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Filip Kovacevic, "Secrets of KGB Counterintelligence in the mid-1950s: An Inside Look Based on New Archival Research"
Tue, May 09
|Zoom, Filip Kovacevic
Hear from Filip Kovacevic over Zoom speak about the secrets of the KGB counterintelligence in the mid-1950s. Dr. Kevin Riehle will chair. This session will be recorded.
Time & Location
May 09, 2023, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT
Zoom, Filip Kovacevic
About this session
More than thirty years have passed since the fall of the Soviet Union and the formal dissolution of the KGB, but the functioning of the KGB counterintelligence branch known as the Second Chief Directorate (SCD) remains little known. In a recently published book The Fourth Man: The Hunt for a KGB Spy at the Top of the CIA and the Rise of Putin’s Russia (2022), CIA veteran Robert Baer wrote that the SCD “represented the CIA’s most tenacious and opaque opponent.” My presentation is based on the translation and analysis project I have completed for the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC which will soon be published on their website www.digitalarchive.org and on their popular Cold War history blog Sources & Methods. I will discuss a transcript of the July 30, 1955 meeting of the leadership of the SCD that I obtained from the collections of the Lithuanian Special Archives…
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