KGB intelligence service
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Claims (26)
KGB operated_in
Soviet Union documented
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“Based on KGB and GGU defector information it is presumed that the visitor is a KGB agent or cooperating with the KGB…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.380
Joseph Stalin assassinated
KGB reported
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“Stalin used to shoot his KGB agents every 3 years…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.247
KGB spied_on
CIA documented
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“we have established beyond any doubt the number one target of the hGB and the GRIT the two Soviet intelligence services is the Central Intelligence Agency…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 4: Mail Opening · p.97
KGB operated_in
Soviet Union documented
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“So long as the Soviets maintain KGB agents around the world…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.313
NKVD renamed_to
KGB documented
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“The Soviet clandestine services then known as the NKVD (now the KGB) were engaged in espionage and subversive activities throughout the world…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.56
KGB operated_in
United States documented
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“Among these over 40 percent have been positively identified as members of the KGB or GRU the Soviet civilian and military intelligence units…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.171
Alexander N. Shelepin worked_for
KGB documented
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“...who later became Chairman of the Soviet State Security Committee (KGB)…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.192
Lee Harvey Oswald met_with
KGB documented
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“contacted a vice consul at the latter who was in fact a KGB agent…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.10
CIA spied_on
KGB documented
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“Similarly the CIA interrogated a former KGB officer who had access to Oswald's KGB dossier…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.65
Vice Consul Kostikov member_of
KGB documented
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“they knew that Kostikov was a member of the KGB…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy · p.98
Vladimir Stachinsky worked_for
KGB documented
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“a Russian KGB agent named Stachinsky came to Munich…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.107
Vladimir Putin worked_for
KGB documented
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“Putin was a career KGB operative.…”
source: book — Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making · p.211
KGB funded
Mikhail Khodorkovsky documented
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“The PLA also supported the company, much as Russia’s former KGB leaders nurtured, at least for a while, oligarchs like Mikhail Khodorkovsky.…”
source: book — Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making · p.241
CIA spied_on
KGB documented
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“fighting the big fight against the KGB…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 4: Mail Opening · p.82
KGB operated_in
United States documented
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“In many instances the Project provides the only means of detecting continuing contact between KGB controlled exchange students and Americans…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.380
KGB carried_out_attack
Pakistan documented
“Casey is said to have given ISI data on Soviet bases drawn from satellite photos. A year after the Russian attacks, the KHAD or KGB struck back, blowing up huge ammunition dumps in Pakistan. Meanwhile, a new director, General Hamid Gol, too…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 41 (43) @ 56:41
KGB carried_out_attack
Mujahideen documented
“pretended to be Mujahideen bands. The 150 odd soldiers in each such security unit gained the confidence of rebels who revealed themselves only to be eliminated. The Afghan KHAD, K-H-A-D agency, tried to block trails into the country with so…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 40 (42) @ 59:19
KGB assassinated
Pavel Kutepov book_quoted
“This all went on prior to the CIA. The beauty, from their perspective of standing up the CIA, gave them government protection from any and all laws. That was kind of the reason why they had to do it, because they'd been doing this for 100 y…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Indonesia Part 4 @ 41:05
Najibullah headed
KGB documented
“First, the staff of headquarters and then groups. In 1981, the Russians received even greater powers to intervene in Afghan affairs. Najibullah, the CAD's chief, raised no objections. Towards the end of 81, in an effort to devise new tactic…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 40 (42) @ 59:48
Pyotr Popov spied_on
KGB guest_asserted
“this guy named Popov is a KGB defector in place, so he's giving us secrets while we're giving him money…”
▶ ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast @ 1:15:15
Robert Maxwell did_business_with
KGB host_asserted
“subsequently became conduits for the capital flow out of the Eastern Bloc as Soviet Union collapsed. Maxwell's role in multigroup shows his direct involvement in these activities. He supposedly had struck a deal with the KGB chief to help m…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO with Colonel Towner One Nation Under Blackmail by Whitney Webb, Chapter 10 @ 30:41
KGB assassinated
Pyotr Popov guest_asserted
“And he gets found out by the KGB, and he gets executed.…”
▶ ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast @ 1:15:41
KGB recruited
Marina Oswald guest_asserted
“So she was told to go befriend Oswald by the KGB.…”
▶ ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast @ 1:20:02
Marina Oswald member_of
KGB documented
“Well, the CIA has a document that's been declassified. It's titled 29 Reasons Why Marina Oswald Works for the KGB.…”
▶ ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast @ 1:19:29
Lee Harvey Oswald spied_on
KGB book_quoted
“Oswald was likely a dangle, an American intelligence agent put out there for the Soviets to recruit and hope that he could penetrate the Soviet intelligence network. Marchetti goes on to say that he probably worked for both the Office of Na…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Kill Zone Part 6 @ 10:07
KGB carried_out_attack
TWA Flight 800 crash speculative
“So apparently it's not that rare. Finally, another news source, the International Currency Review, published the following information regarding the tragedy of TWA 800. Quote, a KGB defector has informed us that the TWA aircraft was sabotag…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa Files Part 16 @ 1:03:05
Mentions (47)
▶ 1:13:20
But, yeah, so LBJ kind of got cold feet when he came in. He decided, hey, we're not going to do a nuclear first strike, but I will give you guys Vietnam. Go ahead and do Vietnam. Let's just put all this on Oswald, and we're going to forget …
▶ 1:15:15
Uncovering Popov's mole. There you go. Anyway, so here's the deal. So KGB, CIA, spy wars, each side's trying to have a mole in the other agency, like a double agent so they can know what's going on. Well, this guy named Popov is a KGB defec…
▶ 1:15:41
And he gets found out by the KGB, and he gets executed. Shortly before that happens, he tells his CIA handler, hey, you guys have a mole at the top of the agency because the KGB knows everything about the U2 spy program. So you got a horrib…
▶ 1:16:09
It was never discovered. So throughout the whole Cold War, the KGB had somebody at the top of the CIA. They knew everything. Now here's where it gets fun, and this is where Oswald's involved. And this is how we know with 1,000% certainty th…
▶ 1:19:29
a hostile country. I'm in Italy. I know what it takes to get in and out of the country. There's no way that Oswald went over there and married a local and then came. There's no part of that. If you've ever worked in that process, no part of…
▶ 1:20:02
So the CIA thought she was KGB. And yeah, she she was what they call the swallow. Basically, she was a prostitute and and who worked for the KGB. And she wanted to. So she was told to go befriend Oswald by the KGB. From there, the question …
▶ 41:05
This all went on prior to the CIA. The beauty, from their perspective of standing up the CIA, gave them government protection from any and all laws. That was kind of the reason why they had to do it, because they'd been doing this for 100 y…
▶ 48:08
Kutubov strongly suggested that they intended to meet when he arrived in Paris and that the Soviet secret police, who probably knew he had been spying on them for the U.S., grabbed him. The abduction occurred on the very day Dulles arrived,…
▶ 8:32
according to Craig Roberts, was the diversion, the distraction, the patsy. Of course, that's what Oswald called himself, a patsy. Entire books have been written describing Oswald's past and links to intelligence community. Some say that he …
▶ 9:34
for U-2s while they were overflying China and Russia. Sometime during his tour, he, along with Roscoe White, was recruited by the intelligence community. And sometime later, just before defecting to Russia, became an asset. According to Vic…
▶ 58:47
In one province, the government controlled only 10% of the villages. The Soviet and Afghan group initially enjoyed greater success in their respective intelligence services. The Russian KGB, apprising the tactics in the decades prior to it,…
▶ 59:19
pretended to be Mujahideen bands. The 150 odd soldiers in each such security unit gained the confidence of rebels who revealed themselves only to be eliminated. The Afghan KHAD, K-H-A-D agency, tried to block trails into the country with so…
▶ 59:19
pretended to be Mujahideen bands. The 150 odd soldiers in each such security unit gained the confidence of rebels who revealed themselves only to be eliminated. The Afghan KHAD, K-H-A-D agency, tried to block trails into the country with so…
▶ 59:48
First, the staff of headquarters and then groups. In 1981, the Russians received even greater powers to intervene in Afghan affairs. Najibullah, the CAD's chief, raised no objections. Towards the end of 81, in an effort to devise new tactic…
▶ 59:48
First, the staff of headquarters and then groups. In 1981, the Russians received even greater powers to intervene in Afghan affairs. Najibullah, the CAD's chief, raised no objections. Towards the end of 81, in an effort to devise new tactic…
▶ 1:00:19
In December, no one had a solution. The CAD grew enormously from 700 at the time of the Russian invasion to 16,082. The war sputtered on. Carmel continued with infighting and there was some goings on at the government level in the spring of…
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In 1984, no part of Afghanistan was safe from the Mujahideen. Even Kabul, where KHAD headquarters was subjected to rocket attacks, the defense ministry had been bombed. The DRA officers kidnapped right off the street. The constant menace of…
▶ 17:58
In 1984, no part of Afghanistan was safe from the Mujahideen. Even Kabul, where KHAD headquarters was subjected to rocket attacks, the defense ministry had been bombed. The DRA officers kidnapped right off the street. The constant menace of…
▶ 56:41
Casey is said to have given ISI data on Soviet bases drawn from satellite photos. A year after the Russian attacks, the KHAD or KGB struck back, blowing up huge ammunition dumps in Pakistan. Meanwhile, a new director, General Hamid Gol, too…
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It was the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, which is the nice way of saying the Ukrainian Nazis. They had been founded by refugees in Paris as early as the 1920s. From its beginning, the Soviets considered the OUN a threat. In Ukrain…
▶ 9:05
towards the end of the war. In 1943, Bandera participated in conferences of ethnic minorities under the anti-Bolshevik front. In the mid-1944, Bandera and other Ukrainians formed the Supreme Liberation Council to fight the Soviets. During t…
▶ 10:36
On Victory Day, Courier's link increasingly broken down after May of 1946, but in 1947, OUN leaders still claimed as many as 100,000 partisans. In 1946, Soviet officials demanded the extradition of Bandera. By then, he had been ensconced in…
▶ 12:38
half that number still missing, two and a half million killed. There were plenty of reasons for them to support the OUN and very few to welcome Stalin's return. Stalin posted Red Army forces in Ukraine. Party activists sent to the Ukraine a…
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But the State Department intelligence reports in 1947 observed that Krukoff was being used to stabilize Ukraine. With Krukoff in command, military operations now assumed major proportions. Soviet and Eastern Europe reports in 1946 several t…
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whom the Soviet typically associated with Nazis, because many of them were. In the spring of 1947, the Polish army, officered by Russians, began evacuating local populations. There was also coordinated attacks in the tri-border region by Po…
▶ 15:05
The Poles claimed the elimination of six UPA brigade groups with 2,000 partisans killed or captured. Khrushchev declared the Ukrainian people have destroyed an insignificant bunch of Ukrainian nationalists and will annihilate the remnants o…
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The Brits chose the OUN. The CIA believed the tide of history had turned against them and preferred the Russian social democratic group called NTS. It stood for National Labor Alliance. The NTS formed in Belgrade in the 1930s among immigran…
▶ 27:30
The CIA had assumed that they were in contact with anti-Soviet underground called WIN, W-I-N, or Freedom and Independence. I'm not going to try to pronounce the Polish name. The roots lay in World War II when Polish resistance to the Nazis …
▶ 27:56
Stalin then proceeded to contrive a Soviet satellite state in Poland. The WIN, W-I-N, consisted of Poles of resistance, veterans, and anti-Soviet underground. But his first commander had been arrested and tried in 1947, Soviet crackdown, af…
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to immigrant families and radio messages to Western intelligence services. They had, they said, 500 WEN operatives. 20,000 could be mobilized and 100,000 sympathizers. The WEN messages asked for money and supplies. The British and Americans…
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In February of 49, the British bowed out. The Wisner Group then furnished all the money for when? More than a million dollars over three years, going directly to the Russians. In 51, Lindsay recruited John Bross, another of the former lawye…
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The Russians, knowing the game was up, blew the operation for his propaganda value. A star agent first recruited by the British revealed himself as a Russian spy, recounting how Wynn had deceived the West. Then the Soviets staged a show tri…
▶ 32:15
but Lindsey stuck to his guns. He left, and guess where he ended up? At the Ford Foundation. His replacement would be John Bross, the guy who had just given away a million dollars to the Soviets. There were many reasons for concern until 19…
▶ 32:49
They received reports from Heinz Felfe, F-E-L-F-E, who was a senior officer that had infiltrated the Galen organization, which goes on to be West Germany's BND, the version of the CIA for West Germany. They also had a Canadian spy, Gordon L…
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by Western services, spies who compromised their CIA missions. Meanwhile, their inserted spy, beginning in 1951, funneled the Soviets with a stream of data on individuals trained from the CIA and the Galen organization. He also suggested an…
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the go-no-go decisions for these flights. Although Koronsky was arrested in 1954, the Soviets captured a solo agent plus yet another CIA team. Mike Burke estimated an agent's chance with all the best backup the CIA could furnish at no bette…
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hampered by operating in the open, oh my God, Democrat societies were forced to play by more civilized rules. Holy shit. If that's not one of the most blatant lies I have ever heard told. The Soviet spy, quote, has been fully indoctrinated,…
▶ 3:53
which achieve them are justified, unquote. That's the motto of the CIA, not the KGB. Well, it may be the KGB too, but it's definitely the CIA. Meanwhile, he observed taking another swing at the Kennedy philosophy of peaceful coexistence, U.…
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There was a strange looking glass quality to the craft of intelligence. Many of the extreme measures he accused the Soviet espionage network of employing were in fact standard operating procedures at the CIA, including secret assassinations…
▶ 6:46
But Chancellor brought a more skeptical edge to his conversation with Dulles than other reporters. The old man was compelled to justify himself more than usual. Did the CIA operate on a higher moral level than the KGB? Chancellor asked him.…
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even though he threatened to hand over classified information from his U-2 tour. It took a full year before Angleton's counterintelligence department finally bothered opening a standard file on him. Oswald did not seem particularly threaten…
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He did not snoop around secured areas, and despite his military service, the Russians learned that he was a terrible shot. When Oswald went on a hunting expedition with the factory that he worked in, in Minsk, he never could hit anything. A…
▶ 19:33
identifying characteristics away. He would painstakingly examine his room for KGB bugs. He would play his record player louder in case someone was eavesdropping. Titovitz doubted that Oswald could have been an American spy. He seemed to sho…
▶ 21:32
who had been raised by an uncle who was actually a KGB officer. Tenevitz had taken an immediate disliking to Marina, whom he regarded as a foul-mouthed woman with whom Oswald was not compatible. But Oswald immediately fell under her spell. …
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She was wearing a low-cut dress, and he immediately suspected she was KGB bait for Oswald. Tenevitz was told that she had been run out of the Leningrad by local authorities for prostitution. Taking into account her past history and her lega…
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So apparently it's not that rare. Finally, another news source, the International Currency Review, published the following information regarding the tragedy of TWA 800. Quote, a KGB defector has informed us that the TWA aircraft was sabotag…
▶ 1:14:53
But then there's a ton of bodies. And then you have the one in Russia, 007, where there's no bodies. And it was the exact same thing. We know for a fact it was a missile hitting the engine of the flight 007, the KAL flight. And then there's…