Hunter for double agents-moles - Rem Sergeevich Krasilnikov. “Unconventional sources” are more dangerous than residents

Stanislavsky Konstantin Sergeyevich Real name - Konstantin Sergeyevich Alekseev (born in 1863 - died in 1938) Russian industrialist, owner of a Moscow gold-weaving factory. An outstanding director, actor, teacher, reformer and stage theorist. Founder of the Moscow

Senior Research Fellow of the Academy of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation; was born on March 14, 1927 in Moscow; graduated from MGIMO with a degree in international law in 1949; since 1949 he served in the state security agencies; 1956-1963 - USSR and Russia, served as head of the First (American) Department of the Second Main Directorate of the KGB of the USSR (counterintelligence); retired Major General; was awarded the title of "Honorary State Security Officer"; awarded the orders of the October Revolution, the Red Star, the Red Banner, the Red Banner of Labor, 14 medals, as well as 13 orders and medals of foreign countries; author of the book "Ghosts from Tchaikovsky Street", a number of articles on the work of foreign special services against Russia; married, has a daughter and a son; hobbies: reading fiction and historical literature, metalwork and turning.

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March marked the 85th anniversary of the birth of the best counterintelligence officer of the USSR, General Rem Krasilnikov

He was called a "double agent mole hunter" and "the main enemy of the Moscow CIA station." For more than 20 years, Rem Sergeevich Krasilnikov headed the English and then the American departments of the Second Main Directorate of the KGB of the USSR - Soviet counterintelligence. The most interesting and productive operations against Western intelligence agencies are associated with his name. Perhaps it was Krasilnikov and his subordinates who achieved the greatest success in exposing foreign intelligence agents in the Soviet Union.

Our observer was not closely acquainted with the legendary counterintelligence officer. Therefore, he asked his former subordinate and student, FSB Colonel Yuri Anatolyevich N.

Mole hunter

We are sitting in the kitchen of a Moscow apartment. Yuri Anatolyevich has just returned from the Khovansky cemetery. He took flowers to the grave of the Teacher.

March for General Krasilnikov is a special time. In the first month of the spring of 1927 he was born. In March 2003, he died. Let's remember a good man, - the colonel raised his glass.

They drank without clinking glasses. Yuri Anatolyevich hid the bottle in the refrigerator and brought a thick folder from another room. He pulled out a yellowed newspaper clipping and handed it to me. Under the heading “In the Committee for State Security of the USSR”, an official statement was published: “On March 16, 1986, in Moscow, Second Secretary of the US Embassy Michael Sellers was caught red-handed during a secret meeting with a Soviet citizen recruited by American intelligence. Another espionage action by the US intelligence services against the Soviet Union has been thwarted. During the investigation, evidence was collected that completely exposes this US embassy employee in intelligence activities incompatible with his official status. For illegal espionage activities, M. Sellers was declared persona non grata. An investigation is underway into the case of the arrested American intelligence agent.”

The era of glasnost, - Yuri Anatolyevich grinned. - General Krasilnikov loved such reports in the newspapers.

The colonel began to talk about the operation, which was led by Rem Sergeevich. It turns out that the second secretary of the US Embassy, ​​Michael Sellers, is an intelligence agent for the CIA station in Moscow. "Arrested agent of American intelligence" - senior detective of the KGB department for Moscow and the Moscow region, Major Sergei Vorontsov - "mole", agent Kapyushon. Vorontsov introduced himself to American intelligence officers as an employee of the central counterintelligence apparatus, an employee of the Second Main Directorate, a subordinate of the formidable General Krasilnikov ...

What for? - the observer of "AN" could not resist the question.

To inflate his worth in the eyes of the CIA, - said Yuri Anatolyevich. - At that time, having a "mole" in the Lubyanka, and even in the American department, was unheard of cool. In terms of significance, this is about the same as Ames in the American intelligence services or the traitor Poteev from our intelligence.

How was the Hood exposed?

The Colonel pulled out another sheet of paper from the folder. This time with a translation of an excerpt from Pete Earley's Confessions of a Spy. Concise lines caught my eye: “On March 10, the KGB ambushed CIA intelligence officer Michael Sellers when he was on his way to a meeting place with a spy. The CIA later learned his first and last name - Sergei Vorontsov. Vorontsov has been a CIA agent since 1984. He reported on how the local KGB guarded the US embassy in Moscow.” The American journalist claimed that Kapyushon gave his liaison a secret powder with which the Soviet counterintelligence secretly marked the vehicles of the US embassy. In the rays of special devices, the cars of spy diplomats shone even at night. This made tracking them much easier.

Is it true?

Nonsense, - the FSB colonel slashed. - Our outdoor scene, of course, used different technical methods and methods. But she never resorted to "chemistry". And the “mole” impostor was personally figured out by General Krasilnikov himself.

Yuri Anatolyevich laughed:

We'll talk about this in half a century, when the stamp "Top Secret" will be removed from this operation. But how they took another "mole", I can tell you now.

It was my first operation under the guidance of Rem Sergeevich. But as now I remember Serebryakova passage, which is located in the northern region of Moscow. Now there is no way to know the places where the American spy Paul Zalaki came, whom we followed. Only power lines remained.

At one of them, Paul Zalaki hid his cobblestone. Inside, as it turned out later, a wad of money sealed in plastic - 20 thousand rubles and a note reminding - a signal about the seizure of the cache.

Exactly two weeks later, a stocky middle-aged man appeared in the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe hiding place, with a shopping bag in his hands. I saw him get nervous and look around; goes to the hiding place, picks up the cobblestone and puts it in the bag; steps aside and hides the stone in the bushes. Here our operatives take him under the white hands. It was clear: this is the one to whom the cache container is intended. During the interrogation, they found out that the agent caught red-handed in the hiding operation was Lieutenant Colonel of the First Main Directorate Poleshchuk, who had come on vacation from the USSR Embassy in Nigeria.

Poleshchuk's failure, states Pete Earley in his book, is "something terrible." But the Americans were horrified, apparently, not by the loss of Poleshchuk, but by the loss of potential opportunities for penetration with the help of the agent Libra into the central apparatus of Soviet intelligence, into one of its most important divisions - the counterintelligence department.

Strikes on the agent network

On the account of General Krasilnikov there are dozens of such operations. Here are the declassified statistics of the second half of the 80s - early 90s. Since 1985 alone, thirteen intelligence officers from the CIA's Moscow residency have been expelled from the country, caught red-handed while committing espionage activities. Also at this time, more than twenty CIA agents from among the citizens of the USSR and Russia were exposed and prosecuted. More than thirty American intelligence officers who were with us were exposed. At the suggestion of General Krasilnikov, they got into the pages of the media as being involved in subversive actions.

Such strikes badly damaged the reputation of American intelligence. The CIA's spy network has been heavily breached. Agents Fitness, Jogger, Village, Glazing, Thame, Backband, West were caught red-handed. Agent Langley Eastbound turned himself in to the State Security Committee with a confession. Tony's career as an American spy did not last long. Agent Prologue was arrested, who was eagerly awaited in Langley, having prepared all the necessary conditions for his evacuation from our country.

Frustrated by these failures, Robert Gates, director of the CIA in 1991-1993. said: “Who would have thought five years ago where we would be today! Information about the USSR was weak, since the agent network of our intelligence was curtailed just at that time.

William Webster, Director of the CIA 1987-1991 confirmed: “Information from the Soviet Union was fragmentary. The CIA failed to predict the collapse of the Soviet Union."

Stansfield Turner, director of the CIA from 1977-1981, wrote: "We should not gloss over the failure of the CIA."

The failures of the CIA in the Soviet Union in the 1980s and early 1990s, as one Langley official put it, "literally destroyed the Moscow residency."

“Unconventional sources” are more dangerous than residents

The Colonel continued to read documents from his folder. But the AN columnist stopped him with a "prickly" question:

In the book of Yuri Ivanovich Drozdov “Fiction is excluded. Notes of the head of illegal intelligence of the KGB of the USSR ”it is mentioned that“ former American intelligence officers ”in the heat of frankness threw the phrase:“ You are good guys, guys! We know that you have had successes that you have the right to be proud of. But the time will come, and you will gasp when you find out (if it is declassified) what kind of agents the CIA and the State Department had at the top.” Why did the American department of the Soviet counterintelligence miss her?

The Colonel furrowed his brows.

Now it is fashionable to hang all dogs on us. Like, they missed the traitors, allowed the collapse of the USSR.

Isn't that right?

Not this way! - Yuri Anatolyevich's heavy fist fell on the fragile kitchen table. - We did not serve in a private shop, where it was possible to work on the principle: I turn what I want. We have epaulettes on our shoulders, and we obey orders. The KGB was strictly forbidden to conduct operational research of the leaders of the party and state.

But after all, information was leaking about the so-called interns of the American Columbia University. Even some newspapers wrote about Gorbachev's South Korean dollars. Have you been sitting on your hands?

We worked successfully against the Moscow SIS and CIA stations. This was our task. With agents of influence or, as they are now bashfully called in foreign intelligence services, “non-traditional sources”, our wards in Moscow did not contact. For this, foreign visits were enough.

Yuri Anatolyevich explained that the so-called non-traditional sources are especially confidential contacts of American intelligence (which also acts on behalf of the State Department). In essence, those who make these contacts do not need to know that they are dealing with the CIA, they do not have to be absolutely obedient puppet masters: acting to please American goals, they primarily pursue their own selfish interests.

It is not at all necessary to establish direct agent relations with traitors in the highest echelons of power, as with intelligence "clients". In many cases, you can resort to camouflage, giving your "non-traditional sources" the roles of consultants, experts, business partners, and so on. It is important that they have a personal interest in maintaining contacts - it must be skillfully directed in the right direction. It is not necessary to have a purely monetary, material interest - it can be political plans, ambitions for power or prestige, the interests of relatives.

The CIA embassy station in Moscow was strictly forbidden to make contact with such agents of influence, they worked with them only when they traveled outside the country - in the safest conditions. Such "non-traditional sources" are much more valuable and dangerous than any spy.

Reference

Krasilnikov Rem Sergeevich graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. In 1949, after graduating from MGIMO, he began serving in the state security bodies of the USSR, where, over 43 years of service, he worked his way up from an assistant detective to the head of the 1st department of the 2nd Main Directorate of the KGB of the USSR. He was awarded the Order of the Red Star, the Order of the October Revolution, the Order of the Red Banner of Labor and the Red Banner, numerous medals, as well as departmental insignia. Including - "Honorary State Security Officer".

• Krasilnikov R.S. Ghosts from Tchaikovsky Street: US CIA Spy Actions in the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation in 1979-1992. [Djv-4.7M] Author: Rem Sergeyevich Krasilnikov.
  (Moscow: Publishing house "GEYA iterum", 1999. - Series "Declassified Lives")
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• TABLE OF CONTENTS:
  From the author (5).
  Prologue (8).
  Chapter 1. Intelligence and counterintelligence (14).
  Chapter 2
  Washington Intelligence Community (27).
  Aggressiveness, assertiveness (36).
  "We are everywhere in the world" (37).
  Generous budget (38).
  In the same team with the State Department (39).
  Alliance with big business (39).
  Conspiracy is above all (41).
  Information use mechanism (43).
  Monopoly on special operations (45).
  Center for International Spy Corporation (50).
  Technical means - a favorite brainchild (52).
  The main weapon is agents (53).
  Priority direction (56).
  Chapter 3. Strokes to the portrait of an American operative (60).
  Chapter 4. Embassy residency in Moscow (74).
  A bit of history (74).
  The role of Moscow "ghosts" in the actions of the CIA (78).
  Ambassador and Resident (84).
  Spy alliance behind the walls of the embassy (86).
  Who provides cover? (89).
  About "operators" in Moscow (92).
  The collapse of the business of Mr. Bakatin (95).
  Chapter 5
  Formation of the first department (103).
  My senior bosses (107).
  Pros and cons (114).
  Chapter 6. The Eighties: A New "Crusade" (119).
  William Casey is America's #1 spy (119).
  First upsets (132).
  Intelligence satellites in the service of the CIA (143).
  The resonance of the Redsox plan (145).
  The failure of "Rolf Daniel" (149).
  Spy trio in the American embassy (153).
  Soldiers of "psychological warfare" (157).
  Chapter 7. Langley goes ahead (164).
  Director of Intelligence reflects (164).
  The failure of the agent "Sphere" (168).
  Operation on the Kaluga highway (179).
  The mystery of the hiding place in Serebryakov passage (188).
  Offensive on all fronts (194).
  End of Operation Absorb (204).
  The story of the agent "Median" (212).
  Mr. Site is in a hurry for a date (215).
  Nightmare and tragedy (217).
  Gloomy results of the eighties (219).
  Chapter 8
  About traitors and betrayal (223).
  Help for those who stumble (227).
  "Unconventional sources", or "fifth column" (231).
  Agents of influence (236).
  Eternal motif - thirty pieces of silver (245).
  "Initiators" (249).
  Chapter 9. Russia - the new "main adversary" (253).
  Chapter 10. Special services: contacts and interaction (267).
  Chapter 11
  Instead of an epilogue (282).
  Appendix (286).

Publisher's note: In Washington James Bond jargon, "ghosts" are employees of the US Central Intelligence Agency. It was believed that the Moscow residency of the CIA was an elite unit, staffed by such elusive intelligence officers.
Lubyanka dispelled this myth. The author is a retired major general, former head of the American department of the Second (counterintelligence) main directorate of the KGB, in 1979-1992 led operations to neutralize the subversive activities of overseas spies in the USSR. He objectively and truthfully tells about the sharp confrontation between the special services of Moscow and Washington.