Stanislav Lunev

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Stanislav Lunev
Native name
Станислав Лунев
Born1946
Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Allegiance Soviet Union (to 1991)
 Russian Federation
Service/branch GRU
Years of service?—1992
RankColonel
Other workThrough the Eyes of the Enemy

Stanislav Lunev (Russian: Станислав Лунев; born 1946 in Leningrad) is a former Soviet military officer, as of 1992 the highest-ranking GRU officer to defect from Russia to the United States.

Biography

Stanislav Lunev was born in Leningrad, to the family of a

CIA.[2]

Writings

Lunev published a book of memoirs, Through the Eyes of the Enemy.[1] In the book, he described his work as a Soviet spy. He said that his work was extremely successful because he followed a very basic rule that "the best spy will be everyone's best friend, not a shadowy figure in the corner."

In the book, he also described some

antiwar movement and organization in America and abroad." According to Lunev, the Soviet Union allegedly spent more money on funding of U.S. anti-war movements during the Vietnam War than on funding and arming the Viet Cong forces.[1]

Nuclear sabotage operations

Lunev is mostly known for his description of nuclear sabotage operations that have allegedly been prepared by the KGB and GRU against the western countries. It was known from other sources that large arms caches were hidden by the KGB in many countries for these planned activities. They were booby-trapped with "Lightning" explosive devices. One such cache, which was identified by Vasili Mitrokhin, exploded when Swiss authorities tried to remove it from woods near Bern. Several others caches were removed successfully.[3]

Lunev asserted that some of the hidden caches could contain portable

Mexican border or using a small transport missile that can slip undetected when launched from a Russian airplane.[1]

US Congressman

FBI.[5] Searches of the areas identified by Lunev, who admitted that he never planted any weapons in the US, have been conducted, "but law-enforcement officials have never found such weapons caches, with or without portable nuclear weapons."[6]

Poisoning of Potomac River

According to Lunev, a probable scenario in the event of war would have been poisoning the

biological weapons, "targeting the residents of Washington, D.C."[1] He also considered it "likely" that GRU operatives placed "poison supplies near the tributaries to major US reservoirs."[7]

Those allegations have been confirmed by former

Russian President in the event of hostilities, including poisoning public drinking-water supplies and food processing plants.[9]

See also

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 0-89526-390-4
  2. ^ Former Russian spy Col. Stanislav Lunev's reaction to FBI agent's arrest for spying, CNN
  3. ISBN 0-7139-9358-8
    , page 475-476
  4. ISBN 0-89526-390-4
    These portable bombs can last for many years if wired to an electric source. “In case there is a loss of power, there is a battery backup. If the battery runs low, the weapon has a transmitter that sends a coded message – either by satellite or directly to a GRU post at a Russian embassy or consulate.”
  5. ^ Nicholas Horrock, "FBI focusing on portable nuke threat", UPI (20 December 2001).
  6. ^ Steve Goldstein and Chris Mondics, "Some Weldon-backed allegations unconfirmed; Among them: A plot to crash planes into a reactor, and missing suitcase-size Soviet atomic weapons." Philadelphia Inquirer (15 March 2006) A7.
  7. ^ Lunev, pages 29-30
  8. ISBN 1-85367-646-2 "Interview: Alexander Kouzminov, Author of Biological Espionage". Archived from the original
    on 2005-04-25. Retrieved 2007-12-05.
  9. biological war
    , something we had already established that the West was not ready for."

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