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KGB intelligence service

also: Russian KGB, KHAD, Soviet agents, Soviet espionage network, Soviets, Russian intelligence, Russians

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Claims (9)

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
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
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
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
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
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

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ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast
▶ 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 …
ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast
▶ 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…
ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast
▶ 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…
ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast
▶ 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…
ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast
▶ 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…
ColonelTowner-Watkins - Guest_ Solving JFK Podcast
▶ 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 …
Operation Gladio - Indonesia Part 4
▶ 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…
Operation Gladio - Indonesia Part 4
▶ 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,…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 40 (42)
▶ 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,…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 40 (42)
▶ 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…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 40 (42)
▶ 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…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 40 (42)
▶ 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…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 40 (42)
▶ 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…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 40 (42)
▶ 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…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 41 (43)
▶ 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…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 41 (43)
▶ 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…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 41 (43)
▶ 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…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (6)
▶ 4:04 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…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (6)
▶ 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…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (6)
▶ 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…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (6)
▶ 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…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (6)
▶ 13:39 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…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (6)
▶ 14:09 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…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (6)
▶ 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…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (6)
▶ 18:13 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…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (6)
▶ 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 …
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (6)
▶ 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…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (6)
▶ 29:20 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…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (6)
▶ 29:50 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…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (6)
▶ 31:14 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…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (6)
▶ 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…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (6)
▶ 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…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (6)
▶ 34:24 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…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 (6)
▶ 35:58 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…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22
▶ 3:22 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,…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22
▶ 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.…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22
▶ 4:21 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…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 22
▶ 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.…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 23
▶ 15:03 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…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 23
▶ 15:29 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…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 23
▶ 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…
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 23
▶ 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. …
The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 23
▶ 22:03 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…
The Colonel's Corner The Medusa Files Part 16
▶ 1:03:05 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
▶ 1:14:53 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…
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