On 5 November 1944, the head of the Soviet NKVD Foreign Intelligence Directorate, Pavel Mikhaylovich Fitin, disseminated a Top Secret report on global advances in the field of nuclear weapon developments. The list of addressees for the report is not included in the material, but given the level of detail and the highly sensitive natureContinueContinue reading “Project “Enormoz” Update: 1944 NKVD Report on Foreign Nuclear Weapon Programs Using Input from Spies Abroad”
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Soviet Persecution of Family of Executed Ukrainian Writer Hnat Khotkevych
Please note: The English translation of Ukrainian names and placenames in declassified Russian-language material uses Russian spelling conventions rather than Ukrainian. This is not done with any intent to disrespect the Ukrainian language or people, but is merely a translation convention for historical documents of this sort. The following background information was translated from theContinueContinue reading “Soviet Persecution of Family of Executed Ukrainian Writer Hnat Khotkevych”
Top Secret Details for the Soviet Troop Withdrawal from Afghanistan
On 1 April 1988, two weeks before the Geneva Accords were enacted, a meeting was held of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU, outlining scenarios for the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan – scenarios which took into consideration the official signing of the accords, as well as the refusal of theContinueContinue reading “Top Secret Details for the Soviet Troop Withdrawal from Afghanistan”
Declassified KGB Report on President Jimmy Carter’s “Dangerous Game” with US-Soviet Relations
Last month saw the publication of a newly declassified report submitted by then-KGB Director Yuri Andropov to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union based on “confidential” conversations with US business and political leaders regarding the dangerous direction led by US President Jimmy Carter. The initial text below, from the FSBContinueContinue reading “Declassified KGB Report on President Jimmy Carter’s “Dangerous Game” with US-Soviet Relations”
Putin Secretly Awards Russian Spies from Slovenia: Declassified Materials
Today’s entry is a collection of material from “Razvedchik,” the official publication of the Russian Federation Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) and the UNN (Ukrainian National News) website. Artem and Anna Dultsev, who worked under the guise of Argentines, received the Order of Courage from Putin, according to the magazine “Razvedchik”, the official publication of theContinueContinue reading “Putin Secretly Awards Russian Spies from Slovenia: Declassified Materials”
DETI: Part 2 of Interrogation of Red Army Lieutenant Training Soviet Children for the Germans in WW2
Those who have been following the site for the past month know that we have been publishing declassified documents that were published on the Russian FSB (Federal Security Service) website on 1 June 2024, the International Day for the Protection of Children. This is Part Two of the first in a series of three separateContinueContinue reading “DETI: Part 2 of Interrogation of Red Army Lieutenant Training Soviet Children for the Germans in WW2”
DETI: Red Army Officer Interrogated for Role Supporting Germans in Training Soviet Youths to Commit Sabotage in Soviet Union
Nine documents were declassified and published on the Russian FSB (Federal Security Service) website on 1 June 2024, the International Day for the Protection of Children. This is Part One the first in a series of three separate interrogations conducted of Yu.N. Yevtukhovich. Yevtukhovich, a deserter from the Soviet Red Army as a Lieutenant, detailsContinueContinue reading “DETI: Red Army Officer Interrogated for Role Supporting Germans in Training Soviet Youths to Commit Sabotage in Soviet Union”
DETI: Details of Sabotage Missions Come to Light from Detained Soviet German-Trained Children
Nine documents were declassified and published on the Russian FSB (Federal Security Service) website on 1 June 2024, the International Day for the Protection of Children. This is the fourth in the series of documents translated. This is an undated five-page TOP SECRET report, probably written in September 1943, providing details of the arrest ofContinueContinue reading “DETI: Details of Sabotage Missions Come to Light from Detained Soviet German-Trained Children”
DETI: German-Trained Soviet Teens Parachute Into Kursk Oblast to Conduct Sabotage, 1943
Nine documents were declassified and published on the Russian FSB (Federal Security Service) website on 1 June 2024, the International Day for the Protection of Children. This is the third in the series of documents translated. This is a “Special Message,” marked TOP SECRET, dated 3 September 1943 on the arrest of three saboteurs trainedContinueContinue reading “DETI: German-Trained Soviet Teens Parachute Into Kursk Oblast to Conduct Sabotage, 1943”
DETI: NKVD Discovers Saboteur Schools Established by German Intelligence to Train Kidnapped Soviet Orphans
Nine documents were declassified and published on the Russian FSB (Federal Security Service) website on 1 June 2024, the International Day for the Protection of Children. This is the second in the series of documents translated. This is a “Special Message,” marked TOP SECRET, dated 25 December 1941 on the discovery of two saboteur andContinueContinue reading “DETI: NKVD Discovers Saboteur Schools Established by German Intelligence to Train Kidnapped Soviet Orphans”
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