, Alexy described this meeting as completely spontaneous: "I knew Father Alexander from a young age, when the boy helped him at services... At the end of the war he left Estonia. Neither I nor my parents have heard anything about him. And then one day, when, being already a bishop, I found myself on a service trip in America, my father Alexander called me at the hotel and invited me to his church. The meeting was very touching.'
In 1998, Father Alexander donated to the Church of the Holy Martyr Tatiana of Moscow State University of Iconostasis, formerly in a home-owned expat church in New York. In the temple this since 1996 was fed by parishioners already mentioned by us Father Vladimir (Vigilyansky), since the 1970s, who since the 1970s was in the agency apparatus of the 9th Division of the 5th KGB Directorate. It seems that father Alexander was not allowed to join other clerics who were not in the state security agency.
Alexander Kazem-Beck
Alexander Kazem-Bek (born February 15, 1902 in Kazan - died February 21, 1977 in Moscow) was the leader of the immigrant movement of the Young Russians. White emigrant, publicist, teacher, church journalist, theologian. He was born into an old noble family and was the grandson of The Persian Mirza Kasim-Bek, one of the founders of Russian oriental studies, a professor at the University of Kazan and St. Petersburg.
Alexander's father, Lev Kazem-Bek, graduated from the Page Corps, where his neighbor was Count Alexey Ignatieff, who became a military intelligence officer in Tsarist Russia, a general who later joined the Soviet government.
In 1906, Piotr Stolypin, who began agrarian reform, appointed Lev Kazem-Bek to Kaluga as director of the State Bank, which was created to carry out land reform. At the end of 1910, Agriculture Minister Alexander Krivoshein appointed Lev Kazem-Bek as manager of the Peasant and Noble Land Bank in Revel. The lion volunteered in world War I.
In August 1917 Kazem-Beki left for Kazan, and in March 1918 moved from Kazan to Kislovodsk, where "all of Petrograd" had come.
It was in Kislovodsk that the future leader of the Young Russians Alexander Kazem-Bek met the great princes Andrei and Boris, brothers of the great prince Kirill Vladimirovich.
The advancing Reds forced Alexander to go to Rostov-on-Don, where he enrolled in the Faculty of Law of the University of Rostov. In 1920, Alexander's family from Novorossiysk was evacuated to Thessaloniki, then Yugoslavia.
In September 1920, Alexander entered the University of Belgrade's Faculty of Philology, mastered the Serbian-Croatian language and began working as a translator for the Committee for Russian Refugees in Belgrade.
From Yugoslavia, Kazem-Beki moved to France. From 1925 to 1929 they lived in Monte Carlo.
By the early 1930s, Alexander became a well-known Russian fascist, a supporter of Italian fascism and German Nazism. In fascist circles he was quite well known. The dossier of Italian special services about Alexander Kazem-Bek reported that he was "the only white emigrant who had an audience with Mussolini, meeting with him in May 1934."
Alexander also maintained relations with the first secretary of the fascist party Akila Starace, participated in the congress of fascist parties of Russian emigration in Berlin, was the editor-in-chief of the fascist edition "Our Banner" printed in Vesin (France), where he himself at that time lived, taking a sharply anti-Soviet position and calling for white emigration to war against the Soviet Union.
However, under the influence of Hitler's policies, Alexander Kazem-Bek's views on the USSR began to change. By 1937, he was already a supporter of Stalin and welcomed Stalin's repressions as a method of extermination of the Communists-internationalists. The reorientation of Kazem-Bek to the Soviet Union was also facilitated by contacts with Ignatieff, a resident of Soviet intelligence in Europe. Ignatieff was also a classmate of Alexander's brother-in-law, Mikhail Chavchavadze, which, of course, simplified and accelerated the rapprochement.
In 1937, journalists recorded a meeting between Alexander Kazem-Bek and Ignatieff in the Royal Paris cafe, which caused a serious scandal among Russian emigrants, which ended with the forced resignation of Kazem-Bek from the post of leader of the Young Russian party. All this took place, on the one hand, against the background of kidnappings and murders among Russian emigrants, flooded with NKVD agents and carried out these abductions, on the other hand - the decision of the French government, which was taken under pressure from the Kremlin, to expel or arrest stateless persons, which included numerous refugees from Soviet Russia.
After the outbreak of World War II, in 1940, Kazem-Bek was arrested and placed in a camp, from where he was released in 1942. He and his family managed to move to the United States. But not in full. Alexander's father, Lev Kazem-Beck, was imprisoned in the Camp Compiegne in 1941, released, and after the end of World War II, in 1947, repatriated by the Allies to the USSR. In 1949 he was arrested and exiled to Kazakhstan, where he died of starvation.
Alexandra's brother-in-law, Mikhail Chavchavadze, who introduced Alexander to Ignatieff, who returned from exile in the USSR and was, like Alexander Kazem-Bek, one of the leaders of the Young Russian Party, was accused by the Soviet government of working for Western intelligence and sentenced to 25 years in prison. His family members were exiled to Kazakhstan.
In the United States, Alexander taught Russian at Yale University, headed the Department of Russian Language and Literature at Connecticut College in New London for a while, and participated in the "Third Hour" religious-philosophical society, which was headed by Elena Izvolskaya, daughter of Alexander Izvolsky, a Russian diplomat and ambassador to the Tsarist government in various countries, including from 1910 to 1917 in France.
But there was also a behind-the-scenes side of Alexander Kazem-Bek's life: since 1937, when he "acquainted" with Ignatieff and was actively used by the soviet secret services. In 1957, in connection with this, he was obviously late interested in the FBI, and Alexander, having previously received the consent of his curators, hastily fled to the USSR, leaving in America a wife and two children.
In General Philip Bobkov's book The Last Twenty Years. Yuri Andropov, the former first deputy chairman of the Soviet KGB, mentioned repeated meetings and conversations with Kaz-Bek.
Staff scout Alexander Sokolov in the book "Superkrot in the KGB", recalling Kazem-Bek, reported that he hired him to work in the department of external church relations of the Moscow Patriarchate. So there can be no doubt that Alexander Kazem-Bek cooperated with Soviet intelligence before returning to the USSR.
When he returned, Kazem-Bek published a "repentable letter" in Pravda about his fate, and then wrote a series of articles about "spiritual America." The articles were printed in the Literary Newspaper, which, like his place of work, the Department of External Church Relations (OVCC) of the Moscow Patriarchate, was overseen by KGB units under Bobkov's command.
Officially, Kazem-Beck served as an interpreter. In fact, he was the right hand and referencer of Metropolitan Nicodemus (Rotova), who had ties to foreign churches. Kazem-Bek had an open account in the prestigious Moscow restaurant "Prague". He and his new family (he was married in the USSR by church marriage, his chosen one was 18 years old, he was 50) was given an apartment in an elite house on the Frunzensky embankment, where the responsible employees of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR lived.
His wife, who was dependent on two children in the United States, did not know about his second marriage, sent him to Moscow at the request of his husband everything he had asked for without receiving any material support in return. When the deception finally came to light, the ex-wife sent a letter to patriarch Alexia asking if it was true that her husband now has a second wife. On January 15, 1967, the patriarch replied:
"I can't tell you anything about Kazem-Bek, because I don't know the intimate aspects of his life. I love him very much. He's a lovely, well-mannered man, and I see him a lot. He helps us a lot in our relations with different foreign delegations... Alexis."
The KGB of the USSR saw in the letter of the American wife Kazem-Bek machinations of U.S. intelligence services. In order to resist them, a priest, a member of the Moscow Patriarchate Boris Kudinkin, a handsome man who was an agent of the Soviet state security, was sent to meet with her. Vera Reshchikova, who worked with Kudinkin in the patriarchy, recalled:
"He was a scoundrel... He was a spy. He lured the women, and the KGB agents who hid in the next room took pictures of them. One of his victims, a Czech, complained to the consulate of her country. Despite the scandal, he continued to work at the OVCC."
Mireille Massip. "Truth is the Daughter of Time"
The famous American author John Barron in his book about the KGB details how Kudinkin seduced the secretary of the Dutch Embassy in Moscow. This woman, already old, fell under his "Slavic charm" and then fell into depression and was recalled by her government. A year later, while working in one of the capitals in the Middle East, KGB agents contacted her. Then she confessed to her superiors what happened in Moscow and what role her young lover Kudinkin played in all this.
Special services and the Chavchavadze clan
Mikhail Chavchavadze (alexander Kazem-Beka's brother-in-law) was born in 1898 in the Russian Empire. He graduated from the Page Corps and was released before the February Revolution of 1917 by the cornet in the Lab Guard of the Konno-Grenadier Regiment. He participated in the First World War.
After the Bolsheviks seized Georgia, he went to France, where he was one of the leaders of the Young Russian Party, which united young Russian monarchists. As we mentioned, in 1947 he returned with his family to the USSR, was arrested and sentenced to 25 years of camps. He was rehabilitated in 1956. He died in Tbilisi in 1965. He was buried in the ancestral tomb of the Ilyinsk Church in Kvareli.
Chavchavadze is the son of Mikhail Chavchavadze and nephew of Alexander Kazem-Beka. He was born in German-occupied Paris in 1943, and at the age of six, in 1949 was exiled to Kazakhstan as the son of an "enemy of the people."
"It was 1956. My father, who returned with his family after the war from emigration to the USSR and paid for this conviction for 25 years Gulag, fell under Khrushchev's rehabilitation and came for us from the polar inta to the South Kazakhstan exile, in which we were in the status of the family of the "enemy of the people." Having beaten all the desire to work for the Soviet power, the rehabilitated "enemy of the people" took us to Alma-Ata, where he got a job in the office of Archbishop Alexis (then the governor of the Kazakh diocese).
"The Memorial Book of the Russian Nobility" (Book 3. 2009)
In 1969 he graduated from the Faculty of Western European Philology at Tbilisi State University and in 1969-1971 he worked as a senior researcher at the Georgian Research Institute of Scientific Information in Tbilisi. From 1971 to 1989, he was a senior lecturer in the Department of New Teaching at Georgian State University.
In 1990 he became one of the organizers of the Russian Nobility Assembly (Union of Descendants of the Russian Nobility) and at the III All-Russian Monarchical Congress (July 22-23, 1995) was elected chairman of the board of the Supreme Monarchist Council (Navy).
Chavchavadze had an obvious influence on the so-called 'Orthodox Chekists'. Here is another fragment of his memoir:
"I personally know Igor Strelkov, and I know Sasha Beard from diapers, as they say. We were very close friends with his father Yuri Mefodievich Borodai, a major philosopher, Doctor of Science. I have known Sasha since I was a young man, watching him grow up with delight. He was a very young boy when his parents passed away. Then he graduated from Moscow University, and then went to war. In both Chechen campaigns he was a correspondent for the newspaper "Tomorrow" newspaper ." I was proud to read his front notes... It was Beard who introduced me to his closest friend Igor Strelkov, with whom fate made him friends in the Chechen war.
By the way, in 1996 or 1997 my father Tikhon (Shevkunov) and I flew to Chechnya, to Khankala, and took humanitarian aid to our military contingent there. It was a gift for Easter from the parishioners of the Sreten monastery... Father Tikhon brought the main gift in the form of his choir, which sings beautifully, not only spiritual chants, but also wonderful Russian folk songs. And these songs were listened to in Khankala by our generals, officers and soldiers. When the choir of the Sreten monastery sang right on the field in Khankala, many sobbed... We lived there for two days together with the generals, and there were representatives of all services - the FSB, the Interior Ministry, the Ministry of Defense. And then one day after dinner I was told by a few generals about the valiant officer Strelkov, who in addition to fighting as a knight, also a terrific strategist, and they really appreciate his advice. So when Sasha Beard introduced me to him, I was already prepared."
"Novorossiya caressing my ear," Russian People's Line, August 8, 2014
Close and closed circle: The long-term parishioner of the Church of the Holy Martyr Tatiana at Moscow State University, where the agent of the Soviet/Russian special services Vigilyansky served, was an Orthodox businessman Konstantin Malofeev, part of a close circle of the agent of the Russian special services father Tikhon (Shevkunov). Malofeev's spiritual father since his teenage years was the "monarchist" zurab Chavchavadze, a friend and mentor from the young years of his father Tikhon.
Exhibition of books by YMCA-Press as a KGB project
In 1978, the chairman of the KGB of the USSR Yuri Andropov on the recommendation of General Yevgeny Pitovranov issued an order to form in the First Main Directorate of the KGB of the USSR (external intelligence) a special unit, working exclusively on Soviet emigration. It was division number 19. Since the late 1980s it has been headed by Colonel Yuri Mitkavchus. The task of this unit was to create reliable intelligence positions, especially among second- and third-generation emigrants who were part of the establishment of the countries of residence.
As part of this activity, the 19th KGB Department in Moscow in 1990 hosted an unprecedented event: an exhibition of books by YMCA-Press, which published works abroad, which were banned for publication in the USSR.
YMCA-Press, an Orthodox, cultural publishing house of the Russian book, was founded in 1921 in Prague and worked in Berlin in 1923 and in Paris from 1925 to 1940. In 1944 it was recreated in Paris by the efforts of Russian expat public figure Ivan Morozov. In 1925-1948 its director was Nikolai Berdyaev, from 1948 - Ivan Morozov, who ran the publishing house until 1978, when he was ousted by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who was sent to the West, became the formal "co-founder" of the publishing house and in this capacity stated that Morozov "did not show a publishing gift" coming from a "peasant family in Estonia."
Morozov hanged himself. The publishing house was headed by Nikita Struve, grandson of the Russian philosopher and politician Peter Struve.
And in 1990, an exhibition of the publishing house was held in Moscow at the State Library of Foreign Literature. Victor Moskvin initiated and organized the exhibition. The exhibition marked the beginning of the return to the homeland of the historical and literary heritage of Russian emigration.
But Moskvin could not initiate and organize an exhibition of the foreign publishing house "IMA-Press" on his own in 1990. In solving such issues in the Soviet Union have always been involved its highest power structures - the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, industry ministries and the KGB of the USSR.
Indeed, in the organization of the exhibition, Moskvin, in his own words, was helped by his old friend Boris Mikhailov:
"Immediately after school in 1973 I came to work at the Ostankin Palace Museum. My colleague was Boris Mikhailov. He shared the views of A.I. Solzhenitsyn, met with him. Boris Borisovich introduced me to banned literature, both expat and samizdatovsky. After the release of the Gulag Archipelago, B. Mikhailov published an open letter in the West in support of Alexander Isaevich."
Boris Mikhailov was born on December 4, 1941 in Moscow. In 1959 he graduated from school, entered the history department of Moscow State University (Department of History and Art Theory, evening department). He served three years in a group of Soviet troops in Germany. After the army he recovered from the university, graduated and worked as the director of the traveling exhibition Irkutsk-Ivanovo.
In 1970-1973 he studied at the graduate school of Moscow State University, the thesis "The methodology of Soviet art knowledge of the 1920s" (defended in 1988). He's a Ph.D. in art. For 17 years he worked in the Ostankino Manor Museum. On January 23, 1974, he issued a statement in support of A.I. Solzhenitsyn. He took part in the activities of the Russian Public Fund to help political prisoners and their families.
In the autumn of 1983 he declared himself the steward of the foundation, but a week later he resigned. In 1991 he was ordained a deacon and priest of the Church of the Nativity of John the Forerunner on Presna, in 1993 - a presbytery. The abbot of the Church of the Cover of Our Lady in Philae, a member of the diocesan art commission of the Moscow Patriarchate.
There is a list of citizens who participated in the activities of the Russian Public Fund to help political prisoners and their families. It does not have Boris Mikhailov (although his official biography says otherwise). To understand the reason for this discrepancy, we will provide readers with another quote, taken from an interview with the widow of the last head of the foundation Andrei Kistyakovsky (1936-1987) Marina Shemahansky, published in the magazine "My Moscow" (2008, No.2):
"Among the people close to us was Borya Mikhailov. He wanted to head the foundation several times, but for some reason he was not approved by the Solzhenitsyns. And so, after the operation, when Andrei has already returned to normal life and continued to work in the fund, one day comes Borya ... (Andrew was not home)... takes my hand and, literally chasing a step, introduces me to the room in which we... never talked. And he starts talking about the fact that he takes over the management of the fund. Because Andrei got sick and so on... I said to him, "Borya, you're crazy, you can't talk here!" "Because Kistyakovsky-Shemakhan's apartment was bugged by the KGB- V. Popov" - and dragged him up the stairs. But no, he stubbornly arranged everything he wanted in the room and then immediately left. We had been with him before on very good terms and with his family communicated, he was a believer. Mikhailov passed this statement to Solzhenitsyn. And they (in Vermont, where Solzhenitsyn lived at that time) said that Andrei gave up the management of the fund because of illness and now the head of the fund - Boris Mikhailov. He soon had a search, and a few days later he refused to be a steward, saying that his confessor had forbidden him, say, the foundation is a sinful matter. So the fund was broken. After that, Borea Mikhailov and I didn't communicate any more... Then the man who worked with him in the Ostankino Museum said to me out of touch with the foundation, "Do you not know that he communicates with the authorities?" Later, Natalia Dmitrievna (Solzhenitsina) received a message that she was apologizing for the fact that they had given a message too quickly about the change of management of the foundation and, most importantly, did not contact Andrei on this issue."
Viktor Moskvin was born on January 5, 1955 in the Moscow region. Russian historian, cultural figure, publisher. In 1973-1975 he was a researcher at the Ostankin Palace Museum. In 1978 he graduated from the Faculty of History of Kalinin State University. In 1979-1982 he worked at the Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics in Moscow, in 1982-1992 - in the All-Russian State Library of Foreign Literature named after M.I. Rudomino (GBIL), where he went from a junior researcher to deputy director general.
Hardly anyone will have any doubts about Mikhailov's connection with the KGB. But only one of their common acquaintance with Shemakhan, Moskvin, who was introduced to Mikhailov's banned literature in the USSR, could know about it. Moreover, both Mikhailov and his young colleague Moskvin were recruited by officers of the 9th Division of the 5th KGB Directorate of the USSR, who were fighting the dissident movement. They were recruited and worked with them as agents by the same staff member. Reporting Shemakhan's cooperation with the KGB, Moskvin withdrew suspicions about his own ties with state security, but, according to the KGB canons, an obvious crime.
All the heads of the Foundation for the Assistance of Political Prisoners were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment. In addition to the foundation's leaders, many of its activists have also been prosecuted. And only Mikhailova this bitter cup has passed. He got away with an official warning.
In Soviet times, there was a form of implementation of developments by state security agencies of persons engaged in illegal activities: arrest, followed by investigation, trial and official warning that if such activities continue, criminal prosecution will follow. Then there was recruitment as an agent of the KGB bodies. Sometimes recruitment followed an official warning.
Only "friendship" with the KGB can explain the fact that Mikhailov avoided criminal prosecution as head of the Solzhenitsyn Foundation. Being on a note to the KGB, Mikhailov then became a priest and received a parish in the center of Moscow on Red Presna. And this despite the fact that the entire Moscow Patriarchate from top to bottom was riddled with state security agents and places in Moscow were truly tidbits.
So the initiator of the unprecedented exhibition of books of the publishing house "YMCA-Press" in 1990 in Moscow was also the all-powerful KGB. In cases where its leadership considered it appropriate to carry out some significant events, it sent to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union the relevant document, the so-called notes to the court, in which the idea of the action was expressed and the consent of the highest party authority for its implementation was requested.
In order to conceal the interest of the state security in carrying out such events, the initiator was a state body or, as in the case of YMCA-Press, a private person who was a trusted KGB agent of the USSR Moskvin, who spoke on behalf of the All-Russian State Library of Foreign Literature, where he then worked.
In 1991, at The Suggestion of Moskvin, a subsidiary of YMCA-Press, the Russian Way publishing house, was registered in Moscow, where Moskvin became CEO. In 1995, a significant part of the manuscripts, letters and autographs from the archives of the immigrant publishing house "YMKA-Press", published during the decades of its activities by all the immigrant authors known to us today, was transferred to the Moscow Library-Fund "Russian Abroad", the founder of which the director of the publishing house "YMCA-Press" Nikita Struve became together with the Russian Public Foundation of Alexander Solzhenitsyn and the government of Moscow. At the same time, with the support and participation of Solzhenitsyn, Struve and the Moscow city authorities, a Public Library was organized - the Russian Abroad Foundation (now the state budget cultural institution "House of Russian Abroad named after Alexander Solzhenitsyn").
The previous part was published on July 15. The next one will be released on July 29.
All published parts of Vladimir Popov's book "Conspiracy of scoundrels. Notes of the former KGB lieutenant colonel" can be read here..
RE: KGB Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Popov: KGB and ROCO h.1 - Metropolitan Agafangel 31.07.2020 13:54
Metropolitan MP Tikhon (Shevkunov) - KGB agent.
In principle, it was always clear, but now this fact has received official confirmation. I remember when at the All-Peace Meeting in Nayak, New York, in December 2003, the KGB was talking about the KGB-shning past and the present of Alexia II, Shevkunov suddenly jumped on the podium and with Komsomol fervor said that Riediger had never cooperated with the KGB. I remember how everyone in the audience felt ashamed of, then the archimandrite MP, Tikhon.
Lying for this man is no problem.
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