Tag Archives: KGB

1980s-90s: Soviet/Russian Intelligence Internal Rivalries and the Russian State

Posted on 10/09/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

From Russian writer Oleg Grechenevsky rejected-in-Russia and now online book “Origins of Our “Democratic” Regime on KGB/Soviet/Russian power struggles.  Grechenevsky contacted me about his online book last year and I translated a portion of his very long work as “A Russian … Continue reading →

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2006: How the Intelligence Services Took Over in Russia

Posted on 05/20/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Returning to Oleg Grechenevsky’s mammoth online book The Origins of Our “Democratic” Regime [original title ИСТОКИ НАШЕГО “ДЕМОКРАТИЧЕСКОГО” РЕЖИМА] on KGB/Soviet/Russian power struggles. on the political evolution of the late Soviet Union and the early Russian Federation, here in part … Continue reading →

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2010: Glazunov on Chinese Spies in Russia

Posted on 05/14/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Another translation from excepts of Russian books and articles about PRC intelligence operations inside the Russian Federation. This one by O.N. Glazunov was published in 2013. The publisher promotes the book thus: “What goals does China set for itself in … Continue reading →

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2020: KGB Officer — We were Recruiting Intellectuals

Posted on 03/02/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

We were Recruiting Intellectuals. Memories of a KGB Officer [Source is Radio Liberty. Wikipedia: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is a United States government funded organization that broadcasts and reports news, information, and analysis to countries in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Caucasus, and the Middle East where it … Continue reading →

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2010: From a Russian Perspective: History of PRC intelligence

Posted on 02/20/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

[I have been having fun lately exploring machine translation. Here, although I have forgotten most of the first year Russian I learned 20 years ago, I find that using DeepL, the Russian search engine yandex.ru to find articles and online … Continue reading →

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2020: Russian Press — Traitors to the Motherland

Posted on 02/19/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

[I have been having fun lately exploring machine translation. Here, although I have forgotten most of the first year Russian I learned 20 years ago, I find that using DeepL, the Russian search engine yandex.ru to find articles and online … Continue reading →

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2020: Historical Sketch of PRC Intelligence Services

Posted on 02/08/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

[I have been having fun lately exploring machine translation. Here, although I have forgotten most of the first year Russian I learned 20 years ago, I find that using DeepL, the Russian search engine yandex.ru to find articles and online … Continue reading →

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1970s: Chinese Infiltrators and Counterintelligence in the Soviet Far East

Posted on 02/08/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

This chapter thirteen from Yuri Ufimtsev’s book Сквозь бамбуковой занавес. КГБ в Китае [The KGB in the PRC. Through the Bamboo Curtain] from Soviet counter-intelligence aimed at suspected Chinese infiltrators in the Soviet Far East from the 1960s to the … Continue reading →

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2012: Chinese Military Espionage Against Russia

Posted on 02/07/2023 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

When I worked at U.S. Embassy Beijing in the late 1990s, I came across, on the website of the PRC Commission for Science and Technology in the National Defense (COSTIND) news of an award to a Chinese military technician who … Continue reading →

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