[vladimir998]

Well, I think it would be more meaningful if the ROC fully admitted how it cooperated with the NKVD and KGB for so many years - and is now doing it all over again with Putin’s not-so-secret police.

[vladimir998]

Chekists in Cassocks: The Orthodox Church and the KGB
https://www.gwu.edu/~ieresgwu/assets/docs/demokratizatsiya%20archive/01-04_armes.pdf

The KGB’s Agents in Cassocks
http://www.csmonitor.com/1992/0428/28191.html

https://books.google.com/books?id=GyrBtJPb3-sC&pg=PA150&lpg=PA150&dq=orthodox+collaboration+with+kgb&source=bl&ots=PM8c23CVAd&sig=T3jGVkpl2Kvcj4WnAWmY0FEKFlM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=bAlaVYSBHdGAygTlowE&ved=0CEUQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=orthodox%20collaboration%20with%20kgb&f=false

Confirmed: Russian Patriarch Worked with KGB http://www.catholicculture.org/news/features/index.cfm?recnum=13868