How the CIA Turned the Tables on Soviet Industrial Espionage

Recommendable, but does not go deep enough! What is Putin the Terrible (former KGB officer) doing today or the Communist Party of China?

Spy Wars with Damian Lewis: The Man Who Saved the World

Highly recommendable! High drama, suspense! The Cuba missile crises was not the only serious brink of a nuclear war crisis between the West and the USSR!

Pre-agreed signal after crossing the Finnish border into safety and freedom: Jean Sibelius Finlandia Suite!

This little known hero (Oleg Gordievsky) who has had to live the rest of

his life under cover in an undisclosed location!

Spy Wars with Damian Lewis: The Man Who Saved the World (Full Episode)

How Russia Subverts The West

Posted: 8/28/2017

From The CIA To The KGB

Always keep in mind Vladimir Putin is a former KGB officer and former director of the successor organisation of the KGB, i.e. the FSB.

A systematic imbalance: Thanks to freedom of speech and democracy, we have learnt much more about the activities and operations of Western foreign intelligence services like the CIA or the British MI6 (now SIS), then we have learnt about the foreign intelligence services of closed dictatorships like former USSR or today’s Russia, China, or Iran.

Or has the West learnt more about its own foreign intelligence services because of deliberate operations of the intelligence services of those dictatorships to undermine the West?

Anyway, whatever covert operations or activities the CIA or other Western intelligence services were able to undertake, we can safely assume that the KGB or other intelligence services run by dictatorships are very comparable if not worse, because they do not have to fear much scrutiny by political parties or opponents.

The Extent Of Subversion In The West

Perpetrated By Dictatorial Foreign Intelligence Services

Is Probably Largely Underestimated

There are a number of reasons for this systematic underestimation:

1. Open societies allow foreign intelligence services to operate much easier and in many different ways
2. For instance, financial support by foreign intelligence services to groups or individuals to to foment public discord is often very difficult to uncover
3. Foreign intelligence services are much more ruthless when it comes to cover up (including murder, harm to family members) etc.
4. Defectors of these foreign intelligence services are fairly rare, or are eliminated, or they need so much protection that the public in the West will not learn about their disclosures for long times (decades)
5. The hands of Western counterintelligence services are for good reasons severely tied behind their backs when it comes to investigate, prevent, or uncover operations or activities by foreign intelligence services directed at political activists or activist groups. Not to mention that Western counterintelligence services are already quite busy to prevent espionage and potential sabotage operations

Two Recent Articles About Russia’s Involvement With U.S. Environmentalist Groups

For sake of brevity, I will not discuss these two articles here.

Lawmakers Cite Evidence Russia ‘Colludes’ With US Green Groups to Block Fracking

CIA Veteran Sees Russian Connection to 2 Groups Opposing Fracking, Pipelines

The KGB And Its Successor Continue To Manipulate The West

Trigger

The past several days or weeks have seen stunning revelations of disclosed private phone conversations between leading politicians of the West. I hope I will be able to add source references later.

In context of the Crimean crisis the biggest winner of some of these recent leaks of telephone conversations would be Russia.

Why Is The West So Blind To The KGB?

Is this perhaps one of the best KGB operations of all times to be able to disinform the citizens in the West for decades about the activities of their own intelligence services while the KGB is able to maintain a low profile in the West?

Why do citizens of the West know so much more about alleged abuses committed by  the CIA, while we know so little about the KGB? Is the KGB morally superior or simply inept or what?

Edward Snowden

Perhaps one day we will learn whether he himself or his associates were KGB agents. I would not be surprised.