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: Анатолий Михайлович Голицын; August 25, 1926 – December 29, 2008) was a Soviet
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defector and author of two books about the long-term deception strategy of the KGB leadership. He was born in
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. He provided "a wide range of intelligence to the
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on the operations of most of the 'Lines' (departments) at the
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and other residencies, as well as KGB methods of recruiting and running agents." He became an American citizen by 1984.
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New lies for old: the communist strategy of deception and disinformation. - book reviews
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'', September 7, 1984


Defection

Golitsyn worked in the strategic planning department of the
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in the rank of Major. In 1961 under the name "Ivan Klimov" he was assigned to the Soviet embassy in Helsinki,
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, as vice counsel and attaché. He
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with his wife and daughter to the
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(CIA) via
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on December 15, 1961. They flew "with a CIA escort from Finland to Sweden and thence to the United States via Frankfurt am Main, Germany, arriving on 18 December 1961". He was interviewed by
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, CIA
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director. In January 1962, the KGB sent instructions to fifty-four
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throughout the world on the actions required to minimize the damage. All meetings with important agents were to be suspended. Christopher Andrew and
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(2000). ''The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West.'' Gardners Books. .
In November 1962, KGB head
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approved a plan for assassination of Golitsyn and other "particularly dangerous traitors" including
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, Nikolay Khokhlov, and
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. The KGB made significant efforts to discredit Golitsyn by promoting disinformation that he was involved in illegal smuggling operations. Golitsyn provided information about many famous Soviet agents including
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, double agent
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who worked in Germany, and others. While unable to identify some agents like Philby specifically by name, Golitsyn provided sufficient information that SIS was able to determine the culprits.Christopher Andrew, ''The Defence of the Realm: The Authorised History of MI5.'' Vintage Books. . Thus, Golitsyn's defection in 1961 set in motion the process that definitively confirmed Philby as a Soviet mole.


Controversies

Golitsyn was a figure of significant controversy in the Western intelligence community. The military writer General Sir John Hackett and former CIA counter-intelligence director James Angleton
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'', August 27, 2008
Yuri I. Nosenko, 81; KGB Agent Who Defected to the U.S.
/ref> identified Golitsyn as "the most valuable defector ever to reach the West". However, the official historian for
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, Christopher Andrew,War and Intelligence Conference
described him as an "unreliable conspiracy theorist". Christopher Andrew
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Andrew believes that although intelligence data provided by Golitsyn were reliable, some of his global political assessments of the Soviet and KGB strategy are questionable. In particular, he disputed the Golitsyn claim that the "
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was a charade to deceive the West".


Accusing Harold Wilson

Golitsyn said that Harold Wilson (then
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) was a KGB informer and an agent of influence. This encouraged pre-existing conspiracy theories within the British security services concerning Wilson. During his time as president of the Board of Trade in the late 1940s, Wilson had been on trade missions to Russia and cultivated a friendship with Anastas Mikoyan and
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. He continued these relationships when Labour went into Opposition, and according to material from the
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, his insights into British politics were passed to and highly rated by the KGB. An "agent development file" was opened in the hope of recruiting Harold Wilson, and the codename "OLDING" was given to him. However "the development did not come to fruition," according to the KGB file records. Golitsyn also accused the KGB of poisoning Hugh Gaitskell, Wilson's predecessor as leader of the Labour Party, in order for Wilson to take over the party. Gaitskell died after a sudden attack of
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, in 1963. Golitsyn's claims about Wilson were believed in particular by the senior MI5
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officer Peter Wright. Although Wilson was repeatedly investigated by MI5 and cleared of this accusation, individuals within the service continued to believe that he was an agent of the KGB, and this belief played a part in the coup plots against him.


Accusing Urho Kekkonen

Golitsyn said after his defection that the
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of 1961 was an operation masterminded by president
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of Finland together with the Soviets to ensure Kekkonen's re-election. Golitsyn further said that Kekkonen had been a KGB agent codenamed "Timo" since 1947. Most Finnish historians believe that Kekkonen was closely connected with the KGB, but the matter remains controversial.


Golitsyn and Nosenko

In 1964,
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, a KGB officer based in
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, Switzerland, insisted that he needed to defect to the United States, as his role as a double-agent had been discovered, prompting his recall to Moscow. Nosenko was allowed to defect, although his credibility was immediately in question because the CIA was unable to verify a KGB recall order. Nosenko made two extremely controversial claims: that Golitsyn was not a double agent but rather a KGB plant; and that he had information on the assassination of President
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by way of the KGB's history with
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in the time Oswald lived in the Soviet Union. Regarding the first claim, Golitsyn had said from the beginning that the KGB would try to plant defectors in an effort to discredit him. Regarding the second claim, Nosenko told his debriefers that he had been personally responsible for handling Oswald's case and that the KGB had judged Oswald unfit for their services due to mental instability and had not even attempted to debrief Oswald about his work on the U-2 spy planes during his service in the
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. Under great duress, Nosenko failed two highly questionable
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tests but passed a third test monitored by several Agency departments. Judging the claim of not interrogating Oswald about the U-2 improbable, given Oswald's familiarity with the U-2 program, and faced with further challenges to Nosenko's credibility (he was thought to have falsely claimed to be a lieutenant colonel, a higher rank than it was thought he held), Angleton did not object when David Murphy, then head of the Soviet Russia Division, ordered him held in solitary confinement for approximately three-and-a-half years. This solitary confinement included 16 months in a tiny attic with no windows or furniture, heat or air conditioning. Human contact was completely banned. He was given a shower once a week and had no television, reading material, radio, exercise, or toothbrush. Interrogations were frequent and intensive. He spent an additional four months in a ten-foot by ten-foot concrete bunker in
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. He was told that this condition would continue for 25 years unless he confessed to being a Soviet spy. James Angleton came to public attention in the United States when the
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(formally known as the Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities), following up on the
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, probed the CIA for information about the Kennedy assassination. The Nosenko episode does not appear to have shaken Angleton's faith in Golitsyn, although
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and
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thought otherwise. Hoover's objections are said to have been so vehement as to severely curtail counterintelligence cooperation between the FBI and CIA for the remainder of Hoover's service as the FBI's director. Nosenko was found to be a legitimate defector, a lieutenant colonel and became a consultant to the CIA.


Golitsyn's books


''New Lies for Old''

In 1984, Golitsyn published the book ''New Lies For Old'', wherein he warned about a long-term deception strategy of seeming retreat from hard-line Communism designed to lull the West into a false sense of security, and finally economically cripple and diplomatically isolate the United States. Among other things, Golitsyn stated:
The "liberalization" would be spectacular and impressive. Formal pronouncements might be made about a reduction in the communist party's role: its monopoly would be apparently curtailed. An ostensible separation of powers between the legislative, the executive, and the judiciary might be introduced. The Supreme Soviet would be given greater apparent power, and the president of the Soviet Union and the first secretary of the party might well be separated. The KGB would be "reformed." Dissidents at home would be amnestied; those in exile abroad would be allowed to return, and some would take up positions of leadership in government. Sakharov might be included in some capacity in the government or allowed to teach abroad. The creative arts and cultural and scientific organizations, such as the writers' unions and Academy of Sciences, would become apparently more independent, as would the trade unions. Political clubs would be opened to nonmembers of the communist party. Leading dissidents might form one or more alternative political parties. There would be greater freedom for Soviet citizens to travel. Western and United Nations observers would be invited to the Soviet Union to witness the reforms in action.
Angleton and Golitsyn reportedly sought the assistance of
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(who once worked for the CIA) in writing ''New Lies for Old''. Buckley refused but later went on to write a novel about Angleton, ''Spytime: The Undoing of James Jesus Angleton''. ''New Lies for Old'' received a first edition in
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in 2018.


''The Perestroika Deception''

In 1995, Anatoliy Golitsyn and Christopher Story published a book entitled ''The Perestroika Deception'' containing purported memoranda attributed to Golitsyn claiming: *"The ovietstrategists are concealing the secret coordination that exists and will continue between Moscow and the 'nationalist' leaders of he'independent' republics." *"The power of the KGB remains as great as ever… Talk of cosmetic changes in the KGB and its supervision is deliberately publicized to support the myth of 'democratization' of the Soviet political system." *"Scratch these new, instant Soviet 'democrats,' 'anti-Communists,' and 'nationalists' who have sprouted out of nowhere, and underneath will be found secret Party members or KGB agents."


Reactions

In his book '' Wedge: The Secret War between the FBI and CIA'' (Knopf, 1994), Mark Riebling stated that of 194 predictions made in ''New Lies For Old'', 139 had been fulfilled by 1993, 9 seemed 'clearly wrong', and the other 46 were 'not soon
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'. Mark Riebling, Wedge: The Secret War between the FBI and CIA, pgs. 407-408 According to Russian political scientist
Yevgenia Albats Yevgenia Markovna Albats (russian: Евге́ния Ма́рковна Альба́ц, born 5 September 1958perestroika-type plot to manipulate foreign public opinion on a global scale. The plan was in a way inspired by the teachings of the 6th-century BC. Chinese theoretician and military commander
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, who said, "I will force the enemy to take our strength for weakness, and our weakness for strength, and thus will turn his strength into weakness." Albats argued that the KGB was the major beneficiary of political changes in Russia, and perhaps indeed directed Gorbachev. According to her, "one thing is certain: perestroika opened the way for the KGB to advance toward the very heart of power" in Russia.Yevgenia Albats and Catherine A. Fitzpatrick. ''The State Within a State: The KGB and Its Hold on Russia—Past, Present, and Future.'' 1994. , see chapter ''Who was behind perestroika?'' It has been said that Mikhail Gorbachev justified his new policies as a necessary step to "hug Europe to death", and to "evict the United States from Europe".Talk of Gorbachev at the meeting of the
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on March 26, 1987
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- by
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According to Soviet dissident
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, "In 1992 I had unprecedented access to Politburo and Central Committee secret documents which have been classified, and still are even now, for 30 years. These documents show very clearly that the whole idea of turning the European common market into a federal state was agreed between the left-wing parties of Europe and Moscow as a joint project which Gorbachev in 1988–89 called our 'common European home'." (interview by '' The Brussels Journal'', February 23, 2006). On June 8, 1995, the British
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quoted ''The Perestroika Deception'' during a
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debate, saying: "It stretches credulity to its absolute bounds to think that suddenly, overnight, all those who were Communists will suddenly adopt a new philosophy and belief, with the result that everything will be different. I use this opportunity to warn the House and the country that that is not the truth"; and: "Every time the House approves one of these collective agreements, not least treaties agreed by the collective of the
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, it contributes to the furtherance of the Russian strategy."Christopher Gill MP
, House of Commons Hansard Debates for 8 June 1995, Column 370
According to
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, Golitsyn's publications "had some impact on rightist thinking in the United States". Golitsyn's views are echoed by
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, who has alleged that the 1989
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in
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was staged by the communist
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secret police.


In popular culture

The 1996 American film '' Mission: Impossible'' featured a fictionalized character based on Anatoliy Golitsyn named Alexander Golitsyn, played by actor
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.


See also

* Finnish Security Intelligence Service *
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*
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References


Books

*Anatoliy Golitsyn. ''New Lies for Old'' G. S. G. & Associates, Incorporated, 1990, *Christopher Story (Editor). ("by Anatoliy Golitsyn") ''The Perestroika Deception : Memoranda to the Central Intelligence Agency,'' Edward Harle Ltd; 2nd Ed edition (1998)


External links

*Interview with Christopher Story, editor of ''The Perestroika Deception''
part I
interview with Jeffrey Nyquist, 18 December 2004

by Jeffrey Nyquist, Geopolitical Global Analysis, 01.06.2005

by Anatoliy Golitsyn
IN HIS DEFECTOR HE TRUSTED : HOW THE CIA COUNTERINTELLIGENCE STAFF BROKE THE WESTERN INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY FOR TEN YEARS (1962–1973)The Perestroika Deception
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