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- Yuri Drozdov once said it could take up to seven years to train an "illegal", the Soviet spies planted abroad under false or assumed identities, sometimes for decades. As former chief of the KGB intelligence agency's Directorate S, which managed the illegals programme, Drozdov knew more than most about what it took to prepare someone for the task.
www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40367736Yuri Drozdov: The man who turned Soviet spies into Americans
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May 15, 2015 · Journalist Konstantin Kapitonov was able to interview one of its chiefs, Lt. Gen. Vadim Alekseevich Kirpichenko (1922-2005) about his time at the head of the Illegals Directorate during the 1970s. In March of 1974 Kirpichenko was called to Moscow to report to KGB Chairman Yuri Andropov.
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This concerns the training and use of so-called “illegals” –...
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Directorate S, also known as the Illegals Directorate, was...
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- Training an Illegal
Jun 23, 2017 · As former chief of the KGB intelligence agency's Directorate S, which managed the illegals programme, Drozdov knew more than most about what it took to prepare someone for the task.
In November 2010, the Interfax news agency cited an unidentified "Russian intelligence source" as saying that "Colonel Alexander Poteyev, a former deputy head of the U.S. division of Directorate S (illegal intelligence) within the SVR" was the subject of both internal and criminal investigations, with the criminal case likely to have been ...
Mar 6, 2018 · In June 2017, Colonel Maksym Shapoval, a Ukrainian military intelligence officer, was blown up in his car. The most recent attempted killing, of a far-right politician, was in October 2017....
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Mar 7, 2017 · Mikhail Semenko, one of the two “illegals” to use their real name, studied at Seton Hall University and later worked for a travel agency.
Jul 10, 2017 · Back in Moscow, as the Soviet Union began to decline, General Drozdov became chief of the K.G.B.’s illegal intelligence directorate and continued training a new generation of illegals.
Feb 20, 2016 · Major General Yuri Drozdov, the legendary last chief of Directorate S (Illegals) within the KGB’s First Chief Directorate (FCD – Foreign Intelligence) tells of working with KGB Chairman and future General Secretary Yuri Andropov.
