The First Directorate : my 32 years in intelligence and espionage against the west by Kalugin Oleg 1934-;Montaigne Fen & Montaigne Fen

Author:Kalugin, Oleg, 1934-;Montaigne, Fen & Montaigne, Fen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Kalugin, Oleg, 1934-, Kalugin, Oleg D, Pervoe glavnoe upravlenie KGB SSSR, Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoi bezopasnosti, Sowjetunion, Espionage, Soviet, Spies, Autobiographie, Erlebnisbericht
Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press
Published: 1994-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

"People saw the story and they were wondering how we could let such a criminal roam our streets," Superintendent Bird said.

"I understand," I replied. "But why did I have to be hauled in here and treated in this fashion?"

Bird didn't answer. It seemed clear I would not be charged in the Markov case, but Bird told me to stay in the country until Thursday, at which time a formal decision would be made about my future.

I was released Sunday night, and the BBC found me a room at the Kensington Hilton under the assumed name, "Harry Dean." It wasn't that I was trying to hide from the authorities; the BBC was trying to protect me from the British press, who indeed took an intense interest in the case. The BBC's lawyer thought I should assume a low profile until the matter was settled.

That Monday I met with our ambassador to England, Boris Pankin, whom I had come to know in Moscow. The KGB station chief sat in on the meeting, and we planned what we would do if I were detained again. Our KGB station chief thought the worst fate would be expulsion, and he doubted that the British would take such a step.

As it turned out, my BBC lawyer called me Wednesday evening to announce that Bird had said there would be no charges filed against me in the Markov assassination and I was free to leave the country. I was relieved, but still fuming at the heavy-handed way the matter had been handled. And with that, the Markov case—for me at least—was closed.

Besides Bulgaria, we cooperated closely with the Intelligence services of other Warsaw Pact countries, though thankfully during my remaining years in Foreign Counterintelligence none of our Communist allies asked for our help with other "wet jobs." In several instances, our Eastern European allies helped us unmask CIA moles within the Soviet Union. One such case occurred thanks to the Czechs, and we found the spy in our midst with the help of a man whose allegiance was never clear to me.

Czech Intelligence had been decimated by the purges following the Prague Spring of 1968, and their secret services never really recovered. When I worked with Czech Intelligence in the 1970s, the agency was demoralized and hamstrung by the corruption of top Communist Party bosses. Cronies of Prime Minister Gustav Gusak

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