Career intelligence officer, counterintelligence officer Oleg Kozlov: “in Soviet times, it was encouraged if KGB officers married Orphans.

Counterintelligence officer Oleg Kozlov, regarding the romance that is supposedly inherent in serving in the security agencies, recalls the words of his commander: “Whoever saw a parachute not on a candy wrapper has no time for romance.” In other words, when you are young and green, it seems that defending the Fatherland, working in the authorities, is a noble and romantic occupation. In fact, there is no smell of romance in the office.

“The competition for the KGB school was stable - no more than three people per place”

How did you get into the KGB?

While serving in the army, an operative approached me and offered to join the police. By the way, there used to be a clear schedule for recruiting candidates by republic. For example, one detective is given the task of preparing two candidates for high school KGB. The main criteria are decency and a certain intellectual level. Having received consent, the special officer gives the candidate minor assignments. For example, provide the keys to the premises for a meeting or point out shortcomings in the operating mode of the unit. Those who had less brains ratted out their comrades. As a rule, such people were not accepted into the KGB higher school. I did it differently. He gathered his fellow demobilized soldiers and said that the operative (as a rule, he was respected in the unit) asked to talk to them. And he said directly that there was a good opportunity to take it out on the commanders who were preventing them from living. The grandfathers immediately remembered that the weapons warehouse was unattended due to the fault of the commanders. Thus, I discovered a specific fact of a criminal violation.

Before entering the KGB higher school, a person underwent several medical examinations, interviews and tests. In particular, the candidate is given a task with approximately the following content: 95 partisans are parachuted from a height of 1427 meters, each has 93 rounds of ammunition in his backpack, and below are 12 fires in which 17 logs are burning, and so on. All details and numbers had to be recorded in memory and repeated. The inspector filled out a table in which, depending on the answers, he marked pros or cons. Didn't reach the required minimum - goodbye. The next day you are already offered, for example, to play tic-tac-toe or choose one of several multi-colored squares and the like. In general, the candidate does not really understand what he is doing, but his answers or the choice of this or that symbol for a specialist psychologist speaks volumes. For example, whether this person is controlled or not. Naturally, at the same time they checked relatives almost to the fifth generation.

The competition for the KGB school was stable - no more than three people per place. There was no point in creating a crowd. Some were eliminated during their studies, because studying two languages ​​and Marxism-Leninism was too difficult. And you can’t slip someone else’s notes to the teacher, since he paid attention not only to the content, but also to the handwriting. Some lectures were recorded on specially numbered notebooks with stamps. Nevertheless, mistakes still occurred during the selection of candidates. One operative sent a freckled, lop-eared candidate to the office. But a person planning to serve in the KGB should not have a bright appearance or memorable facial features. In other words, attracting attention to yourself is unacceptable.

“Collecting information is like a game of chess, in which, in order to achieve a positive result, it is important which piece, when and where to place”

Did they teach you to drink and not talk too much in the KGB?

This, as we know, cannot be taught. Similar problems were solved by initial stage personnel selection. But, on the other hand, I, for example, am not a physicist to keep the device diagram in my head nuclear reactor. So talk to yourself, just to interest your interlocutor, while not forgetting to throw out hooks. I’ll tell you one case when I had to work with an important American delegation for a week. It was necessary to “gut” them and find out, as they say, who is where and how much. They worked undercover on our territory. As is usual in such cases, the detectives invented civilian professions for themselves: some became foreign language teachers, others did something else. In general, we are working. One day we treat them, the next they treat us. During one of the drinking parties, when the Americans were treating us, our people began to pass out one after another. I look at the guests, and they are, as they say, “not in one eye.” My colleague and I go to the toilet and say: it’s time to switch to fifty dollars (the guests poured exactly one hundred grams) and warn that the Americans have clearly taken special pills. Nevertheless, two of our men fell asleep at the combat post. I knew that the pills only worked for a certain time and affected people differently. So, having gathered my courage, I still drank too much of the Americans and collapsed on the bed only at home. As a result, one of the guests did not remember where he left his camera, the second did not remember his video camera, and everything they filmed there remained in the office.

Do you think that technological progress is now replacing classical human intelligence?

I'll try to explain it very simply. For example, from space we calculated how many fields or factories there are in a particular state, but we did not see what was in a person’s head. So, for example, information leaked: one country is working, say, on how to turn a crocodile into a zombie. Without human intelligence, you won’t know who is going to do it and how. By what methods is another question. It is known that every person has his own weaknesses, strengths and weaknesses. Using them, you can get closer to the object and get more exact information. If the person we are interested in collects paintings, then, naturally, it is necessary to introduce, say, an artist into his circle or look among his friends for a person who needs money. If a person is homosexual, it is necessary to find him the right partner. There can be many options for obtaining information. However, the recruitment of agents took place in three directions. The first is ideological and patriotic (this is how the legendary Soviet intelligence officer Richard Sorge was recruited), the second is material interest, and the third is the use of compromising evidence. By the way, working on incriminating evidence was considered the most unreliable method. After all, a person will always try to get off the hook. In general, information collection resembles chess game, in which to achieve positive result, it is important which figure, when and where to place.

What did spies usually do?

Abroad, they quickly identified those whose expense items did not correspond to their tax return. In the USA, for example, everyone knows that their neighbor earns, say, 60 thousand dollars a year and, naturally, cannot afford a car worth 50 thousand. By the way, exactly on expensive cars many fell asleep. In England, one of the officers of Her Majesty's fleet once came home in a brand new Jaguar. An old woman living next door was not too lazy to call and ask the command of the English fleet how much military sailors are getting today. The relevant services became interested in the call. After the checks, a real scandal broke out. Numerous facts of collaboration between a number of British officers and Soviet intelligence. In the USSR, such cases were rare, because it was problematic to spend a large amount, since there was nothing to spend on it. And a person with a Mercedes immediately became the object of close attention from the authorities. So traditionally people hid money in a jar.

“At one time in Western Ukraine, a schizophrenic created his own network of agents”

Have you personally caught many spies?

Unfortunately, I was not able to grab the enemy directly by the tail. I carried out only certain stages of the operation related to the exposure of spies. It was collective work. The information I collected was passed on to another detective. Then everything was summed up and a complete picture emerged. So, for example, they caught one young man, working in special department to ensure the safety of the missile unit. It was taken while handing over photographs of the missile unit to a foreigner.

Have you had any experiences in your practice? incredible cases?

At one time in Western Ukraine one schizophrenic created his own network of agents. He came to people, introduced himself as a KGB colonel, and gained their trust. When we delved deeper into this matter, we were shocked. He managed to create the KGB system in miniature.

Who did the KGB also advise you to marry?

IN Soviet time there was a clear directive - not to marry Jewish women (in the 70s, another wave of Jewish emigration to Israel and the USA began). In addition, relationships with girls who were in any way involved in trafficking were not encouraged. For this very reason I canceled my wedding. Even the tables were reserved then. But the question was: either marriage or further work to the KGB. I chose the latter. It was encouraged when committee members took orphans as wives.

Some say that SMERSH fighters knew how to shoot snipers in the Macedonian style (with two hands, from any position), had a special system of movements (pendulum), which allowed them to evade enemy shots, and various special skills, thanks to which a seasoned spy could be identified and split up in a matter of seconds . Others say that the training of counterintelligence officers was so-so: month-long courses at the counterintelligence department of the front and let’s catch saboteurs. Where is the truth, and where is fiction?

In Vladimir Bogomolov’s novel “In August 1944” or the film of the same name, all this is described and shown with historical accuracy. And how a SMERSH officer “swings the pendulum”, and how he shoots with both hands, and how he makes a forceful arrest. By the way, Colonel Ilya Starinov died two years ago at the 101st year of his life. Author of one and a half hundred monographs, several closed teaching aids, which are still marked “secret”. Ilya Grigorievich taught officers of the famous special forces groups “Vympel” and “Cascade”. He was called a master of sabotage and guerrilla warfare. The old man knew how to masterfully organize an operation, in particular, blow up this or that object and still survive. He was a true master of his craft. He knew how to do everything!

How much did a counterintelligence officer earn in the Soviet Union?

Junior officers received from 350 rubles. Colonel - 600 rubles per month. The closer to Moscow, the more salary. In those days they paid decently; remember, the engineer received 120 rubles.

How do you think, strong intelligence and only a strong state can have counterintelligence?

Undoubtedly. Without money you can hardly create anything worthwhile. The thicker the state's wallet, the greater the range of action of the country - its owner. But on the other hand, the state must be strong not only in body, that is, in personnel, but also in spirit.

One should not think that all Soviet security officers lost their sense of duty, honor, conscience, and love for the Motherland and their people. This is far from true. The length of the book does not allow us to talk in detail about what happened in the KGB during the Andropov era. But we will still introduce the reader to something.

One fact stands out. When Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria again became the head of the Soviet security forces in 1953, he was sincerely surprised that there were few front-line NKVD officers in high positions in the KGB. Lavrenty Pavlovich, being an astute man, immediately suspected something was wrong. And he tried to fix the matter. But, as we already know, he didn’t have time.

After the death of Beria, whoever came to power over the KGB, everything went as it had before. Some kind of invisible force squeezed out with high positions people who shed their blood at the front, replacing them with rear soldiers who had not seen the war. It doesn't seem to be a big deal. Just think, replacement. But the fact is that the rear people during the war could have been opportunistic people. True patriots refused armor and volunteered for the front. This means that the KGB was intensively replacing people who loved their Motherland with people who lived for themselves and their careers. That's the subtlety.

Under Yuri Andropov, this process intensified. Now he went around the province. It got to the point that the entire senior officer corps of Lubyanka and its branches was formed mainly from the rear. Of people for whom selfishness was much higher than the general, the national.

But that’s not all: there is information that Yu. Andropov used a special ethnopsychological filter. Under Andropov, they did not want to take Jewish youth into Soviet universities, but they were gladly accepted into military officer schools, and especially into those where the main cadres of the Soviet secret service were forged. It is clear that Jewish youth who received higher military education were accepted with open arms and into Soviet troops, and in the KGB.

We have already written a little about Jews. Therefore, we will not return to what was said. Let us just recall that the Jews are a special self-reproducing army of the Illuminati, or rather those who control the Illuminati and world Freemasonry. Egyptian priests created this army in the Sinai desert in the 14th century BC.

What happened in Andropov’s KGB is clear to everyone: soldiers from the army of the priests of Amon and the Illuminati occupied all the key positions in the management of the Soviet intelligence service. In other words, the “spider,” through the efforts of Yu. Andropov, brought his army into position and gave it the desired direction.

But the trouble is that the owner always doesn’t have enough Jews. In addition, not all “God’s chosen” want to serve their master; among them there are those who are so stubborn, disobedient and incorruptible that we have to get rid of them.

An example would be pride Russian army General Lev Yakovlevich Rokhlin. This soldier could not understand that one must obey not duty and one’s conscience, but one’s master. The same one who once created all the Jews.

It is for this very reason that the Soviet KGB began to select degenerates of other nationalities to recruit “God’s chosen ones”. This was done simply: the officers were given G. Klimov, Douglas Reed and other denouncers of world Zionism to read, and then asked what their opinion was about the books they read? If a KGB officer believed that Jewish fascism needed to be fought, he was immediately blacklisted and sent into retirement at the first opportunity. Alexey Shevyakin wrote about this technology. The author believes that this writer can be trusted.

Over time, it turned out that part of the Soviet KGB, its senior officers, turned into a bunch of subhumans - slaves of everything material and power. In Rus', such people were always called serfs.

Jews can somehow be understood. They, like biorobots, are devoted to their Zionist idea and always destroy in their favor. But it is impossible to understand our degenerates, those who betrayed their Fatherland for money and the opportunity to move abroad.

What did Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov do? He committed the crime of the century. Led to supreme authority in the special service there were people who could not be allowed into any, even the slightest, power, because they were dominated by the corrupt, materialized consciousness of criminals. Having entrusted power over the KGB to criminal elements, suppressing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Yuri Vladimirovich led this whole pack to information power over the Central Committee of the CPSU. In fact, he gave the subordinate department the opportunity to plunder its own country as if it had been conquered. In fact, the USSR was conquered, but not by America, but by the Order of the Illuminati, which carried out its takeovers at the hands of the Soviet KGB.

Now let's talk about people from the State Security Committee who have never been traitors. There were many of them below. There are a lot, but they were all executors of someone else’s will. Honest officers guessed that something was wrong in the country, but the trouble was that each of them was just a “cog” in unified system intelligence services. This is the law of all intelligence services. Know only what you are supposed to know and follow orders. It cannot be said that the patriots from the KGB did not try to stop the death of the Fatherland. They did what they could. Some of them turned upward and then died under unknown circumstances. Others wrote reports and left the intelligence service.

The tragedy of all these people was that they were lowered to the very bottom of the power pyramid. There, where all our long-suffering people ended up. It is known that after the collapse of the USSR, some of the patriots of the security officers committed suicide.

Maybe someday in the future there will be a writer who will describe the struggle and death of such incorruptible knights of the last Soviet KGB. And this will at least somehow clear the honest name of the Soviet secret service.

Sidorov G.A

WHO WORKS IN THE KGB

In the early fifties, in a small Siberian town, a forty-year-old man came into the local KGB department - then it was still called the MGB - and said that he hated the existing system, could not breathe this air, could no longer be a hypocrite - and asked to be imprisoned.

The excited KGB officers began to calm him down: “Why look so gloomily, after all, not only dark sides in our life. And where did you get the idea that we should imprison you, we are fighting enemies, and you are just a confused one. Calm down, go home, work, look at life without bias - and you will see that everything is not so bad. And you’ll come back to thank us later.”

Several months passed, no one bothered him, he began to calm down - and indeed, after this explosion, something changed in him, and life in the USSR seemed not so bad. Six months later he went to the KGB again: “Comrades, you were right, thank you!” They gave him a friendly pat on the shoulder and arrested him that same night.

This episode is very typical for KGB officers.

Marxism - at least its Soviet version - was an earthly religion, and the KGB was a kind of monastic order. For a long time Of the entire mass of Soviet functionaries, he absorbed, on the one hand, the most fanatical, on the other, the most cynical and hypocritical. Several times during its history, this order was sharply renewed (at first the generation that was destined to die was physically destroyed, later it was simply pushed out to another job or to retire) - and yet its essence never changed.

To better understand the psychology of KGB officers - they themselves always call themselves that vague word “employee” - it is necessary to trace how and where they were recruited from.

The foundation was laid by the Bolshevik underground fighters and those who fought against them before the revolution, the ranks of the tsarist political police- “secret police”, in the second, however, roles - something like specialist engineers under the “red directors”. Dzerzhinsky understood the need for specialists.

The party wanted to control its police - and the “authorities” were constantly replenished with party functionaries. “Organs” is the name they also gave themselves, short for “organs state security" During my childhood, the word “organs” was terrifying; now it seems rather funny, being associated with genitals. The younger generation of KGB officers say “committee”.

As for control by the party, it was not always successful: there was a time when the “authorities” controlled the party, and not vice versa. And even now, party functionaries, having found work in the “bodies,” begin to quickly become imbued with their specific spirit.

The Komsomol (mainly the layer of its top functionaries) is one of the main suppliers of KGB personnel. Now there is, for example, such a system. When a responsible Komsomol worker reaches a certain age (35 years old, it seems, because the Komsomol is a youth organization), he is transferred to another job: the most distinguished - to the party apparatus, the stupid and clumsy - to trade unions or the Ministry of Culture, golden mean- to the KGB.

Since the KGB must penetrate everywhere, it wants and can absorb employees from everywhere for itself: the KGB is connected with the police - they lure away those they like there; they look closely at those who are in conscript service in the troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the KGB - and offer them to “grow”; they willingly hire former athletes; They are looking for specialists in various fields - biologists, mathematicians, linguists, electrical engineers. Under the supervision of one such engineer, a rather handsome young man, I went in exile to Kolyma to inspect the construction of the Kolyma hydroelectric station.

The country has always been covered with a gigantic network of freelance informants - some work out of conviction, others wanting to get small benefits or the opportunity to settle accounts with someone, and others out of fear. Those of them who showed themselves in the best way move on to permanent service.

And of course - that’s how it is in general human nature- they try to take their own: children, brothers and sisters, distant relatives, good friends and those in whom they instinctively feel something akin to themselves. All these streams pass through various kinds of special schools and are imbued with a strong caste spirit.

And just as the heart, taking in blood, distributes it throughout the body, so the KGB is the heart Soviet system, - absorbing “collaborators” from everywhere, pushes them everywhere - and certainly into trade organizations, in print and on diplomatic service, so that they spread not only throughout the country, but throughout the world.

This penetration and contact with living life makes the KGB officers much more informed and more pragmatic than, say, Soviet ideologists. But over the past twenty years - as the role of the KGB in the system has declined - there has been a noticeable tendency for KGB officers to transform from fanatics - or pretending to be fanatics - into ordinary officials, more or less indifferently performing their duties.

However, caste exclusion from society is strong. It generates not only a feeling of superiority itself, but also a more unconscious feeling of alienation and resentment. I haven't met anyone else vulnerable people than the KGB officers - any ridicule can make them angry, in the blink of an eye the feigned politeness disappears, some try to smile, but you can see how they suffer inside. Not everyone, of course, just as not everyone, however, tries to make fun of the employees of the “authorities”.

We can say that people who voluntarily go to work in the KGB are thirsty for power as a kind of compensation for their own insignificance, and often people who were disadvantaged in childhood by inability to learn, or cowardice, or sadism, or other equally sad qualities.

Like all soviet people, they deeply admire the West. A KGB officer once told me with admiration:

Just think, in America a policeman is a respected member of society, many women are happy to marry him. And what kind of smart woman here would marry a policeman?!

You can see their weaknesses, but you won't always be able to play on them. First of all, because you are not dealing with any of them as an independent person - you are dealing with a huge machine, and each of them is just a wheel linked to other wheels, and on its own it cannot turn a millimeter, only already if the whole car becomes too loose.

But they will try in every possible way to play on your weaknesses. They are not so subtle psychologists and look for some obvious and understandable weakness in a person so that they can press with all their might - fear, jealousy, envy, an addiction to money, to women, to men, to vodka, to drugs. The emphasis on the most evil and primitive is also due to the fact that they themselves cannot be called complex or kind natures. I remember that in order to deceive them, I had to pretend to be much worse than I really am - and they somehow even opened up to me in a childish way.

I remember how the head of the Magadan KGB department tried to persuade me to emigrate from the USSR (they wanted me to leave so much that they even promised to cut off four months of exile).

Why should you disappear here, Andrei Alekseevich,” he said, smiling. - Go to the West, that’s where life is, buy yourself two cars, go to a cabaret.

I often saw him preoccupied, especially when he talked about the treachery of the American imperialists and Japanese fishermen - the fishermen annoyed him in the Sea of ​​​​Okhotsk - and here his face seemed to glow from the inside. It was clear that two cars and a cabaret were his own dream.

But now I’ve been in the West for six months and, to my shame, I haven’t bought a single car and haven’t even been to a cabaret. I think that the fee for an article about the KGB will not be enough for me to buy a car, but even more so, my duty then is to drink it away in a cabaret.

External and internal

According to Article 6 “Service in the police and the specifics of its completion” of the Law “On the Soviet Police”, a candidate for police officer had to be impeccable in all respects. IN in this case, special signs that prevent admission to the organs Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs, revealed themselves - tattoos (of any kind) were clearly “taboo”: if they were present, the candidate did not have the right moral qualities. Even if the person who was planning to become a police officer had no previous problems with the law (convicted people were not even mentioned when joining the police). State of health: crooked, oblique, lisping, lame-one-legged, etc. also in Soviet law enforcement agencies tried not to take it.

The Soviet police did not recruit those with a past record, even those with an expunged (removed) criminal record, chronically ill people, or disabled people. Formally, they could refuse a person with a visible facial defect (for example, a scar), citing legal norms.

A classic Soviet policeman is a guy who served in the army with a previous vocational school education, who after demobilization began his career from the bottom of the police patrol service (PPSm).

Look first, then take it

In the KGB of the USSR there were no “special signs” by which a person “might not be accepted” into the special service - the “committee” did not take anyone in anyway, they looked closely at the future “contingent” for a long time. Today's President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin, a man from a working-class family, without any connections, by his own admission, came to the KGB reception room “from the street.” Vladimir was first advised to get a higher legal education.

And this is not an isolated approach, but rather a characteristic approach for recruiting personnel in Soviet KGB. Ever since Andropov’s time, they tried not to take people to the “committee” former employees The Ministry of Internal Affairs - this was also a kind of “special sign” - after the murder of a state security major in 1980 by police officers at the Moscow metro station “Zhdanovskaya”, the inertia of hostility in its ranks to employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the KGB persisted for quite a long time.

... The main sign for candidates “for departure” to the KGB was “green”: those wishing to serve “in the authorities” in the Soviet Union (and there were plenty of those willing) were in any case looked at in production, at Komsomol work in enterprises - most often future potential officers The KGB had no idea about such “supervision.” A typical example: one of those who wanted to serve in the “authorities” was sent to production, where he rose to the rank of secretary of the Komsomol of the largest plant in one of the cities Lipetsk region. He showed himself to be an organizer and, in principle, an enterprising person. Then he was called to serve the Fatherland on another front. Today one of the developments former secretary The factory committee of the Komsomol as an employee of the FSB entered the history book of the region's special services - a former Komsomol activist exposed fraud with the Chechen advice note. For this most unique in history Russian intelligence services operation, he at one time received a well-deserved award from federal leadership FSB of the Russian Federation – in the territory of the Lipetsk region these fraudulent actions of the organized crime group were never able to be carried out!

There are girls in jazz

The special characteristics of girls recruited for service in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the KGB of the USSR also varied. If in the police, representatives of the fairer sex mainly worked “in personnel” or headquarters units, and, in principle, the same general requirements were imposed on them as on male candidates, then in the state security agencies, active security officers sometimes played very important roles. Their special features - beauty, charisma, creative thinking, coupled with the ability to charm and win over, worked in the interests of the country, sometimes no less effectively than defense industrial enterprises.

Suffice it to recall such names as Olga Chekhova and Irina Alimova - according to Soviet intelligence services, these women, using their charm and extraordinary abilities, did a lot for Soviet counterintelligence.

Cadets at the schools are taught the history of espionage, several foreign languages ​​and some special disciplines, for example, ways to evade counterintelligence, surveillance and methods special communication. They are ready to make future intelligence officers out of them, and they do it with the highest quality possible, since the mistake of a future specialist special services, could cost the lives of not only him, but also thousands of people.

It is worth noting that during the Soviet era, the KGB did not accept those who themselves took the initiative. They could only get there after military service in the army or after graduating from a civilian university. But it was impossible to just come there to work. It was preferable, of course, to enter a law university. This approach of the KGB to the selection of employees is quite understandable. After all, the intelligence services always treat with some suspicion people who themselves take the initiative. This has been noted more than once by many experts.

Vladimir Putin once spoke about his attempt to get into the KGB. He, then still a schoolboy, took the initiative, but in response he only received recommendations on what he needed to do to become an intelligence officer. His school initiative worked well. However future president I didn’t even get into intelligence after graduating from the Faculty of Law at Leningrad State University in 1975. Before that, it took him 9 years to work in the KGB system, in to a greater extent on the counterintelligence side. It was only in 1984 that he received an invitation from the KGB Institute to undergo a year-long foreign intelligence training course. As it turned out, it was not easy for even the future president to get a job in the intelligence services.

Now it is somewhat easier to achieve the right to the title of scout. Many intelligence services from all over the world have begun to demonstrate their openness and are now inviting their compatriots to work for them. Russian authorities also began to follow this trend. Now the question of how to get into intelligence has become much easier to answer.

At the head of all this modern trend acts as a structure that is responsible in the Russian Federation for external espionage, namely, this is what the Service does foreign intelligence or SVR. Not long ago the department changed general rules and according to some experts, these innovations are a breakthrough. Even on official portal SVR now has a “How to become an employee” tab. By going to this section, those wishing to get a job in the structure must download and fill out two forms:

1. The main one. It contains 23 questions that are devoted to personal data, including information about loved ones and relatives.
2. Additional. It contains 15 questions that relate to health status.

After filling out the application form, everyone must attach a photocopy of the passport and diploma of the application form, and then you can send this small package of documents to the organization by registered mail or send it personally to the press bureau. But it is worth noting that these documents do not guarantee that you will be able to immediately get into the “office” and work there. To begin with, the candidate will be required to undergo training at a special university at the SVR Academy.

Detailed information about who can send a package of documents in order to receive special education, and for those who don’t, is indicated on the official website of the service in the “Questions and Answers” ​​tab. The training can only be completed by a Russian citizen who has a higher education and is under 30 years of age. In addition, the applicant is required to have the skills to study foreign languages ​​and be sufficiently prepared in such categories as: general educational culture, political culture, scientific and technical training and general culture.

Anyone who fully meets these requirements will first be required to pass medical checkup and examination by a psychologist. An applicant for a place in the Foreign Intelligence Service cannot have a tendency to rash and abrupt actions, religious fanaticism and adventurism.

If the results of the examination yield good results, the applicant will be admitted to the commission. After this, members of the commission will conduct a test of knowledge of the Russian language, determine readiness in foreign languages, and analyze language abilities, will check your performance in foreign languages ​​and will conduct a personal interview at the end. All this information is provided on the SVR website. Members of the commission will check the preparation of each applicant and conduct interviews, after which they will sum up whether the applicant should be admitted to study at the academy or not.

For those who want to go to work as military intelligence officers, there are certain requirements. They will need to get a job in the GRU. You can prepare to work in this organization at the Military Diplomatic Academy (MDA).

On this moment- This educational institution is closed. On the site you will not find any forms that you can fill out and there are no rules for admission. Experts pointed out that the VDA can only be invited to receive a second higher education. However, this academy, as a rule, is not particularly valued for the education received in civil university. Only officers who have been tested from all sides and have demonstrated their moral qualities and reliability can attend the training. In general, the GRU is a more closed organization with its own rules and in which those who show initiative are not preferred. Therefore, they themselves look for candidates who would fit their parameters.

As the expert notes, it will be necessary to undergo training at intelligence schools for 3-5 years. Cadets have to learn the history of espionage, foreign languages and a number of special disciplines, namely, methods of evading counterintelligence, surveillance, and special communications methods. The training of intelligence officers is treated even more carefully, training them according to certain programs.

It is worth noting that the training of intelligence officers costs any country huge sums of money. Back in 2002, 30 thousand dollars a year were allocated for each cadet in the Air Force. However, such costs are not always justified and help intelligence officers remain undetected. Thus, training to become an intelligence officer may not be successful and productive for everyone.