Sergei Tretyakov (intelligence Officer) - Book Release - Claims

Claims

• Azerbaijan's UN ambassador Eldar Kouliev was a "a deep-cover SVR intelligence officer."
• United States Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott was "an extremely valuable intelligence source" being manipulated by SVR agents to disclose useful information (though not a spy)
• Canadian MP Alex Kindy was recruited as a Russian spy.
• KGB chief Vladimir Kryuchkov sent US$50 billion worth of funds of the Communist Party to an unknown location in the lead up to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
• Raúl Castro was a long-term "special unofficial contact" for SVR.
• "The KGB was responsible for creating the entire nuclear winter story to stop the Pershing missiles." Tretyakov says that two fraudulent papers about global cooling were commissioned by the KGB, one alleged to be by physicist Kirill Kondratyev about dust storms in the Karakum Desert, the other alleged to be by climatologist Georgii Golitsyn with mathematicians Nikita Moiseyev and Vladimir Alexandrov about dust storms after a nuclear war. Tretyakov says that the KGB distributed their findings to "their contacts in peace, anti-nuclear, disarmament, and environmental organisations in an effort to get these groups to publicize the propagandists' script." and "targeted" the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences journal, Ambio, which carried a key article on the topic, "The atmosphere after a nuclear war: Twilight at noon", in 1982.
• Tretyakov says that from 1979 the KGB wanted to prevent the United States from deploying Pershing missiles in Western Europe and that, directed by Yuri Andropov, they used the Soviet Peace Committee, a government organization, to organize and finance demonstrations in Europe against US bases.
• Two chiefs of Vladimir Putin's Federal Protection Service (FSO), Viktor Zolotov and General Murov, discussed how to kill the former director of Yeltsin's administration Alexander Voloshin. They also made "a list of politicians and other influential Muscovites whom they would need to assassinate to give Putin unchecked power". However since the list was very long, Zolotov allegedly announced, "There are too many. It's too many to kill - even for us." An SVR officer who told about that story felt "uneasy" because FSO includes twenty thousand troops and controls the "black box" that can be used in the event of nuclear war.
• A claim about privately owned nuclear weapons. Tretiakov described a meeting with two Russian businessman representing a state-created Chetek corporation in 1991. They came up with a fantastic project of destroying large quantities of chemical wastes collected from Western countries at the island of Novaya Zemlya (a test place for Soviet nuclear weapons) using an underground nuclear blast. The project was rejected by Canadian representatives, but one of the businessmen told Tretiakov that he keeps his own nuclear bomb at his dacha outside Moscow. Tretiakov thought that man was insane, but the "businessmen" (Vladimir K. Dmitriev) replied: "Do not be so naive. With economic conditions the way they are in Russia today, anyone with enough money can buy a nuclear bomb. It's no big deal really".
• Disinformation over the internet. He often sent SVR officers to branches of New York Public Library where they got access to the Internet without anyone knowing their identity. They placed propaganda and disinformation to various web sites and sent it in e-mails to US broadcasters. The articles or messages were not written by the intelligence officers, but were prepared in advance by Russian experts, often with references to bogus sources. The texts were mostly accurate but always contained a "kernel of disinformation". The purpose of these active measures was to support Russian foreign policy, to create good image of Russia, to promote anti-American feelings and "to cause dissension and unrest inside the US".