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Notes of a former KGB lieutenant colonel
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KGB Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Popov: KGB and ROCOR
Author: Metropolitan Agafangel. Publish Date: . Category: History of theROC.
Notes of a former KGB lieutenant colonel: Russian Orthodox Church Abroad and agents of 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 KGB agents in the religious communities of the USSR and abroad.
Vladimir POPOV
KGB and Russian Orthodox Church abroad
As we have already written, the Soviet government was concerned about the idea of uniting the Moscow Patriarchate controlled by the authorities with the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad (ROCA), or rather the idea of eliminating this anti-Soviet foreign Orthodox church structure under the guise of unification.
The 4th (church) department of the 5th KGB Department worked hard in this direction, using its numerous agents embedded in the Russian Orthodox Church and other religious organizations in the USSR and abroad. Reports about this agency-operational activity were received monthly by the management of the 5th KGB department and were folded into salad-colored folders under the label "Secret" and "Top Secret." Here are some excerpts from these documents eloquently describing this activity:
1967. "At the meetings of the executive committee and the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches in September this year on the island of Crete, agents Sviatoslav, Voronov, Antonov and others spoke to condemn the aggressive actions of the United States in Vietnam and Israel in the Middle East. The delegation of the Russian Orthodox Church voted against the resolutions on Vietnam and the Middle East proposed by representatives of Western churches and demanded to discuss the situation of blacks in the United States."
August 1969. "Our agency was able to promote Agent Kuznetsov to a senior position in the World Council of Churches."
1980. "Active Baptist schismatic Hailo convicted on Art. 190, p. 1 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR and sent to a psychiatric hospital for compulsory treatment. Agent Pavel, who is sent to Irkutsk, will be promoted to the leadership position in the Russian Orthodox Church."
1982. "Currently around the country... 229 churchmen and sectarians are serving their sentences (in 1981 there were 220). In addition, 18 people are in exile (in 1981 - 24). The KGB authorities conducted more than 2,500 cases of operational accounting on hostile elements of this category of citizens (in 1981 - 2225). The most significant results are expressed in the following: through the leading agents of the Russian Orthodox, Georgian and Armenian churches are firmly held in positions of loyalty... During the period 1982, 1,809 meetings were held and 704 were received. 13 turnout and 2 safe houses are used to work with the agency. Deputy Head of the 4th Division Colonel Romanov."
1983. "In Moscow, from September 28 to October 3, this year, the publishing department of the Moscow Patriarchate hosted a meeting of representatives of the church press, in which 12 foreigners participated... Through agents Abbot and Gregory, foreigners were politically advantageous. The head of the 4th division, Colonel Romanov."
1987. "Agent Potemkin took part in a meeting of the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches, held in Germany. He received data on the situation at the headquarters of the organization, about the upcoming personnel changes in the leadership of its units ...
TT was sent to the GDR together with friends (NRB, RNR, GDR, Cuba, CHSSR) to counterintelligence support the committee meeting, to continue the work of the Christian Peace Conference and to conduct intelligence-operational activities together with friends (NRB, RNR, GDR, Cuba, CHSSR). 12 agents of state security agencies were sent there by V.N. and Spiridonov. During the event, attempts of provocative attacks against churches of socialist countries were neutralized, unprofitable personnel changes were not allowed, politically advantageous final documents were adopted... The head of the 4th Division, Colonel Timoshevsky."
1988. "For the first time as part of the Soviet delegation, an agent of the Adamant from among the hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church took part in the general session of UNESCO... Five personal and working cases were considered for agents of territorial bodies recommended for promotion to the leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church. The head of the 4th Division, Colonel Timoshevsky."
August 1988. "According to the DOR ,the case of operational development" "Apothecary" carried out measures aimed at further compromising the object in front of like-minded people and connections in the West... Through the agency and other opportunities managed to persuade the wife of the Pharmacist to apply to the court for a divorce from him ... The head of the 4th Division, Colonel Timoshevsky."
1989. "At the service facility "Publishing Department of the Moscow Patriarchate" installed agent Vila ... Released and distributed in the church and near-church environment, the next issue of the magazine "Word" published under the control of our agency. The head of the 4th Division, Colonel Timoshevsky."
According to the KGB itself, the "leading agents" included the following agents:
Mikhailov - Vladimir Gundayev, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia;
Abbot - Metropolitan Volokalamsky and Yurievsky Pitirim;
Adamant - Metropolitan Juvenal;
Antonov - Metropolitan of Kiev Filaret;
Ostrovsky - Metropolitan Of Minsk Filaret;
Topaz - Archbishop Of Kaluga Clement;
Chrysostom - Archbishop of Vilnius;
The reader is the head of the Latvian Orthodox Church Kudryashov;
Kuznetsov - Aleksey Buevsky, foreign affairs officer of the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church;
Nesterovich - Borovoy Vitaly, honorary abbot of the Moscow Church of the Resurrection of the Word on the Assumption Enemy;
Sviatoslav - Boris Nikodim-Rotov; in 1970, he was assigned to interim management of the patriarchal parishes of the Americas; then headed the department of external church relations of the Russian Orthodox Church;
Anatoly - Ivan Miroljubov, a member of the department of external church relations of the Moscow Patriarchate;
Yverieli – Catholic
Petrov - Piotr Kuzmich Raina, exarch of the Patriarch of Moscow under the Patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa;
Ravens - Arkady Rodionovich Tyschuk, cleric of St. Nicholas Orthodox Cathedral in New York (1977-1982);
Fyodor - Ivan Borcha, priest of rural parishes of Ukrainian and Romanian communities of the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan (early 1970s);
Patriot - Victor Petlchenko, cleric of the Orthodox parish of Edmonton, the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta;
Icarus - Igor Vladimirovich Suzemel, Bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan of Vienna and Austrian;
Esaulenko - Joseph Pustotov, served in Orthodox churches in the Netherlands, Germany, Italy and France. In 1976, he was appointed head of the Moscow Patriarchate at the headquarters of the Christian Peace Conference (HMC) in Prague;
Vladimir - Nikolai Tserpitsky, personal secretary of Metropolitan Nicodemus;
Simonov is the Archbishop of Cyprian ,Gernov), the abbot of the Church of All Mourners on the street of the Great Ordynka in Moscow.
It came to anecdotal: in 1983, one of the leaders of the Buddhist church, Agent Sayan, was awarded the KGB certificate of the USSR "for many years of cooperation and active assistance to the state security agencies."
For the purpose of conspiracy, the KGB gave nicknames not only to its agents, but also to those who were "objects of operational surveillance, accounting or development." The man hidden under the pseudonym Apothecary is Alexander Ogorodnikov, a religious dissident with whom the KGB fought.
Priest Alexander Meng had the nickname Missionary, academic Andrei Sakharov - Asket, his wife Elena Bonner - Fox, writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, as we mentioned, Spider.
ROCO and the First Congress of Compatriots
On August 19, 1991, during the SCCP, the First Congress of Compatriots was held in Moscow, the real initiator of which was the KGB of the USSR. One of the prominent participants of the Congress was the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Alexis II, who a year ago was promoted to this position by the 4th Division of the 5th KGB Directorate.
International events in general and congresses of compatriots in particular, with enviable regularity held in Moscow since August 1991, from the point of view of the KGB presented a convenient opportunity for the use of forum participants in the interests of state security. The study of those who were subsequently invited as a member of the Congress began long before the event. The Congress itself became the culmination of the processing and recruitment by the special services of the participant of interest to them. Such activities have sooner or later paid off.
Thus, in August 1991, Patriarch Alexis II during the Congress of Compatriots in Moscow, received Gleb Rahr, a well-known Russian immigrant, a long-time employee of Radio Liberty, one of the figures of the ROCOR, and through him passed to the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church [MP] a proposal to reunite the ROCOR with the ROC with the preservation of full autonomy for the ROCOR (this proposal was then rejected by the Metropolitan of the Russian Orthodox Church).
In November 1991, Patriarch Alexis II made an official visit to the United States. At his invitation, Father Alexander (Kiselev) took part in a joint prayer service at St. Nicholas Cathedral in New York, the main cathedral of patriarchal parishes in the United States. The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Vitaly, categorically objected to the joint prayer service of representatives of the two churches, who have completely opposite views on the existing political system in the USSR, and repeatedly reproached Fr. Alexander: "You are with us, but you are not ours." Indeed, in 1991, Alexander returned to Russia and settled in the Donskoy Monastery in Moscow (within the walls of which he completed his life on October 3, 2001).
In January 1992, the Synod of Bishops of the ROCOR sent to Russia the vicar of the Western European Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church, Bishop Cannes Barnabas, with an order to organize a permanent synodal compound in Moscow, which would feed parishioners on behalf of the ROCOR. Barnabas opened a courtyard of the ROCOR in one of the buildings of the Marfo-Marinsky monastery, which belonged to the city's polyclinic. There is also the unofficial headquarters of the National Patriotic Front "Memory" headed by the agent of the 5th KGB directorate Dmitry Vasilyev and then replaced by the agent of the 5th KGB directorate Alexander Barkashov.
Of course, the "neighborhood" of the ROCOR and the radical, nationalist and anti-Semitic organization "Memory" was rigged by the state security and caused enormous damage to the reputation of the ROCOR in Russia. In June 1993, a religious dissident, Shechmalnikova wrote that "the connection between the ROCOR and Memory gives an absolute victory for the Moscow Patriarchate over the foreign church."
The confrontation with the Moscow Patriarchate in the reunification of churches was accompanied by a number of intra-church scandals, one of which was the scandal with the proto-priest Alexey Averyanov (1952 year of birth). In 1990, Averyanov voluntarily transferred to the jurisdiction of the ROCOR.
In response, by decree of Metropolitan Krutitsky and Kolomensky Juvenal (agent Adamant) for No.1217 of September 17, 1990, Alexey "for the arbitrary abandonment of the parish until the clarification of the circumstances and repentance" was forbidden in the priesthood, but continued to stay in the ROCOR, where he was soon elevated to the proto-priest.
Then, on June 26, 1992, the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church received a written statement by Natalia Osinova accusing Alexey Averyanov of "violating the moral laws of the sanctity of marriage," "seduction and cohabitation with her in fornication for four months."
As a result, by decree of Metropolitan Vitali for No.11/35/152 of November 6, 1992, the proto-priest Alexey Averyanov was banned in the priesthood, the complex of the Marfo-Marinsky monastery was handed over by the moscow government by a decree of the Moscow Patriarchate, and the ROCOR split into supporters and opponents of Metropolitan Vitali. The latter lost his post, which he held for many years, and the ROCOR was successfully and finally absorbed by the Moscow Patriarchate.
Gleb Rahr
In 2011, Gleb Rahr's memoirs were published in the Russian Way publishing house in Moscow. And our generation will give stories a record.' In his foreword, Dmitry Stolypin (grandson of Prime Minister Piotr Stolypin) wrote:
"To perpetuate the memory of Gleb Rahr and draw attention to the testimony of his whole life, I would like to cite here what my father Arkady Stolypin wrote about him in his memoirs. My father fondly remembers Gleb Aleksandrovich and his half-brother Leo as "my friends of Rara," he describes in detail the long-term cooperation with Gleb Aleksandrovich and how they fought together for a free, united Russia in the foreign sector of the People's Labour Union of Russian Solidarityists - NTS. Arkady Petrovich from 1954 to 1960 he was in charge of the foreign sector of the NTS and had a valuable friend and associate in Glebe.
For the NTS, these were times saturated with important events, such as the appearance in the ranks of the NTS Captain Nikolai Khokhlov, a former KGB officer who abandoned the criminal mission, and even earlier - the kidnapping of the same KGB Dr. Trusnovich, the head of his created committee of the NTS to help refugees from the East. My father wrote how Gleb Aleksandrovich accompanied the wife of the kidnapped Dr. Trushnovich to Geneva, where she begged Molotov to release her husband...
Then my father told about the activities of Gleb Aleksandrovich in the Russian section of Radio Liberty in Munich, starting in 1975, and about his religious and historical broadcasts... With his broad culture and deep faith, he left an unforgettable imprint on the life of the brotherhood of St. Vladimir, and his actions were one of the sources of future dialogue between both parts of the Russian Church."
Gleb Rahr was born in 1922 in Moscow in a merchant family. His grandfather Alexander Rahr was the director of the Moscow branch of the insurance company "Russia" which owned the famous building on Lubyanka No.2, occupied since 1919 by the state security agencies.
Father Alexander Rahr (1885-1952) was an officer and fought on the Galician front in World War I. Natalia's mother was from the old merchant family of Yudin. Her brother Sergey Yudin was a well-known surgeon, awarded many honorary titles and awards.
As Rarov's ancestors came from Estonia, the family moved to Estonia in 1924, from there to Latvia, where Gleb Rahr graduated from german gymnasium. After the occupation of Latvia by the Red Army, Raram managed to leave for Germany with the German settlers thanks to the German surname in 1941.
Since 1942, Gleb Rahr studied at the Faculty of Architecture in Breslavla (now Wroclaw), joined the National Labor Union (NTS) - the future People's Labour Union of Russian Solidarityists. Established by the young generation of white emigrants in 1930 in Belgrade, this organization during germany's war with the Soviet Union supported the Russian Liberation Movement (ROD), but in order to end the influence of the NTS on rod, the German authorities in June 1944 arrested a number of NTS members, including Rahr.
He was first imprisoned in the Gestapo prison in Breslaula, then in the concentration camps of Gross-Rosen, Saxenhausen, Schlieb, Buchenwald, Langenzaltz, and finally Dachau, from which he was liberated by American forces on April 29, 1945.
After the war, Rara settled in Hamburg, where Gleb graduated from the university's architecture department, actively participated in church life and was secretary to the bishop of the Russian Foreign Church in the British zone of occupation of Germany Nathaniel (Lviv). Since the end of 1947, Rahr worked in the expat publishing house "Syved" in Frankfurt-on-Main.
From 1949 to 1950 he and his family were in Morocco and had been working for the NTS in Germany since 1950. From 1957 to 1960 - on the radio station "Free Russia" in Formosa (Taiwan), from 1960 to 1963 he directed russian-language programs of Japanese radio and the Far Eastern department of the American University of Maryland. From 1963 to 1974 he again worked in the publishing house "Syvest" in Frankfurt, was a member of the editorial board of the magazine "Sow" and on the board of ntS. From 1974 to 1995 he worked for Radio Liberty in Munich.
Sofia and Gleb Rahr on the Chinese radio station Free Russia. Taipei, 1959. Photo: rp-net.ru
Rahr advocated the reunification of the ROCOR with the Moscow Patriarchate and in August 1991, as we have already indicated, arrived in Moscow to participate in the Congress of compatriots. A man with such a biography could not visit the Soviet Union, become a member of the First Congress of Compatriots and get an audience with the KGB agent Patriarch Alexis II without the consent of the all-knowing KGB of the USSR, especially since Rara decided to use as a special envoy to the hierarchs of the ROCR with a proposal to reunite churches divided by the Bolshevik coup. This was a testament to the deep trust in Rahr on the part of the Soviet (then Russian) authorities, based on his long unspoken cooperation with them.
In 2001, shortly after Putin became president, Gleb Rahr and his wife were granted Russian citizenship at Putin's direction.
On October 11-12, 2001, the World Congress of Compatriots opened in the Column Hall of the House of Unions in Moscow, attended by delegates from 47 countries and prominent Russian politicians. In his opening speech, Putin used the term "Russian world" for the first time and outlined the directions on which relations between the Russian Federation and foreign compatriots were to be built in the future, calling for the search for ways to consolidate the Russian diaspora and strengthen its ties with Russia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin's speech at the World Congress of Compatriots. October 11, 2001. Photo: en.kremlin.ru
The practical result of this activity was demonstrated in 2014, when Russia invaded Ukraine. On December 22, 2014, an article entitled "Solidarity with Russia" appeared on the Russian Bridge website, created in 2010 by a group of representatives of the descendants of white emigration in France. The text, which signed more than a hundred descendants of Russian emigration living in Europe, said: "We in no way refuse to defend the values on which we were brought up by our ancestors, doomed to exile after the revolution of 1917. We do not refuse to condemn the criminal acts of the Bolsheviks and their successors, nor to restore the historical truth about that terrible time. But this does not mean that we can accept the daily slander against modern Russia, its leadership and its president, who are subject to sanctions and mixed with dirt contrary to basic common sense. This self-destructive ridiculous idea for European countries makes all those who see it as the West's desire to hinder Russia's development rather than to resolve the crisis in Ukraine."
Alexander Melnik
In 1992, the Foundation of St. Andrew the First-Called Apostle, which is a public organization, was established in Moscow. The Foundation's website announced that it was "implementing projects aimed at forming a positive attitude towards the traditional, binding foundations of Russia - the state, the church, the army" - and that the foundation "stands for awakening in a person the spiritual foundations firmly connected with the history and culture of the people." One of the main activities of the foundation was "bringing Orthodox shrines to the Russian Orthodox Church." The founder of the foundation was Alexander Melnik.
Alexander Melnik (centre pictured). Photo: synod.com
At the time of registration of his foundation, Melnik was a correspondent for the Chisinau newspaper Evening Chisinau. At the same time as the Foundation, Melnik registered in Moscow the publishing house "Andreevsky Flag" founded with the support of the newly created foundation and specializing in "the production of Orthodox, military, maritime, historical literature" and the interregional public foundation "Center for National Glory." All three structures were decorated at: Moscow, Great Ordynka Street, house 35 (594 sq m square).
It is not known how The Chisinau Melnik managed to get this building. But if you compare a few facts, a lot of things will become obvious. The building with the address of Ordynka, 35 is almost adjacent to the complex of buildings with the address of Ordynka, 34, where before the revolution was located The Martha-Marian monastery - a convent of the Russian Orthodox Church, founded by grand duchess Elizabeth Fedorovna in 1909.
On May 7, 1918, Elizaveta Fedorovna was arrested by the Chekists, but the monastery continued its activities as a clinic, which served sisters under the guidance of Princess Golitsina. The princess was then arrested by the Chekists. Some of the sisters were sent to Turkestan, while others moved to the Tver region, where they set up a vegetable farm.
After the closure of the monastery in its cathedral (Pokrovskaya Cathedral) in accordance with the communist traditions of those years was opened a cinema, and later - a house of sanitary education. The Marfo-Marinsky Church has an outpatient clinic named after Professor F.A. Rein, a branch of the CECUBU. After the Great Patriotic War, the building of the Pokrovsk Temple was transferred to the State Restoration Workshops (later the All-Russian Art Research and Restoration Center named after Igor Grabar).
So the registration of Melnyk in the same 1992 within the Marfo-Marinsky monastery, which has already housed the Moscow compound of the RUSSIAN Orthodox Church, and the headquarters of the NPF "Memory" headed by Dmitry Vasilyev and Alexander Barkashov, was not an accident. Behind all this were influential puppeteers from the state security, especially Philip Bobkov, who used his long-term contacts with the agent of the 5th KGB directorate of the USSR Gavriil Popov, who became the first mayor of Moscow, and replaced him By Yuri Luzhkov.
With their help, Bobkov easily solved the issues of allocation of Moscow real estate to non-state structures in which he was personally interested. And the abode itself, which was revived after 1991 and gathered hundreds of sisters, was soon destroyed as a result of the raider's seizure of the building on the Great Ordynka, conducted by the public company "Russian Railways" (Russian Railways), whose president was another high-ranking officer of the Russian special services Vladimir Yakunin.
The Foundation of Andrei the First-Called and The Metamorphosis of Sergei Shchebligin
The Foundation of Andrei the First-Called soon became quite a solid organization. The foundation's board of trustees was headed by the then chairman of the Federation Council, Egor Stroyev. At that time he maintained friendly relations with patriarch Alexis II, became interested in Orthodoxy, and one of the founders of the foundation Sergei Shchebligin, a countryman and adviser to Stroyev, helped him a lot. According to the former deputy governor of the Orlov region, Alexei Bogomolov, Shcheblygin's duties included the preparation of reviews of book innovations and trends of social and political thought for Stroev.
Egor Stroyev was born in 1937 in the village of Dudkino in the Khotinets district of Orlovsk region. In 1954 he worked as a shepherd in the collective farm "Progress" of khotinets district. From 1956 to 1957 he was a foreman in the collective farm Progress. In 1958 he joined the Communist Party. Elected secretary of the party bureau of the collective farm. He received his first higher education in absentia at the Michurin Fruit and Vegetable Institute with a degree in agronomist-gardening.
From 1963 to 1965 he was deputy secretary of the party committee, head of the ideological department of the party committee of the Uritsky District Industrial Collective Farm And Farm Department of Orlovsk Region. From 1965 to 1969 he was secretary of the Khotinets district committee of the CPSU Orlovsk region. From 1969 to 1970 he was the second secretary of the Cpsu district committee.
From 1970 to 1973 he was the chairman of the executive committee of the Pokrov district council, then - the first secretary of the Pokrov district committee of the CPSU Orlovsk region. From 1973 to 1984 he was secretary of the Orlovsky Regional Committee of the CPSU. From 1984 to 1985 he was an instructor of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. From 1985 to 1989 he was the first secretary of the Orlovsky Regional Committee of the CPSU. He has been a member of the CPSU Central Committee since 1986. Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee in 1989-1991. Since 1990, he has been a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Sergey Shcheblygin was born in 1956. He is currently a member of the Federation Council of Russia. In 1975-1980 he studied at the historical faculty of Moscow State University at the Department of History of the Communist Party. He graduated with honors. Then he studied there in graduate school. In 1983-1991 he worked as a history teacher of the CPSU at the Higher Party School.
Since 1992, he has been a co-founder of the Foundation of St. Andrew the First-Called Apostle. In 1999 he was awarded the Order of Friendship.
Since December 2001 he has been a great commander of the Order of the Orthodox Knights of the Holy Sepulchre. Since 2002 he has been a member of the board of the Russian National Glory Center. In 2004-2005 he was a banker. Since 2005 he has been an assistant to Russian Railways President Vladimir Yakunin. Since January 19, 2006 - President of the Foundation of St. Andrew the First-Called Apostle and chairman of the board of the charitable foundation of social assistance to children "Spread wings!".
These amazing metamorphoses took place in the life of the communist Shcheblygin, transformed from a specialist in the history of the bloodthirsty CPSU and an atheist into a humble Christian.
Such metamorphosis occurred not only with Shcheblgin. The board of trustees of the Andrei First-Called Foundation at various times included the head of the administration of the Russian President Sergey Ivanov, the former head of the Federal Drug Control Service Viktor Cherkesov, the St. Petersburg governor Georgi Poltavchenko, the former head of the administration of the Russian President Vladimir Kozhin and the deputy prime minister Sergei Prikhodko.
One of the foundation's activities is the annual delivery of the graceful fire from Jerusalem for Easter. In addition, in 2011, the foundation delivered to Russia from Athos the belt of the Virgin, which came to worship hundreds of thousands of Russians in a number of cities of the country, including Putin. And in 2013, the foundation demonstrated a cross delivered to Russia from the holy Mount Athos, where the Apostle Andrei the First-Called was crucified.
The previous part is published on July 22.. Следующая выйдет 5 августа.
All published parts of Vladimir Popov's book "Conspiracy of scoundrels. Notes of the former KGB lieutenant colonel" can be read here..
RE: KGB Colonel Vladimir Popov: KGB and ROCO - Metropolitan Agafangel 30.07.2020 06:16
"In August 1991, Patriarch Alexis II during the Congress of compatriots in Moscow, received Gleb Rahr, a well-known Russian immigrant, a long-time employee of Radio Svoboda, one of the figures of the Russian Orthodox Church, and through him passed to the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church a proposal to reunite the Rocor with the ROCor with the preservation of full autonomy for the ROCOR (this proposal was then rejected by the Metropolitan Of Russia. There's inaccuracy here. KGB agent Alexi-Drozdo was asked to dissolve the Synod of the MP and replace its members with the bishops of the ROCOR. We have in the archive a copy of Rahr's letter to the Synod of the ROCO. The whole procedure took place in the altar of the Epiphany Cathedral (near the tomb of Sergiy Stragorodsky) with the direct participation of deacon Andrey Kuraev (most likely also a KGB agent), who was a representative under Drozdov.
Whether Gleb Rahr was a KGB agent or just a "useful idiot" (as the KGB called their volunteers), it is difficult to say until the documents are opened or there is no direct evidence from former KGB officers.
The fact that Dmitry Vasilyev was a KGB agent was clear even then (as well as the fact that "Memory" itself was created by the KGB).
The answer to the question "who was who" in the ROCOR and engaged in its destruction as an anti-Soviet organization, remains to be heard.
Today it is becoming increasingly clear why people like the Archbishop Mark Arndt, prot. Victor Potapov and all the "activists for Moscow" hated Metropolitan Vitali so much. The Kingdom of Heaven to our fourth First Hierarch!
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