How to rejust the enemy and "feed" his disinformation? The answer to this question knew the staff of the Soviet General Staff. Bright examples of a clearly planned "theatrical production" is the Operation "Anadyr". Neither the Americans nor the British, until the last moment they did not know that they actually tried to turn the General Staff. And when they realized, it was too late.

The fact that our troops visited the Black Continent, also not advertised for a long time. Although, in 1988, the Americans "gently" hinted at it, removed the film "Red Scorpio" with Dolph Lundgren in the lead role.

Soviet soldiers visited Angola, Libya, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Egypt. Periodically wrote this newspaper "True", but there are few articles who believed. But as shown time, in vain. Now, thanks to the fact that many documents were declassified, it became known: the Soviet contingent was stationed in Angola, the number of about 11 thousand people was deployed, a little more was in Ethiopia. The largest group was located in Mozambique - about 30 thousand people.

More than 50 thousand Soviet servicemen visited African countries

Soviet soldiers in Africa were mainly training local soldiers. But sometimes they themselves had to become direct participants in armed actions. As, for example, it was in Angola.

The urgent message came on September 30, 1985. It said that in Beirut, terrorists seized four employees of the Soviet embassies (two of them were representatives of the KGB).

Responsibility for it took over the terrorist organization Hezbollah, and the activists from Fathi helped it. Made it was political consideration. The terrorists, so they wanted to press in Moscow to "advise" Syria to leave the territory controlled by Hezbollah.

Hezbollah wanted to put pressure on Moscow

Soon the representative of the Soviet special services and Ayatollah met in Beirut. During the conversation, the spiritual leader of the terrorist organization was said that if Hezbollah will continue to stubbornly, then "absolutely by chance" some rocket will fall on one of the main Shiite shit. For example, the Iranian city of Kum. Ayatollah in response to this thanked Allah. On that and diverged. After some time, the hostages were released.

For a long time, the fact that Soviet troops participated in the Vietnamese War was hidden. True, the Americans themselves in films about the armed conflict very often exposed their main opponents precisely red units, and not Vietnamese.
The first Soviet military sent in Vietnam in the spring of 1965, after the Americans began a massive bombardment of this country.

In Vietnam, the Soviet military taught local soldiers to the military craft

The operation "Vietnamese Throw", of course, was strictly classified. Therefore, the military before shipment was changed to civilians, and their letters from there were tough censorship. As a result, it turned out that the soldiers did not go to war, but on holiday in exotic country. In total, about 10 thousand Soviet soldiers were sent to Vietnam. Their main task was to train Vietnamese to military craft. In addition, about 2 thousand tanks were sent there, 700 aircraft and 7 thousand guns. Also, our specialists have deployed over Vietnam the air defense system.

This 1976 operation was carried out in conjunction with Cuban special services. The KGB and DGI began to form "correct" public opinion in relation to the Pinochet regime.

According to the former KGB officer Vasily Mitrochin, the operation came up with Andropov personally. The main task was to maximize the image of Pinochet in the media and forcing human rights defenders from outside to put pressure on Chile leader.

The purpose of the operation is to blame the image of the Chilean leader

And twisted. Only in New York Times, about 70 articles were published, which referred to violation of human rights in Chile. But the main thing is a fabricated letter. It said that the US intelligence was subjected to political persecution on the part of the Chilean Dina.

Such the title was dubbed one of the most classified and large-scale operations of the USSR. From the military, in fact, an extremely difficult task was required: secretly from the American special services to deliver rockets, bombs and combat units into Cuba. In total, more than 230 thousand tons of material and technical means and over 50 thousand people of personnel.

To check all this, a serious preparation and high-quality "legend" for meticulous opponents was required. Therefore, transports teach how to remove the military forces of the USSR. In order for everything to fit the legend, the ships were placed on the ships of tanks, guns and other techniques.

Only the highest military ranks knew about the details of the operation.

Secretness was observed strictest. Only the highest military ranks knew about the true direction of transport. All the rest announced that the load should be delivered to Chukotka. More precisely, in the port of Anadyr. Actually, therefore, the operations and gave such a name.

American intelligence agencies could not understand what. Only in mid-October 1962, after analyzing all the data, it was understood in the CIA - a red "nuclear umbrella" was revealed over Cuba. The General Staff of the USSR managed to deceive star-striped scouts.

All four years of war german intelligence Palustively "fed" the disinformation that Lubyanka provided she

In the summer of 1941 soviet scouts Began an operation, which is considered to be the "highest pilot" of the secret struggle and entered into textbooks on intelligence craft. She lasted almost the entire war and on different stages Differently was called "Monastery", "couriers", and then "Berezino".

Her intention initially was to bring to the German spent the targeted "deso" about the allegedly existing anti-Soviet religious and monarchical organization in Moscow, to force enemy intelligence officers into it as in real power. And thus penetrate the intelligence of the Nazis in the Soviet Union.

The FSB declassified the materials of the operation only after 55 years of victory over fascism.

Chekists attracted a representative of the notable nobleman of Boris Sadovsky. With establishment Soviet power He lost his condition and, of course, was hostile to her.

He lived in a small house in the Novodevichy Monastery. Being disabled, almost did not leave him. In July 1941, Sadovsky wrote a poem, which soon became the property of counterintelligence, in which he applied to the Hitler's invaders as "brothers-liberators", called Hitler to restore Russian autocracy.

It was decided to use him as the head of the legendatic "Prepoll", especially since Sadovsky and in fact looking for the opportunity to contact the Germans.

To "help" him, the game included the secret employee of Lubyanka Alexander Demyanov, who had an operational pseudonym "Heine".

His great-grandfather Anton Husk was the first Ataman of the Kuban Cossacks, the Father - Cossack Esuul, who died in the first world War. Mother took place from the princely kind, graduated from Bestuzhevsky courses in the Smolny Institute of Noble Maiden and in the pre-revolutionary years was considered one of Petrograd's aristocratic circles.

Until 1914, Demianov lived and brought up abroad. It was recruited in 1929. Having had noble manners and pleasant appearance, "Heine" easily condensed with film actors, writers, playwrights, poets, in the circles of which turned from the blessings of Chekists. Before the war, in order to curb terrorist acts, he specialized in the development of connections of the nobles left in the USSR with foreign emigration. An experienced agent with such data quickly won the confidence of the poet monarchist Boris Sadovsky.

On February 17, 1942, Demianov - "Heine" switched to the front line and surrendered to the Germans, stating that he was a representative of the anti-Soviet underground. An officer of the Abver Scouts spoke about the organization "Prepoly" and that he was sent by her leaders to communicate with the German command. At first he was not believed to have been subjected to a series of interrogations and thorough checks, including the simulation, throwing a weapon from which he could shoot his torchings and hide. However, its excerpt, a clear line of behavior, persuasive legends, supported by actually existed persons and circumstances, eventually forced German counterintelligers to believe.

He played the role and the fact that even before the war, the Moscow resident of the Assaver * took Demyanov to a note as a possible candidate for recruitment and even assigned him to the nickname "Max".

* Ambraw - the military intelligence body and counterintelligence of Germany in 1919-1944, was part of the Supreme Command of the Wehrmacht.

Under it, he appeared in the 1941 Moscow agent card file, under it, after three weeks of teaching the Azam Spyware, was taken on March 15, 1942 with a parachute in the Soviet rear. Demyanov had to settle in the Rybinsk district with the task of leading active military-political exploration. The Abrest organization has expected the patient propaganda among the population, deploying sabotage and sabotage.

Two weeks on Lubyanka kept the pause, so as not to cause Abresians a suspicion with ease with which their new agent legalized.

Finally, "Max" handed over his first disinformation. Soon, to strengthen the position of Demianan in German intelligence and supply Germans through it with false data of strategic importance, he was arranged by an officer of communication under the head General Staff Marshal Shaposhnikov.

Admiral Kanaris, the head of the Abver (nicknamed Janus, "," Sly Lis ") considered his huge luck, which got a" source of information "in such a high spheres, and could not not boast of this success in front of his rival, the head of the VI management of the RSHA brigadefurer SS Walter Shellenberg. In writing after the war in English, the memoirs he witnessed with envy that military intelligence had a "his person" near Marshal Shaposhnikov, which received a lot of "valuable information". In early August 1942, Max reported to the Germans that the transmitter existing in the organization comes into disrepair and requires replacement.

Soon on the conspiracy apartment of the NKVD in Moscow, there were two Abresian couriers who delivered 10 thousand rubles and products. They reported on the place of the radio hidden by them.

The first group of German agents remained at freedom within ten days so that the security officers could check their appearance and find out if they have no connections with someone. Then the connections were arrested, who were delivered by them found. And the Germans "Max" radiated that the couriers arrived, but the transmitted radio was damaged by landing.

Two months later, due to the front line, two more connections with two radio transmitters and various spyware were appeared. They had a task not only to help "Max", but also to settle in Moscow themselves, collect and transmit their development on the second dilution. Both agents were transferred, and the Abresor Center was reported to the headquarters of Valley, they reported that they had successfully profit and began to fulfill the task. From this point on, the operation developed in two directions: on the one hand, on behalf of the Monarchic Organization "Prepoly" and the Max Resident, on the other, on behalf of the agents of Abver Zyubin and Alaev, allegedly based on their own connections in Moscow. A new stage of the secret duel began - the courier operation.

In November 1942, in response to a request from Valley's headquarters about the possibility of expanding the geography of the Zaprest organization, at the expense of the cities of Yaroslavl, Murom and Ryazan and directions of the agent for further work "Max" conveyed that the city of Gorky is best suited, where the throne cell is created. The Germans agreed to this, and counterpeople took care of the "meeting" of couriers. Satisfying the requests of the Abverstov, Chekists sent them an extensive disinformation that was preparing for the Red Army in the General Staff, and all new and new agents of enemy intelligence were caused to fake.

In Berlin, they were very satisfied with the work of Max and the agent introduced with its help. On December 20, Admiral Kanaris congratulated his Moscow resident with the award of the Iron Cross I degree, and Mikhail Kalinin then signed a decree on Demyanov's awarding the Order of the Red Star. The result of the radio engine "Monastery" and "couriers" became arrest of 23 German agents and their accomplices that had more than 2 million rubles of Soviet money with them, several radio stations, a large number of Documents, weapons, equipment.

In the summer of 1944, the operational game received a new continuation called "Berezino". "Max" reported to Valley headquarters that he was "subcomarded" in just busy soviet troops Minsk. Soon Abynet received from there a message that numerous groups make their way on Belarusian forests german soldiers and officers who were surrounded by the Soviet offensive. Since the data of the radio equipment testified to the desire of the Hitler's command, not only to help them make their way to their, but also use to disorganize the enemy rear, the security officers decided to play on it. Soon the Narc of the State Security of Merkulov reported to Stalin, Molotov and Beria Plan a new operation. "Good" was obtained.

On August 18, 1944, the Moscow Radio Station "The throne" reported to the Germans that Max accidentally ran into the military part of the Wehrmacht, which commander of the Lieutenant Colonel Gerhard Sherkhorn commanded. "Surroundings" are experiencing a greater need of food, weapons, ammunition. Seven days at Lubyanka were waiting for an answer: Abresians, apparently, guessed the certificates about the Sherkhorn and his "troops". And on the eighth, the radio came: "Please help us contact this German part. We intend to reset various goods for them and send a radar. "

On the night of September 15-16, 1944, the Three Messengers of Abver landed on parachutes in the area of \u200b\u200bLake Sadhog in the Minsk Region, where the sherher's regiment was supposedly "hiding". Soon two of them were transferred and turned on in a radoigru.

Then the Abrasrers were transferred two more officers with the names of the Commander of the Center for the Center for the Center of the Center of the Center of the Center of the Center, Colonel Rangeardt and the boss "Abrokkomandy-103" Barfeld. The flow of cargo "Pobing from the Environment" increased, together with them all new "auditors" arrived, who had the task, as confirmed later during interrogations, find out whether these people are responsible for whom. But everything was cleaned clean. So pure that in the last Radiogram of Sherkhorn, transmitted from "Abromandy-103" on May 5, 1945, after the surrender of Berlin, said:

"With a heavy heart, we are forced to stop providing you with help. Based on the established position, we also can't support radio communication with you. Whatever the future brought us, our thoughts will always be with you. "

It was the end of the game. Soviet intelligence brilliantly beat the intelligence of fascist Germany.

The success of the Operation "Berezino" contributed to the fact that real german officersWe switched to the side of the Red Army. They convincingly depicted a surviving regiment, including recruited parachutists-connected.

From the archive data: from September 1944 to May 1945, the German command to our rear was committed 39 flights, and 22 German intelligence officers were thrown out (they were all arrested by Soviet counterperts), 13 radio stations, 255 places of cargo with weapons, outfitting, food, ammunition, medicines, and 1,777,000 rubles. The supply of "his" detachment Germany continued until the very end of the war.

Political portraits. Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov Medvedev Roy Aleksandrovich

Special forces and special operations KGB

Temporary special detachments and groups were created in the NKVD, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the KGB in 1930-1950 to perform a variety of tasks. However, on a permanent basis, and above all to combat terrorism, special forces were created under Andropov and on its initiative. According to the legend, the West German magazine with spectacular photos somehow came to the eyes of Andropov: a group of strong guys in camouflage demonstrated readiness to immediately fulfill the most difficult order: landing in the desert, silently remove any security, seize the bridgehead, neutralize terrorists, free hostages. Andropov invited General Alexey Inpaid to himself, the chief of seventh control of the KGB, eating embassies in Moscow. The result of their meeting was the decision to create a special division of anti-terror in the structure of the State Security Committee, which, at the proposal of Andropov, was named by the group A group. The group "Alpha" began to be called later journalists. Probably the case was not in a random acquaintance with the German magazine. Antiterrorist groups already existed in Israel and the United States, in Germany and England, in Belgium and Spain. Their experience was used when creating the Soviet group "A". At the proposal of Andropov, the head was appointed an experimental border guard, the hero of the Soviet Union Major V. Bibenin. Alpha was a super secret division; The officers who served in it should not have been talking about the nature of their service even the closest people. The official birthday of Alpha is considered July 29, 1974. Today, the work and history of Alfa has considerable literature. This special division doubled the order of the storm of the White House in Moscow - in August 1991 and in October 1993 - and twice refused this order to perform. Among the Veterans of Alpha remembers Andropov. The first commander of the group "A" V. Bibenin spoke in one of the interviews that Andropov decided to create this group and that her experienced border guard should lead it. "Vitaly Dmitrievich, what caused the creation of your group?" - "Terrorism ... Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov, being chairman of the KGB, repeatedly warned the leadership of the country that terrorist attacks, tergroups - distinctive trait Not only the West. And our citizens can touch. But then, you know, it was somehow not believed. "

Alas, Andropov turned out to be right. He worked for ahead and managed. When terrorism became a reality - already "Alpha". "You have repeatedly met with Andropov. What impression did you have about this man? " - "Certainly, this is a person. Man of deepest knowledge, high culture. " - "Who directly submitted the group?" - "I performed orders only the Chair. Only he obeyed. " - "How many people were in the first part of the group?" - "We were thirty people."

A few years later, at the proposal of Yuri Drozdov, supported by Andropov, a diversion-intelligence group "Vympel" was created. The first commander was the captain of the 1st rank of the Hero of the Soviet Union Evald Kozlov from the naval brotherings of the KGB. This group was preparing for operations outside of Soviet borders, for example in Afghanistan. The order for such an operation could only give the Chairman of the KGB and only in writing. When the decision to create a "pennant" was accepted, Y. Andropov, according to Y. Drozdov's testimony, called him and, passing the papers, said: "Well, on. Work, create! And so that they were not there. " According to Drozdov, there were really no "Vimpel". And according to the degree of readiness to take risks, and in the degree of operational fiction, and intelligence resources. The officers of the Vympel knew several languages, they were obliged to independently work out any task, to take the right decision and embody it into life. Some employees of Vympel passed later illegal internship in NATO special forces. It was a powerful division of Soviet, and then the Russian special services. Vympel also received an order for the storm of the White House in October 1993 and did not perform it. As a result, the decree of President B. Yeltsin "Vympel" was reconnected by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. This led to the disintegration of the unit, which was now raised by other tasks. More than 100 officers retired, many moved to the main security department, in the Ministry of Emergency Situations. Only 50 people from the previous composition of the group remained in the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

In 1980-1983, several non-system divisions were created in the KGB. As for small special groupscapable of performing a variety of special operations, such groups on a temporary basis always existed, performing various types of tasks and on the territory of the USSR, and in the territory of socialist countries, and in other regions. For example, a considerable number of special operations was held in the Middle East, where the USSR supported not only Egypt and Syria, but also the People's Front of the liberation of Palestine. From a variety of documents on this account, published in Russian press, I will give only two, where Andropov, there are visas of almost all members of the Politburo.

"Top secret

Special importance

Special folder

State Committee

Security at the Council of Ministers of the USSR

№ 1071-a / s

Comrade Brezhnev L. I.

The State Security Committee from 1968 supports business conspiracy with a member of the Polastin Folk Front Polit Bureau (NFE), head of the external operations of NFOP Vadia Huddad.

At a meeting with the resident of the KGB in Lebanon, held in April with. G., Vadia Haddad in a confidential conversation outlined the promising program of sabotage-terrorist activities of the NFE, which is mainly reduced to the following.

The main purpose of special shares of the NFE is to increase the effectiveness of the struggle of the Palestinian movement of resistance against Israel, Zionism and American imperialism. Based on this, the main directions of the organization's sabotage and terrorist activities are:

- continued by the special means of the "oil war" of the Arab countries against the imperialist forces supporting Israel;

- the implementation of shares against American and Israeli personnel in the "Third Countries" in order to obtain reliable information on the plans and intentions of the United States and Israel;

- conducting sabotage-terrorist activities in Israel;

- Organization of sabotage shares against a diamond trust, which is owned by Israeli, English, Belgian and West German companies.

V. Huddad appealed to us with a request to assist his organization in obtaining some species of special technical means necessary for individual sabotage operations.

Cooperating with us and addressing help, V. Haddad clearly imagines our negative attitude in principle to terror and does not possess issues related to this direction of NFE activities. The nature of relations with V. Huddad allows us to a certain extent to control the activities of the NFE external operations department, to provide an influence on it to the Soviet Union, as well as in our interests of its organization's active activities in compliance with the necessary conspiracy.

Given the foregoing, it would be appropriate for the next meeting as a whole, considering the request of Vadia Haddad about the provision Folk Front Liberation Palestine assistance in special means. As for the specific issues of providing assistance, it is meant that they will be solved in each case separately, taking into account the interests of the Soviet Union and the prevention of the possibility of damaging the security of our country.

We ask consent

A year later, in one of the reports from the "special folder" it was possible to read: "KGB of the USSR. May 16, 1975 No. 1218 - a. Comrade Brezhnev L. I. In accordance with the decision of the Central Committee of the CPSU Committee state security On May 14, 1975, he was transferred to the trusted person of the KGB of KGB V. Huddad - the head of the foreign operations of the NFO Palestine Party of foreign weapons and ammunition to it (automata - 58, pistols - 50, including 10 - with devices for silent shooting, cartridges - 34,000 ). The illegal transfer of weapons was carried out in the neutral waters of the Gulf of the Gulf during the night, a contactless way, with strict compliance with the use of the Navy's intelligence ship of the USSR. From foreigners, only Haddad knows that the specified weapon is transferred to us. Chairman of the State Security Committee Andropov.

There is no reason to hide today by the participation of the KGB of the USSR in this kind of secret operations, but there is no reason to argue that the KGB was able to control the activities of the Palestine liberation Front. Meanwhile, in some publications, the KGB is responsible even for the activities of the Irish Republican Army (IR) or the Japanese "Red Army". According to a number of Western magazines, the KGB planned in 1969 to prevent the official announcement of Prince Charles to the heir to the British throne, blowing up a bridge for which the column of Careth and Limousines should move. Andropov and KGB were attributed not only attempts to recruit in their agents Zbignev Brzezinsky - advisor to the US President on national security, but to destroy the port of New York, blowing up here the dams and military warehouses. An attempt to kill Pope John Paul II was also attributed to the Soviet KGB, although no evidence was found on this bill. Yuri Andropov knew well that after the murder in 1961 the leader of the Ukrainian nationalists Stepan Bender, which was the result of one of the special operations of the KGB, the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee categorically banned this kind of shares. In the structure of the KGB, the corresponding groups were eliminated. However, some very dubious and risky special operations could be carried out by the special services of the GDR, Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia. The USSR KGB could not fully monitor the work of all special services of socialist countries.

Andropov had to be engaged in very exotic operations related, for example, with the complete destruction of the remains of Hitler and Goebbels. Back in 1945, after the fall of Berlin, Hitler's underground bunker, Eva Brown, Goebbels and his families were subjected to a thorough examination and later buried in the zone of the Soviet military occupation. The burial site knew a few, but it existed and could be detected with time by any fans of Hitler. In March 1970, Andropov sent the following report to the CPSU Central Committee: "Sov. Secret. Series "K". KGB of the USSR. March 13, 1970 No. 655 - a. Moscow ... In February 1946, in the city of Magdeburg (GDR) on the territory of the military town occupied by the Special Department of the KGB in the 3rd Army of HSVG, Hitler's corpses, Eva Brown, Goebbels, his wives and children were buried. (Total - 10 corpses.)

Currently, the specified military town, based on the official feasibility that meets the interests of our troops, the command of the army is transferred to the German authorities.

Given the possibility of building or other earthworks on this territory, which may entail the detection of burial, it would be assumed to make exemption of the remains and their destruction by burning.

The specified event will be conducted strictly as conspiratically by the operational group of the Special Department of the KGB of the 3rd Army HSVG and is properly documented.

Chairman of the State Security Committee Andropov.

In accordance with the proposal of Andropov, with whom members of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, a group of soldiers and officers of the KGB special group dug out five shelling boxes used as coffins with the remains of these individuals. They were transported to the landfill, burned, and the ashes dispelled in the wind. Thus, it was Yury Andropov that put the symbolic last point in this gloomy chapter of German history. According to the evidence of the former Director of the FSB, General of the Army of Nikolai Kovalev in the building of the FSB there is a special room, where in one of the safes and today some personal items of Hitler, Himmler and other leaders of the Third Reich are stored. Here they decided to store and the jaws of the Führera, for which his corpse was identified at one time. by Miller Don.

by Miller Don.

Part 7 Special Forces in the ardent assault operations

From the book Commandos [Formation, preparation, outstanding operations of special units] by Miller Don.

Part 9 Special Forces in the fight against terrorists (1968-1935) The challenge of terrorist organizations in 1968 was twenty years of struggle between Israel and various Palestinian rebel organizations. This struggle was conducted in the dense thickets of the Valley of the Jordan River, in the mountains and

From the book "Mossad" - the first half a century author kuntz i.

Special forces of soldiers and officers of special divisions in many countries are considered the most rude and bloodthirsty representatives of the Armed Forces. In Israel attached great importance upbringing members of these units in the spirit of high morality and they are in

Allen Dulles said: "The successful operations of the special services are pledge, and their failures speak for themselves." However, we are still known somewhat successful operations of the KGB of the USSR abroad, which are not called failure.

Operation "Whirlwind"

In the late evening of November 3, 1956, at the negotiations with the Soviet side of the KGB officers, the USSR were arrested by the new Minister of Defense of Hungary Pala Malater. Already at 6 am on November 4, the Soviet command sent the Thunder code signal. He meant the start of the operation of "whirlwind" to suppress the Hungarian uprising.

The task of suppressing the insurrection pinned on a special case. In total, more than 15 tank, mechanized, rifle and air portions, 7th and 31st airborne divisions, railway brigade (more than 60 thousand people) participated in the operation "Vortex".

For the capture of urban objects, special materials were created, they were maintained 150 panels and BMDs and 10-12. In each detachment, the KGB staff of the USSR were: Major General Pavel Zyryanov, Major General Kuzma Grebennik (will be appointed Military Commandant Budapest), famous illegal Alexander Korotkov. In their tasks, the organization of the seizure and arrest of government members Imre Nadia was included.

In one day, all the main objects in Budapest were captured, members of the government Imre Nadia were hidden in the Yugoslav embassy.

On November 22, at 18.30, the Embassy of Yugoslavia in Budapest lined cars and a small bus, which included diplomats and members of the Hungarian government, including imma. The KGB colonel ordered the passengers of the bus to leave him, but did not wait for the reaction. The bus was taken in the "Box" several armoredrs. The chairman of the KGB of Serov reported to the Central Committee, that "I. Nagy and his group were arrested, delivered to Romania and are under reliably guard. "

Liquidation Stepan Bandera

Liquidated Stepana Bander was not so simple. He always walked with bodyguards. In addition, his guarded Western intelligence services. Thanks to their promotion, several attempts on the OUD leader was broken.

But KGB knew how to wait. Agent KGB Bogdan Stashinsky several times came to Munich (under the name of Hansa-Joachim Budita), trying to find traces of Stepan Bandera. In search of helped ... a simple telephone directory. Pseudonym Bandera was "Poppel" (him. Fool), it is also NOVED STASH in the directory. There was also the address of the alleged sacrifice. Then there was a lot of time to prepare for the operation, search for waste tract, selection of bastards and so on.

When Stashinsky arrived next time in Munich, there was already a murder tool with him (a miniature double-rolled device charged with ampoules with cyanium potassium), inhaler and protective pills.

Agent KGB began to wait. Finally, October 15, 1959, at about an hour of the day he saw the car Bandera carries to the garage. Stashsky took advantage of the pre-cooked hodge and the first penetrated into the entrance. There were people - some women were talking on the tops.

Initially, Stashinsky wanted to wait for a banner on the stairs, but he couldn't be there for a long time - he could be discovered. Then he decided to descend the stairs. Wtring took place at the apartment Bandera on the third floor. The Ukrainian nationalist recognized Bogdan - before that, he had already met him in the church. To the question "What are you doing here?" Stashinsky extended a newspaper bundle towards the face. Sounded shot.

Operation "Tukan"

In addition to the romance shares and the organization of the suppression of the uprising of the KGB of the USSR also paid a lot of effort to support the Soviet Union of regimes abroad and the fight against objectionable.

In 1976, the KGB, together with the Cuban special service of DGI, was organized by the operation "Tukan". She concluded in the formation of the desired public opinion In relation to the Augusto Pinochet regime, which repeatedly stated that the main enemy and the enemy of Chile is the Communist Party. According to former officer KGB Vasily Mitrichina, the idea of \u200b\u200boperation belonged personally to Yuri Andropov.

"Toucan" pursued two goals: to give a negative image of Pinochet in the media and stimulate human rights organizations to the beginning of active actions for external pressure on Chile leader. The information war was announced. In the third most popular NEW York Times newspaper, there were as many as 66 articles on human rights in Chile, 4 articles dedicated to the Red Khmer regime in Cambodia and 3 articles on the observance of human rights in Cuba.

During the operation "Toucan" KGB also fabricated a letter where american intelligence accused of political persecution of the Chilean intelligence agency Dina. In the future, many journalists, including Jack Anderson from New York Times, even used this fabricated letter as proof of the CIA involvement to the impartial moments of the Condor operation, aimed at eliminating the political opposition in a number of countries in South America.

John Walker recruitment

The KGB was known for many successful recruitment of specialists of the Western special services. One of the most successful was the recruitment in 1967 of the American encrypter John Walker.

At the same time, the American encryption machine KL-7 was in the hands of the KGB, which was used by all US services to encrypt messages. According to the journalist, Earli, who wrote about Walker, a situation with the recruitment of the American encrypter, "as if the US Navy opened the branch of his Center for Communications right in the middle of Red Square."

All the years (17 years old!), While John Walker was not declassified, the US Armed and the Intelligent Forces found themselves in the waters. Wherever the secret exercises, organized by all the rules of conspiracy, always near the KGB staff. Walker passed the key tables to encryption codes daily, but involved in its agent network the family that he was destroyed.

At the dock, he was due to the testimony of the former wife of Barbara. He was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Liberation of hostages "Hezbollah"

On September 30, 1985, four employees of the Soviet Embassy were captured in Beirut (two of them - the personnel officers of the KGB Valery Nyarkov and Oleg Spirin). The capture took place "according to the classics": blocking machines, black masks, shooting, threats. An employee of the consular department of Arkady Katkov tried to render resistance, but one of the attackers stopped his machine-gun queue.

Responsibility for the seizure took over the Lebanese grouping "Halad Bin Al-Ualida", however, the Beirut Residency of the KBB found that the TRUE Capture Organizers were the Shiite fundamentalists of Hezbollah and Palestinian Fatah activists. The information was also received that the seizure of Soviet diplomats was agreed with the radical representatives of the clergy of Iran, and the terrorists received the blessing of the Hesblyl's religious leader of Sheikh Fadlalla.

Capture had political goals. Hezbollah wanted to force Moscow to put pressure on Syria In order for her government to refuse the operation on stripping controlled by Fathu and Hezbollah territories in Tripoli and Beirut.

Despite the fact that Moscow fulfilled almost all the requirements of terrorists, the hostages were in no hurry to return. In the 6th volume of the book "Essays of the History of Russian External Intelligence", it is indicated that the Center suggested its resident in Beirut to meet with the then spiritual leader of Hezbollah and put pressure on it. The meeting took place, the resident went Wa-Bank and said that "the USSR showed a maximum of patience, but it can move to serious actions."

The idea to Ayatollah reported that if the Soviet hostages were not released, then the random Soviet missile (for example, CC-18) may accidentally depart into the Shiite shrine - the Iranian city of Kum or somewhere during the midday prayer. Ayatollah thought, and then he said that he hoped with the help of Allah to free hostages.

The Beirut Residency of the KGB was also recruited several representatives of the nearest environment of Imad Mugnia (he led the seizure), and several of his relatives were arrested. The massive psychological pressure was justified: after a month after the seizure, Soviet diplomats were free.

In May 2018, exactly half a century will be fulfilled from the moment of conducting, perhaps the most mysterious special operation of the USSR GRU, the information about which was leaked to the press.

The story began back in 1967, when the fierce war was in Indochier between the Northern and South Vietnam. Communist rulers supported Soviet Union And China, and the Americans helped the South Names government. The latter officially introduced their own troops into the territory of the sovereign country and "glorified" by carpet bombings of huge territories on which the partisans of Vietkong (Army of Northern Vietnam) were operating.

It was a period when the scale of the scales were fluided in one, then in the other direction. Troops Democratic Republic Vietnam switched to the offensive after receiving regular parties of Soviet or Chinese weapons. The Sigon Army reflected their attacks, using the support of the US Air Force, which used Iroquais Helicopters, which were quite vulnerable to Soviet CRKK "Strela-2".

Air Fortress with Rocket Systems

On the eve of the new 1968, the military units of Vietcong launched a powerful attack on American military bases, but they received serious reversal and were forced to retreat meaningful losses.

In fact, the attack beat the new helicopters of An-1G "Hugh Cobra,", literally on the eve of those who arrived from the United States. "Super Cobra", as Americans immediately renamed them, were extremely maneuverable, possessed increased armor protection and advanced arms systems.

Depending on the tasks set, these rolling cars were equipped with rocket settings of a 70-mm caliber, automatic 40-milieth grenade launchers, 7.62 mm machine guns, cassettes with HM-3 mines, as well as aviation smoke devices that allowed to hide the exact location of the helicopter.

Shock from the emergence of new military equipment of this level forced the Vietnamese command to seek help from the USSR, which himself was not ready for such developments.

Get a trophy at any price

Solve an intractable task, as always, set the chief intelligent Management (GRU), who has in this region a branched spy network and several groups of War Military, having skills in combat operations in the jungle.

After a few months, the scouts received information that in the territory of neutral Cambodia, 30 km from the border with North Vietnam, the Secret Air Base of the United States Air Force Flying Joe is located. The base was carefully disguised in the impassable jungle, and even the government of Cambodia did not know about its existence (there was enough of his problems - there was a civil war against all, which led to the establishment of the most cruel regime in the history of the planet - "Red Khmer" floor Pot).

In addition to several light and transport helicopters of outdated models, 4 An-1G helicopter was based on "Flying Joe". According to scouts, these helicopters were used to raise into the territory of Northern Vietnam Sniper and sabotage groups, as well as to evacuate soldiers who performed combat missions.

Sure in his impunity Americans protected this air base is not good enough, being confident that they are not threatened.

One can only imagine their shock when, in one of the days of May 1968, the group of military personnel of an unknown army consisting of 8-10 people accomplished on the base. For 20 minutes, more than 15 American soldiers were destroyed, three super cobra helicopters blown out, and the fourth flew in an unknown direction.

Calculate your own defeat

Arrived soon, American Commandos managed to detect only three corpses, whose belonging to any of the warring parties could not be proved.

According to veterans who have completed such risky and illegal tasks, the Special Force Fighters have never had documents with them. But they had capsules with a high-speed poison, which could be used in case of extreme need.

The lightningness of this operation put the American command to a dead end, since there was no evidence of the attack from the USSR. Since the air base was located in Cambodia illegally, it was decided not to raise an excessive noise, but to write off the helicopters and the dead soldiers on combat losses. According to the documents, all these losses were divided into different dates.

Only a few years later, one of the American agents who worked at the KGB of the USSR (were and such), told the Pentagon about this secret operation GRU, although without special details.

Fantasy on the topic of real events

Officially attempting from the Flying Joe Air Base A-1G "Super Cobra" The Cambodian-Vietnamese border did not intersect. However, after a few days, several transport aircraft, exporting details of an unknown aircraft, as well as drawers with armaments and ammunition, flew out of the USSR.

This could be put on this point, waiting for all interested parties to remove secrecy mode from information about this event, if it were not for one very large but ...

Already in early 1970, the Soviet designers conducted a complete modernization of the portable anti-aircraft missile complex "Strela-2", turning it into a high-precision CRKK "Strela-2M".

In 1972, CRKK "Strela-2m" appeared in Vietnam, becoming a real headache of the Americans. What to say, if the military personnel of the Army Northern Vietnam, who did not possess good skills, carried out 589 launches before the end of this war, destroying 204 flying goals. The main losses of Americans were the helicopters of "super-work", which were best determined and captured by the appearance of the new "arrows".

Very serious losses among the elite, which is considered to be the US Air Force, forced the government of this country to agree to the conclusion of its troops from Vietnam. The remaining without support to the Southern Vietnam capitulated, and the country was able to heal a peaceful life.

Little victory of the "Cold War"

The United States and the Soviet Union were not initially interested in the attack information on the Flying Joe base received official publicity. Both sides acted in Cambodia illegally, roughly violating the requirements of the UN Charter and the sovereignty of this country.

On the increased secrecy of the operation shows the fact that all the fighters of the Sport GRU gave a lifelong subscription to non-disclosure of information, and told about her relatives only on deathbed.

Perhaps soon the cover of secrecy will be removed, and we will be able to find out the names of the heroes who managed to change the outcome of many years civil War In Vietnam, and save hundreds of thousands of human lives.