Espionagem sovietica: muito mais ampla do que jamais voce poderia sonhar - BBC russian service

Você sabia, caro leitor, que dois embaixadores brasileiros trabalharam para a União Soviética, como agentes pagos, chantageados, voluntários, ou seja lá o que for. Não temos os nomes verdadeiros, ainda, apenas os nomes de guerra: Aleks e Izotys, mas isso não importa muito. O fato é que eles não eram muito produtivos, segundo os papéis do Mithrokin Archives, que já foram publicados nos EUA. Parece que eles ganhavam razoavelmente bem, mas trabalhavam mal, com informações pouco substantivas, ou praticamente anódinas.
Também tem a informação de que cubanos e soviéticos penetraram os códigos confidenciais brasileiros, e leram tudo o transitava em nosso telex, depois mensagens eletrônicas. É a vida...
Enfim, ainda falta muito espião para descobrir, no nosso caso agentes cubanos que ainda estão por aí, pulando alegremente, de um lugar para outro, ganhando dinheiro e continuando a fazer trabalho sujo, como vocês devem saber...
Aqui uma outra história que traduzi pelo Google Translator do russo, espero que seja compreensível.
Paulo Roberto de Almeida

What was the name of Abel's actually 157 folders MI5

Gennady Alasheev BBC Russian Service

• October 30, 2014
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Rudolf Abel (photo - second from left) is considered one of the most successful spies during the Cold War

One of the most intriguing discoveries of new batch of documents declassified British intelligence service MI5, began documents related to Rudolf Abel.

According to the available data to date, Abel was the only Soviet intelligence officer cadre, born in Britain, unlike simple agents. Curiously, at the time of his dossier MI5 did not know what the real name Abel - William Fisher, and that he was born in 1903 in Newcastle-on-Tyne.
In total, the British MI5 counterintelligence declassified 157 folders with documents, most of which are documents from the personal files of people who were in sight of the British counterintelligence.
Declassified information relates to the period between World War I and the time of confrontation between the USSR and the West after the Second World War. The documents are divided into several categories: German intelligence agents and suspected of links with it during the Second World War; people for which audited; Soviet spies and people suspected of spying for the Soviet Union; communists and alleged communists, including citizens of the Soviet Union and those who approve of communist views.
Obviously, the materials of the dossier Abel must study together with the files of his personal file in the KGB, who kidnapped and brought back to Britain a former employee of the Archives Department of the First Chief Directorate of the KGB Vasili Mitrokhin.

Declassified documents are stored in the National Archives of Britain

Almost all the documents stolen from the Mitrokhin archive KGB, with July 2014 have become available to historians. For example, it was reported that Abel in 1947 led a large spy network in the US. In 1949, for the excellent work the leadership of the USSR awarded him the Order of the Red Banner.
In documents MI5 describes his arrest in the US in 1956. In the "Mitrokhin Archive" reported that during the arrest, he is named after his friend Rudolf Abel, who by that time was already dead. Fisher knew that the news of the arrest of "Abel" will signal to the KGB about what actually happened.
As is known, Abel subsequently exchanged in Berlin on pilot spy plane U-2 was shot down over the Soviet Union, Gary Powers.

Money laundering of the USSR in the US

There among the documents dossier colorful American businessmen Julius Hammer and his son Armand. Of these, it becomes clear how the Soviet Union in 1920 launched its intelligence activities in the United States.
Family Hammer played a role in laundering money coming from the Soviet Union to finance the American Communist movement.

Famous Hollywood actor Armie Hammer, who played in the movie "The Social Network" - the great-grandson of businessman Armand Hammer

From the archives of the KGB became known in 1921, Vladimir Lenin considered the report of the Hummers so important that he sent a copy of Stalin stamped "Top Secret".
In the declassified document says that after America entered World War II, Julius Hammer could not move there. So he decided to go the other way, that is earning a lot of money that would have gone to the needs of the communist movement. In this he succeeded.
Among other alleged agents of the USSR include Indian diplomat and nationalist Arata Kandet Narayan Nambiar. In 1924 he went as a journalist in Berlin, where he collaborated with the communist cell consisting of Indians. In 1929, at the invitation of the Soviet Union, he came to Moscow.
Before the start of the Second World War, he was deported from Germany, but soon he was allowed to return as a representative nationalist Subhas Chandra Bose in Berlin. Then he led the European cell "Free India", which was funded by the Nazis.

In 1959, Soviet defector told intelligence services of Britain that Nambiar was recruited by the GRU in 1920

He was arrested in Austria in 1945 and received a prison sentence for aiding the Nazis. Conviction has not prevented him Ambassador of India to work in Germany.
In 1959, Soviet defector told intelligence services of Britain that Nambiar was recruited by the GRU in the 1920s. In the "Mitrokhin Archive" no information about it, perhaps because it documents the GRU were not included.

British Marxist historians

It is assumed that most interest to researchers are the files associated with the British Marxist historians Eric Hobsbawm and Christopher Hill.
In the case of Hill turns out that the intelligence agencies became interested in him after his long journey to Russia in 1935, when he was a student at Oxford University. In 1936 he returned to Britain and joined the Communist Party. After the Second World War, MI5 believed Hill's one of the main Communist at Oxford University.
In 1951, counterintelligence received permission from the Ministry of Interior to the audition of his telephone conversations and reading his correspondence. In MI5 believed that thus will be able to get more information about the scientist as well as on the activities of the Communists in the University of Oxford.
Thanks intercepted letter becomes clear infighting Hill and his decision to quit the Communist Party in 1957. Thus he protested the invasion of the Soviet Union in Hungary in 1956. In his address to the party leadership, he wrote: "For too long we have lived in a world of illusions. It was a cozy little world ..."

Counterintelligence reread correspondence Eric Hobsbawm

Unlike Hill Eric Hobsbawm has not left the ranks of the Communist Party after the Soviet invasion of Hungary, but his relationship with some of the British Communists soured. One of the supporters of "hard" line Dee Ann Pritt once said in a private conversation that he was dissatisfied with "this heinous Eric Hobsbawm."
Many Communists unpleasantly surprised to learn that the historian, wrote an article for the Daily Mail and the other is not too sympathetic to the Communists publications under the pseudonym Francis Newton. However, he continued to encourage people, especially young people, to join the Communist Party.
In one of the declassified files specifically states that in 1963 he congratulated the Young Communist League of West Middlesex with "encouraging results" to attract new members. The documents contained his membership card belonging to the beginning of the 1960s, as well as intercepted letters and transcripts of telephone conversations.

Secret agent of the Gestapo

The current package of documents disclosed reveals the secret MI5 agent "Jack King" of which the general public has learned of previously declassified documents. This officer counterintelligence, whose real name is - Eric Roberts, during the Second World War in Britain seemed a secret agent of the German Gestapo, making counterintelligence revealed Britons sympathetic to the Nazis. This operation is called "The Case of the fifth column."
Some British, believing that they are dealing with a German spy, he even passed classified information, including the development of the engine for supersonic aircraft.
Thanks released documents became known name of the agent, as well as recordings of his conversations with supporters of the Nazis, who wanted to uncover all sorts of military secrets and thereby harm the military might of Britain.

Eric Roberts was represented in Britain a secret agent of the Gestapo

Supporters Hitler proposes to continue the bombing of British cities to further undermine the morale of the society, and the German troops entered the territory of Britain. In the period from 1942 to 1945, Roberts was able to identify dozens or even hundreds of people who supported the Nazis.
In declassified documents counterintelligence have information about the American physicist Robert Oppenheimer, who helped create the Atomic bomby.Ego suspects in connection with the Soviet Union because of sympathy for the ideas of Marxism and the communist movement. From his dossier can be understood that the American and British intelligence are very worried that Oppenheimer decides to escape to the Soviet Union.
MI5 declassified dossier on the member of the CPSU, comrade Joseph Stalin Georgy Malenkov. In 1956 Malenkov headed the delegation of the Soviet Union, to visit the UK. The visit was widely covered in the British press.

Uma carreira de futuro interrompida: espiao da KGB...

Bem, não teria sido muito destoante de outros casos na Grã-Bretanha, cujos intelectuais e funcionários de Estado sempre fizeram excelentes espiões para o KGB soviético...

ASSÉDIO SOVIÉTICO

Cameron diz que KGB tentou recrutá-lo na década de 1980

Presidente russo brincou dizendo que 'Cameron teria sido um bom agente da KGB'

Opinião e Notícioa, 13/09/2011

Em visita à Rússia, o primeiro-ministro britânico, David Cameron, disse que a KGB, serviço secreto da antiga União Soviética, tentou recrutá-lo para suas fileiras em 1985 durante uma viagem que fez ao país comunista.

“Dois russos que falavam inglês muito bem me deram comida e me perguntaram sobre a vida na Inglaterra e o que eu pensava sobre política. Na volta, contei o que aconteceu ao meu tutor na universidade e ele me perguntou se tinha sido uma entrevista. Se foi uma entrevista, parece que não consegui o posto”, disse Cameron durante uma conferência na faculdade de Relações Internacionais da Universidade de Moscou.

Medvedev: ‘Teria sido um bom agente da KGB’

Perguntado por um jornalista britânico sobre as possíveis tentativas da KGB de recrutar Cameron, o presidente da Rússia, Dmitri Medvedev, disse:

“Tenho certeza de que Cameron teria sido um bom agente da KGB. Mas nunca teria chegado a ser primeiro-ministro do Reino Unido”.

Terra - Premiê britânico afirma que KGB tentou recrutá-lo em 1985

Aventuras de um espiao galante (e infeliz, no totalitarismo)

Stalin's Romeo Spy
By Emil Draitser
Northwestern University, 420 pages, $35

Um livro interessante, que conta mais sobre a natureza dos regimes totalitários do que propriamente sobre a vida desse Romeu sovietico...

BOOKSHELF
The Rake's Progress
By JOSHUA RUBENSTEIN
The Wall Street Journal, APRIL 30, 2010 - page W15

A virtuoso ladies' man and stealer of secrets. The skills were related.

In 1935 Adolf Hitler renounced the limits on German militarization that had been imposed by the Treaty of Versailles following World War I. Hitler publicly introduced conscription to vastly increase the size of the German army; more secretly he launched a massive rearmament program. An alarmed Soviet Union, desperate to learn the plans of this potential enemy, dispatched an intelligence officer, Dmitri Bystrolyotov, to Berlin. Bystrolyotov had already proved himself a deft operative, one particularly skilled at seducing women who had access to valuable information. But as Emil Draitser shows in "Stalin's Romeo Spy," Bystrolyotov's latest assignment tested even his vaunted skills.

The agent's target was a female SS officer whose face had been disfigured by fire in a childhood car accident. Dorothea Müller was "embittered and unpleasant to deal with," Mr. Draitser says, and she was a fanatical Nazi Party member who had been entrusted with the safekeeping of military-industrial secrets. Flattering her appearance was out of the question, so Bystrolyotov embarked on a campaign to flatter Müller's devotion to the Führer. Posing as a dashing, dissolute Hungarian count, he engineered a series of encounters with Müller, astonished her with his ignorance of the Nazis' glorious policies and became her eager student.

A romance began, and when at last Müller "was completely under his power as a lover," Mr. Draitser says, the count proposed marriage. But a complication stood in the way: An aunt who had (supposedly) subsidized his life in Berlin was cutting him off. Marriage was out of the question, he said, until his finances were secure. Then a solution surfaced: A friend of the count's said that there was a lot of money to be made on the stock market if Müller would provide them with inside information about military industrial orders. She agreed; the hook was set.

Bystrolyotov's seduction of the disfigured SS officer is just one in a bounty of improbable tales recounted in "Stalin's Romeo Spy." Mr. Draitser has consulted Russian, British, French, Czech and American archives in his research, and he has seen Bystrolyotov's partially declassified KGB file. But the author has also relied on the spy's own unpublished memoirs, which seem to have been responsible for some of the more credibility-straining elements of the story. There is no doubt, though, that Bystrolyotov was a remarkable spy even by the standards of an era when much of the world was crawling with intelligence agents.

Handsome, fluent in several languages, fortified with false passports, Bystrolyotov moved effortlessly through tense capitals, stealing secrets and sending them back to Moscow. Somehow romance seemed to play a role in his missions even when his target wasn't a woman with information he needed. When he once "handled" a British Foreign Office clerk—who knew secret codes but who was also constantly drunk and in a crumbling marriage—Bystrolyotov kept "Charlie" on track by bedding the man's unhappy wife, cheering her up. Another time, Bystrolyotov arranged for his estranged wife, who had worked alongside him, to begin an affair with a French intelligence officer in Locarno, Switzerland, and then even to marry him, ensuring that Bystrolyotov would have regular access to the house—and to the safe where the Frenchman kept sensitive cables.

Of course, being a productive contributor to the Soviet cause offered no protection from Stalin's purges—as Bystrolyotov learned first-hand in 1938, when he was arrested in Moscow. After severe beatings he confessed, falsely, to committing treason against the Soviet state and was sentenced to 20 years in the gulag. He was later offered the possibility of early release, but he insisted on having his case reopened so that he could prove his innocence. For that audacity he was repaid with the most brutal treatment of his time in prison. He was finally freed in 1954, the year after Stalin's death. "Now he was an old man," Mr. Draitser writes, "totally unemployable and incurably ill."

Mr. Draitser, who worked as a journalist in the Soviet Union before being blacklisted and moving to the U.S. in the 1970s, met Bystrolyotov in 1973—the year before his death. The old spy regaled him with anecdotes from his life and recalled his fruitless efforts to publish his memoirs. The editor of a literary quarterly scolded him for lines such as "I drew my pistol," telling Bystrolyotov: "You can't write that. A Soviet intelligence officer acts only in a humane way." In the U.S., Mr. Draitser taught Russian and continued to write, but he never forgot, as he puts it, "the most remarkable man I had ever met."

In the glasnost era and after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Bystrolyotov—who had been expunged from Soviet history—became known again, at least in Russia. Mr. Draitser resolved in 2002 to write his biography. As the work progressed, Mr. Draitser says, he became convinced that telling the spy's story was "an urgent order of the day. While I was doing my research, an ex-KGB officer"—Vladimir Putin—"became the country's president," and Russia began "sliding back to its Stalinist past." One feature of the regression: "the revision of history and attempts to whitewash the KGB's bloody role in it." Dmitri Bystrolyotov, to Mr. Draitser's amazement, has in recent years been resurrected as a Stalinist wartime hero—with no reference to his imprisonment or to his disillusion with the Soviet dream.

It is impossible to read "Stalin's Romeo Spy" without reflecting on the cruel and capricious nature of totalitarian regimes and without noting that, however good a spy may be, espionage is only as effective as the ability of political leaders to sort through the information they are handed. Bystrolyotov did his part to keep his country abreast of behind-the-scenes maneuvering by the European powers. But in June 1941, when equally adept Soviet spies alerted the Kremlin to the likelihood of a German invasion, Stalin ignored their warnings. The rest was a miserable history.

Mr. Rubenstein is the Northeast Regional Director of Amnesty International USA and the author of "Tangled Loyalties: The Life and Times of Ilya Ehrenburg."