http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/kgb/ en-us Sat, 2 Jan 2010 23:27:12 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419719/posts A British spy endured the frostiest treatment the Soviet Union could deliver at the height of the Cold War. The naval attaché was pounced on and debagged at minus 27 degrees by KGB agents who spotted him spying in Leningrad. The incident in February 1979 was deemed so sensitive that confidential reports, including references to the removal of the attaché's trousers, were sent to the then Prime Minister, Jim Callaghan. Cabinet papers released by the National Archives under the 30-year rule this weekend show how the episode involving Lieutenant-Commander Aubone Pyke was hushed up before a visit to Moscow by... Daily Mail (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419719/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 23:27:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416368/posts Russia voices concern over Tehran unrest Russia is concerned by the recent clashes between demonstrators and police in Tehran, and calls for restraint and conciliation, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Monday. Security forces clashed with protesters on Saturday and Sunday. A total of 15 people died and over 300 rioters arrested. "We believe the most important thing in such a situation is to show restraint, and seek a compromise on the basis of the law, and also to take political efforts to prevent a further escalation of the confrontation," the statement said. The ministry also expressed regret over allegations... Ria Novosti http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416368/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:38:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2412010/posts Dear Americans, My name is Tomas David Schuman. I am what you may call a "defector" from the USSR, and I have a message for you: I love you very much. I love all of you -liberals and conservatives, "decadent capitalists" and "oppressed masses", blacks and whites and browns and yellows, rednecks and intellectuals. For me you are the people who created a unique nation, country and society in the history of mankind-by no means a perfect one, but, let's face it- the most free, affluent and just in todays world.... My dear friends, I think you are in big... Love Letter To America http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2412010/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 03:46:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408890/posts Moscow, Russia (CNN) -- The remains of Adolf Hitler were burned in 1970 by Soviet KGB agents and thrown into a river in Germany on direct orders from the spy agency's chief, a top Russian security official said this week. The head archivist of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) -- the successor to the former Soviet Union's KGB -- confirmed for the first time the chain of events that led to the disposal of Hitler's body, and who ordered the operation, in an exclusive interview with Russia's Interfax news agency. Gen. Vasily Khristoforov told Interfax in an interview published Monday... CNN.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408890/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:37:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405238/posts Moscow, Russia (CNN) -- The remains of Adolf Hitler were burned in 1970 by Soviet KGB agents and thrown into a river in Germany on direct orders from the spy agency's chief, a top Russian security official said this week. Cnn http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405238/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:55:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402499/posts Justification and Options for Creating U.S. Capabilities Establishing security is the sine qua non of stability operations, since it is a prerequisite for reconstruction and development. Security requires a mix of military and police forces to deal with a range of threats from insurgents to criminal organizations. This research examines the creation of a high-end police force, which the authors call a Stability Police Force (SPF). The study considers what size force is necessary, how responsive it needs to be, where in the government it might be located, what capabilities it should have, how it could be staffed, and its... Rand Corporation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402499/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 01:22:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401009/posts “Uncle Joe” New National Hero Modern Russia Displays Red Roots thelastcrusade.org Joseph Stalin sent over 30 million Russians to their deaths during his reign of terror. His body was removed from the Kremlin. His name was taboo for decades. But the ruthless Soviet dictator is the new hero of modern Russia, and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin now openly praises “Uncle Joe’s” achievements. In a recent appearance on national television, Mr. Putin gave credit to Stalin for making the Soviet Union an industrial superpower and for defeating Hitler in the Second World War. “It’s obvious that, from 1924 to 1953,... The Last Crusade http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401009/posts#comment Sat, 5 Dec 2009 16:44:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397542/posts CARACAS (Reuters) - Russia is building arms plants in Venezuela to produce AK-103 automatic rifles and cartridges and is finalizing contracts to send 53 military helicopters to the Andean nation, Moscow's envoy to Venezuela saidMonday. Ambassador Vladmir Zaemskiy told a news conference that Russian engineers and Venezuelan construction firms were building the rifle and cartridge plants which, when operational, would employ more than 1,500 workers. He gave no completion date for the plants under construction in the central state of Aragua. Details about Moscow's military shipments and projects have been scarce since socialist President Hugo Chavez's government began signing military... Forbes.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397542/posts#comment Tue, 1 Dec 2009 13:49:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395846/posts RUSSIAN investigators have confirmed that the derailment of a passenger train which killed dozens of people was caused by a "terrorist attack", the Interfax news agency reported. "We are indeed talking about a terrorist attack," Vladimir Markin, spokesman for Russia's federal investigative committee... Investigators have found "elements of an explosive device" at the site... AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395846/posts#comment Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:56:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2395855/posts <p>And we're in the middle of it right now. This amazing interview was done back in 1985 with a former KGB agent who was trained in subversion techniques. He explains the 4 basic steps to socially engineering entire generations into thinking and behaving the way those in power want them to. It's shocking because our nation has been transformed in the exact same way, following the exact same steps.</p> historicalchristian.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2395855/posts#comment Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:42:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2385840/posts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KHcQsjFdC8&feature=channel Joseph Stalin declassified. Newly revealed documents about Stalin and the founding of the USSR and his inner circle. About the purges and memos concerning STalin. Yotube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2385840/posts#comment Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:18:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2388736/posts Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who has often described the collapse of the Soviet Union as “the greatest tragedy” of the 20th century, has now said that the “reunification” of Georgia has “already been decided,” a suggestion some of his listeners believe was a call for restoring Moscow’s control over Georgia and even the former USSR as a whole. In an intriguing commentary published in yesterday’s “Gazeta,” Bozhena Rynska describes both the celebration of the 80th birthday of longtime Soviet and Russian official Yevgeny Primakov and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s two very different toasts on that occasion (www.gazeta.ru/column/rynska/3287611.shtml). The celebration took... Eye on Eurasia http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2388736/posts#comment Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:25:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2378086/posts Former Israeli double agent shot dead near Putin's office Shabtai Kalmanovich, a former Israeli double agent who penetrated Golda Meir's government on behalf of the KGB, has been shot dead in Moscow. By Andrew Osborn in Moscow and Adrian Blomfield in Jerusalem Published: 7:00AM GMT 03 Nov 2009 Kalmanovich, who later became a prominent businessman and allegedly had links with the Russian mafia, died after an unidentified gunman fired at least 20 shots into his chauffeur-driven Mercedes Benz. Mr Kalmanovich's driver was seriously wounded in the incident. /snip After becoming an Israeli citizen, he joined the Israeli Labour Party, was... Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2378086/posts#comment Wed, 4 Nov 2009 07:14:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2375626/posts As the Ford Taurus slowly approached the signal site, hidden FBI agents readied for a possible arrest. For weeks they had been staking out a path in Foxstone Park in Vienna, Virginia, outside Washington, D.C. Their elusive quarry was a Soviet mole in the FBI, codenamed “Ramon Garcia.”  ver the course of more than two decades, “Ramon” had done incalculable damage to the United States’ security, selling Top Secret information to the Soviet GRU (military intelligence) and KGB, and to the KGB’s Russian successor agency, the FSB, and its foreign arm, the SVR. Would “Ramon” stop this time? More than... tna http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2375626/posts#comment Sun, 1 Nov 2009 01:25:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372179/posts A BUST of Russia's muscle-flexing strongman Vladimir Putin is being created as a gift for ex-Hollywood bodybuilder and California's current governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. The bust is currently being made in Putin's home city of Saint Petersburg on an order of Russia's Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation and will be delivered to the movie star-turned-politician in March. "Putin is such a complex personality. He's left no one indifferent," Alexander Chernoshchyokov, a Saint Petersburg-based sculptor who has been working on the Putin bust since June... In 1991 the Russian artist made a sculpture of Schwarzenegger and Vladimir Dubinin, the president of the bodybuilding... Agence France-Presse http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372179/posts#comment Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:34:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2345775/posts VANCOUVER, B.C. — A former Russian KGB employee who's been living in a Vancouver church since he was ordered to leave Canada almost four months ago has been hit with another legal setback in his bid to fight deportation. CP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2345775/posts#comment Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:00:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2343245/posts HAVANA, September 18 (RIA Novosti) - Modernization of the Soviet-made military equipment and training of Cuban military personnel will be the focus of Russian-Cuban military cooperation in the near future, the chief of the Russian General Staff said on Friday. russia http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2343245/posts#comment Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:37:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2342134/posts "They slammed me against the hood of my car, cuffed me, threw me in the back of the car. I'm in my own driveway at this point and time." KRPC Houston http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2342134/posts#comment Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:46:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2340910/posts Former KGB Special Forces Colonel Oleg Balashov, who took part in the Soviet military campaign in Afghanistan, told RT he doubts more U.S. soldiers will increase the chances of victory.This comment comes as the U.S. troop numbers in Afghanistan have doubled over the last year while the U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Michael Mullen, admitted that even more are going to be needed to defeat the Taliban. “This war will be the same as it was in Vietnam and as the Soviet Union had in Afghanistan back in the 1980s,” said Balashov. Afghanistan “won’t let them... Russia Today http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2340910/posts#comment Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:43:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2339573/posts Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday criticized US dominance and asserted countries had a right to weigh in even on the domestic policy of a state whose actions affected the world. "We see more and more often how problems on the territory of one state acquire a global character," Medvedev said in an address to a conference in the central Russian city of Yaroslavl. "This happens immediately and incompetence and reluctance to solve one's own problems inflict a damage not only to your country but to a huge number of other countries." The Russian president lashed out at the "ill-thought... AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2339573/posts#comment Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:49:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2337593/posts NOVO-OGARYOVO, Russia (Reuters) – Russia's Vladimir Putin on Friday gave his strongest indication yet that he may run again for the presidency at the next election in 2012. Ever since Putin's presidential term expired last year and he made way for his chosen successor Dmitry Medvedev, there has been speculation the move was only temporary. Putin, now serving as prime minister, remains extremely popular among Russian voters despite the economic downturn and he continues to dominate the political scene. Speaking to the Valdai discussion group of Russia experts, Putin said the transition at the top in 2007/8 had been a... Reuters via Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2337593/posts#comment Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:44:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2336634/posts Events were not supposed to have turned out this way: Stalin is making a comeback in Russia, the Chinese Communist Party controls capitalism in China, Venezuela — once a friend of the United States — is now a neo-Marxist state, and Latin America itself is dominated by communist or far left regimes. When the Berlin Wall was destroyed by jubilant West Berlin youth, the nightmare was believed to be over. The communist true believers, however, are again a threat to humanity — even within the U.S. government. It is a story gets little coverage in the centralized media. Instead of... renewamerica.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2336634/posts#comment Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:02:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2334182/posts Shortly after the announcement of Ted Kennedy's death, I had already received several interview requests. I declined them, not wanting to be uncharitable to the man upon his death. Since then, I've seen the need to step up and provide some clarification. The issue is a remarkable 1983 KGB document on Kennedy, which I published in my 2006 book, The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism (HarperCollins). The document is a May 14, 1983 memo from KGB head Victor Chebrikov to his boss, the odious Soviet General Secretary Yuri Andropov, designated with the highest classification. It concerns a... American Thinkier http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2334182/posts#comment Mon, 7 Sep 2009 21:36:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2329686/posts Spies Among Us by: Brittany Fortier, September 01, 2009 The world of espionage has been full of danger and intrigue, but today it draws criticism from those who question both the capabilities and usefulness of intelligence gathering. It seems the American Left it still in denial as to the extent of the danger posed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, authors of the new book Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America, had the opportunity to study the notebooks of Alexander Vassiliev, a former Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (KGB) officer... Campus Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2329686/posts#comment Tue, 1 Sep 2009 19:53:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2329514/posts When new information about Americans who had cooperated with the Soviet KGB began to emerge in the 1990s, no individual case generated as much controversy as that of the journalist I.F. Stone, who had long been installed in the pantheon of left-wing heroes as a symbol of rectitude and a teller of truth to power before his death in 1989. Charges about Stone’s connections with the KGB have been swirling about for more than a decade, prompting cries of outrage among his passionate followers. Until now, the evidence was equivocal and subject to different interpretations. No longer.In the early 1990s,... Commentary http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2329514/posts#comment Tue, 1 Sep 2009 16:42:22 GMT