Michael Weiss, Daily Beast: Revealed: The Secret KGB Manual for Recruiting Spies
The document is from the Cold War. But the material it teaches is still being used today by Vladimir Putin’s clandestine cadres.
This is the first of a three-part series based on never-before-published training manuals for the KGB, the Soviet intelligence organization that Vladimir Putin served as an operative, and that shaped his view of the world. Its veterans still make up an important part of now-Russian President Vladimir Putin’s power base. All were trained in the same dark arts, and these primers in tradecraft are essential to an understanding of the way they think and the way they operate.
U.S. intelligence operatives understand this only too well. Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told CNN earlier this month Putin is “a great case officer,” suggesting he “knows how to handle an asset, and that’s what he’s doing with the president”—that is, the president of the United States.
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WNU Editor: Michael Weiss spends a good part of his post on extrapolating from this KGB manual on how Russian intelligence may have manipulated the Trump team. Unfortunately .... he fails to mention the Clinton paid-for Russian Dossier, and how it may have also been a product of Russian intelligence to undermine the U.S. electoral system, and distract the Trump administration. This is the first of a three-part series on this KGB manual .... I will be posting the other parts when they become available. Michael Weiss has not posted the KGB document itself .... can only hope that he does because I suspect that it is an interesting read.
