Russian Intelligence Operations
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1970s: Soviet Agents Were Seeded Among Jewish Emigrants
- 1988: The Soviet Union’s intelligence service (KGB) often recruited criminals to emigrate under the cover of its program allowing Russian Jews to emigrate to Israel according to prominent Soviet dissident Anatoly Sharansky. “During his years of imprisonment, Soviet dissident Anatoly Sharansky chanced to meet a Russian criminal, a professional con artist who was pursuing a bizarre goal: Despite the rigors of prison life, he was diligently studying English in hopes of emigrating to America--to ply his trade as a swindler. America, he declared, was a land of easy pickings. Three of his friends were already there. ‘But how will you get there?’ asked the astonished Sharansky, who knew first-hand how hard it is for Russians to get permission to leave their homeland. ‘You aren't Jewish.’ ‘The KGB will help me,’ the confident swindler replied. The Soviet secret police had helped his friends get to the United States by obtaining exit visas to Israel, he said, and he expected the same.” (Los Angeles Times, February 16, 1988)
