Filip Kovacevic
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Top expert on #KGB (ops, archives, spy fiction). Book: KGB Literati (https://t.co/uWXN1eKEaW). PhD. 25+ years university professor in Russia/Balkans/US (@usfca)
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Joined August 2020
📢 Exciting News! My book KGB LITERATI: SPY FICTION & STATE SECURITY IN THE SOVIET UNION is now available for pre-order! 🎉. Grab your copy here 👉 #spies #writers #KGB #booklaunch #newrelease #preordernow.
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#OTD 70 years ago, the leadership of #KGB Second Chief Directorate (counterintel) met in Moscow. I located & obtained the meeting transcript from the Lithuanian Special Archives in Vilnius. I translated it & wrote an analysis for the Wilson Center. ⬇️.
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Filip Kovacevic examines a remarkable document that demonstrates what kept senior Soviet counterintelligence officials awake at night (and alert during the day) in the first decade of the Cold War.
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What did #KGB officer's service card look like? . I provide an answer in this article using the service card of a prominent figure in Soviet counterintelligence as an illustration. ⬇️.
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OUR DEAR FRIENDS IN MOSCOW is a gripping first-hand account of Russia's descent into dictatorship under Putin.@AndreiSoldatov @irinaborogan .Next time I teach a course on Russian Politics at the University of San Francisco, I'll make it a required reading.
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tells the story of a group of young Russians, part of an idealistic generation who came of age in Moscow at the end of the twentieth century, just as the communist era imploded and a future full of...
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Thank you to @isberryauthor for mentioning my forthcoming book KGB LITERATI in her inspiring review of Charlie English's THE CIA BOOK CLUB in @washingtonpost today. #spies #literature .
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Charlie English provides a fascinating account of how the agency smuggled Camus, Orwell and Vonnegut behind the Iron Curtain in “The CIA Book Club.”
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RT @AndreiSoldatov: This week marks exactly one year since my father, Alexey Soldatov — a nuclear physicist and pioneer of the Russian Inte….
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Alexey Soldatov, a nuclear physicist, forged connections beyond the Iron Curtain. Despite being terminally ill, now he faces two years in a labour colony
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Writing an article for Substack based on docs about a #KGB general I obtained from the Lithuanian Special Archives. To be posted in a few days. Subscribe here not to miss it: .
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RT @RichardKerbaj: @ChekistMonitor Thank you for your endorsement, @ChekistMonitor - and for all your help along the way!.
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I highly recommend The Defector, a new book by @RichardKerbaj. Release date: September 4, 2025. As I wrote in my endorsement: "A lucidly written account of a significant setback for Soviet intelligence. Dynamic and vivid, reads like a spy thriller." .
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Find out more about The Defector by Richard Kerbaj
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I just published my first post on Substack. It's about #KGB defector Yuri Nosenko as a young man in the Soviet Union. Based on both Russian & #CIA archives. #spies #lies #topsecret . Read the full post here:
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#OTD 99 years ago Felix Dzerzhinsky, the most mythologized Chekist in history, died suddenly in Moscow. Given the resurgence of Chekism in Russia, his statue might soon be back in front of the Lubyanka. Here's how the Soviet newspaper Izvestiya reported his death.
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In this letter dated February 9, 1944, #SMERSH chief Viktor Abakumov informs Stalin about a published digest of materials on German military intelligence operations. See on the cover: "Top Secret: If in danger of capture by enemy, DESTROY." ⬇️
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A spreadsheet of codenamed agents & safehouse owners of the Lithuanian #KGB First Department (the regional branch of KGB First Chief Directorate) and how much they were paid on the monthly basis in 1989. 60 people in total.
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NYT: "Russian Spies Are Suspicious of China, Even as Putin and Xi Grow Close." @nytimes . For #KGB counterintelligence activities against Chinese spies, take a look at a 7-part article series I wrote for the Wilson Center's blog. ⬇️.
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Filip Kovacevic analyzes the “subversive activities” of the Chinese intelligence services in the 1970s as seen from the eyes of the Soviet KGB.
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#KGB meticulously recorded the monetary value & date of rewards given to agents. Lithuanian KGB agent codenamed OMAR, for example, was rewarded 22 times in the course of his 17 years of clandestine service (1972-1989). Money, meals, gifts. ⬇️
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In August & September 1968, local branches of Lithuanian #KGB collected negative reactions of the population on the "events in Czechoslovakia" & reported them to the local Communist leadership. Here's an example from the town of Marijampole then called Kapsukas.
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