Konstantin Preobrazhensky
Konstantin Georgiyevich Preobrazhenskiy (Russian: Константин Георгиевич Преображенский; born 1953 in Moscow) is a former KGB lieutenant colonel, an intelligence expert and the author of several books and numerous articles about Russian secret police organizations.
Preobrazhenskiy is known for his publications about KGB operations in Japan, recruitment of Russian emigrants by
KGB career
Preobrazhenskiy graduated from the Institute of Asian and African countries of the Moscow State University in 1976 and started working in the Foreign Intelligence department of the KGB. He was an advisor on China, Japan and Korea to Leonid Zaitsev, the Head of the Scientific and Technical Intelligence (Directorate “T”), in the First Chief Directorate.
In 1980–85, Preobrazhenskiy worked under cover as a
Writer and journalist
In 1991, Preobrazhenskiy left the KGB and started authoring books and articles about Russian state security services and on various political subjects. In 1993–2002, he worked as a columnist for the
He fled to the United States in January 2003, after several episodes of harassment by Russian state security services. He was granted
He is a regular guest on the Voice of America and has been a lecturer at Columbia, Georgetown and Johns Hopkins Universities as well as an invited speaker at The Intelligence Summit. His most recent book is titled "KGB/FSB's New Trojan Horse: Americans of Russian Descent" [3]
Statements
Preobrazhenskiy had numerous meetings with the former FSB officer
- I have no hesitation to say that he was murdered by Vladimir Putin, who considered him to be his personal enemy. Putin is very vulnerable to criticism. He has the inferiority complex. And Litvinenko knew a lot about Putin, about his drawbacks, about his connections with some political forces which are not disclosed even now, because Litvinenko knew Putin personally. And Putin was the person who dismissed Litvinenko from the FSB.[4]
According to Preobrazhenskiy, Putin initially worked in the 5th KGB department that was responsible for suppression of internal dissent in the country[5]
Articles and interviews
- His interview, RFE/RL<--Interview:Broken Link
- Interview about his new book, Voice of America
- Russian Orthodox Church and KGB His interview, Voice of America
- Poisonings of priests in Russian Orthodox Church outside of Russia, Part I
- Poisonings of priests in Russian Orthodox Church outside of Russia, Part II
- Poisonings in Russian Orthodox Church outside of Russia (more detail)
- Discussion of his articles about Russian Orthodox Church [1] [2]
Books
- Unknown Japan. Преображенский К.Г. Неизвестная Япония. - М.: АО "Япония сегодня", 1993. - 286 с.: ил.
- KGB in Japan. Spy who loved Tokio. Преображенский, Константин Георгиевич. КГБ в Японии. Шпион, который любил Токио. - М. : Центрполиграф, 2000. - 455, [2] с., [4] л. портр. : ил. - (Секретная папка). [3]
- Back from the Dead: The Return of the Evil Empire, with Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy in Media, J. R. Nyquist, and Toby Westerman, Amazon Standard Identification Number=B00MHGG784 (2014)
References
- ^ Anne Applebaum - Secret Agent Man Archived 2007-10-16 at the Wayback Machine
- The Sunday Herald, Nov 26, 2006
- ^ Interview to FrontPageMagazine Archived 2009-06-25 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Transcript of Discussion at the CNN
- ^ Inside Putin's Russia, page 58