The plane belonging to Tatarstan Airlines was flying in from Moscow, 520 miles to the west, when it crashed while making its second attempt at a landing. The son of the provincial governor and the chief of the local branch of Russia’s main security agency were among the victims. The plane, which was flying from Moscow, crashed while making a second at…
WASHINGTON # The United States is concerned about the growing influence of security services in Russia, which has complicated cooperative programs designed to keep nuclear materials from extremists, a senior U.S. official said Tuesday. Linton Brooks, undersecretary of energy for national security, said legal liability issues over possible accidents have a…
Within the past 12 years colleagues of the general were absolutely sure that Oleg Kalugin was a traitorRussia’s Foreign Counterintelligence Service (SVR) thinks that former KGB general Oleg Kalugin received American citizenship in exchange for high treason. The head of the SVR press-bureau Boris Labusov said on Wednesday that Kalugin’s American citizenshi…
The Moscow TimesThe Foreign Intelligence Service, or SVR, denied Tuesday that it had cooperated with the CIA on monitoring North Korea’s nuclear program. The SVR’s press service said that a report in The New York Times about a deal between the two intelligence agencies “does not correspond to reality.” The New York Times reported Monday that sometime in t…
Oleg Kalugin, former chief of counterintelligence for the KGB, was once a major general who headed the KGB office in Washington. He was stripped of his rank and pension in 1990 after pushing for reforms in the KGB, and was subsequently convicted, in absentia, of high treason. He now heads Intercon International, a Washington-based international business c…