HeyJaredKGB Stuff by Filip Kovacevic
KGB secrets you may want to know about. My new book is KGB Literati: Spy Fiction & State Security in the Soviet Union (University of Toronto Press, October 2025). I've been a university professor for 25 years, now at the University of San Francisco.
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A Fake KGB Defector's Tale (opens the original)
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In the early 1960s, the foreign intelligence branch of the Lithuanian KGB, formally known as the First Department, produced a summary description of how its agent deceived the U.S. intelligence operatives in West Germany by pretending to be a defector from the KGB.1This KGB document offers valuable insights on how the KGB ran fake defector operations during the Cold War and how the Russian intelligence services might do so today. The cover stories and technologies might be different, but the int
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