Filip Kovacevic
@ChekistMonitor
Top expert on #KGB (operations, archives, spy fiction). Contributor @CWIHP, @talk_spy. PhD. 20+ years university teaching in Russia/Balkans/US. Now at @usfca.
KGB Quantifying Foreign Contacts: The OOP System
In 1987, #KGB FCD Directorate T developed the General Operational Indicator (OOP) to quantify the value of their foreign contacts.
Here's the Structure & the Points given per each category:
1. Level of Operational Relations
Agent 1
Confidential Contact 0.7
Op. Cultivation 0.5
2. Operational Category of the Source
Agent-recruiter, agent of influence 2
Agent-source of information, potential agent 1
3. Citizenship (Permanent Residence) - USA, NATO, PRC, Japan
a) USA 2
NATO, PRC, Japan 1.5
Other countries 1
The Library of the KGB Training School in 1960, Part 3
PART 3: Another 40 titles of the destroyed top secret publications from the library of #KGB training school in Vilnius.
For items 1-80, see my previous posts.
81. Sherstoboev. Collection of Document Forms for Operational Accounting and Information for the Party Leadership.
The Library of the KGB Training School in 1960, Part 2
PART 2 🧵: When #KGB closed down its training school in Vilnius in 1960, many top secret publications from the school's library were destroyed.
Based on my archival research at the Hoover Institution, I am now able to resurrect the titles of the destroyed publications. ⬇️
The Library of the KGB Training School in 1960, Part 1
NEW 🧵: When #KGB closed down its training school in Vilnius in 1960, many top secret publications from the school's library were destroyed.
Based on my archival research at the Hoover Institution, I am now able to resurrect the titles of the destroyed publications. ⬇️
This Top Secret KGB Document Reveals How the Soviet Lithuanian KGB Planned To Spy on NATO
🧵From a secret letter to Vice Admiral M. A. Usatov, deputy head, First Chief Directorate, #KGB, May 1979.
How Lithuanian KGB planned to spy on NATO:
1. Using its foreign agents to conduct visual surveillance, make contacts with officials and employees of NATO facilities, and
KGB: Signs of Nuclear Attack Preparations on the Soviet Union
From a top secret #KGB operational assignment to their agent in 1987:
“You are asked to remember this list of the main signs of preparation for a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union as reflected in international shipping.” ⬇️🧵
Two KGB Officers Never Documented Before
In #KGB files released by kgbveikla.lt last week I discovered two KGB officers never documented before.
1. Colonel A. A. Bondarenko, deputy head, 3rd Dept, 4th Directorate (1984)
2. Colonel N. V. Krymov, head, 2nd Dept, 4th Directorate (1985)
Original KGB Documents Released on November 7, 2023
👀 NEW: 20 original #KGB documents from the Lithuanian Special Archives were released by the Genocide & Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania on November 7, 2023. (kgbveikla.lt)
🧵 I've translated the titles of the released KGB documents ⬇️. @SocIntelHist @CWIHP
Original KGB Documents Released on October 17, 2023
👀 NEW: 20 original #KGB documents from the Lithuanian Special Archives were released by the Genocide & Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania on October 17, 2023. (kgbveikla.lt)
🧵 I've translated the titles of the released KGB documents below. @SocIntelHist @CWIHP
Original KGB Documents Released on October 3, 2023
👀 NEW: 20 original #KGB documents from the Lithuanian Special Archives were released by the Genocide & Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania on October 3, 2023. (kgbveikla.lt)
🧵 I've translated the titles of the released KGB documents below. @SocIntelHist @CWIHP