Do not go, children, to Africa to walk.
Do not go, children, to Africa to walk.
In the beginning of reorganisation I on heels went for one businessman.
The matter is that it has ended Stentonovsky institute in the USA (there it is trained
The higher management) also has headed one of the first co-operative societies. I all waited,
That it will show the American administrative grasp, but and has not waited.
At last, the businessman whom I "have got" the naivety, has told
It is angry:
- Yet really you have not understood till now, that any I not the manager
And not the economist. The spy I! Professional. Here if about it it was possible
To tell!
But then and in a head did not come, that soon it will be possible, and
That kooperativshchik though also harms was on KGB for for some reason broken
To career, but was silent professionally.
Illegal immigrants (not to confuse to the enlisted agents) are traditions
Russian investigation. In their other investigations it is few. So most
The scout working "under a roof" - the diplomat is typical for us and for them,
The employee of any representation, fund, agency and so on.
The story of the retired lieutenant colonel of KGB of Igor Kozhanova about a life under this
"Roof" I also offer you. But I will dare to interfere on a course with this
The story.
To me has carried with knowledge of language, - tells Igor. - the neigbour
Was - the American. In the thirtieth years it has arrived to Soviet Union with
The husband, the communist. The husband has disappeared in camps, and it was interrupted by lessons.
Later anybody from foreigners did not believe, that I Russian as spoke
Absolutely without accent.
I will not begin to tell about school of investigation of KGB. Probably, all interests
About same. Well, say, as us trained to leave from shadowing
Or to conduct it. It is already described at same traitor Rezuna (Suvorov).
However, as well as in all its espionage novel, it condenses paints to
Improbability.
After school to each graduate find "roof". Me have started up on
midovskoj lines.
The year spent on the Smolensk area, - year of burdensome boredom
And stupid idleness. Here the chief, say, gives me the task - to prepare
The program of stay of delegation from the African country. Well, I have made this
The program for a day. Has run thus in the next office, where my friends
Graduates of the same school work. "Is not present, - my chief, - you speaks
Badly over the document worked ". I hand over in five days. Here now, -
He speaks, - it is already better, but it is necessary to work still ". In a word, when I
I give it the same piece of paper in two weeks, - it is happy. You think it
- The fool? Yes anything similar, it is simple to it this performance, that not is necessary
Give the God who has stirred a duckweed in this bog where to it so well is.
Well and at last purpose. To Nigeria. Before it interview
In the Central Committee. Two old men sit. Ah, speak, such young and already the captain. You
There in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs what countries supervised? Sierra Leone, - I have begun. - postojte,
postojte - so same in the South America, and we to Africa send you. Here
Such experts.
Well such Nigeria of times of my stay? Military men have given
The power the civil. On oil "new" Nigerians have grown by leaps and bounds,
Them "fat cats" there named. And around poverty and lawlessness. The government
Weak, the present power in hands of the bureaucracy which bought and has been bought up
Criminal and ethnic clans. Well and in a life from gangsters of life is not present.
Our apartment some times plundered.
Certain places, as a rule, are fixed to scouts in
Embassy, consulate, the trade mission. Both for KGB, and behind military investigation
(GRU). And we kagebeshnaja investigation works absolutely separately
From the military. If actions are somehow co-ordinated, at level of residents.
Well and besides KGB watched for GRU. Ours rezidentura in turn
Shared on investigation political (it in what I was engaged) and
Counterspionage. Last, so to say, observed cleanliness of numbers - watched for
All Soviet colony.
- That jokes political did not tell?
- No, it is not serious. The main thing to watch, that anybody from ours
Have not enlisted. After all we is constant for employees of the American
Embassies hunted, and they for ours.
- Cheerful atmosphere...
- It yet all. From me mine, so to say, the diplomatic
Duties nobody removed. Well and besides, as on the youngest,
By tradition of all have piled - for example, have made zamsekretarja profkoma. Here
Here already was atmosferka so atmosferka. And defined it first of all -
Heavy passion to moneymaking and following from it fantastic
Avarice sovzagransluzhashchih. After all it is necessary in the homeland on checks
"Volga" to buy and the riches of neighbours and I make related morally to suppress.
It was necessary to assort sketches very shameful. For example, the wife of one
The employee of embassy has hidden on reception behind a curtain on a window sill
Half-bottles of whisky for the husband, another has marked it and whisky has tried
To appropriate. The real fight has arisen, with dragging for hair. Glory
To the god, though not during reception, and later when were cleaned. At another
Pljushkina nerves have handed over. It to bank sgushchenki prograduiroval - where its portion,
Where wives. And somehow on the general ladder platform has jumped out with shout:
- Bough, it has gobbled up my portion!
- Yes, such you will not think up. Well and on the basic job too as on
Young "visjaki" hung?
- Certainly. For example, to me have charged such hopeless business, as
"Working out" of Chineses. And they to 83 years had a command - with Russian in
Contact not to enter. Even if on reception in neutral embassy
You meet, it, having learnt, that before it Russian, forgets about
Diplomatic rules, turn by circle does and leaves. Or, for example,
The agent gets to me in the inheritance. Soon I am convinced, that its information
It is secondary, frequently simply pocherpnutaja from local newspapers. Is
It somehow to me home though to it is more strict it was inspired, that it to do
It is impossible. And at me just visitors. Left to it, and he speaks to me: "I such
Courageous Russian spy, that for a long time I deserve your award and rest in the best
Hotel on Black sea. Immediately report on it on your management in
To Moscow ".
I speak:
- What spy? To what management? I the diplomat and simply collect
The information on the country. Be immediately cleaned from here. Will be necessary, I will let know.
- And that, it was impossible, preliminary having intimidated, to send it on
All four?
- All not so is simple. That turns out, you will tell in Moscow,
Predecessors were able to extract at it the information, and you are not able? And if
The information and was earlier doubtful where the resident looked?
- And it is valid, where he looked?
- Yes simply my predecessor was able to get on with it well. The wife
It on a market carried regularly...
- Know, even this fact, and them for certain more, speaks about
Volume, that scouts frequently drove a poppycock, in advance knowing what to check up
The information in most cases it is impossible. You and now about it never
Will not tell. First, from corporate solidarity, secondly,
Out of respect for own past. Here I have imagined, that everyone
Day of tens agents from one only Nigeria scribbles reports, and in Africa
Such countries, probably, fifty. And how much there the person in African
Department to Yasenevo? Somehow to sort, comprehend computers will help, but
The piece of iron will not get into soul. And an end result. Your higher heads
Will squeeze out of several tons of the information of one and a half page of the inquiry, which
Will lay down under cloth somewhere in corresponding department of the Central Committee or the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, waiting
The hour. It is not known still, whether will wait?
- Partly it so. But only partly. Do not forget, we represented
The strong country, world power. And at it the interests everywhere. Here in that
Nigeria when have found oil oil fields have urgently desired
To separate. Separatism arises not without the aid of investigations. It appear it
The newly appeared state a toy in West hands, and they could still
It is more to influence the world prices for oil. And you know, at the expense of what we
Lived?. And so, we both have warned the government of Nigeria, and have armed it
Army, and separatism eventually have slammed. Whether it is result?
Or here such example. Should take place very important for us
Voting in the United Nations concerning shelves. From Moscow inquiry: whether it is impossible to learn,
How Nigeria will vote? The resident calls me: here, speaks, and
There has come an hour of triumph for your agent. And it was at me young, but
The known political scientist in the country, the person in a management of one of
The leading ministries.
I ask it: "As will vote?" And he responds me:
"And you tell, how it is necessary, - we will make". Nigeria, as to us Also has voted
It is necessary.
- And how in general there is a recruitment? If to believe Suvorov-Rezunu,
That minutes for fifteen. Has shown a pack of money or has named the large sum -
Also it is ready.
- No, recruitment - business long. As, for example, with that political scientist
Was. Have met on reception, then I suited a "casual" meeting, like
Is about what to talk. Has then suggested to have dinner together. Then only
Check begins. There are simple ways. For example, I have dinner with it together,
I say, that I need to leave, and I leave on a table a folder with papers. If
It opened it, it will be found out. Artful such folder. Further, are checked
From other sources any data which have already arrived from it.
- What for sources?
- And here with me in a room, the captain sits same, as I. I of anything
I do not know and should not know about its agents, as well as it about mine. But its agent
Checks my data. Probably and external supervision - before
I will open maps.
- Whether instead of superfluous it is conspiracy, when even from the neighbour on
To room a paper an elbow should close?
- No, it is necessary on a treachery case. Here in your words
podspudno the question is probed: so much fuss because of any Nigeria. Yes,
Certainly, it is possible to make one-two time weather, playing on the political
Contradictions, but finally all are solved by economic force of the country.
It defines influence degree. But not in Nigeria business, and that struggle
Investigations, basically, of course, ours and CIA, is "pressure on all
To field ". More precisely, on all globe. Mainly it in the third world and
Occurs. We will tell, in Moscow the same American from embassy all time
On the alert, as well as our scout in Washington, and in the third world they
Relax. Here here them also try to enlist. Unfortunately, on that
pjatachke where it was possible to struggle to me, we have suffered defeat and I "have received
Washer ", that is CIA have been lighted.
The gauges, signalling that someone from ours are going to
To enlist or have already enlisted, have worked in advance: suddenly to Nigeria
Have welcomed some Americans who are knowing Russian. About it we
Have informed to Moscow. Of whom only did not think, but mine the neighbour in the ladder
To platform lieutenant colonel Polischuk was out of suspicions - still, it that
Counterspionage which should provide our safety and CIA
To counteract, and carried out. And suddenly it took in Moscow, at dredging
Hiding place which was put in pawn by the American scout.
From me it hid. Still! It on the first interrogation has shown,
That into espionage group entered I and the resident. Here such course - a pier, I not
One operated, in addition carried out of the task of the resident. I feel, that
Round me something not that, but I do not understand, what's the matter.
The Polypike has informed me on treachery wife Natalia from Moscow.
In a package with marinaded garlic which it has passed me with the wife of one
From our diplomats, I have found a note "Polischuk it has appeared is weak on a head".
To me then Natalia told: I feel, round me any vacuum,
Even by phone are afraid to speak. And suddenly one comes "hardly familiar"
From service of the husband also starts to set any foolish questions. "As itself
Feel, why do not call to Polypikes? "I on a key have closed a door and
I speak, you will not tell yet, what's the matter, - from here you will not leave. He also has told:
"Polischuk - the agent of CIA".
- And you with it were in friendly relations, all the same the neighbour?.
- Yes is not present, he lived is very closed. But on operations, we will tell on the external
To supervision, it was necessary to happen together. It, by the way, was at me the second
Number, that is sat at the wheel. And in general in the operative relation, on mine
Sight, it a full zero. Besides also drank in a black way. By the way, it is a trouble
Many scouts working in Africa and Asia. On a service sort it is necessary
To happen at restaurants, and there any rubbish - from a malaria to a dysentery. Without
"viskarja" as disinfection you will be gone. Certainly, now mine
Memoirs can be subjective, but it to me and then seemed the person
The limited. Well imagine, it should go not to Nigeria, and in
Other country, but has not passed interviews - could not name capitals of the country,
Where it should be the scout.
- And have enlisted it in Lagos?
- No, much earlier, during its first business trip in Nepal.
Have caught on loss in a casino, the woman have palmed off. That is all very much
It is banal, any such political underlying reason which so like
To palm off now traitors. And not mentioning, that each such transition
On the party of the opponent are tens, and even hundred broken destinies.
And so, having returned to Moscow, Polischuk has interrupted the communications with CIA
And itself has renewed them in Lagos. Has come to the nearest from the American
Embassies the shop, has pretended, that has fainted, and when have called on
The help of Americans, has told: "send regards from Leo from the country of the high
Mountains ". For eight months it has handed over all investigation in Nigeria - and ours, and GRU.
It is more than anything essential to CIA could not make, and they have advised
To it to return to Moscow.
- And evacuation of the suspect is spent, as at Suvorov in "Aquarium"
It is described: a prick in a vein, and then in an insensible status - in the plane, in
Moscow?
- Yes is not present, any pricks. Me accompanied specially arrived
From Moscow the officer. And a bag with itself of a distance, filled by papers - a pier, it
Diplomatic pouch, but anybody behind it, of course, has not come. And in Moscow to me have told: go
In holiday, then we will understand. Also had me shadowed. Then was
Some serious interrogations in Lefortovo.
- In your words and now badly latent hatred still appears
To the Polypike, but after all you have not very much suffered, after a while
Have gone to other business trip abroad - to Ethiopia, and it for the act
Has paid with a life.
- Well and I for its love to a beautiful life have paid off in essence
The broken career, as at the lighted scout in the further
To job there are essential restrictions. Well and an office ceiling
Decreases. Very soon you start to rest against it. And if it is casual
It is involved in one more failure (so was with the agent who has got to me on
To the inheritance in Ethiopia) and at all it is time to think of finish.
To me of 47 years, after three heart attacks - definitive resignation, ridiculous
Pension and job on a part of economic safety which is today,
And tomorrow was gone.
Here and the ending of rough activity of the scout. Such, as I, much.
Vladimir KUZMISHCHEV.
//* an information Source: the Russian newspaper, 25.05.99
//* Reg. Nom. - 1090500224.05-------------------------------------------
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